DannyLux Performs Eclectic Showcase During Latin Music Week 2023

“I was a bit nervous but we’re going to give it our all,” singer-songwriter DannyLux said at the beginning of his showcase, presented by Warner Music Latina, on Wednesday (Oct. 4) during the Billboard Latin Music Week 2023.

The Mexican-American artist delivered an eclectic set at the Faena Theater for Latin Music Week attendees as day three of the conference wrapped. Wearing a Selección Mexicana jersey and with his guitar in hand, DannyLux serenaded those in attendance with his sad sierreño anthems such as “Jugaste Y Sufrí,” “Junto A Ti” and “No Te Quiero Perder.” He was also joined by emerging artist StrangeHuman to perform their collab “Sustancias En Mi Corazón” for the first time together on stage.

“It’s crazy what’s been happening to us, we’ve dreamed of doing this since we were kids,” said DannyLux — who performed at Coachella earlier this year. “Thank you for all the support you give us. I’m so happy that you have accepted my songs. I don’t know how to express myself pero la neta gracias.”

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He also shared his backstory to those who were just discovering his music, explaining that he did not come from a family of musicians. “My dad was a garbage truck driver and one time he found a guitar and brought it home,” he said.

Earlier this year, a billboard in the Coachella valley went viral ahead of DannyLux’s debut at the festival. It read a special message from his father to Danny: “My last time at Coachella I was picking up the trash. Now I’m back to see my son perform this Friday. Te amo DannyLux, Tu Papá.”

Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here. This year’s Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, also includes showcases by Peso Pluma, Mike Bahía and Greeicy, DannyLux and Fonseca, to name a few. Check out the dates and times for the showcases throughout the week here.

Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.

Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.

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7 Things Wisin & La Base Taught Us About the Latin Urban Movement at Latin Music Week 2023

Wisin arrived at 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week with Latin hitmakers DJ Nelson, Hyde el Quimico and Luny Tunes to talk about the definitive view on identifying and creating hits. 

Titled “Wisin and La Base: Eye of the Tiger, presented by Smirnoff” and moderated by Puerto Rican radio host and podcaster Molusco, see seven things we learned about the Latin urban movement during the conversation. 

1. “There is no manual for producing, but in the urban genre, we always work as a team. Since the beginning, it’s been in our DNA to work with several artists.” – Wisin

2. “The muse, first of all, has to be good. We are in a digital world, and in these times, what is most important is quality.” – DJ Nelson

3. “‘Stage songs’ are the ones where the track speaks and from the first phrase, people sing them. That’s a trick to achieve.” – DJ Nelson

4. “Urban artists have dared to experiment with other genres and we continue to be urban artists.” – Wisin

5. “The genre has come very far thanks to collaborations and fusions. More than anything, the collaborations make this genre unique.” – DJ Nelson

6. “Opening that door to touch the sky is difficult, we have no explanation but it’s always about work and discipline. We never thought that the urban genre would be where it is.” – Wisin

7. “Now we work faster and we have to adapt. We are already preparing for AI. Technology is changing a lot.” – Luny Tunes

Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, among many other panels, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.

This year’s Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, also includes showcases by Peso Pluma, Mike Bahía and Greeicy, DannyLux and Fonseca, to name a few.  Check out the dates and times for the showcases throughout the week here.

Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.

Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.

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10 Best Quotes From Shakira at 2023 Latin Music Week

In a rare interview, Shakira spoke for the first time live about her creative process, making history as one of the most successful Billboard chart-toppers, and what comes next. The intimate discussion with the Colombian superstar took place at the Faena Forum on Wednesday (Oct. 4) as part of Billboard Latin Music Week 2023, moderated by Billboard Latin/Español’s chief content officer Leila Cobo.

Here are the 10 best quotes:

  1. On “El Jefe” with Fuerza Regida: “I loved working with Keityn and Edgar [Barrera]. I had a great time. They are great friends. We wanted to do a song that portrays the reality of many. Also, I wanted to do something of the regional Mexican genre, but to give it a touch of ska. If you notice, the song has a little bit of that sensibility. It could be Balkan or British music, but no, it’s all in a regional Mexican framework.”
  2. On inspiration: “I’m very inspired, I’m in the mood. There have been times when they have to take me with a crane to the studio, they have to drag me. Sometimes you fight with your work, everyone does. But now I’m in a honeymoon phase with making music and with my career. I’m in love with what I do.”
  3. On composition: “[Writing music] is a catharsis. In composition, writing has always played a therapeutic role. I write the most when I’m at my worst. Life gives me a blow, and from this I have learned a lot and I feel stronger. I didn’t think I had so much vital energy to overcome certain stages of life. And it turns out that I was less fragile than I thought. My music has been my main survival tool.”
  4. On the support of his fans: “[The public has been] by my side, holding my hand. That’s how I have felt them, embracing me, comforting me, motivating me, inspiring me. I didn’t feel alone because I have an audience that has been with me for as long as I can remember — well, in the world of music, since I was 14 years old. Little by little my relationship with the public grew, and my experience of being an artist of the people and for the people.”
  5. On the creative process: “The way of composing changes. It is not a formula. Many times I write alone, I write ideas, even melodies. I write on airplanes, I write in the shower. There are times when I love to get together with friends, with people I feel comfortable with, because it’s a very intimate process, the process of composing.”
  6. On trusting his sons artistically: “[Shakira’s son Milán] was the one who showed me Bizarrap’s music — when you do a song with Bizarrap you go worldwide. He had already sent me a DM on [social media] that I hadn’t seen. But then he sent me a message on WhatsApp, and I tell Milán, “Look who’s texting me,” he says, “Yes. The Argentine God.” He has an impression, a good instinct. I listen to them [my kids] a lot. Every time I’m going to put something out, I tell them, “What do you think of this song?,” to see what they imagine. With “Te Felicito,” for example, the idea of the robot in the video was Sasha’s, and the idea of the fire was Milan’s.”
  7. On her move from Barcelona to Miami: “Being in Barcelona was practically being alone. There is no active music industry there. Every time I had an idea, I had to wait until the producer was in Europe and felt like coming to Barcelona. Everything was very slow and many ideas were left in the void. I was left without being able to execute many of my plans. I think that’s why I was also unmotivated. Now being here, close to so many colleagues, producers, musicians and friends, is a great motivation.”
  8. On her growing self-confidence: “Before, I suffered if a hair stood up, I suffered if my eyeliner ran down. Nowadays it’s not that I care less about things, but I have a better perspective. I can prioritize what really matters to me, and what doesn’t matter so much. I put more focus and attention on substance. But I’ve also always had a lot of focus on detail and still do. Maybe more so now. But it helps a lot to have a team that understands you, that you can rely on. It’s not something you count on from the beginning, it’s something you build up over time as well. Your criteria; it’s built up over time.”
  9. On her American breakthrough in the late ’90s: “I barely spoke English when Tommy [Mottola] gave me that vote of confidence to release music in English with ‘Whenever, Wherever.’ I felt that ‘Objection’ was the song I had to come out with, because it was the first song I did in English. So he said no, let’s go with ‘Whatever, Whatever.’ That’s when he convinced me what his vision went.”
  10. The people rule and Spanish is what they want: “Today, no one can tell audiences what artists they relate to or what language they listen to music in. Nobody. The people are in charge. Age doesn’t matter, the genre doesn’t matter, the condition doesn’t matter, the language doesn’t matter. What matters is that if an artist connects with their audience, through music. When I started with Laundry Service, there was a lot of interference, and for years I had to dodge and convince and it was hard work. But all that has changed. Today, singing in Spanish is the coolest thing.”

Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.

Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.

Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.

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Kylie Minogue’s ‘Tension’ Tops Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums Chart

Kylie Minogue collects her second No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart as her new studio release Tension opens atop the tally (dated Oct. 7). She previously led the 22-year-old list with 2020’s Disco.

The new album’s chart-topping debut comes after its lead single, “Padam Padam,” became a viral hit over the summer, and went on to become her first top 10 hit on the 10-year-old Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in June.

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Tension, released Sept. 22 via Darenote/BMG, earned 24,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Luminate. That marks Minogue’s best week, by units, since the industry began measuring by that metric in December 2014. On the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, Tension debuts at No. 21, her highest-charting album in over a decade, since Aphrodite hit No. 19 (July 24, 2010-dated chart).

Further, of Tension’s first-week units, album sales comprise 19,500 – the pop star’s biggest sales week for an album in nearly 20 years. She last sold more in a single week with an album when Body Language debuted with 43,500 (Feb. 28, 2004-dated chart). Of Tension’s 19,500 sold, physical sales comprise nearly 14,000 (7,000 on vinyl – her biggest week on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991; 6,000 on CD and 1,000 on cassette) and digital album sales comprise about 5,500.

Tension was issued as a standard 11-song album, a 14-track deluxe edition (on CD, digital download and streamers) and in a 16-song edition (sold as a digital download exclusively through Minogue’s webstore). Sales of the album were bolstered by more than 15 physical formats, including seven vinyl variants (all with the same standard 11-song tracklist, with many in different colors with alternative covers – including some retailer-exclusive offerings), five cassettes (four with the album’s standard tracklist, and one with the 14-song tracklist – all in different colors) and five CDs (including a signed edition sold through Newbury Comics, and versions in alternative collectible packaging).

Tension was ushered in by the No. 7-peaking “Padam Padam” on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in June. (The chart ranks the week’s most popular songs of the genre in the U.S., by blending streams, sales and airplay.) The track also became her first entry on the Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart (peaking at No. 14) and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart and two weeks atop the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.

The viral hit went on to earn 34.19 million on-demand official audio and video streams in the U.S. – making it Minogue’s third-biggest streaming song ever in America. “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” released in 2001, is her most-streamed hit in the U.S. (176.66 million) and her seasonal cover of “Santa Baby,” released in 2000, is in second place (44.62 million). (Minogue made her Billboard chart debut in May of 1988, bowing on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Should Be So Lucky.”)

Following “Padam,” the new album has spun off a second dance hit with the title track, which hit No. 18 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in September, No. 1 on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales and debuts at No. 7 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay on the Oct. 7-dated chart. Plus, concurrent with the album’s debut on the charts, the set’s “Hold On to Now” bows at No. 32 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and No. 10 on Dance/Electronic Song Sales.

Outside of the dance world, “Padam Padam” gave Minogue her first entry on the Pop Airplay chart since 2004’s “Slow,” and her first hit on the Adult Pop Airplay chart since 2002’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.”

The Billboard 200 and Top Dance/Electronic Albums charts rank, respectively, the week’s most popular overall albums, and dance/electronic albums, in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. Top Album Sales ranks the week’s top-selling albums by traditional album sales (CD, vinyl, cassette, digital download album, etc.).

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Spider-Man PlayStation 5: Where to Get the Limited-Edition Console Online

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It might be a littler easier to get your hands on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PlayStation 5 console.

If you missed the first drop, Sony will be releasing a new Spiderman-2 PS5 bundle on Oct. 20. The bundle was announced on Monday (Oct. 2) and includes Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PS5 video game.

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Although Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition Bundle ($599.99) sold out at several retailers including Best Buy (open box options are still available in select locations), you can find the consoles at Amazon, Walmart and StockX, but expect to pay resell prices.

The bundle includes a Spider-Man PS5 console, DualSense wireless controller, a base, HDMI cable, USB cable and the pre-installed game, Astro’s Playroom. The bundle also comes with a Marvel Spider-Man 2 voucher for a digital copy of the game, which will be redeemable when it’s released on Oct. 20. 

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Sony’s custom PS5 console is available in black instead of the standard white color. The design features symbiote tentacles inching closer to the Spider-Man icon.

The Spider-Man logo is also featured on the back of the console and on the controller.

“The design was inspired by the in-game symbiote that’s taking over the console and controller, but you can still see some of the underlying red under the tendrils. This represents the various ways players will experience the symbiote takeover in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,” Jacinda Chew, senior art director at Insomniac Games said in a statement on the Sony blog. “It’s a constant push and pull for dominance whether it’s internal or external and the outcome is not certain.”

Already have a PS5? Get a Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition Console Cover ($64.99) and Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition DualSense Wireless Controller ($79.99) to channel the same look as the limited console and controller.

Sony launched its PS5 console during the pandemic in 2020. The company has sold over 40 million consoles since then. According to PlayStation fans, some of the top games include Astro’s Playroom, Bugsnax, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Cult of the Lamb and Deep Space.

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The Power of Latin Catalog | Billboard Latin Music Week 2023

Presented by HarbourView

How Latin catalogs are valued, marketed, bought, and sold in a global economy.

Hannah Karp
I am Hannah Karp. I’m the editorial director of Billboard I’m so happy to be here. And over the past few years, we have Billboard have spent a lot of time reporting on some eye popping ly big deals in the Latin music world. Artists from Shakira to Maluma to Ozuna have been selling their catalogs meaning that they’re selling the income streams they received from either their publishing copyrights or their master recording rights or their performance rights, sometimes for tens of millions of dollars. And while the buying frenzy has cooled off a little bit lately, for reasons that we’re going to talk about today, there are still plenty of opportunities for artists and songwriters who want to sell their catalogs and for buyers who might want to buy in. So to explain it all. I’m thrilled to have here with us today. Three of the top dealmakers in this space Sherrese Clarke Soares,, the founder and CEO of HarborView Equity, who has been betting very big on a very diverse portfolio of Latin music, and other genres, since she founded her company just two years ago, and perhaps most notably buying Luis Fonsi’s publishing catalog, which of course includes the right to “Despacito.” We also have Denny Marte, who helped broker that deal and who has become the go to guy the one stop shop. For anybody that’s looking to buy or sell music catalogs in the Latin space. He’s helped to sell catalogs for Nicky jam and Rauw Alejandro, Maluma, just to name a few. And then we have last but not least, Angie Martinez, the real Angie Martinez, who is one of Billboard’s top music lawyers for many years running, and who represents artists looking to sell their catalogue and strike these deals. And she’s also advised on the Fonsi sail to HarborView. And she has a lot of very valuable advice and many warnings, urgent warnings for anyone out there who’s thinking about selling their catalog.

Watch the full panel above!

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