Daddy Yankee became the first reggaeton act to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart with Barrio Fino (released July 13, 2004).
It would become the top-selling Latin album of the entire decade. Even more importantly, Barrio and its lead single, “Gasolina,” detonated a global reggaeton explosion that irrevocably altered the business, sound and aesthetic of Latin music. (And that was way before "Despacito.")It was an eminently commercial take on what was then an underground, subversive genre shunned by major labels.
Reggaeton, with its aggressive, danceable dembow beat, had been percolating for years in Puerto Rico’s underground. But it took Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” to make it explode in the Latin market and beyond.
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