Global Courant
Hearing news involving the success of Featherweight seems to be, at this point, something almost normal. The Mexican corrido singer has toured the world with his songs about love and partying, exceeding millions of views.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Spotify announced that Featherweight had become the artist with the most songs on the Global List of the aforementioned music platform.
Regarding the achievement that the Mexican has reached, we can mention his resounding coronation on the Billboard charts, after the release of his Genesis album.
Billboard recently announced that Emilio Kabande Laija, better known as Featherweight, broke several records in its listings until July 8. The first of the milestones is that the musician has the first Number 1 on any Billboard album chart.
“With 101.8 million streams, the 17-song album marks the biggest week in history for a regional Mexican album,” it was announced on the Billboard portal.
One of the biggest milestones, facing this record, is the one that indicates that the new Featherweight songs led the singer to position 25 of them in the Hot Latin Songs ranking, dethroning the record that had been set by the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny. who had set 24 titles simultaneously within the same list.
These are the positions of the Featherweight songs that have entered the Billboard chart, registered until July 8, according to the platform:
No. 1: “Ella baila sola”, with Eslabón Armado (which has been at No. 1 for 13 weeks) No. 2: “La bebe”, with Yng Lvcas No. 5: “Luna”, with Junior H (debut ) No. 6: “Lady Gaga”, with Gabito Ballesteros and Junior H (debut) No. 9: “Bye” No. 10: “VVS”, with Edgardo Nuñez and Los Dareyes de La Sierra (debut) No. 11: “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 55”, with Bizarrap No. 12: “Rubicon” (debut) No. 14: “PRC”, with Natanael Cano No. 15: “At night” No. 16: “El azul” , with Junior H No. 17: “Nueva vida” (debut) No. 19: “Lagunas”, with Jasiel Nuñez (debut) No. 20: “Rosa pastel”, with Jasiel Nuñez No. 21: “Carnal”, with Natanael Cano (debut) No. 22: “Plebada”, with El Alfa No. 24: “Gavilán II”, with Tito Double (debut) No. 26: “Chanel”, with Becky G No. 27: “77”, with Eladio Carrión No. 28: “Zapata” (debut) No. 29: “Su casa”, with Luis R Conriquez (debut) No. 33, “La People”, with Tito Double P (debut) No. 38: “ Las morras”, with Blessd No. 45: “El tsurito”, with Junior H and Gabito Ballesteros No. 50: “Ando enfocado”, with coveted and Jaziel Avilez
Although it may seem new to many people due to the success that Featherweight has had in recent months, the truth is that the singer is already an old acquaintance in the music industry.
Featherweight began his career a couple of years ago, in 2020, when he released his first album back then, which was called Ah y qué?
The same year that he debuted, the Mexican also published two compilations that were titled Disco en Vivo. In 2021, his second studio album called Side Effects was released.
However, the success of the young man famous for his corridos came in 2022 with songs like “AMG”, in collaboration with Natanael Cano and Gabito Ballesteros, and “Delivery” together with Alemán.
To date, Featherweight has come to collaborate with artists such as Becky G, El Alfa, Bizarrap and Grupo Frontera.
