Prestige (album)

Prestige
Studio album by
Daddy Yankee
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2012
Recorded2011–12
Genre
Length60:53
Label
Producer
  • Musicólogo & Menes
  • MadMusick
[1]
Daddy Yankee chronology
Mundial
(2010) 		Prestige
(2012) 		King Daddy
(2013)
Singles from Prestige
  1. "Ven Conmigo"
    Released: April 13, 2011
  2. "Llegamos a la Disco"
    Released: May 1, 2011
  3. "Lovumba"
    Released: October 4, 2011
  4. "Pasarela"
    Released: May 27, 2012
  5. "Limbo"
    Released: September 7, 2012
  6. "Perros Salvajes"
    Released: December 6, 2012
  7. "El Amante"
    Released: April 26, 2013
  8. "La Noche De Los Dos"
    Released: June 14, 2013
  9. "Switchea"
    Released: September 11, 2013

Prestige is the seventh studio album and eleventh overall by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee. It was released through El Cartel Records and Capitol Latin on September 11, 2012.[2] It was produced by Los de la Nazza and Musicólogo & Menes. The album explores music genres as of EDM, dance-pop, Latin pop and electropop and essential reggaeton. According to Yankee himself, "Prestige is best and most complete album".[3] The album met with positive reviews and it receive a nomination for Best Urban Album at the 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards and for Urban Album of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 2013.[4]

The album was supported by six singles, the lead, "Ven Conmigo", which won Collaboration of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards 2012. This was followed by "Llegamos a la Disco", "Lovumba" which won Urban Song of the Year and "Pasarela". The fifth single "Limbo" was released on September 7, 2012, and topped the US Hot Latin Songs for 15 consecutive weeks, was a massive success Latin America and received moderate airplay in Europe. Eventually, it won Latin Rhythm Song of the Year at the 2014 Latin Billboard Music Awards. The sixth and final, "La Noche de Los Dos", was issued in June 2013.

Prestige debut at the top of Billboard Top Latin Albums, becoming his sixth album to do so. Also made it to the Top 40 in US Billboard 200 and Mexico. In Latin America, charted modelable in Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela and Argentina. It was certified Gold (Latin Field) by RIAA for shipping 50,000 copies in the United States and Platinum in Chile. To promote the album, Yankee embarked in a series on instores copies signing and subsequently on his second European Tour and latter on the Prestige World Tour which include a presentation at 2013 Viña del Mar International Song Festival.[5][6][7]

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  2. ^ "latinrapper Resources and Information". Latinrapper.com.
  3. ^ lainformacion.com (2012-09-11). "Daddy Yankee asegura que "Prestige" es su mejor disco". La Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  4. ^ Christy Khoshaba (2013-11-22). "Latin Grammys 2013: The complete list of winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  5. ^ "|| RecordLand ||". 2012-10-17. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  6. ^ "Prensario Musica" (PDF). Prensariomusica.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  7. ^ "En buenas posiciones el "Prestige" de Daddy Yankee". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2022-05-09.