2008 Latin Billboard Awards

[reception]

Apr 11, 7:41 AM EDT
Guerra Dominates Latin Billboards

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Juan Luis Guerra took home three Latin Billboard awards on Thursday night, including artist of the year and producer of the year, as the Dominican singer dominated the competition.

Guerra has been on a winning streak in the last year, claiming a Grammy and five Latin Grammys, among other awards.

He added to his accolades Thursday, also receiving with his group 4.40 the 2008 Latin Billboard award tropical album of the year by a duo or group for "La Llave de Mi Corazon." He was nominated in four other categories.

The Latin Billboard awards ceremony, held this year at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, honors performers with the best sales and airplay as determined by Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

Colombia's Fanny Lu took home an award for the song "Y Si Te Digo," after receiving six nominations.

Other winners included the Dominican group Aventura, which snagged two awards, including song of the year for "Mi Corozoncito."

Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez took home a greatest hits album award for his "Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1."

New York-born Jennifer Lopez won for pop album of the year for "Como Ama Una Mujer."

Colombian rocker Juanes took male pop album of the year honors for "La Vida Es Un Ratico."

Puerto Rican reggaeton stars Wisin & Yandel won the award for vocals duo or collaboration for "Pegao."

[El Chiko Kevo]

JENNIFER LOPEZ WON WOOT WOOOTT

[kinglouiexviii]

Apr 11, 2008 16:57:28 GMT -5 @reception said:

New York-born Jennifer Lopez won for pop album of the year for "Como Ama Una Mujer."

There is no way the FLOP that was Como Ama Una Mujer was the best selling album by a Latin female. I bet that Shakira was still able to sell more copies of Fijacion Oral than J.Lo. I bet they just gave it to her in hopes that she would show up to accept it and boost ratings...

Anyway, I did not watch the awards...who performed, anyone suck really bad?

[tortuga]

LOL, thank god LuisRo doesn't post here anymore or else he'd be all over you for dissing her.

and no, I didn't watch the show. Who cares about these awards anyways? Its boring giving out awards to albums that sell good when the RIAA does that already.

[Music Fan]

I didn't watch, Latin Billboard Awards are not as appealing anymore and performances who I heard of which I forgot I didn't really want to see...

[kinglouiexviii]

Apr 21, 2008 21:42:00 GMT -5 @tortuga said:

LOL, thank god LuisRo doesn't post here anymore or else he'd be all over you for dissing her.

I didn't say anthing mean about her. I simply stated the fact that EVERYONE knows. Her spanish album (and english album for that matter) flopped. Big time! You know there were other female pop singers like Belinda who sold more than her last year. I don't have anything against J.Lo. But I'm starting to believe that all awards shows are rigged...

[El Chiko Kevo]

Apr 21, 2008 21:42:00 GMT -5 @tortuga said:

LOL, thank god LuisRo doesn't post here anymore or else he'd be all over you for dissing her.

and no, I didn't watch the show. Who cares about these awards anyways? Its boring giving out awards to albums that sell good when the RIAA does that already.

Im all over him/her!!!

WTF you saying. That album is amazing. There was so much passion and work put into that album. Jennifer went really deep and to a whole new side. That album has a lot of setlemental value. That album should have won a Latin Grammy

[markreede]

Could we blame Estefano for this?? Estefano co-wrote the entirety of the first Spanish album of J.Lo.. A soap named after "Como Ama Una Mujer" didn't helped too to propel J.Lo's hold in the Latin airwaves even though that single used also as the soap's theme. For that matter also, Estefano wrote the whole El Sexto Sentido of Thalia.. What happened? Thalia forged with Aventura to get her album some noise and thus No,No,No is released and became the biggest hit from that said album..

These two albums flopped big time by the two artists I expect that will bring quality music to us...

[kinglouiexviii]

May 8, 2008 1:50:02 GMT -5 @markreede said:

Could we blame Estefano for this??

These two albums flopped big time by the two artists I expect that will bring quality music to us...

I don't think so! Estefano is extremely talented as a producer and songwriter. He has created some of Thalia's best songs, and El Sext Sentido was, in my opinion, the best produced album of her entire career. If it did not do as well as it should, it was because Thalia did not promote it well.

Same goes for J.Lo who released a Spanish language album and promoted it like one of her English releases. She did not market it the way she needed to do.