This week, Billboard’s New Music Latin roundup and playlist — curated by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors — features fresh new music, including fresh picks by Young Miko, Natalia Lafourcade, and Ricky Martin & Carín León revamping a 1995 classic, to name a few.

Cuban artist Wampi dropped his debut studio album El Rey de la Habana, home to 13 tracks that bring to the forefront his skills as a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Beyond his signature and progressive Reparto sound, the studied musician also experiments with funk, cha-cha-cha, R&B, and pop ballads. 

“I have clarity on where I want to go with my music and what I want to accomplish… an album is not just a series of songs, it’s a concept, a journey with your team, new friendships with artists and producers and commitment to your fans,” the urban act said in a press release “We’re all kings and queens and I want everyone to embrace their inner and outer royalty and celebrate life with this album.” 

Moreover, Natalia Lafourcade makes a powerful statement with “La Cometierra,” an urban-tinged song that tells the story of a girl with the gift of finding the missing. “I feel like the song highlights the importance of connecting with our causes and gifts in order to contribute something positive to the world we live in,” she expressed in a release. “It speaks of values, realities, and inner strength.” 

Other new releases this week include music from Myke Towers, Grupo Frontera, and Yami Safdie, to name a few. In last week’s poll, Milo J’s “Niño” won with more than 35% of the vote. Which release this week do you think is best? Give these new releases a spin and vote for your favorite new Latin music release below:

Editor’s Note: The results of the weekly New Music Latin poll will be posted if the poll generates more than 1,000 votes. This poll closes at 7:30 a.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 6.

Billboard and Telemundo announced the second wave of performers on Thursday (Oct. 2) for the highly anticipated 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to take place at Miami’s James L. Knight Center on Thursday, Oct. 23.

In a big move, reggaetón legend Daddy Yankee — now going by DY — is stepping out of retirement for a rare performance at the event. Joining him in the newly announced lineup are Tex-Mex band Grupo Frontera, Colombian Afrobeats star Kapo, Spanish singer-songwriter Abraham Mateo, Puerto Rican artist Ángel Lopez and Detroit-born pianist-composer Arthur Hanlon. (Editor’s Note: Hanlon is married to Billboard’s Chief Content Officer, Latin/Espãnol, Leila Cobo.)

These artists will take the stage alongside previously announced performers Venezuelan sensation Danny Ocean, Puerto Rican hitmaker Ozuna, tropical music powerhouse Olga Tañón, Italian icon Laura Pausini and Mexican music legends La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho. Pausini will be honored with the prestigious Billboard Icon Award.

Other performers include Afro-Caribbean fusion artist Beéle, Colombian star Juan Duqu, up-and-coming Mexican group Musza, breakout corridos act Netón Vega, genre-blurring newcomer NXNNI and January’s Billboard Latin Artist on the Rise, Óscar Maydon.

The 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards will air live on Telemundo, with streams available on the Telemundo App, Peacock, and Telemundo Internacional across Latin America and the Caribbean. Tickets to the event are now available via Ticketmaster.

The ceremony coincides with Billboard Latin Music Week, which returns to Miami Beach Oct. 20-24 with a roster of star speakers, including Kali Uchis, DY, Xavi, Laura Pausini, Ozuna and more. Get your tickets today for the Billboard Latin Music Week 2025 here.

Are you a music lover? A pop culture savant? A puzzle-solving pro? Then get ready to say “game on” to the new Billboard Daily Crossword, launching today (Oct. 3) on Billboard.com.

Every Monday through Friday starting now, Billboard will roll out a 10×10 crossword puzzle on Billboard.com — and it’s completely, 100% free. So if you’re looking to relax, test your pop culture knowledge or just show off to your friends how fast you can solve each one, head here.

In honor of today’s other big launch – the release of Taylor Swift’s hotly anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl – the first Billboard Daily Crossword puzzle is themed around the 12-time (so far) Billboard Hot 100-topping singer-songwriter. You don’t need to be a Swiftie to solve it — not all of the clues are about the 14-time Grammy winner – but it might help. Are you ready for it?

And why stop there? The Taylor Swift-themed crossword puzzle fun will continue all next week, Oct. 6-10. After that, you’ll just have to keep coming back to see what artist, song, lyric, trend or theme unites each crossword.

The Billboard Daily Crossword puzzle is powered by PuzzleMe™, created by an experienced team of crossword puzzle-making pros with oversight from the trivia hounds on Billboard’s staff.

Swifties can also check out Billboard’s ranking of all 12 tracks on The Life of a Showgirl and Jason Lipshutz’s critic’s take on the album, which he says is full of “pop anthems with humor, empathy, a little fury and a lot of wisdom.”

Next to buying the ring and planning the perfect proposal, picking the music for your wedding is one of the most important decisions a young couple can make when getting married. And when you are arguably the biggest pop star in the world the pressure to hit the right notes on your special night is amped up several notches.

Luckily for Taylor Swift, she knows a guy, and she’s pretty sure that guy won’t have to be asked twice to perform at her and Travis Kelce‘s wedding, whenever, and wherever, that is. During an interview with the U.K.’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show on Friday (Oct. 3) as part of her promotion of the just-released The Life of a Showgirl album, co-host Fleur East noted that when the morning crew spoke to Ed Sheeran a few weeks ago, “he told us he is constantly asked to perform at people’s weddings,” so, naturally, she asked, “Is he singing at your wedding?”

“It would be hard to keep him from it, I think,” Swift said with a smile of her longtime friend and one-time tour mate as the show’s hosts joked that Sheeran definitely has that jumping-up-at-a-wedding “energy.”

“He’s like, ‘I’m always being asked to sing at weddings,’” Swift said jokingly of Sheeran’s endless enthusiasm to bust out a song. “It’s like, Ed, if there’s a stage you know that you’ll be on it. He knows what people want and he wants to give people what they want. That’s the fun thing about our friendship is we both love performing we love writing and we love singing. So, it’s like we’re like, ‘Oh, don’t make me sing! All right!’”

Swift said it’s actually not that hard to talk herself or Sheeran into performing at “anything.” In fact, the two old pals were at a mutual unnamed friend’s wedding recently and they were chatting about the time Sheeran joined Swift at London’s Wembley Stadium during her Eras Tour and how when they’re in a room rehearsing or writing something together there’s a “strange mind meld thing that happens” between them.

Taylor also reminisced about Sheeran’s great “woods wedding” in December 2018, when he married longtime girlfriend Cheery Seaborn in front of around 40 friends and family at their Christmas nuptials.

While neither Swift nor Kelce have shared any details about when or where they plan to wed, on his New Heights podcast last month the Kansas City Chiefs tight end hinted that they might opt for a band instead of a DJ, saying, “I think we’re live music kind of people.” Either way, so far they’ve got some pretty good options, with Rock Hall of Famers Foreigner offering to be their wedding band and DJ Mark Ronson saying he’d also be happy to man the turntables at their party.

Watch the Hits Radio interview below.

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