page_title: Update (Yandel album)
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Update (Yandel album) / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Yandel from Wisin &amp; Yandel.
context_page_description: Update is the fourth studio album by Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Yandel, released on September 8, 2017, under Sony Music Latin. It was released two years after his previous studio album, Dangerous.
  Lyrically, Update explores themes ranging from romance, sex, and dance. Yandel enlisted longtime collaborators Tainy and Haze, as well as other producers including Sky, Bullnene, The Rude Boyz, Jumbo, DJ Luian, and Mambo Kingz. Musically, the record is a mixture of reggaeton, Latin trap, and R&B music, with influences of American and European sounds. The album features nine vocal collaborations: Wisin, Zion & Lennox, Maluma, J Balvin, Plan B, Ozuna, Luis Fonsi, Becky G, and Bad Bunny.
context_section_description: Yandel's previous studio albums, De Líder a Leyenda and Dangerous, were commercially successful in the US Latin market, both topping the US Top Latin Albums chart and eventually selling more than 90,000 album-equivalent units combined. The lead single of Dangerous, "Encantadora", received Latin Grammy Awards for Best Urban Song and Best Urban Fusion/Performance at the 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. In March 2016, he became the first Puerto Rican act to sign with American rapper Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation. He was also honored by the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame on October 13, 2016 for having reached "outstanding achievements" and having "contributed to the development of the Latin music".
  In May 2017, Yandel confirmed guest features for Update including Puerto Rican singer Farruko and French disc jockey David Guetta, yet they were not part of the final track listing. His main focus on the album was reggaeton music, claiming that "the streets need the real reggaeton". He also stated that the album "is full of rhythms that have been part of [his] DNA as a music creator". He focused more on collaborations instead of solo tracks, unlike De Líder a Leyenda and Dangerous. Wisin and Yandel, in hiatus as duo since 2013, recorded four songs together for their upcoming respective solo studio albums between September 2016 and May 2017.
  The album's title came up after Yandel noticed that various applications on his mobile phone needed an update. He started thinking about his trajectory and decided to give himself a "musical update", subsequently selecting Update as the title of the record. Musically, Yandel experimented with Latin trap music, a subgenre of hip hop music that became popular in Latin America during the mid-2010s, for the album. Both Tainy and Jumbo stated that their objective on the album was to make "something refreshing" and to "look for different things and sounds", while maintaining Yandel's essence. Haze opined that Update represents "the future of music".
caption: Yandel in 2009.
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