Daddy Yankee Announces His Retirement From Music

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Thania Garcia Daddy Yankee’s forthcoming retirement, which the reggaeton giant announced last Sunday (March 20), has helped boost streaming numbers for his latest album “LEGENDADDY.”  According to his label, Republic Records, track from the album accumulated 175 million streams just three days into its release.Anticipation was high for the album, his first since 2013’s “King Daddy,” and “LEGENDADDY” quickly soared to No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Top Album Debut chart and, and, on Apple Music’s All-Genres list, hit peak position in 19 markets including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Spain.

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NEW YORK -- Daddy Yankee surprised his fans by announcing his imminent retirement from music with an album and a farewell tour, more than three decades after starting a career that put reggaeton on the world map with hits including “Gasolina”, “Somos de Calle”, “Con Calma” and “Despacito.”His success has made him one of the biggest idols in Latin music and a winner of six Latin Grammy Awards.“This career, which has been a marathon, at last I see the finish line,” the 45-year-old Puerto Rican star said in Spanish in a video posted Sunday night on his website. “This genre, people tell me that I made it global, but it was you who gave me the key to open the doors to make this genre the biggest in the world.“Today I announce formally my retirement from music by giving you my best production and my best concert tour,” added Yankee, who in 1995 released his first album, “No Mercy,” and reached international stardom a few years later with the iconic “Barrio Fino.”Yankee, whose real name is Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, will release “Legendaddy” on Thursday night, which he defined as “a collector’s item” that will include all the styles that have defined him.

Daddy Yankee is officially entering his retirement era! “Today, I’m announcing my retirement from music by giving you my best production and my best concert tour,” the King of Reggaeton said in a statement in a press release, according to. “I will say goodbye celebrating these 32 years of experience with this new collector’s item, the album.

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Reggaeton icon Daddy Yankee has confirmed that his upcoming album will be his last.In a video released on Sunday night (March 20) Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Ramón Ayala, confirmed his imminent retirement from music alongside a farewell tour.Speaking in Spanish (and translated by Rolling Stone) Ayala said: “This career has been a marathon. I finally see the end-goal.

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