What Do We Make Of Karol G’s ‘No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto’ Top 10 Debut?
Categoria: Musica
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at Karol G’s No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto, which also dethrones Bad Bunny on the Top Latin Albums chart this week.
Por Billboard | 18/08/2026
Throughout her career, Karol G has typically taken a couple of years between her albums. So, when she announced her sixth studio set would arrive just over one year after her last album, 2025’s Tropicoqueta , it was a bit of a surprise. Especially considering she announced the new album just one week before its Aug. 7 release. No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto debuts at No. 8 on the all-genre Billboard 200 — her fourth top 10 debut. The album opens with 50,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the tracking week of Aug. 7-13, according to Luminate. Meanwhile, the set debuts at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums , her fifth straight debut at the chart’s summit. Album standouts include the Drake collaboration, “Ahí,” which debuts atop Hot Latin Songs, and the Bruno Mars-assisted “Still,” which earns this album its highest-charting Hot 100 entry, as it enters at No. 41. Both the album and “Ahí” dethrone Bad Bunny on Top Latin Albums (ending his 77-nonconsecutive-week reign) and on Hot Latin Songs (ending his 72-nonconsecutive-week-reign). So, how do those No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto stats compare with our expectations? And will the album’s “Ahí” become a lasting chart hit? Billboard staffers discuss these questions and more below. 1. Karol G’s No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto enters the Billboard 200 at No. 8 with 50,000 first-week units. Is that performance better, worse, or about what you expected from it? Cata Balzano: I’m not surprised it didn’t debut in the top five, given how the announcement unfolded. It felt organic and aligned with the growing trend of artists using the opportunity to address thousands of fans and reveal that new music is on the way, often keeping the next project under wraps. There were only nine days between the announcement on July 29 and the album’s release on Aug. 7. Given how sentimental, personal and introspective the album is, that may have been part of the strategy: releasing it when it felt right, rather than waiting until enough promotion had been done to ensure everyone knew about it and tuned in. Even so, it still debuted in the top 10 — a testament to Carolina’s status as one of the biggest Latin superstars of the moment. At this point, Carolina does what Carolina wants. Lyndsey Havens: A bit below! I think of Karol as such a hitmaker, and I thought given the momentum of a headlining Coachella set into her last album Tropicoqueta (which only dropped last summer) into a stadium tour would have warranted a bigger debut week – especially when you consider that she only announced this album a week before its release. But, such a brief rollout runway can equally present opportunities and challenges, and it seems that it was perhaps more of a challenge this time around. That said, she still secured a top 10 debut despite any challenges, which is still cause for celebration. Isabela Raygoza: Personally, it landed slightly below my expectations — and that’s not to say it’s a bad album! I just