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Phase II (album)
''Phase II'' is the second studio album by American singer Prince Royce; it was released on April 10, 2012, by Top Stop Music. The 12-track album (with two acoustic bonus tracks) saw Royce incorporate a variety of music styles to his work, including bachata, Latin pop, R&B and mariachi. ''Phase II'' contains songs in both English and Spanish, with melodies atypical to traditional bachata music, which had been regarded as Royce's main music genre since the release of his eponymous debut studio album in 2010. Three singles were released to promote the album in 2012. In the United States, the album's lead single, " Las Cosas Pequeñas" debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' Tropical Songs chart, and eventually also reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs chart. The album's second and third singles, " Incondicional" and " Te Me Vas", both peaked at number two on the US Hot Latin Songs chart. ''Phase II'' was certified Platinum (Latin field) in the US by the R ...
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Prince Royce
Geoffrey Royce Rojas (born May 11, 1989), known professionally as Prince Royce, is an American singer. At an early age, Royce took an interest in music, and in his teenage years began experimenting with music and writing poetry. By age nineteen, Royce met Andrés Hidalgo, who became his manager. Hidalgo later introduced Royce to record producer Sergio George, who immediately signed him to his label after hearing three of his demos. In March 2010, Royce released his Prince Royce (album), eponymous debut studio album, which generated two commercially successful singles, "Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)#Prince Royce version, Stand by Me" and "Corazón Sin Cara". In the United States, both songs reached number-one on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Tropical Songs chart, while "Corazón Sin Cara" reached number-one on the Hot Latin Songs, ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs chart. The album itself reached number-one on the US Billboard Top Latin Albums, ''Billboard'' Top Latin Album ...
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Mariachi
Mariachi (, , ) is a genre of regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as eight violins, two trumpets and at least one guitar, including a high-pitched Mexican Vihuela and an acoustic bass guitar called a guitarrón, and all players take turns singing lead and doing backup vocals. During the 19th- and 20th-century migrations from rural areas into Guadalajara, along with the Mexican government's promotion of national culture, mariachi came to be recognized as a distinctly Mexican ''son''. Modifications of the music include influences from other music, such as polkas and waltzes, the addition of trumpets, and the use of charro outfits by mariachi musicians. The musical style began to take on national prominence in the first half of the 20th century, with its promotion at presidential inaugurations and on the radio in the 1920s. ...
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Arthur Hanlon
Arthur Hanlon is an American pianist, songwriter and arranger renown in Latin music, with multiple hits on the Billboard charts and collaborations with Latin music's biggest names. Born to Irish-American parents, Hanlon is from Detroit, Michigan, but found his calling in Latin music and has received widespread recognition in that realm, becoming the first pianist to reach the ''Billboard'' Latin airplay charts in more than a decade and the first to have a No. 1 on ''Billboard''s Tropical Airplay chart. Arthur’s most recent release is ''2 Manos 1 Mundo'', a series of original collaborations with stars that include Angela Aguilar, Carlos Vives, Ana Barbara, Tiago IORK and Manuel Medrano. He album has already generated multiple hits, including official Zumba track "Repetimos" with Cuban rapper Yotuel and Puerto Rican rapper Darell, and "Bala Perdida," a Mexican ballad featuring Mexican American singer Angela Aguilar on vocals that premiered at the 2025 edition oPremio Lo Nuestroon ...
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Addicted (Prince Royce Song)
"Addicted" is a song by American singer Prince Royce from his second studio album, '' Phase II'' (2011). It was released by Atlantic Records on September 19, 2011. It is Royce's first English single. Background While the song is part of Royce's second album, it was not considered nor promoted as a single for '' Phase II''. The song was released in 2011 but the song "Las Cosas Pequeñas", which was released in 2012, became the album's first single instead. When Addicted was released, it was promoted as a single for an English Pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop! (British group), a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Album ... album that Royce had planned to release in 2012. However, he ended up adding it to his second album, which was mostly a Spanish Bachata album, and didn't release his English album until 2015 with ''Double V ...
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Latin Grammy Awards
The Latin Grammy Awards (stylized as Latin GRAMMYs) are awards presented by the Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music, Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works recorded in Spanish language, Spanish or Portuguese language, Portuguese from anywhere around the world that has been released in Ibero-America. Ibero-America, as defined by the Latin Recording Academy, encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino (demonym), Latino population in Canada and the United States. Submissions of products recorded in languages, dialects or idiomatic expressions recognized in Ibero America, such as Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque, Galician language, Galician, Valencian language, Valencian, Nahuatl language, Nahuatl, Guarani language, Guarani, Quechuan languages, Quechua or Mayan language, Mayan may be accepted by a majority vote. Both the regular Grammy Award and the Latin Grammy Award have similar nominating and ...
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Latin Grammy Awards Of 2012
The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. It was the fifth time the awards was held at this venue and in Las Vegas. It also marks the last year in the Latin Recording Academy's contract where the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosted. It is unknown if the awards will continue to be held at this location beyond 2012. Recordings must have been released between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012 in order to be eligible for the 13th Latin Grammy Awards. Nominations were announced on September 25, 2012. Juan Luis Guerra led the nominations field with six; Jesse & Joy earned five nods; Ricardo Arjona, Edgar Barrera, Juanes, Carla Morrison, Arturo Sandoval, Ivete Sangalo, and Caetano Veloso each received four nominations. The telecast was aired on Univision at 8pm/7c. Caetano Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year on November 14, 2012. Jesse & Joy won four awards including Record of ...
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Latin Grammy Award For Best Tropical Fusion Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Fusion Album is an award presented at the Latin Grammy Awards beginning in Latin Grammy Awards of 2012, 2012, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. The award went to solo artists, duos, or groups for releasing vocal or instrumental albums containing at least 51% of new recordings. The award first presented to Colombian singer Fonseca (singer), Fonseca for the album Ilusión (Fonseca album), Ilusión+ at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2012, 13th Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2012. In 2014, the accolade was combined with Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album. Winners and nominees See also *Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album *Latin Grammy Award for Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album *Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album *Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song Re ...
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Recording Industry Association Of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States". RIAA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. RIAA was formed in 1952. Its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the stereophonic record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm records. RIAA says its current mission includes: #to protect intellectual property rights and the First Amendment rights of artists #to perform research about the music industry #to monitor and review relevant laws, regulations, and policies Between 2001 and 2 ...
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Latin Music
Latin music (Portuguese language, Portuguese and ) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Music of Latin America, Latin America, Music of Spain, Spain, Music of Portugal, Portugal, and the Latino (demonym), Latino population in Latin music in Canada, Canada and the Latin American music in the United States, United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish language, Spanish and/or Portuguese language, Portuguese. It may also include music from other territories where Spanish- and Portuguese-language music is made. Terminology and categorization Because the majority of Latino immigrants living in New York City in the 1950s were of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent, "Latin music" had been stereotyped as music simply originating from the Spanish Caribbean. The popularization of bossa nova and Herb Alpert's Mexican-influenced sounds in the 1960s did little to change the perceived im ...
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Hot Latin Songs
The ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50) is a record chart in the United States for Latin music, Latin songs, published weekly by Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' magazine. Since October 2012, chart rankings are based on Music download, digital sales, airplay, radio airplay, and Music streaming, online streaming, and only predominantly Spanish-language songs are allowed to rank. The chart was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986, and was originally based on airplay on Latin music radio stations. Although the chart predominantly allows Spanish-language songs, songs in English and Portuguese have charted. The first number one song of the Hot Latin Songs chart was "La Guirnalda" by Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. As of the issue dated June 14, 2025, the chart has had 466 different number one hits, while 192 artists have reached number one (as a lead or a featured act). The current number-one song on the chart is "DTMF (song), ...
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Tropical Songs
The ''Billboard'' tropical charts began in 1985 when an album chart were introduced as Tropical Albums in the June 29 issue of the magazine. In October 1994, ''Billboard'' then established Tropical Airplay, which initially rank the most-played songs played on tropical radio stations before switching to an audience-based methodology in January 2017. As the music and radio industries, as well as the technology to monitor and measure sales and airplay, have evolved, ''Billboard'' currently publishes three different tropical charts. On April 8, 2025, ''Billboard'' debuted the Hot Tropical Songs chart, which ranks the best-performing tropical songs across streaming, digital, and airplay from all radio stations in the United States. According to ''Billboard'', tropical music refers to music originating from the Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean, namely salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato. History Tropical Albums The Tropical Albums chart was established on the issue ...
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Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ...
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