'BbY WOW' made Karol G's album with two days to spare, she tells Popcast

The Colombian star also talks about Coachella nerves, shrinking stage costumes and how Medellín producers taught themselves reggaeton.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 70,197 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (2,971).

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"BbY WOW," the heartbreak song in the title of Karol G's Popcast interview, almost wasn't on the album. She tells Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli it went onto the record just two days before the tracklist was locked.

That is one of several small revelations in a long conversation that had passed 47,000 views in its first 12 hours. A full Popcast episode usually closes its first day with under 3,000.

She opens with what a stadium tour does to a body. Caramanica had been at one of her shows and describes a crowd louder and more dressed-up than most. Karol G explains the cost of night after night on that stage: "I have to do adjustments to my wardrobe because I'm losing so much weight. It's horrible." Coachella, which she headlined in the spring, brought a different kind of pressure. She describes nerves and the weight of representing Latinos and Colombian culture on one of the festival's biggest stages.

Coscarelli then takes her back to Medellín in the 2010s, where local producers learned reggaeton and gave it a more melodic sound of their own.

The Times also cut two clips from the same sit-down. One covers her mariachi song "Ese Hombre Es Malo" and the charge of cultural appropriation. The other covers her Con Cora Foundation's work for Latina immigrant women. In the comments, many viewers push back on the hosts comparing her tour to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. Others point out that this was the first time anyone had asked her directly about Feid.

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The numbers

One long interview put a channel that usually counts its first days in the low thousands into tens of thousands.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,971

this video

70,197

subscribers

119,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

64,329,959

views per day

138,250

typical day: 145,065

the video

views

47,860

likes

1,649

comments

207

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

BBC Radio 6 Music

160,000

TikTok Melody

149,000

Blue Feathers Records

138,000

MorganWallenVEVO

133,000

Rocked

125,000

Popcast

119,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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