Produced by Rune Westberg and co-written by Prince Royce, the track is available for download to those who pre-order the new album on iTunes, along with Royce’s current single, “Back It Up,” and his previous one, “Stuck on a Feeling.”
Prince Royce flexes his falsetto on “Extraordinary” atop an acoustic guitar, showing that he’s equally capable of performing ballads as he is singing about “backing it up.”
It’s shaping up to be a busy late summer/fall for the bachata idol, who embarks on a tour with Ariana Grande starting July 16 through mid-October.
In addition to releasing the track, Prince Royce also released the full track list for Double Vision:
“Stuck On A Feeling” feat. Snoop Dogg
“Handcuffs”
“Back It Up” feat. Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull
“Lucky One”
“Double Vision” feat. Tyga
“Lie To Me”
“Dangerous” feat. Kid Ink
“Extraordinary”
“Seal It With A Kiss”
“There For You”
“Paris On A Sunny Day”
“Chemical”
A deluxe edition also includes four additional tracks:
“Lay You Down”
“With You”
“Getaway”
“End Of My World”
Prince Royce will be a (double) vision this summer…
The 26-year-old Dominican American singer-songwriter’s highly anticipated English-language album debut will be called Double Vision, and will be released July 24 on RCA Records, riding on the momentum of his new single “Back It Up” with Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull.
The chart-climbing track follows the Bronx-born bachatero’s first single in English, “Stuck on a Feeling.”
The list of collaborators on Royce’s English project reads like a who’s who of pop hitmakers, with names including Illya Salmanzadeh (Ariana Grande); Jason Evigan (Jason Derulo); Toby Gad (Beyoncé); Roccstar (Chris Brown); and more.
“What I put out in English, that’s who most people are going to think I am — that’s why I’m being so careful,” Royce told Billboard for a cover story earlier this year. “I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin. The album’s a combination of everything I grew up listening to.”
It’s shaping up to be a busy summer for Royce, who kicks off his tour with Ariana Grande on July 16 in Tampa, Florida.
The 25-year-old Dominican-America singer-songwriter will appear as the special guest on Ariana Grande’s recently extended TheHoneymoon Tour beginning this summer.
Grande’s tour, produced and promoted by Live Nation, kicked off February 25 and will play through April 16 in Vancouver.
The summer tour dates, featuring Prince Royce, will kick off July 16 at Amalie Arena in Tampa and will end October 15 at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. Stops include Staples Center in Los Angeles, BB&T Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Verizon Cetner in Washington DC and American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Prince Royce is close to releasing his English-language debut album after becoming one of the most successful new Latin acts in the market. Royce broke the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his first English-language single, “Stuck on a Feeling,” featuring Snoop Dogg.
Tickets will go on sale April 4 at www.livenation.com; all dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
Thursday, July 16 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
Saturday, July 18 Ft Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center
Tuesday, July 21 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
Thursday, July 23 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
Saturday, July 25 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Sunday, July 26 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium
Wednesday, July 29 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Friday, July 31 Albany, NY Times Union Center
Sunday, August 2 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Tuesday, August 4 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena
Thursday, August 6 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Friday, August 7 Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
Sunday, August 9 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Saturday, August 29 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center
Monday, August 31 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
Wednesday, September 2 Boise, ID Taco Bell Arena
Friday, September 4 Portland, OR Moda Center
Sunday, September 6 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Arena
Tuesday, September 8 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Wednesday, September 9 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Friday, September 11 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
Friday, September 18 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sunday, September 20 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena
Tuesday, September 22 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena Thursday, September 24 Raleigh, NC PNC Arena Saturday, September 26 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center Tuesday, September 29 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena Friday, October 2 Chicago, IL United Center Sunday, October 4 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center Tuesday, October 6 Wichita, KS INTRUST Bank Arena Wednesday, October 7 Tulsa, OK BOK Center Friday, October 9 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center Sunday, October 11 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center Tuesday, October 13 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center Thursday, October 15 El Paso, TX El Paso County Coliseum
Prince Royce is taking his English-language crossover efforts to late night…
The 25-year-old Dominican American singer-songwriter stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night to perform two songs from his upcoming album, including his crunchy hit “Stuck On A Feeling.”
The bachata star brought a full band to help him out, complete with three backup singers and two drummers.
After unleashing the big-beat funk of “Stuck On A Feeling,” Prince Royce slowed down the tempo for a tender, finger-snapping rendition of his ballad “Extraordinary.”
He channeled mid-90s R&B hits from the likes of Babyface and the Tony Rich Project, as the crowd sang along.
Prince Royce, a six-time Latin Grammy nominee, is currently working on his first English-language album. He’ll follow it up with his fourth Spanish-language album.
Prince Royce is starting to see the fruits of his American crossover labor…
The 25-year-old Dominican American singer-songwriter has roared on Billboard’s Artist 100 at No. 78.
Prince Royce’s rise on the chart is boosted by the growing success of his first English-language hit, “Stuck On a Feeling,” featuring Snoop Dogg.
The Artist 100 provides the first weekly ranking dedicated to measuring artist activity across Billboard’s most influential charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, Top Album Sales chart and the Social 50 chart.
The Artist 100 blends data measuring album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
“Stuck On a Feeling” shifts into high gear on the Billboard Hot 100, jumping 78-63 in its third week on the chart. Social metrics account for the majority of his Artist 100 standing (41 percent), as he blasts 38-13 on the Social 50. Airplay follows at 29 percent, as the track gains by 19 percent to 29 million in all-format radio audience, according to Nielsen Music. Digital song sales account for 19 percent of his Artist 100 total, with the song up by 33 percent to 21,000 sold in the week ending Jan. 11.
“Stuck On a Feeling” previews Prince Royce’s forthcoming first English-language album.
During his young career, he has tallied three No. 1s on Top Latin Albums beginning in 2011.
Don’t get stuck onPrince Royce’s new sound; just enjoy the music…
The 25-year-old Dominican American singer-songwriter has released a brand new English-language song, “Stuck on a Feeling,” that doesn’t sound anything like his previous work.
“My friends say it doesn’t sound like me,” Royce tells Billboard. “It’s a whole new vibe, a whole new swag, a whole new animal. But when I hear myself, I think it sounds like me; it’s just not a me that they’ve heard before.”
The “new” Royce sings rhythmic, urban pop in English, with a brand-new album due out next year on RCA Records and on this first track from that album, featuring Snoop Dogg, available for sale on November 24.
The sexy track, produced by Jason Evigan, takes Royce to places he’d never been before. While Royce has long been romantic, he’s never been as forwardly sexy as he is here. And while his urban bachata has been decidedly acoustic, in “Stuck,” he goes more for production and layered tracks.
“It’s a side of me that’s always been here, only people never got to hear it,” says Royce. “I think people never really got to hear my R&B vibe.”
Born and raised in the Bronx, Royce has both Latin and urban roots.
And while he started his career singing his contemporary take on bachata — the traditional music of the Dominican Republic — in his crossover bid to English, he’s taking a very different path.
“As soon as I heard the track, it took me back to New York and the Bronx and the urban vibe,” he says. “And from the beginning, I could hear Snoop doing it. So we reached out and it was amazing how fast he jumped on the track, and when I heard the verse it was exactly how I pictured it. We shot the music video in Los Angeles with director Colin Tilley [of ‘Anaconda‘ fame], and it was insane. It’s so much fun.”
The video shows Royce riding on an elevator that gets stuck. The lights flicker, and suddenly “it’s a whole new world. We don’t know if I’m dreaming or not,” says Royce. “In the last floor I meet up with Snoop Dogg. There’s choreography, there’s dancing. It’s a beautiful video. It’s definitely a big-budget video. It’s exciting.”
More exciting is the prospect of successfully crossing over from Spanish to English, something that hasn’t happened in a while. Royce, who was initially signed to indie Top Stop Music, signed a recording contract in 2013 with Sony Music Entertainment for the release of Spanish-language albums through Sony Music Latin and English-language albums via RCA Records.
The first of those English albums will be released sometime next year. Although Royce wouldn’t give more detail, he says there are collaborations aplenty with both Latin and mainstream acts.
More immediately, Royce is up for four Latin Grammys this week, more than he’s ever competed in, including record and song of the year for his hit single “Darte un Beso.”
“I’m excited for those nominations and for hopefully winning my first Latin Grammy. The fact that it’s bachata music makes it special. It’s a genre that just keeps growing and just being nominated is not so common.”
