Xavi’s ‘Next’ Debuts on Billboard Album Charts

Singer-songwriter Xavi makes his Billboard album charts debut as Next launches at Nos. 9 and 6 on Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums charts, respectively, on the rankings dated Oct. 26.

The 15-track Next, released Oct. 11 on Interscope/ICLG, opens with 10,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the tracking week of the Oct. 11-17, according to Luminate.

Of Next’s first-week total, streaming activity contributes 9,000 units, equal to 13.5 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the album’s songs. Meanwhile, 1,000 units come from traditional album sales, with the remaining negligible amount through track-equivalent units.

Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums rank the week’s most popular Latin albums, and regional Mexican albums, respectively, by multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Each unit equals one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.

Next gives Xavi his first top 10 on any albums chart, after placing eight songs on Hot Latin Songs — which blends airplay, streaming data and digital sales — and five on the overall Latin Airplay chart.

The 20-year-old, and first-time Billboard Latin Music Award winner as Artist of the year, new, in 2024, previewed Next with five songs, three of which hit the top 10 on the multimetric tally, including the No. 2-peaking “La Víctima” (Feb. 24), “La Diabla,” which dominated for 14 weeks — tying with Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” and FloyyMenor and Cris Mj’s “Gata Only” for the most weeks at No. 1 in 2024 — and the No. 3-peaking “Corazón de Piedra”(April 13).

The album includes three total collabs: “Modo DND” with Tony Aguirre (No. 21 peak on Hot Latin Songs in January), Los Dareyes de La Sierra come in for “Poco a Poco” (No. 16 on February), and Fabio Capri, Xavi’s brother, joins on “Tu Casi Algo.”

One other song makes progress on Hot Latin Songs: “Flores” moves 48-43 with 3 million audience impressions, up 3%. The song also jumps 15-13 on Regional Mexican Airplay.