Luis Fonsi’s ‘Ley de Gravedad’ Debuts in Top 10 on Latin Pop Albums Chart

March 24, 2022 E Jazz Reporter

Luis Fonsi earns his 11th top 10.

Luis Fonsi
Mario Alzate*

Luis Fonsi earns his 11th top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Albums chart as Ley de Gravedad debuts at No. 5 on the March 26-dated ranking. His 10th studio album starts with 3,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. after its first tracking week ending in March 17, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

The 16-track set was released via Universal Music Latino/UMLE on March 11. It was produced by Fonsi’s longtime collaborators Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo, composed by the three, and includes features from Nicky Jam, Farruko, Rauw Alejandro, Myke Towers, Sebastián Yatra, Cali y El Dandee and others.

As is the norm with most Latin pop albums, traditional album sales and streaming activity powers the first-week total. Of that starting sum, album sales comprise 2,000 units, while 1,000 stem from streaming-equivalent albums or SEA units, which equates to 1.47 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs.

The Latin Pop Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin pop albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by MRC Data. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Ley de Gravedad gives Fonsi his 11th top 10 dating back to the No. 2-peaking set Eterno in 2000. He has placed four No. 1 albums among an archive of 14 entries, including his previous effort Vida, the 43-week leader, the fifth-most since the tally launched in 1985, which holds steady in the top 10 (at No. 7 on the current survey) in its 163rd week.

Elsewhere, Ley begins at No. 27 on Top Latin Albums, likewise his first entry since Vida in 2019.

The set was preceded by four songs on the all-metric Hot Latin Songs chart: “Date La Vuelta,” with Sebastián Yatra and Nicky Jam (No. 31 debut and peak in 2019), “Perfecta,” with Farruko (No. 30 peak in Jan. 2021), “Vacío,” with Rauw Alejandro (peaked at No. 23 in June 2021), and “Bésame,” with Myke Tower (No. 3 high, Nov. 2021)

Over on Latin Airplay, Ley yielded three No. 1s: “Date La Vuelta” (Nov. 2019), “Vacío” (May 2021) and “Bésame” (Nov. 2021). One track remains on the current week: “Vacaiones,” with Myke Towers, at No. 31 with 3 million in audience impressions, up 3%, earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 20.

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