Music News: Billboard:New Shakira album due in September!

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Shakira's World Cup Anthem Makes Global Impact

Following an explosive performance at the inaugural FIFA World Cup Kick-Off concert at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on June 10, Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)" is making an impact on international charts.

The official FIFA World Cup song, recorded with South African band Freshlyground, was held to No. 2 on the new Billboard European Hot 100 by Coca-Cola's rival World Cup song "Wavin' Flag" by K'Naan. But Sony Music has heralded the success of the Shakira song around the world.

According to a statement by the major, the song's music video, featuring several top-drawer football players including Argentina's Leo Messi, Mexico's Rafa Marquez and Cameroon's Carlos Kameni, has been viewed around 2 million times a day since June 10, taking its total to over 15 million views on YouTube.

The label says the song has held the No. 1 spot on the Mexican chart for five weeks in succession and is No. 1 in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and host country South Africa. Sony is servicing a pop mix to U.K. radio this week and the original version is currently at number 38 in the chart.

"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is featured on the official World Cup album "Listen Up!" and may make the tracklisting of Shakira's next album, the follow-up to "She Wolf."

Speaking to Billboard at her Johannesburg hotel, Shakira said the as-yet-unnamed bilingual album, due September, is a return to her roots. "I see it [the new album] as having two currents," she says. "One is a lot about love and love experiences and emotions. And the other side of it is very joyful, and upbeat."

Shakira also revealed that the music on her upcoming set would reflect influences from both the Dominican Republic and Colombia. "It's a little more Latin on one side and a little more rock 'n roll on the other side," Shakira says. The singer plays the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury June 26 before returning to South Africa to perform "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)" with Freshlyground at the World Cup's closing ceremony July 11.

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/conte...2113958dc953e4

omg

new music so soon!

TheMusicProphet

Worldwide superstar.

*bow

detosecali17

OMG!!
AMAZING! GET THAT #1, SHAKIRA!!

FAN

She Wolf (single) was my jam

satellites.™

Its amazing how the song did good in all of the [Steven]irrelevant countries[/Steven]

UnusualBoy

Get that smash Shakira

Waka Waka is catchy as hell and I'm looking forward to her new album

Rico Shameless v2

JimMy

I just want my "Donde Estan Los Ladrones" part II.

Anthony K.

So, the new single is really coming next month?

R`0`K`R

More music from Shaki! yay in less than a year!

starstruck52

Ew. Can't she take a hint?

Julián

Cant wait

Beatfreak

Yes!

Edi_Shak

OMG!! new music coming soon... QUEEN SHAKIRA

Pedro

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES IIIT!!! :heart: I am so glad she is going rock again, her voice with guitars are amazing, hope to see an Inevitable 2 there

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Pedro

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Originally posted by Satellites

Its amazing how the song did good in all of the [Steven]irrelevant countries[/Steven]

And then we are the racist people. You are so transparent and much more racist than anyone in this forum. USA is not the world if you wanna know, and how in hell Germany is irrelevant? You must SUCK ASS in school, because only an ignorant person wouldn't know that Germany is the richest country in Europe, and one of the most important. France, Spain and Portugal aren't that irrelevant neither.

Ignorant People... Anyway...

Itsuky

I hope this does better than She Wolf!

Bibliotheque

I can't wait