Singer-songwriter Xavi does his thing Bulletin board album chart debut as Next debuts at Nos. 9 and 6 on the Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums charts, respectively, as of October 26.
The 15th Nextreleased Oct. 11 on Interscope/ICLG, opens with 10,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the Oct. 11-17 tracking week, according to Luminate.
Of Next'Total first-week streaming activity contributes 9,000 units, equaling 13.5 million official US on-demand streams for the album's songs. Meanwhile, 1,000 units come from traditional album sales, with the remaining negligible amount via track-equivalent units.
Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums ranks the week's most popular Latin albums and regional Mexican albums, respectively, based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Each unit equals one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported, or 1,250 official audio and video on-demand paid/subscription streams for a song on the album.
Next gives Xavi his first top 10 on any album chart, after placing eight songs on Hot Latin Songs — which combines airplay, streaming and digital sales — and five on the overall Latin Airplay chart.
The 20-year-old and first-time winner of the Billboard Latin Music Award for Artist of the Year, Young, 2024, previewed Next with five songs, three of which reached the polymetric top 10, including the No. 2 topper “La Víctima” (Feb. 24), “La Diabla,” which dominated for 14 weeks — paired with “Si ” by Karol G Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” and FloyyMenor and Cris Mj's “Gata Only” for most weeks at No. 1 in 2024 — and No. 3 “Corazón de Piedra” (April 13).
The album features three total collaborations: “Modo DND” with Tony Aguirre (No. 21 on Hot Latin Songs in January), Los Dareyes de La Sierra on “Poco a Poco” (No. 16 in February) and Fabio Capri, Xavi's brother, joins “Tu Casi Algo”.
Another song makes progress on Hot Latin Songs: “Flores” moves 48-43 with 3 million audience impressions, up 3%. The song also jumps 15-13 on Regional Mexican Airplay.
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