GRAMMY® AWARD WINNING ARTIST SHAKIRA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “ACRÓSTICO” ALONGSIDE OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
GRAMMY® AWARD WINNING ARTIST
SHAKIRA
RELEASES NEW SINGLE
“ACRÓSTICO”
ALONGSIDE OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
Shakira Honored as Billboard’s First-Ever ‘Latin Woman of the Year’ at Inaugural ‘Latin Women In Music’ Over the Weekend
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MIAMI (May 11, 2023) – Today, GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® Award winning artist Shakira released her new single “Acróstico” – listen here! In this stripped-down piano ballad, Shakira uses her iconic sultry voice to showcase raw and vulnerable emotion. Alongside the track, she released the official lyric video – watch here!
Over the weekend, Shakira was honored as Billboard’s first ever Latin Woman of the Year at the inaugural Mujeres Latinas en la Música aka the Latin Women in Music gala. This achievement adds to a banner year for the global icon, who is the first artist to have two Global Top 50 #1s on Spotify and to chart two top 10s this year on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. She also has the two highest charting Spanish language singles by a female artist in history on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for “Sessions #53” and “TQG”. Shakira already holds the place of the best-selling female Latin artist in history, with a decades-long trajectory of trailblazing and hit-making, but has continued to solidify her legendary status in the past year due to the runaway success of her four latest hits, “Te Felicito”, “Monotonía,” “Music Sessions #53” and “TQG.”
Her first single of 2023 “Music Sessions Vol. 53” with Bizarrap, made history debuting at #1 globally and breaking 14 Guinness World Records. Its now the Spanish language song with most streams in history in a single day, and the 5th highest debut in Spotify history – listen here. In 24 hours, the song broke records on Spotify with over 14 million streams and on YouTube with over 52 million views. The two performed the song to an ecstatic crowd singing along on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, making it one of their highest viewed musical performances in the history of the show – watch here.
About Shakira
Shakira is a Colombian singer-songwriter and multi-GRAMMY® award winner. She has sold over 95 million records worldwide and has won numerous awards including three GRAMMYs®, twelve Latin GRAMMYs®, and multiple World Music Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards, to name a few. She is the most-viewed female artist, and one of the top-5 artists overall of all time on YouTube with over 20 billion cumulative views, and the most-streamed female Latin artist of all time on Spotify. Shakira’s last album “El Dorado” ranked #1 on iTunes in 37 Countries, won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2017 Latin GRAMMY® Awards, and Best Latin Pop Album at the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards. With over 10 billion streams, it is one of the most-streamed female albums of all time. Her single “Monotonía,” featuring Ozuna, broke records becoming the biggest Spanish language debut of 2022, the biggest solo female debut on YouTube and the biggest debut of her career. Upon its release, the video was #1 trending on YouTube, both globally and in over 20 countries on the YouTube Music chart. It also continues to be #1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay and Tropical Airplay charts. In 24 hours, Shakira’s latest release, “SHAKIRA || BZRP Music Sessions #53” made history both on Spotify with over 14 million streams and on YouTube with over 52 million views. The song debuted at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 is another historic moment for Shakira as she is the first solo woman to reach the Top 10 on the chart with a song recorded in Spanish. It is also the Spanish language song with most streams in a single day in Spotify history. She has also broken the all-time record for most monthly listeners for a Latin artist in Spotify history! BZRP Music Sessions #53 became the fastest Latin song to reach 100 million streams and debuted #12 on the Billboard charts. At this time, Shakira is ranked 6th in the world on Spotify monthly listeners. She is currently recording her next studio album.