Mundial | ||||
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Studio album by Daddy Yankee | ||||
Released | 27 April 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009—2010 | |||
Genre | Reggaeton, hip hop, latin rap, merengue, dancehall | |||
Length | 41:03 | |||
Label | El Cartel, Sony Music | |||
Producer | Los De La Nazza, Diesel | |||
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Mundial (English: Worldwide) is the name of the fifth studio album and tenth overall by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee through El Cartel Records released on 27 April 2010.Mundial was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year. It won the Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Rhythm Album of the Year in 2011.
Unlike his previous albums, he describes the album as a mixture of Reggaeton, Merengue, perico ripiao, soca and dance hall. Before the release, Daddy Yankee confirmed that the album would include 13 tracks plus 3 bonus tracks on the iTunes version. The album doesn't include the tracks recorded with Luis Fonsi and Don Omar since Yankee signed for the album to be released under Sony Music and not Universal Music Group. He had also recorded a new song named "Intenso" which was released on his birthday for his fans, but said that it was not going to be on the album.
About the title of the album, he said: "Reflects my experiences lived in all promotional trips, in summary, Daddy Yankee Mundial is an album with a great musical variety where The Street joins The World."
The album was first intended to be released on 13 October 2009, then 17 November 2009, and was then was postponed to 13 April 2010. The album was finally released on 27 April 2010. During its first week of release, the album debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 29, selling over 18,500 copies.
Official singles
Promo singles
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone