Puerto Rican reggaetonero Daddy Yankee launched the hit “Gasolina” back in 2004 and reggaeton has taken the world by storm ever since. The reggaetonero released his hit song along with his third studio album entitled “Barrio Fino”. “Gasolina” has long been credited as the hit that led to the globalization of the reggaeton genre. It has made history in more ways than one from becoming the first reggaeton song to be nominated for Record of the Year at the 2005 Latin Grammys to being the first reggaeton song inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.
In a 2014 interview with Billboard, Yankee spoke of the impact of reggaeton at the time:
”I had a really different vision. I could feel the impact reggaeton was having in the streets in South America and the United States. I knew we were close to exploding. And all the money I had, I invested in Barrio Fino.”
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