Cultura Voice

  JOSE PROMIS Album “Canciones Del Mercado Negro” Cabaret, Songs and return to Spanish memory Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Canciones Del Mercado Negro concepto:   After living so many years in Berlin, Promis decided to write an original album of songs in his native Spanish, as a natural attempt to reconnect with his birth culture, and to fuse together the memories of Chilean folkloric music from his youth, with fantasies of Berlin cabaret, French chanson and 1970s pop. This album, which was recorded in Chile, is his 13th overall, and his first since his last English album, 2021’s Promises. Canciones del Mercado Negro on Spotify José Francisco Promis Hoyuelos  or  Jose F. Promis  (born January 28, 1973 in  Viña del Mar , Chile) is a Chilean-American singer-songwriter and composer, son of the well-known Chilean literature professor José Promis As a four-year-old he and his parents emigrated from  Chile  to  Tucson , AZ, as his fath...

How much does being No.1 on the weekly industry album charts really matter in a streaming world where the concept of an LP ‘sale equivalent’ is as nebulous and debatable as it comes? Literally: how much does it matter? Like, what financial number would you put on it? We might be about to find out. According to the (notoriously tabloid-y) Page Six, one artist who just missed out on a US chart-topping album is planning to hit Billboard with a “monster lawsuit” in retaliation. That artist is DJ Khaled , signed to Sony’s Epic Records. His latest album,  Father Of Asahd , landed at No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart two weeks ago, underneath the No.1 record that week,  Igor , by Tyler, The Creator The breakdown of those albums on that Billboard chart, for the week ending May 23, were as follows:  Igor  was credited with  165,000  weekly equivalent sales, broken down into 74,000 ‘real’ sales (of physical and digital albums), plus 90,...