Zabdiel, Christopher, Joel, Erick and Richard of CNCO (Picture: Getty)

CNCO could be collaborating with BTS and this is one joining of forces we can majorly get behind.

BTS are flavour of the month right now, and CNCO might not be far behind after their performance on this weekend’s X Factor, so the lads have their sights set on a whopper of a collaboration.

Latin music is having a resurgence this year, with Despacito dominating the air waves. CNCO released Reggaeton Lento – which they will be performing on this weekend’s X Factor – but there’s another genre competing for the charts – K-pop.

Can the CNCO lads, who are Erick Brian Colon, Zabdiel De Jesus, Richard Camacho, Joel Pimentel and Christopher Velez, fend off the likes of BTS to take the UK charts by storm?


We are so ready for this supergroup (Picture: JC Olivera/WireImage)

Richard Camacho told Metro.co.uk they’re not after a fight, it’s all love.



He said: ‘We’d like to combine with K-pop, that would be great. We don’t like to look at anything as a competition, we just like to do music and we hope to meet them and do a collaboration. That would be amazing.’

Joel Pimentel added: ‘That would be like 12 people in a song if we were with BTS! [We should do] a six minute song.’

This could be incredible – and it could sound pretty unique as the CNCO lads plan to stay singing in their own language.

CNCO are keen to collaborate on a six-minute epic with BTS (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

‘Want to stay singing in Latin as it’s our language, it now has much power,’ Christopher Velez said. And suddenly the meaning behind their name CNCO became clear.

‘CNCO is cinco – it’s five,’ they said. ‘It’s cinco without the i. So in English you can say CNCO.’

Speaking of performing on X Factor this weekend with Little Mix, the lads said they’re pretty nervous – of Simon Cowell.

‘That’s pretty nerve-wracking!’ Richard said.

‘We just haven’t performed in front of him,’ Joel added. ‘We haven’t performed in front of judges for two years. Seeing Simon Cowell there, we’ll see how it goes.’

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Richard added that the music mogul has been offering the boyband lots of good advice.

‘He told us to always stay grounded, to remember our roots,’ he told us. ‘Whenever anyone feels any stardom we’re there like ‘hey, guy!”

Catch CNCO on Sunday’s X Factor, airing from 7.20pm on ITV.

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