The sound of the charts in ... Puerto Rico

Continuing our new series looking at pop charts across the globe, we head to Puerto Rico to see how reggaeton has taken the Americas by stormFrom Brazilian funk carioca to Angolan kuduro, Britain's various flirtations with foreign-language street sounds have tended to be short lived. In the months following Daddy Yankee's fearsome 2005 single Gasolina, reggaeton, Puerto Rico's electric fusion of dancehall beats and Latin rap, was being hailed as a major new force in international pop. Interest o...

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