Rauw Alejandro scores big this week as “Carita Linda” climbs 6-1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated July 19), marking his 12th champ overall and third as a soloist.
“Carita Linda” rallies 6-1 on Latin Airplay with the Greatest Gainer honors, given weekly to the song with the largest gain in audience impressions among the ranking’s 50 songs. The single takes the lead after a 28% gain in audience impressions, to 8.7 million, earned in the United States during the July 4-10 tracking week, according to Luminate. The audience growth ejects J Balvin’s “Rio” from the top, which drops to No. 3 after one week in charge, through a 4% decline (to 7.7 million impressions).
Released April 10 on Duars/Sony Music Latin, “Carita Linda” arrived as a standalone single following the release of Rauw Alejandro’s fifth studio album, Cosa Nuestra, which gave the Puerto Rican a second No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart in November 2024. The song premiered during the opening night of his Cosa Nuestra Tour in Seattle, on April 5.
Rauw clinches his 12th career No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart in just five years since his first chart-topping hit, “TBT,” with Sebastián Yatra and Manuel Turizo (July 2020). With the latest achievement, Rauw surpasses Daddy Yankee as the male artist with the fifth-most No. 1 hits in the 2020s. Plus, Rauw joins an elite group of male artists with the highest sum of No. 1s this decade. Here is the group of winners:
21, Bad Bunny
20, J Balvin
18, Ozuna
14, Myke Towers
12, Rauw Alejandro
11, Daddy Yankee
“Carita Linda” also rebounds to its No. 1 peak on the Latin Pop Airplay chart, for its fifth week atop.
Fuerza Regida Claims First Solo No. 1: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Fuerza Regida secures its first No. 1 without a collaborator —among six career champs, all within a two-year span— on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart with “Por Esos Ojos.” The song breaks new ground with 7.3 million audience impressions, up 14%, earned during the tracking week ending July 10.
“Por Esos Ojos” joins two other Fuerza Regida songs which have ruled for one week in 2025: “Tu Boda,” with Oscar Maydon (February) and “Me Jalo,” with Grupo Frontera (April).
The new single was released on Feb. 11 as the lead single of Regida’s ninth studio album, 111XPANTIA, the group’s second champ on Top Latin Albums which holds strong atop the Regional Mexican Albums chart for a 10th consecutive week.
All charts (dated July 19, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 15. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.