Stray Kids‘ new mini-album, MAXIDENT, has topped this week’s new music poll.
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Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Oct. 7) on Billboard, choosing the South Korean group’s latest project as their favorite new music release of the past week.
MAXIDENT beat out new music by Måneskin (“The Loneliest”), Charlie Puth (Charlie), Ozuna (OzuTochi), Maisie Peters (“Not Another Rockstar”), Quavo & Takeoff (Only Built For Infinity Links), and others.
MAXIDENT follows an already-impressive 2022 for the recent Billboardcover stars. Stray Kids’ Oddinary EP, released in March, was the group’s first release to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The octet has also enjoyed sold-out arena concerts across multiple continents over the past year.
“Our goal ever since we debuted was to reach as many ‘stray kids’ as possible,” member Bang Chan previously told Billboard in the group’s recent cover story. He continued, “to deliver our music and give strength to people who really need it.”
“If we settle, we know we can’t go forward,” added Han. “That’s why we were and are like this. We try to look ahead and not stay still.”
MAXIDENT features lead single “Case 143” and sure-to-be STAY favorites such as “Give Me Your TMI,” “Super Board” and the Korean version of “Circus.”
Trailing behind MAXIDENT on the fan-voted poll was Måneskin’s new power ballad “The Loneliest,” with 25% of the vote. Placing third was Puth’s long-awaited self-titled third album, Charlie, with 9% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s new music release poll below.
“Los Angeles, you’ve got me sweating!” Justin Timberlake told the crowd of more than 1,300 people at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar as he loosened his collar during a packed set at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 2022 Gala on Saturday night.
But even though he was overheated, he was still trying to keep things elegant at the black-tie fundraiser. “Bro. Don’t be that guy,” he told a man in the crowd loudly suggesting he could cool down by taking his shirt off. “I love you too, but I’m not taking my shirt off. We all got dressed up. This is a classy event.”
Timberlake kept the mood celebratory as CHLA raised a record $5.5 million-plus from the event, hosted by the father-son actor duo of Robert and Chris Pine. It was the first time the hospital has been able to host a gala since 2019, so they wanted to do it big for their grand return. Thanks to JT’s “sister from another mister” Nikki DeLoache — fellow All-New Mickey Mouse Club alum and chair of the CHLA Foundation Board of Trustees — the pop superstar was just a call away.
“I just called him and I asked, and he said yes!” DeLoache told Billboard on the red carpet before introducing her decades-long friend’s performance. “I’m humbled and I’m honored to be here tonight, and if you ever want me back to sing for my supper, you know how to get me — just call Nikki,” Timberlake laughed onstage later.
Throughout the night, it was clear that anyone with a personal connection to the hospital feels compelled to keep its mission alive after experiencing CHLA’s care first-hand — like DeLoache, whose son Bennett has undergone multiple open-heart surgeries at CHLA, or Timberlake and wife Jessica Biel, whose niece Zaya had a life-saving heart surgery at the hospital.
Also in attendance: Jimmy Kimmel, whose now-5-year-old son Billy had open-heart surgeries as an infant at CHLA. “It’s nice to do something to support a great organization like Children’s Hospital,” Kimmel said on the red carpet. “It’s even better when Justin Timberlake is singing at it. They don’t get that in Cleveland.” Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus – who fought stage 4 lymphoma and is now cancer-free – and his wife Skye have supported CHLA even before his own health issues; now, he tells Billboard, “Going through what I went through as an adult with a lifetime of experience, I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be a kid going through something so scary awful.”
Friends star Matt LeBlanc started visiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles when he starred on CBS’ Man With the Plan, and now he’s a huge supporter of their cause to provide the same level of care to all families, regardless of financial ability. Just don’t ask him to hit the stage with Timberlake: “They don’t want to see me sing,” he quipped on the carpet. LA’s KOST 103.5 host and CHLA trustee Ellen K recalled welcoming Timberlake to the KIIS-FM studio back in the late ’90s. “Justin Timberlake came to the radio in braces with *NSYNC when he was 16 and just starting. I let him drive my car,” she remembered with a laugh. “He had his permit, and his mother gave permission. I played mom and drove my car with some of the boys of *NSYNC and then I did my interview. … It’s good to see Justin again – without braces.”
Timberlake really came through for the gala, performing for almost 40 minutes, with his band billed as Justin Timberlake & The Undercovers. The “covers” part made sense, given the standards and soul classics JT pulled out for the one-night-only set, including American Songbook favorites like “The Way You Look Tonight” and “Smile,” a mash-up of Stevie Wonder’s “Knocks Me Off My Feet” with Al Green’s “Love & Happiness,” Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World” into Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’,” and an interlude of Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” tucked into his “Can’t Fight the Feeling!” finale.
“My kids have not had the need to be at CHLA,” Timberlake said onstage. “I think about all the lives that all of you saved, and I just want you to know that y’all are not unnoticed – especially to a father like me to a 7-year-old and a 2-year-old.”
Find Timberlake’s full setlist for the night below:
The Way You Look Tonight Suit & Tie Knocks Me Off My Feet / Love and Happiness Señorita Wonderful World Cruisin’ Smile Can’t Fight the Feeling / Lovely Day
Willow gave a smashing performance — literally — during her musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live.
The 21-year-old artist visited Studio 8H on Oct. 8 to deliver a pair of electrifying performances from her new album, <CopingMechanism>. For her first song, Willow unleashed her inner rock star with “Curious/Furious,” closing out the track by showing off her impressive guitar shredding skills. Later, she returned to perform the hard-hitting “Ur a Stranger,” belting out the lyrics before smashing her axe into a television set.
“it’s called historybeingmade.com,” Willow captioned a photo on Instagram of herself giving the middle finger alongside her leather-clad band on what appears to be the set of SNL.
Ahead of the Oct. 7 release of <CopingMechanism>, Willow unveiled the track “Split” as the set’s final preview following singles “Maybe It’s My Fault,” “Hover Like a Goddess” and “Curious/Furious.” The new album follows her 2021 full-length, Lately I Feel Everything, which featured multiple team-ups with Travis Barker.
“I’m honestly really, really surprised that I’m going to be on SNL twice in one year, five months apart,” she told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “That’s crazy. I’m really excited. I’m nervous obviously, because being with Camila [Cabello], really, really good friend of mine. There’s that feeling of comfortability there where you can look across the stage and be like, ‘Girl, we’re in this together. We’re doing this.’ I’m not baring my soul alone on the stage.”
The singer added, “But now it’s going to be me baring my soul alone on the stage, and I’m just so grateful and so excited, but also s—ing my pants slightly.”
Watch Willow’s SNL performances below, and see the full episode on Hulu here. The streaming service is currently offering a 30-day free trial, which you can sign up for here. The show is also live streamed on Peacock.
Saturday Night Live didn’t waste any time before touching on some of the week’s biggest news — Kanye “Ye” West, Herschel Walker and The Super Mario Bros. movie.
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The cold open featured a game show called So You Think You Won’t Snap, where host Bowen Yang recited news individually to four SNL castmembers to see how long it would take them to “snap” from the news.
Heidi Gardner went first, snapping after watching a clip of President Joe Biden talking about his mental acuity. Up next was Chloe Fineman, who was prompted with questions about Walker, referencing the announcement that he supports a total abortion ban. Shortly after, a woman came forward, saying Walker urged her to have two abortions.
“Well, I bet that will come back and bite him in the butt,” Fineman told Yang, to which he replied, “That actually led to his best fundraising day ever.”
Yang told Fineman, who was playing a mom in the cold open, that 86% of children want to be influencers, which began triggering her a bit. When Yang showed her a clip from The Super Mario Bros. trailer and told her Chris Pratt was voicing the video game character, she snapped.
“He’s supposed to be Italian!” Fineman said.
Devon Walker, a new featured player on SNL this season, closed out the cold open game show sketch. Yang prompted Walker with the news that 401Ks were down 20% and the Mars company announced the orange M&M now has anxiety, before bringing up West.
“This week Kanye West called Lizzo fans ‘demonic,’” Yang told Walker. “OK. Bringing up Kanye, All right,” Walker responded. When Yang pointed out that West decided to open a private school and has never read a book in his life, Walker got visibly more upset, asking Yang if they could change the topic.
“Let’s switch gears to Tucker Carlson,” Yang said. “Last night Tucker Carlson sat down with Kanye West,” he said, with Walker pleading, “Hey, man, have a heart, come on?!”
Yang responded, “You’re right. You’re right. Let’s go to the world of fashion — with a photo of Kanye,” he said, showing the photo of West and Candace Owens in “White Lives Matters” shirts. Walker snapped.
Brendan Gleeson’s opening monologue featured a surprise appearance from his In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin co-star Colin Farrell, who also guest-starred in other sketches throughout the night. In the monologue, Gleeson addressed how people may recognize him from his long career but not know where they’ve seen him.
Following the opening monologue, Yang, Mikey Day and Andrew Dismukes transformed into the Try Guys for a sketch poking fun at the cheating scandal that they faced recently.
Ego Nwodim asked the Try Guys, visibly confused, “Your friend had a side chick, and you fired him?”
Twitter took down one of Kanye West’s tweets for violating its rules, the same day Meta confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that his Instagram account has been restricted for violating the platform’s policies.
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In a tweet on Saturday night (Oct. 8), West — who goes by Ye — wrote that he was going to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” he wrote. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
After an hour of being up and tens of thousands of engagements, the tweet no longer appears on the rapper’s Twitter. In its place, there’s a notice from Twitter that reads, “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.”
West returned to Twitter on Friday after a lengthy hiatus, where he almost immediately called out Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, saying, “How you gone kick me off instagram.” He was quickly welcomed back to Twitter by Elon Musk, who confirmed his plans to buy Twitter. “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend,” Musk replied to West’s tweet about Zuckerberg.
The rapper’s Instagram account was restricted after he posted an exchange allegedly between him and Diddy, in which users criticized West for using language that seemed anti-Semitic. The post has since been deleted.
West’s first Twitter post since 2020 came on Oct. 7, in which he posted a photo in a warehouse of a black cap that reads “2024.”
He also posted questions, like, “Who you think created cancel culture?” as well as tweets supporting Iranian youth. He wrote, “Iranian youth are leading a revolution against 44 years of dictatorship. The world needs to support them and honor their courage.”
“The only thing I want to do is create platforms for people who have something to say.”
So noted Charlamagne Tha God while accepting the Living Legends Foundation’s Jerry Boulding Radio Executive Award. The co-host of WWPR (Power 105) New York’s syndicated show The Breakfast Club, multimedia entrepreneur and best-selling author was the first of eight honorees saluted at the foundation’s 30th anniversary awards gala, held Friday evening (Oct. 7) at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.
Crediting various mentors in his career, such as iHeartMedia’s Thea Mitchem and Bob Pittman, Frankie Crocker and Tom Joyner, plus his wife (“Strong men are secure enough to get out of the way and let strong women lead” he said, followed by hearty applause), Charlamagne implored the audience to “ask yourself every day who have you helped or empowered to help people be the best versions of themselves.” That sentiment echoed throughout the three-hour ceremony that saw Cash Money Records co-founders/co-CEOs Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Before the presentation, producer Polow da Don paid homage to the brothers: “They represent and give voice to people in the trenches.” In a taped message, Baby and Slim thanked their various mentors as well, including former Universal Records GM/exec. vp Jean Riggins, who gave Cash Money its start. “She took a liking to us, stuck with us and taught us how to work the system,” related Baby. “Our long journey is still going. We’re going to keep pushing because we like to change lives.”
One of the evening’s more emotional moments occurred when Sharon Heyward received the A.D. Washington Chairman’s Award for a groundbreaking career, whose highlights include tenures as Virgin Records’ head of urban promotion and later senior vp/GM of its urban division, president of production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis’ Perspective Records and founder of marketing/consulting firm Sharon Heyward Enterprises (SHE).
Her longtime industry colleagues and friends David C. Linton and Ray Harris, LLF’s president and chairman emeritus, respectively, presented the award to Heyward, who currently owns and operates industry mentorship firm The Solutionist LLC. “I’m a hard-nosed, straight-no-chaser girl,” said a visibly emotional Heyward as she accepted the evening’s last award. “One of the biggest legacies of my career are the mentees and others telling me how much I’ve helped in their careers.” She also took naysayers to task for dismissing the industry’s older generation as “dusty.”
“That shows no respect for the legacy that’s been given to you,” she added. “We need to have respect for each other; to reach back and bring forward.” Joined onstage by her daughter Monique, who also works in the music industry, Heyward played snippets of the Impressions’ hits “Keep on Pushing” and “I’m So Proud” before concluding, “The record business is no joke for women. I didn’t want my daughter Monique in this but I’m so proud of her … and [to the audience] thank you for letting me be a mentor to some of you.”
The LLF also paid tribute to five additional honorees:
Media Icon Award – Curtis Symonds, founding partner/president & CEO of 24-hour streaming network HBCUGO TV
Music Executive Award – Geo Bivins, industry veteran (Jive Records, Capitol and RCA); now president/founder of record label consulting firm Port Perry Entertainment
Digital Executive Award – Tuma Basa, director of Black music & culture, YouTube
Mike Bernardo Female Executive Award – Johnnie Walker, first female senior vp/promotion for Def Jam Recordings; now founder/CEO of the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment Inc. (NABFEME)
Founders Award – Henry “Hank” Caldwell, veteran industry senior executive (WEA, Cotillion, Atlantic, SOLAR Records, Epic and Death Row Records)
Hosted by syndicated radio personality DeDe McGuire (DeDe in the Morning) with musical interludes helmed by DJ Battlecat, the evening marked the Living Legends Foundation’s first in-person awards ceremony in three years owing to the pandemic. Among the distinguished guests and presenters on hand for what ultimately transitioned into a huge industry family reunion were Epic Records chairwoman/CEO Sylvia Rhone, artists P.J. Morton and Johnny Gill (Caldwell’s presenter) and talk show host/author Tavis Smiley.
“We are stronger when we all work together,” said LLF’s Linton during his opening remarks following the invocation by Rev. Marilyn Batchelor. “Our mission is to keep moving the culture forward. Tonight is your night!”
Ari Lennox is putting herself first. Last month, the DMV native released her sophomore album, age/sex/location, after amassing incredible success with the project’s first single and Hot 100 hit, “Pressure.” The 12-track effort highlights Lennox’s liberating road to self-care and is an entrancing listen for R&B lovers and hapless romantics.
“It’s a beautiful thing being single,” Lennox says in her latest Billboard News interview. “Dating is hard. I feel like it’s really responsible to make sure that I’m taking care of myself mentally before I decide to embark on any relationships. So I’ve just been focusing on self-love and pouring into myself.”
Lennox admits that her boundless attempts at romance derailed her from focusing on the true love of her life: herself. “First, it’s about moving with intention and being more aware of what you’re doing, not just aimlessly, mindlessly moving around,” she says. Songs like “POF” and “Waste My Time” detail a renewed Lennox pouring into herself more and learning to stay accountable on the dating scene. “I’m also aware that there’s a lot going on inside, which would make me drawn to the red flags or terrible dates,” she says matter-of-factly. “I recognize that “POF” doesn’t have that much accountability.”
After stitching together her acclaimed debut album, Shea Butter Baby, in 2019, Lennox has bloomed into a surefire star in R&B and soul alongside her sister-in-arms, Summer Walker. The vivacious twosome first paired up on Walker’s 2021 “Unloyal” before linking back on Lennox’s newest record, “Queen Space.”
“Summer is that girl,” Lennox says. “Summer is an IT Girl. She is modern R&B and phenomenal. [She’s] literally leading and phenomenal at it. I’m just honored that she always showed me love. We reached out to her, and ‘Queen Space’ felt incomplete until Summer sent that verse in. [It] changed my life. Cole came in and helped me add a beautiful pre-chorus that wasn’t there and made me fall in love with the record all over again.”
Watch her full interview with Billboard News in the video above.
Kanye West is back on Twitter after being restricted by Instagram.
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The 45-year-old rapper and fashion mogul, who now goes by Ye, returned to Twitter after a nearly two-year absence on Friday (Oct. 7) to call out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for placing a hold on his Instagram account.
Ye was recently restricted by the Meta-owned social media platform after he made posts that some groups are considering “anti-Jewish,” NBC News reports. Instagram deleted content from Ye’s page and placed a restriction on his account because he violated the company’s rules and guidelines, a Meta spokesperson told the news outlet.
“Look at this Mark,” Ye captioned his tweet on Friday, which included a snapshot of himself standing alongside Zuckerberg. “How you gone kick me off instagram. You used to be my n—-.”
Billboard has reached out to Meta for further comment.
Meta did not specify to NBC News what content was removed from Ye’s Instagram page, or explain what content violated its rules. But the company’s decision arrives after a now-deleted post from Friday in which Ye shared a screenshot of a text message exchange with Sean “Diddy” Combs, which included the caption “Jesus is Jew.”
“This ain’t a game,” Ye wrote in the text to Diddy. “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me. I told you this was war. Now gone get you some business.”
The combative back-and-forth between the hip-hop icons stemmed from Ye’s decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt during his Yeezy Season 9 fashion show. Earlier in the week, Diddy also shared an Instagram video about the controversial tee.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) took to social media on Friday to speak out against Ye’s recent remarks, which they called “anti-Jewish.” “These posts are dangerous,” the anti-hate group captioned a video on Instagram. The clip states that the Ye was using “anti-Semitic tropes like greed and control,” alluding to the rapper’s interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and his Instagram post.
On Friday, Ye also tweeted a photo of a black baseball cap with with the year “2024” emblazoned in white letters across the bill, echoing his last post from November 2020, when the rapper ran for president of the United States. “KANYE 2024,” reads the nearly two-year-old tweet, which features Ye’s silhouette amid an election map.
Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died. He was 89.
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Ichiyanagi, who was married to Yoko Ono before she married John Lennon, died Friday (Oct. 7), according to the Kanagawa Arts Foundation, where Ichiyanagi had served as general artistic director. The cause of death was not given.
“We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to all those who loved him during his lifetime,” the foundation’s chairman, Kazumi Tamamura, said in a statement Saturday.
Ichiyanagi studied at The Juilliard School in New York and emerged a pioneer, using free-spirited compositional techniques that left much to chance, incorporating not only traditional Japanese elements and instruments but also electronic music.
He was known for collaborations that defied the boundaries of genres, working with Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham, as well as innovative Japanese artists like architect Kisho Kurokawa and poet-playwright Shuji Terayama, as well as with Ono, with whom he was married for several years starting in the mid-1950s.
“In my creation, I have been trying to let various elements, which have often been considered separately as contrast and opposite in music, coexist and penetrate each other,” Ichiyanagi once said in an artist statement.
Japanese traditional music inspired and emboldened him, he said, because it was not preoccupied with the usual definitions of music as “temporal art,” or what he called “divisions,” such as relative and absolute, or new and old.
Modern music was more about “substantial space, in order to restore the spiritual richness that music provides,” he said.
Among his well-known works for orchestra is his turbulently provocative “Berlin Renshi.” Renshi is a kind of Japanese collaborative poetry that is more open-ended free verse than older forms like “renku.”
In 1989, Ichiyanagi formed the Tokyo International Music Ensemble — The New Tradition (TIME), an orchestral group focused on traditional instruments and “shomyo,” a style of Buddhist chanting.
His music traveled freely across influences and cultures, transitioning seamlessly from minimalist avant-garde to Western opera.
Ichiyanagi toured around the world, premiering his compositions at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. The National Theater of Japan also commissioned him for several works.
He remained prolific over the years, producing Concerto for marimba and orchestra in 2013, and Piano Concerto No. 6 in 2016, which Ichiyanagi performed solo at a Tokyo festival.
Ichiyanagi received numerous awards, including the Alexander Gretchaninov Prize from Juilliard, L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette and the Medal of Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government.
Born in Kobe to a musical family, Ichiyanagi showed promise as a composer at a young age. He won a major competition in Japan before moving to the U.S. as a teen, when such moves were still relatively rare in postwar Japan.
A private funeral is being held with family. A public ceremony in his honor is in the works, being arranged by his son, Japanese media reports said.
Prince Royce is celebrating more than a decade in music sharing special moments with fans while on his Classic Tour, which made a stop at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Friday (Oct. 7).
A busy night in L.A. overall — with Christian Nodal, Rosalía and Royce in town for their respective tour stops — those who packed the Microsoft Theater for Royce’s show were in for a treat. During the show, he took a trip down memory lane, performing classic bachata hits such as “Stand By Me,” and serenading concert-goers who hoped they’d be the next one he invited onstage or to receive a red rose.
The tour, produced by Loud and Live, marked Royce’s return to touring since the pandemic shutdown, which halted his Alter Ego Tour in March 2020. “I am thrilled to be able to share the Classic Tour with all of my fans who have been there for me unconditionally since the very beginning of my career,” the 32-year-old artist said in a statement announcing the new tour. “I am still here thanks to you all and this tour is for you. I’m filled with gratefulness.”
After his L.A. show, Royce will conclude his Classic Tour with final stops in San Jose, Calif. on Oct. 8 and in Santa Barbara, Calif., the following night.
Here are five takeaways from Royce’s 90-minute show in Los Angeles.
A Night to Celebrate
Royce stepped out in crisp white slacks and a see-through white mesh shirt paired with a platinum blue metallic cropped blazer. With a huge smile, he thanked his fans for showing up, not just tonight but throughout his career. “It’s a pleasure to be here with you. This is a celebratory tour in honor of all my songs that became classics thanks to you all.”
A Lucky Crowd
Royce interacted with his fans every second of the show — and those in the front row were not disappointed. On multiple occasions, he came face-to-face with them and sang to that one lucky fan, or held their hand. Throughout the night, he also threw out roses (which he either licked or kissed) to the crowd and tossed out towels he used to wipe his own sweat, all while singing and dancing. Multitasker.
‘Who Here Knows How to Dance Bachata?‘
If you thought you were lucky that Royce touched your hand, the two women who joined him onstage hit the jackpot. “If it were up to me, I’d have all of you up here,” the singer said with a smirk. But only two were invited to join him. One of them was from Orange County and she nervously danced bachata with Royce. Then, a woman from El Salvador joined him in the middle. He asked, “In El Salvador they dance merengue, right?” And she proved to him that they did, showing off her best merengue dance moves. At the end, he gifted each a rose and the one from El Salvador even got a kiss on the lips.
The ‘Hat’ Moment
After dancing with fans, Royce’s distinctive flat cap-style hat appeared on the stage in a glass box. After taking a quick break to change outfits — this time he came out wearing a two-piece blue leather ensemble — he took the stage and put the hat on, which only meant one thing: he was performing “Stand By Me.” The career-changing track, released in 2010, peaked at No. 8 on Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart (dated May 7, 2010).
A Nostalgic Setlist
“When I sing this song, it takes me back to the early days in my career,” Royce explained before singing “Soy El Mismo.” “You all watched me grow up and this track helps me stay grounded.” “Soy El Mismo” was just one of the many classics he performed that night. The set opened with his latest hit, the María Becerra-assisted “Te Espero,” which peaked at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Latin Airplay chart (dated June 25). He then went on to perform bachata anthems such as “Carita Inocente,” “Te Robaré,” “Darte Un Beso,” “Las Cosas Pequeñas,” “Te Me Vas” and “Incondicional.”
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