Álvaro Díaz bounds back onto Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums chart as his new album, Sayonara, debuts at No. 8 on the list dated June 1. The 20-track set, released on Universal Music Latino, becomes his 1st prime 10 in much more than seven years.

“I’m happy and I hope this a new beginning in my career,” Díaz tells Billboard. “It’s always great to see oneself in lists such as Billboard, continuing the sound with which one started.”

Sayonara, which dropped on May 17, the 1st day of the tracking week, earned 7,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 23, according to Luminate. The album’s opening sum is mainly driven by streaming activity. The figure equals to 9.58 million on-demand official streams for the set’s songs through the tracking week.

Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums [TEA] and streaming equivalent albums [SEA]. Each unit equals one particular album sale, or 10 person tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Díaz returns to Latin Rhythm Albums for the 1st time because Dec. 2016, when San Juan Grand Prix, his 1st chart entry there, debuted and peaked at No. 4, for one particular week in the prime 10.

Elsewhere, the Puerto Rican claims his third entry on the general Top Latin Albums, exactly where Sayonara launches at No. 14. While San Juan Grand Prix concurrently earned Díaz his maiden chart functionality in 2016, in involving Felicilandia arrived at its No. 48 higher in Nov. 2021.

Only one particular song preceded Sayonara, “1000Canciones” with San Senra, Díaz’s second prime 10: No. 10 peak in April 2023, soon after “A Donde Van,” with Sebastián Yatra, took him to an equal No. 10 higher in Oct. 2020.

Beyond “1000Canciones,” the set’s “Gatitas Sandungueras, Vol. 1,” with Feid, opens at No. 34 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs charts, which combines airplay, digital sales and streams. The song logged 2.3 million official U.S. streams.