“You’ll soon get strong enough.” Kieran Hebdan (a.k.a. “You’re so afraid of what people might say, but that’s OK ’cause you’re only human,” they sing. The fourth and final round of the chorus of Nelly Furtado’s 2006 Loose opener “Afraid" is sung by a group of adolescent-sounding voices, who end the song by collapsing into laughter. When she confidently spits, “Been ah you from mi was a child, mi ready/ Di God weh mi serve, mi seh him timely you see,” you have no choice but to believe she was destined for this. She may be a rising reggae star, but the 19-year-old performs with a fervor that even some veterans would be jealous of. SUZETTE FERNANDEZĪfter grabbing our ears with last year’s groovy “Toast,” Koffee showed us what she’s lyrically capable of with the masterful title track from her debut EP. And when the Katy Perry-assisted remix came along in April, it gave the song extra crossover juice, helping to raise it to a No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart, reigning for five weeks. Snow, "Con Calma" (Remix)ĭaddy Yankee’s “Con Calma” surprised everyone, including the artist himself. “We were about to record another song but pulled "Con Calma,'" Yankee previously told Billboardof the song's origins from three years back. "I remember I stopped everything and said, 'Change of plans.'" Paying tribute to Snow's reggae-flavored 1993 Hot 100-topper "Informer," the crowd-pleasing jam went to No. With its searing guitar, menacing synths and immediately memorizable chorus, "Lo/Hi" is the perfect driving jam that we all need in our lives each summer. The debut single off the band's upcoming ninth album "Let's Rock" became the unavoidable anthem of this year's March Madness, as well as first song to top all four of Billboard's rock airplay charts simultaneously - and with good reason. But when a song comes out with this many guns blazing - literally, their choreography involves a move that resembles a bazooka firing - how could they take the energy any higher? - NOLAN FEENEY When “Kill This Love" arrived ahead of the quartet's historic Coachella performance in April, some Blinks (as their devotees call themselves) observed the absence of a traditional chorus. Over a maximalist marching-band beat, the Billboard cover stars jump back and forth between English and Korean with such whiplash frequency that you might just mistake one language for the other - proof that there's truly no excuse for English-speaking holdouts to steer clear of their undeniable charisma. The members of K-pop's reigning girl group don't just transcend language barriers with their highest-charting U.S.