‘Gasolina’, by Daddy Yankee, joins ‘Imagine’ and ‘Like a Virgin’ and joins the historic US music chart.

daddy yankee again made history. The Puerto Rican singer managed to make his song ‘Gasolina’ integrate music chart in the United States, with this he managed to make it the first reggaeton song incorporated into the National Recording Registry of the US Congress.

“When you do things with love, passion, determination and discipline, and to all that you add the support of all my beautiful people for more than three decades, everything you dream of can be possible”, expressed the artist in instagramafter announcing the distinction.

In addition to Gasoline, the US Library of Congress added 24 songs, including Imagine by John Lennon (1971), Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven (1971), Like a Virgin by Madonna (1984), the theme from “Super Mario Bros” (1985) and Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You (1994).

These 25 recordings were deemed worthy of preservation “taking into account their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” according to the Library of Congress. This brings the number of titles in the registry to 625.

Gasoline, a real success

In 2004, the time when daddy yankee He had been promoting his career in the “underground” for about 10 years – a term with which the pioneering years of reggaeton are known – that Gasolina appeared on the album “Barrio Fino”.

Thus, together with the composer and urban singer Eddie Ávila (Eddie Dee) and the duo of producers Luny Tunes, they worked on this explosive song that then caused the entire world to find out about the existence of reggaeton.

The album “Barrio Fino” debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Latin Albums chart, and Gasolina was the first reggaeton song to be nominated for a Latin Grammy for Record of the Year.

GasolineLikewise, it was chosen in 2022 by Rolling Stone magazine as number 1 among the 100 reggaeton songs of all time.

Last year, Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin’s hit Livin’ la Vida Loca, composed by Draco Rosa, was inducted into the US Congressional National Recording Registry.