Sebastian Yatra earns his highest charting hit yet on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs with his Encanto soundtrack tune “Dos Oruguitas,” as the song surges 17-4 on the Jan. 15-dated survey. It also becomes his first entry on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 83. Beyond its hybrid charts profit, “Dos Oruguitas” makes its entrance on the Global 200 tally with a No. 109 debut.
“Dos Oruguitas” is one of eight original songs written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda exclusively for the soundtrack of Walt Disney’s 2021 animated film Encanto, where fellow Latin artists Carlos Vives and Maluma are on two other tracks. Vives’ “Colombia, Mi Encanto,” jumped 34-17 on Hot Latin Songs.
The Spanish-language “Dos Oruguitas” pushes up the all-metric Hot Latin Songs powered by streaming activity. It generated 5.2 million on-demand streams, a 102% gain, in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 6, according to MRC Data. The sum yields a No. 2 ranking on Latin Streaming Songs and takes the greatest gainer honors on both tallies.
As “Dos Oruguitas” hits No. 4, Yatra snags his second top 10 on Hot Latin Songs since his first chart entry in 2016 (the survey blends airplay, digital sales and streaming data). The Colombian concurrently clocks his highest ranking following his first and only other top 10: “Pareja del Año,” with Myke Towers, which arrived in the top 10 on the May 22, 2021-dated tally.
In between, Yatra remounted to his original Latin pop sound with “Tacones Rojos,” which shows upward progress, moving 27-24 on the current ranking on the strength of airplay (an 8% increase in audience impressions, to 7 million), earned in the week ending Jan. 9.
“Dos Oruguitas” has been nominated for a 2022 Golden Globe Awards, as well as a Critics’ Choice Film Awards for best original song – film, and best song, respectively. Encanto also received two other Golden Globe nominations: for best animated feature film and best original soundtrack. The latter sits atop the Billboard 200 (7-1), the first soundtrack to hit No. 1 since Disney’s Frozen II in 2019.
