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King Daddy II: Elemento DY (often stylized as King Daddy II or KD2) is an upcoming eight studio album (fourteenth overall) by Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee, scheduled to be released during 2016. It is a sequel to his previous album King Daddy, produced by Los De La Nazza, a production duo that worked with Daddy Yankee from 2008 to 2014. The title Elemento DY (Spanish for DY Element) refers to the Dysprosium symbol, DY, which is also one of Daddy Yankee's alias. The album will include "Sígueme Y Te Sigo", "Vaivén" and "Shaky Shaky" as its singles, which were released between March 2015 and April 2016. The album's release date remains unknown.

Background

King Daddy II: Elemento DY is the sequel of his previous studio album King Daddy, released on October 2013, which was originally part of Los De La Nazza's El Imperio Nazza mixtape series, but became a standalone album. It was recorded in two weeks and didn't have much promotion because of being a less elaborated album in terms of production in comparisson of his previous ones. However, King Daddy became the first digital-only latin album that managed to appear in the top 10 of Billboard's Top Latin Albums and its main single, «La Nueva y La Ex», received a lot of airplay in Latin America and in U.S. latin radio stations.[1] The production duo Los De La Nazza, which has been working with him since 2008, left El Cartel Records and stopped being his main producers in order to focus on their careers. Because of that, Yankee hired three producers, Nekxum, Fenndel and Oreo Beatzzz, in order to start recording the album and create instrumentals. After five months of work, producers Chris Jeday and Gaby Music were hired as the album's main producers. King Daddy II: Elemento DY was officialy announced during the mid 2014 with the promotion of the single «Sábado Rebelde» featuring Plan B, released on October 31. During 2015 were released other two singles: «Sígueme Y Te Sigo» and «Vaivén», both reached the top position on Billboard's Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, tying Daddy Yankee and Wisin & Yandel as the artists with most No. 1 songs in the list, with 14 each.[2]

Singles

Daddy Yankee and Zion working on an upcoming track of the album. March 20, 2016.
  • «Sígueme Y Te Sigo» was released as the first single on March 12, 2015. It's a love song written by Daddy Yankee, Chris Jeday and Luis Ortíz, and was inspired by social networks but not centred on them.[3] The music video was released on May 8, 2015 through his Vevo channel on YouTube, and surpassed the 350 million views. The song was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song and Best Urban Performance[4], and won a Latin American Music Award for Favorite Urban Song.[5]
  • «Vaivén» was released as the second single on September 17, 2016. It's a dance moombahton song written by Daddy Yankee and Chris Jeday, who is also the producer. Although is hasn't an official music video, the song received a lot of airplay in U.S. latin radio stations and in Spain, but not much around Latin America. It was nominated for an International Dance Music Award for Best Latin Dance Track.[6]
  • «Shaky Shaky» was released as the third single on April 8, 2016. The song was born as a freestyle during early December 2015, and was later recorded by the production duo Los Evo Jedis.[7] Before its release, a preview of the song was officialy published by Daddy Yankee in order to incentivate his fans to make a 16-second-long video dancing to the track. The music video was released on July 14, 2016 and surpassed the 70 million views.
Other releases
  • «Sábado Rebelde» was released as a promotional single on October 31, 2014 although it was originally released as the album's first single. It features reggaeton duo Plan B and was written by them, Daddy Yankee and the producer Haze. The music video was directed by the company 36 Grados and was filmed in Medellín, Colombia, recreating a night club.[8] It was officialy released on January 23, 2015 and surpassed the 175 million views. The song received a lot of airplay around Latin America but not in the U.S.
  • «Alerta Roja» was released as another promotional single on February 3, 2016 (Daddy Yankee's birthday). It's one of the biggest reggaeton collaborations in histoy, featuring other 14 artists from four different countries: Zion, Nicky Jam, Arcángel, De La Ghetto, Kafu Banton, Plan B, J Balvin, Farruko, Cosculluela, El Micha, Brytiago, Alexio, Mozart La Para, Secreto and Gente de Zona. The song's concept was to include some of the most popular latin urban artists.[9] The song's lyric video, directed by Pepe Quintana, surpassed the 20 million views.

Track listing

To be announced.

Confirmed songs
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Sígueme Y Te Sigo"Ramón Ayala, Carlos Ortíz, Luis OrtízChris Jeday, Gaby Music3:27
2."Vaivén"R. Ayala, C. Ortíz, L. OrtízChris Jeday, Gaby Music3:45
3."Alerta Roja" (featuring Zion, Nicky Jam, Arcángel, De La Ghetto, Kafu Banton, Plan B, J Balvin, Farruko, Cosculluela, El Micha, Brytiago, Alexio, Mozart La Para, Secreto and Gente de Zona)R. Ayala, Nick Rivera, Austin Santos, Rafael Castillo, Zico Garibaldi, Orlando Valle, Edwin Vázquez, José Osorio, Carlos Reyes, José Cosculluela, Michael Sierra, Victor Rivera, Erickson Fernandez, Odalis Pérez, Alexander Delgado, Randy MartínezChris Jeday, Gaby Music, Jumbo10:23
4."Shaky Shaky"R. Ayala, Urbani Mota, Luis RomeroLos Evo Jedis3:52

Chart performance

Song Peak chart positions Certifications
US
Latin 		US
Latin Airplay 		US
Latin Digital 		US
Latin Pop 		US
Tropical 		US
Latin Stream. 		US
Twitter 		US
Youtube 		SPA FR
«Sábado Rebelde» 49 41 — — — — — — — —
«Sígueme Y Te Sigo» 6 1 6 3 5 — — — 12 199
«Vaivén» 7 1 7 2 3 — — — 19 —
  • PROMUSICAE: Platinum[11]
«Shaky Shaky» 6 12 6 9 1 7 50 12 35 —
  • PROMUSICAE: Gold[12]

Awards and nominations

Year Nominee/Work Award Result
2015 "Sígueme Y Te Sigo" Latin American Music Award – Favorite Urban Song Won
Latin Grammy Award – Best Urban Song Nominated
Latin Grammy Award – Best Urban Performance Nominated
2016 "Vaivén" International Dance Music Award – Best Latin Dance Track Nominated

References

  1. ^ Cobo, Leila (November 11, 2013). "Inside Daddy Yankee's Digital-Only 'King' Album". Billboard. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Mendizabal, Amaya (January 14, 2016). "Daddy Yankee Scores Sixth No. 1 on Latin Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  3. ^ "Sígueme Y Te Sigo, de Daddy Yankee" (in Spanish). Vívelo Hoy. May 11, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  4. ^ "16th Annual Latin Grammy Awards". Latin Grammy. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  5. ^ Cobo, Leila (October 8, 2015). "Latin AMAs Winners List: Enrique Iglesias & Nicky Jam Win Big at Inaugural Awards Show". Billboard. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  6. ^ "IDMA Winners for the year 2015 presented in 2016". Winter Music Conference. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  7. ^ "Daddy Yankee comparte su "Shaky Shaky"" (in Spanish). Primera Hora. April 11, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  8. ^ "Daddy Yankee estrena nuevo video, Sábado Rebelde". Terra. January 23, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  9. ^ "Daddy Yankee lanza vídeo musical "Alerta roja" que reúne a 15 artistas urbanos" (in Spanish). Telemundo. February 4, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  10. ^ "Daddy Yankee - Sígueme Y Te Sigo". Productores de Música de España. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  11. ^ "Daddy Yankee - Vaivén". Productores de Música de España. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  12. ^ "Daddy Yankee - Shaky Shaky". Productores de Música de España. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
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