Rauw Alejandro

Despacito was first released by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi in 2017, and quickly became the number one streamed track in just 6 months. The single Despacito, a mixture of reggaeton with pop music, not only brought new attention to reggaeton music but also increased interest in Latin music. In Billboard's Top 100 in 2015 had two tracks that were mostly in the Spanish languages, while the year the year 2016 featured four. At the peak of Despacito's chart-topping success in 2017, 19 songs mainly composed in Spanish made it to at the very top of 100. The number grew to 41 in 2020. Justin Bieber remixed Despacito 2017 as a bilingual rendition. In the following months, several artists collaborated with reggaeton superstars such as Drake and Bad Bunny with MIA (2018), Madonna and Maluma together with Medellin 2019 From the beginning of 2020, some reggaeton musicians were unhappy with the way it was moving towards more mainstream. Rauw Alajandro is a part of a new generation that aims to change the direction of. Rauw Alejandro incorporated elements of other types of music and electronic.