Walls reaches number 1 albums in Spain for the first time with ‘El día que me forgets’, his third album. ‘Luna 18’, his previous work, came in third place in 2024. ‘The Children of the Park’, his 2022 debut, did not go higher than fourth position.
Walls is one of the youth musical projects that have become popular in the last five years. Behind this alias hides Ginés Paredes Giménez, a 25-year-old Murcian living in Madrid, who became known as a rapper and later evolved into urban pop. As she has developed her career, she has collaborated with different artists such as Belén Aguilera, Hens or Alba Reche.
The bulk of ‘The Day You Forget Me’ is produced by Liam Garner, from Madrid, and explores a style of traditional pop-rock occasionally sprinkled with hard rock, blues rock or some Latin rhythm. His nineties rocker voice is similar to that of Dani Fernández, so it is not surprising that they both collaborate on ‘Vulnerable’. The echoes of that decade are evident in ‘Mi nena’, which includes rhymes such as “I leave the club badly injured, with a broken heart.”
In third position comes the new album by Hijos de la Ruina, the trio formed by Natos y Waor and Recycled J. It is already volume 4 of their record series. Within the top 20, the only news is Robe, the final project of the recently deceased Robe Iniesta, which stars in the strongest rise of the week: ‘We are carried away by air’ scale from 25 to 13.
Madison Beer, the American sensation, opens the top 20, placing ‘Locket’ at number 20. ‘Locket’ has reached the top 3 in the United Kingdom and the top 10 in the United States. The Spanish figure is decent compared to those achieved in France (29), Norway (52) or Italy (67), although somewhat worse than those obtained in Germany (8) or Australia (3).
At number 22 we find A$AP Rocky’s new album, ‘Don’t Be Dumb’, which has had very good debuts around the world. In addition to its direct number 1 in the United States, the album has entered number 2 in Canada, number 3 in the Netherlands, number 4 in Austria, number 5 in Australia and Belgium, number 7 in Germany and number 8 in the United Kingdom. The Spanish figure is one of the lowest, similar to that of France (14).
The rest of the entries on the lists are as international as they are varied. Heavy metal is represented with ‘Krushers of the World’, by Kreator, which enters at number 58. Classical music does so with the entry, at number 62, of the album that includes the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert. In ’69 we found reggaeton from the hand of Arcángel and his “Octava Maravilla.” In ’76, Pole from Toledo. places ‘Punto cero’, mixing Spanish pop and urban rhythms. Finally, the list receives K-pop from Enhypen in ’85, with the entry of the album ‘The Sin: Vanish’, the seventh of his career.
