GÉNESIS

The most striking aspect isn’t just the tracklist, but how some of these songs became almost unannounced milestones. "Rosa Pastel", for example, was released as a single without much fanfare and ended up being one of those tracks people hum without realizing it, while "77" — with Eladio Carrión — slipped into the charts like a stroke of luck. But the real turning point came with "Bye", which closed the original album and was later re-released in the *deluxe* version alongside "Tulum" with Grupo Frontera, a track that already had the momentum of streaming platforms. That’s the magic of this album: it didn’t just bring together some of the biggest names of the moment — from Jasiel Nuñez to Edgardo Nuñez — but made those collaborations sound natural, as if they had always been meant to be together.

The impact was immediate. In April 2023, while "Ella Baila Sola" with Eslabón Armado climbed the Billboard Hot 100, Génesis was already positioning itself as the reflection of that moment when corrido tumbado stopped being a local genre to become a global phenomenon. The Recording Academy recognized it with a Grammy in the category of Best Mexican Music Album (including Tejano), and the album ended up being Peso Pluma’s first to break into markets that had previously shut its doors. It wasn’t planned as a massive hit, but it ended up being exactly that: an album that sounds like the future, recorded with the urgency of someone who knows they’re making history without needing to shout it.