Shenseea just walked into a chart she had never appeared on before and went straight to the top. “Echo (FIFA World Cup 2026),” her collaboration with Daddy Yankee, jumped from No. 6 to No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart in its sixth week, making it her first-ever entry on any Billboard Latin chart and her first No. 1 on it in the same move.
The track pulled 6.7 million U.S. audience impressions during the June 26 to July 2 tracking period, a 31 percent increase that earned it the Greatest Gainer title for the week. Co-produced by Tainy, Albert Hype, and others, the bilingual reggaeton-pop record wraps Daddy Yankee’s delivery around Shenseea’s dancehall-inflected vocals and a hook that sounds like it was designed for 80,000 people to scream back at once.
For the Jamaican singer, this comes right after she topped Rhythmic Airplay in 2025 with “Shake It to the Max (Fly),” so the momentum was already building. But cracking the Latin chart on the first attempt, with a No. 1, is a different kind of statement about where her reach is going.
Daddy Yankee, on the other hand, is operating in territory he knows well. “Echo” is his 31st No. 1 on Latin Airplay and his second of 2026, following “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 0/66” with Bizarrap back in January. His run of chart leaders on that tally stretches all the way back to “Rompe” in 2005, which puts the scope of that career in some perspective.
The milestone also ties him with Bad Bunny for third-most Latin Airplay No. 1s among rhythmic artists, sitting behind J Balvin’s 40 and Ozuna’s 38. That’s a conversation that will keep moving as long as Daddy Yankee keeps putting records out, and right now he shows no sign of slowing down.
“Echo” lives on the 18-track FIFA World Cup 2026: Official Album, which is less a traditional soundtrack and more a genre experiment with a soccer logo on it. Shakira and Burna Boy’s “Dai Dai” has already hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Global Excl. U.S. chart, reached No. 3 on the Global 200, and landed at No. 67 on the Hot 100, giving the project multiple chart stories running at once.
The rest of the album reads like someone gave a festival booking agent an unlimited budget and no genre restrictions. Future and Tyla brought a low-key pregame feel to “Game Time,” while Andrea Bocelli, David Guetta, EJAE, and Megan Thee Stallion went full cinematic on “DNA (More Than a Game).”
J Balvin and Amber Mark reworked Van Halen’s “Jump” with Travis Barker and Steve Vai on board, which is the kind of lineup that sounds like a dare. LISA, Anitta, and Rema combined K-pop, Latin pop, and Afrobeats on “Goals,” and IShowSpeed somehow threaded EDM, Brazilian funk, and mariachi together on “Champion.”
Even Ronaldinho got in on the moment, assembling his own soccer-themed album, Camisa 10, with Sean Paul, Jon Z, and regional Mexican artists. The World Cup music cycle is clearly not treating itself like a side event, and with “Echo” now sitting at the top of Latin Airplay, Shenseea and Daddy Yankee are right at the center of it.
