Golden (Romeo Santos album)
Golden is the third studio album by American singer Romeo Santos, released on July 21, 2017 by Sony Music Latin.The majority of the tracks were written by Santos and co-produced with sound engineer Mate Traxx (Iván Chévere).It contains 18 tracks exploring lyrics ranging from hate, criticism, tabloid rumors to love and sex and features guest appearances from Swizz Beatz, Juan Luis Guerra, Ozuna, Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee, Julio Iglesias and Jessie Reyez.It also features production from Santos, Allen Ritter, Boi-1da, Frank Dukes, Illangelo, Illmind, Matetraxx, Swizz Beatz, Tainy, and Vinylz, among others.Also, it debuted at number one on Mexico and Argentina album charts and reached the Top 10 at Chile, Spain and South America.[6][7] On February 19, 2017 Santos performed on a Pop-Up Show in Los Angeles to promote the lead single "Heroe Favorito".In August 2017, Santos hosted a series of private shows with Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS).Mariano Prunes from Allmusic gave three out five stars to the album stating "Santos sticks to his new bachata sound, but with diminishing returns this time.Matthew Ismael Ruiz from Pitchfork gave the album 7.6 out 10 stating "The Bronx-born pop star expands his musical empire on Golden.It was the best performing tropical album of 2017 and 2018 and was certified fourteen times platinum (latin field) for selling over 840,000 units.In Mexico, it debuted at number one on the album chart and was certified gold by the AMPROFOM for selling 30,000 units.[22][23] In Chile, it reached number eight at retalins album chart according to Punto Musical and was certified Gold.