Test your knowledge of Nicky Jam's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
The comeback hits give themselves away on their smooth, melodic hooks, so 'El Perdón' and 'Hasta el Amanecer' land quickly. The tougher call is a gritty Los Cangris cut that sounds nothing like his comeback singles.
The facts behind the comeback are their own game: a teenage duo with Daddy Yankee, a career that collapsed and rebuilt in Colombia, an English World Cup anthem, and a Netflix series about the whole climb.
Nicky Jam's catalog falls into clear tiers. Start with the comeback anthems everyone knows, then split the old Los Cangris era from the 2014 reset, dig for the underground cuts, and spot him on soundtracks and screen.
If you know Nicky Jam from Latin radio after 2014, this is your easy ground. 'El Perdón' with Enrique Iglesias, 'Hasta el Amanecer' and the J Balvin duet 'X (Equis)' are the global hits most players name first in any Nicky Jam quiz.
This is the catch. The teenage reggaeton he cut with Los Cangris in early-2000s Puerto Rico and the polished comeback he launched with 'Travesuras' in 2014 barely sound like the same artist. Placing a clip on the right side of that reset is what a Nicky Jam quiz really tests.
Superfans pull ahead on the deep material: the raw underground tracks from his first run and album cuts like 'Voy a Beber', 'El Amante' and 'Si Tú La Ves' from 'Fénix' and 'Íntimo'. These rarely reach a casual playlist, so they decide a top score.
Nicky Jam turns up well beyond reggaeton radio. He sang the English 2018 World Cup song 'Live It Up', his life became the Netflix series 'El Ganador', and he appeared on screen in 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' and 'Bad Boys for Life'. Spotting him outside his hits is a fun bonus round.
Play the Nicky Jam quiz on Songtrivia and find out. You name each track from a short clip, and the split between his old Los Cangris era and his comeback hits is what quickly sorts casual fans from diehards.
Yes. Alongside comeback hits like 'El Perdón', the quiz reaches back to his raw early-2000s reggaeton with Daddy Yankee, and telling those two eras apart is the real challenge.
Players name 'El Perdón', 'Hasta el Amanecer', 'X (Equis)' and 'Travesuras' fastest. His underground and album cuts are where scores usually slip.
Easy on the polished comeback anthems, harder on the pre-2014 underground tracks that sound nothing like them. The two-era gap is what trips people up.
His real name is Nick Rivera Caminero. He was born on March 17, 1981, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father, grew up in Puerto Rico, and staged his comeback from Medellín, Colombia.
Yes. The Nicky Jam quiz is free to play on Songtrivia, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. Open the page and start guessing. You can also guess the song with friends in a multiplayer music quiz from there.
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