The 2024 Billboard Latin Music Week formally wrapped on Friday (Oct. 18) with a star-studded live performance that includes Ana Mena, Belinda, Elvis Crespo, Floyymenor, Tito Double P and Younger Miko.
The night was hosted by Venezuelan comic George Harris, who entertained the packed Fillmore Miami Seashore with related music jokes, and even had a salsa karaoke sesh with the group.
Shortly after, Spanish artist Ana Mena kicked off the Billboard Latin Music Week thirty fifth Anniversary Celebration along with her sugary pop-dance tunes that included her viral hit “Madrid Metropolis” — and sure, a handful of individuals had been noticed doing the ponytail development throughout her efficiency.
Straight from Chile, Floyymenor then took middle stage to carry out three of his tracks which might be creating all the thrill on social media: “Peligrosa,” “Apaga El Cel,” and “Gata Solely.” The latter of the three — which spent 14 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Sizzling Latin Songs chart — is a three-time finalist on the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards airing Sunday (Oct. 20) on Telemundo.
Belinda, who earlier within the week shaped a part of the ladies’s panel at Latin Music Week, arrived sporting a child blue satin gown and white knee-high boots. And whereas she oozed pop princess, the Mexican artist flaunted her fierce bélica period on stage, performing “Cactus,” “300 Noches” (her collab with Natanael Cano), and “La Mala.”
With simply an acoustic guitar, Tito Double P (who earlier within the week sat down with Peso Pluma for a panel on the brand new Mexican music motion) helmed an intimate stripped-down efficiency that left the group wanting extra. Throughout his set, the corridos breakthrough star sung a few his hits, together with “Escápate,” a part of his debut album, Incómodo, which bowed at No. 2 on the High Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums charts, and No. 20 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
The night continued with the highly-anticipated efficiency by Younger Miko, who pumped up the group with bangers akin to “offline,” “Stylish 101” and “Bzrp Music Periods, Vol. 58.” The Puerto Rican rapper and artist shaped a part of a Celebrity Q&A at Latin Music Week, the place she mentioned her rising success. “In actuality, if you concentrate on it, social media progress is so abrupt, quick, and world that it might positively appear to be an in a single day factor, social media-wise. However certainly, now we have been making music since 2018, 2019, and about three years in the past is when Younger Miko actually began to realize numerous momentum,” she mentioned on the panel.
Closing off the thirty fifth anniversary celebration was world merengue star Elvis Crespo, who, joined by a stay band and group of dancers, had the complete venue of all ages on their ft. Crespo carried out timeless tropical tunes akin to “Luna Llena,” “Nuestra Cancion” and “Tu Sonrisa.”
“I wish to thank Billboard as a result of in February of 1998, the individuals at Sony offered me for the primary time at this convention. I’m having fun with this second to the max, 26 years later. It’s an unimaginable path the place by way of my dream and my ardour for music, I’ve managed to develop tales of many individuals I meet on the road,” Crespo mentioned, additionally thanking Billboard’s Leila Cobo for all of the assist, earlier than finalizing with the all-time celebration basic “Suavemente.”
