Arcangel’s ‘Sr. Santos’ Debuts in Top 10 on Top Latin Albums Chart

Arcangel bags his sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart as Sr. Santos debuts at No. 3 on the Dec. 17-dated list. The set, a tribute to his late brother Justin Santos who died at 21-years-old in 2021, also bows at No. 2 on Latin Rhythm Albums chart.

Sr. Santos starts with 19,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Dec. 8, according to Luminate. The album was released Dec. 1 via Rimas Entertainment. Bad Bunny, Bizarrap, Myke Towers, Eladio Carrión, De La Ghetto, are just some of the several collaborators accompanying Arcangel on the 18-track set.

On the multi-metric Top Latin Albums chart as measured in equivalent album units, 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.

As with most Latin rhythmic albums, streaming powers nearly all of Sr. Santos’ opening week, equaling 27.3 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Album sales and track equivalent album units comprise a little under 1,000 units.

Sr. Santos is Arcangel’s eighth studio album, and all reached Top Latin Albums, including six top 10s. Of those, he hit No. 1 with Sentimiento, Elegancia & Maldad in 2013, and reached No. 2 twice with Los Favoritos, with DJ Luian, in 2016, and Historias de Un Capricornio in 2020. The latter also contains his first entry on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, “Sigues Con El,” peaking at No. 78 in April of 2020.

Elsewhere, Sr. Santos debuts at No. 2 on Latin Rhythm Albums, and gifts Arcangel his highest-charting title on the all-genre Billboard 200 with a No. 37 start.

As Sr. Santos arrives, one of its songs debuts on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart: “La Ruta,” at No. 45.

Meanwhile, two others spend a second week each on the list. “La Jumpa,” with Bad Bunny, which surges 20-3 after its first full tracking week ending Dec. 11. The song was released Nov. 30 and debuted with five days of activity. The team-up is Arcangel’s most streamed song of the week, with 10.3 million in the week ending Dec. 8 and a No. 3 start on Latin Streaming Songs. Plus, it pushes 9-3 on Latin Digital Song Sales with 1,000 downloads sold in the same period.

In between those two, “JS4E,” shortened for Justin Santos 4 ever, holds at No. 23 for a second week.