‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ becomes Spotify’s most streamed album of all time

It’s been over a year since Bad Bunny released his fourth solo album”summer without youan album dedicated to summer, featuring Caribbean sounds and breezy beach vibes, but it still kept breaking records. First Spanish-language album to be nominated for Album of the Year at a Grammy It also broke countless streaming records, though it lost out to Harry Styles’ Harry’s House.last year it Generated over 4 billion U.S. streams across multiple platformswhich recently became Most streamed album in Spotify history.

Bad Bunny, formerly known as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been instrumental in pushing reggae and Latin trap forward, and “Un Verano Sin Ti” The success of 2019 really proves the dominance of Latin music in the mainstream. Spanish-language urban music has gone global, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

Released in May last year, the album not only contains a variety of songs in different styles, but also includes collaborations with big artists such as Chenco Corleone, Alejandro, stereo pump, Jay Cortez, Marias and more.Singles from the album, including “Tití Me Pregunto” and “Me Porto Bonito,” became not only summer anthems, but No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs last year.It also broke Spotify’s all-time record Most played in the first month. In just one month, “Un Verano Sin Ti” has reached 2 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the first and only album to do so. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that the album is making history as the most streamed album of all time on the streaming platform.

Since the release of Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny’s mainstream success has continued to soar. Last year, he launched his own “The world’s hottest tour,” sold out quickly and took him to some of the biggest stadiums and venues around the globe, including Yankee Stadium. He’s Billboard’s Best Artist of 2022 – the first Latin music artist to receive the honor – and won several awards at last year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards – including artist of the year.This spring, he became First Latin solo artist and first Spanish-language artist to headline Coachellathroughout the festival’s 30-year history.

Un Verano Sin Ti has clearly become a legendary album that not only broke records but changed culture in many ways. This is another work that goes down in the history books!

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