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Bad Bunny’s 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti is now the most-streamed album in Spotify history, dethroning Ed Sheeran’s Divide.
Bad Bunny’s insurmountable success has seen him break another Spotify record with his album 2022. A summer without youbecomes to most streamed Album in the history of Spotify. The Puerto Rican artist, who was named Spotify Artist of the Year for the third straight year in 2022, has beaten Ed Sheeran’s most-streamed album to date Split.
A summer without you was released in May 2022 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, with 356.66 million on-demand streams for the album’s songs in its first week – the largest streaming week ever for a Latin music album. According to Luminate, the album grossed 274,000 equivalent album units in the United States.
The album spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 22 songs from the set making the Billboard Hot 100, the most in a week for a core Latin music artist and the most in a week, all performed in Spanish became. A summer without you was the first non-English album ever to top the year-end Billboard 200.
Thanks to collaborations with The Marías, Buscabulla and Chencho Corleone, the album also made history at the Grammys last year when it became the first Spanish-language album to receive an Album of the Year nomination.
“I never thought I wanted to be the greatest or #1. I just wanted to make it. Why? Because I love what I do. I’ve been doing rhythms since I was 13, writing and singing songs in my head,” Bad Bunny said billboard last year. “I never said I wanted to be the biggest, the best, or the richest. I did it because I loved it and my only dream was to make a living from it.”