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You're listening to all of it on wnyc. I'm Alison Stewart. This week, Spanish musician Rosalia became the first artist in history to land number one debuts across five different charts at the same time. She's number one on top Latin albums, top Latin pop albums, world albums and classical crossover and classical albums. And she landed in the Billboard albums chart top 10 for the first time in her career. Her latest album, Lux debuted at number four in the States. The album features 13 languages, collaborations with Bjork and Pharrell and the London Symphony Orchestra. Take a listen. All right, team. All of it. We have been all over this album, so we've invited some professional music explainers to style stop by and break it down with us. Nate Sloan is a co host of the podcast Switched On Pop and Rihanna Cruz is its producer. Welcome back to the show.
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Great to be here.
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Thank you, listeners. We want you to join the conversation. Have you been streaming Rosalia's new album, Lux? Are you a longtime Rosalia fan or is this your intro to her music? What's bringing you to this album? Our phone number is 212433 WNYC 212433, 9692. You can call in, you can join us on the air or you can text to us at that number. Nate, I could. Somebody's going to write like their PhD thesis on this album. There's so much you can discuss. But what I wanted to talk about first of all is sort of the. I wanted to talk about sort of the practical matters, the idea that she could end up on five different charts.
C (3:44)
Yeah.
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How does Rosalia's album manage to be all of these things?
C (3:49)
Yeah, I mean, first of all, I totally agree, Alison. I wish I could go back and do my PhD again and write about this album. I think her goal with this album was to be as expansive as possible. She sings in 13 different languages. She works with collaborators from all over the world, and she merges different genres, classical, pop, reggaeton, in these surprising ways. So this, this kind of unprecedented appearance on all these different charts, that's not A bug that's a feature of this album that is part of the goal, and it's important because it's quite unlike anything we've maybe ever heard, like, in the pop landscape.
