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RBD Earns Highest Grossing Touring Act Honors for November

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RBD is celebrating a November to remember…

After two months at No. 2, the reunited Mexican Latin group takes the helm as the highest grossing touring act of November.

RBDThe group’s Soy Rebelde Tour grossed $71.1 million and sold 734,000 tickets from November 3 to 30, per Billboard Boxscore figures. The tour is the act’s first trek since 2008’s Tour del Adios.

Current through November 30, the Soy Rebelde Tour has grossed $197.1 million since launching in August. About half a million dollars shy of Daddy Yankee’s 2022 farewell tour, RBD’s reunion will become the second-highest grossing tour by a Latin act once its December shows are reported, behind Bad Bunny‘s World’s Hottest Tour.

RBD’s monthly crown is due to hustle. Other than Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the perennial holiday favorite that includes two touring ensembles for either coast of the U.S., RBD played more shows in November than any act among the top 30. With 17 shows split between seven markets, the group earned its spot atop the heap by playing hard.

After sitting at No. 2 behind Beyoncé and Pink in September and October, respectively, RBD levels up, and its routing has much to do with it. Not only did the group play more shows than in either of the previous months, but after touring the U.S., RBD took on Latin America in November, transitioning to a primarily Spanish-language audience.

That move allowed RBD to move from arenas to stadiums, multiplying its nightly audience by more than two. In the U.S., the group paced about 18,000 tickets per night before rocketing to more than 43,000 each show in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico.

But the ticket pricing economy is much different in these geographical regions, and RBD’s average ticket price went from $241.30 in the U.S. to $96.81 in Latin America.

In all, its average gross stayed almost the same, even dipping by 4%. But the pure volume of seats that RBD could sell made up the difference, giving RBD its first monthly win yet.

At No. 1 for November, RBD is only the third Latin act to lead the monthly Top Tours chart. Los Bukis first broke ground in September 2021, and Bad Bunny pushed the boundaries further, ruling in February, March, August and September of 2022. Aventura, Daddy Yankee, Maluma and Rauw Alejandro have also hit the top five.

That means that RBD is the source for the genre’s first female artists to hit the top tier. The mixed-gender group’s reunion features original members Anahi, Dulce Maria and Maite Perroni, all hailing from Mexico. Beyond Latin music, they continue a hot streak for women atop the chart: after a nearly four-year drought, Beyoncé, Pink and RBD have kept women at No. 1 for six of the last seven months.

Beyond the No. 1 act, Pink and Madonna add support at Nos. 3 and 5, respectively. Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Ms. Lauryn Hill and in her monthly Boxscore debut, Doja Cat, follow. While a grand total of seven women acts in the top 30 doesn’t give them a majority, the 23.3% gender split is up from the 2023 year-end wrap, where women’s representation doubled from the previous year.

Four of RBD’s seven stops in November crack the 30-position Top Boxscores chart. Four shows at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Nov. 16-19) earned $17.4 million and sold 191,000 tickets, while another four at Estadio Antanasio Girardot (Medellin, Colombia; Nov. 3-6) took in $17.2 million from 150,000 tickets.

In Sao Paulo, RBD played another two shows at Estadio do Morumbi on Nov. 12-13, grossing $11 million. If the group had consolidated their Sao Paulo run at one venue, the combined gross would’ve given them the No. 1 spot with more than $28 million.

Luis Miguel Adds 50 Additional Dates to “Luis Miguel Tour” in 2024

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Luis Miguel will be spending more time on the road…

After strong sales of the 65 dates of his Luis Miguel Tour 2023, which will play until the end of the year, the 53-year-old Mexican singer and record producer has announced plans to extend his trek through 2024.

Luis MiguelMiguel will play 50 additional dates next year, making stops in Central and South America, the United States, Canada and Europe.

Luis Miguel Tour 2024 will officially kick off in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on January 20, 2024, and will go to Central and South America before circling back to the U.S., April 4 in Seattle, WA. He’ll then play 32 dates, ending June 16 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The shows will be produced by CMN and Fenix, who are also producing the current leg of the tour.

Miguel’s 2023 tour officially kicked off on August 3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the singer performing over 50 songs from his vast catalog, including timeless hits such as “La incondicional,” “Ahora te puedes marchar,” and “Hasta que me olvides.”

The highly-anticipated tour is Miguel’s first outing since his 2018-2019 México por Siempre tour, which grossed $101.4 million and sold 965,000 tickets across 116 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. It was the highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history until last year when Bad Bunny‘s El Último Tour del Mundo and World’s Hottest Tour surpassed it.

The México por Siempre tour coincided with the first season of Luis Miguel: The Series, based on Miguel’s life and premiering in April 2018. The second and third seasons of the series streamed on Netflix in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, heightening interest in Miguel and his catalog, despite the fact that he hasn’t released a studio album since 2017’s ¡Mexico Por Siempre!

Luis Miguel Tour 2024 tickets go on presale Thursday, August 10 at 10 am ET, and all tickets will go on sale onn Aug. 11 for the U.S.

Ticket sales in other countries will be announced individually.

Luis Miguel Tour 2024 dates:

Jan. 20 — Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana
Jan. 23 — San Juan, Puerto Rico
Jan. 27 — Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Jan. 30 — San Salvador, El Salvador
Feb. 2 — Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Feb. 5 — Managua, Nicaragua
Feb. 8 — San José, Costa Rica
Feb. 12 — Caracas, Venezuela
Feb. 15 — Medellín, Colombia
Feb. 17 — Bogotá, Colombia
Feb. 21 — Quito, Ecuador
Feb. 24 — Lima, Perú
March 2 — Santiago, Chile
March 8 — Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 14 — Córdoba, Argentina
March 16 — Montevideo, Uruguay
March 20 — Asunción, Paraguay
March 23 — Sao Paolo, Brasil
March 28 — Santa Cruz, Bolivia
April 4 — Seattle, WA
April 5 — Portland, OR
April 7 — Sacramento, CA
April 11 — San Francisco, CA
April 13 — Fresno, CA
April 14 — San Jose, CA
April 17 — Los Angeles, CA
April 19 — Las Vegas, NV
April 20 — Glendale, AZ
April 25 — Palm Desert, CA
April 26 — Ontario, CA
April 28 — Salt Lake City, UT
May 2 — El Paso, TX
May 4 — Laredo, TX
May 5 — Austin, TX
May 8 — Dallas, TX
May 10 — Hidalgo, TX
May 11 — San Antonio, TX
May 15 — Houston, TX
May 18 — Atlanta, GA
May 23 — Toronto, Canadá
May 24 — Montreal, Canadá
May 26 — Minneapolis, MN
May 30 — Chicago, IL
June 1 — Brooklyn, NY
June 2 — Uncasville, CT
June 5 — Orlando, FL
June 6 — Sunrise, FL
June 8 — Miami, FL
June 12 — New Orleans
June 14 — Nashville, TN
June 16 — Greensboro, NC

Rauw Alejandro Leads Pack of Premios Tu Música Urbano Nominees with 12 Nods

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Rauw Alejandro is this year’s música urbano artist to beat…

The nominees have been announced for this year’s Premios Tu Música Urbano, with the 30-year-old Puerto Rican singer leading the pack with 12 nods.

Rauw AlejandroAmong Rauw Alejandro’s nominations, the “Beso” singer is up for Artist of the Year, Top Social Artist and Song of The Year for “Lokera,” featuring Lyanno and Brray.

He’s followed by Feid…

The 30-year-old Colombian singer/songwriter is up for 11 awards, including Top Artist – Male, Top Social Artist and Song of the Year for “Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo” –

Up next, Bad Bunny is up for 10 awards…

The 29-year-old Puerto Rican artist is up for Artist of the Year, Song of the Year for “Me Porto Bonito” and Tour of the Year for World’s Hottest Tour.

This year’s Premios Tu Música Urbano will take place at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan

Other top nominees include Wisin & Yandel, Young Miko, Ángel Dior, Farruko, Indiomar, Jay Wheeler, Ozuna, and Quevedo.

The awards show will not only recognize top urban artists but also artists from other genres—such as tropical, pop and Regional Mexican—who have experimented with the urban realm, across 32 categories.

The 4th annual Premio Tu Música Urbano will air on June 15 on Telemundo PR, as well as on Telemundo Internacional and YouTube.

Fans can vote for their favorite artists on www.premiostumusicaurbano.com.

Here’s the complete list of nominees:

Artist of the Year
Bad Bunny
Rauw Alejandro
Karol G
Ozuna
Rosalía

Top Artist — Male
Jhayco
Anuel AA
Feid
Yandel
Manuel Turizo
Maluma
Arcángel
Farruko

Top Artist — Female
Anitta
Becky G
María Becerra
Nicki Nicole
Tini
Natti Natasha
Cazzu

Top Artist — Duo or Group
Jowell & Randy
Wisin & Yandel
Piso 21
Zion & Lennox
Alexis y Fido
CNCO
Mau y Ricky

Top New Artist — Male
Omar Courtz
Alejo
Polimá Westcoast
Hozwal
Chris Lebrón
Cris Mj
Chris Palace
Yng Lvcas
Jossef
Brray

Top New Artist — Female
Paopao
Villano Antillano
Itzza Primera
Ingratax
Snow Tha Product
Catalyna
Nesi
Elena Rose

Top Rising Star — Male
Duki
Ryan Castro
Tiago PZK
Eladio Carrión
Lyanno
Álvaro Díaz
Kevin Roldán
Quevedo

Top Rising Star — Female
Bad Gyal
Emilia
Young Miko
Tokischa

Top Social Artist
Rauw Alejandro
Feid
Mau y Ricky
Manuel Turizo
Rosalía
Jay Wheeler
Tini

Song of the Year
“Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” – Bizarrap, Quevedo
“Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo” – Feid
“Lokera” – Rauw Alejandro, Lyanno, Brray
“Provenza” – Karol G
“Despechá” – Rosalía
“La Bachata” – Manuel Turizo
“Me Porto Bonito” – Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone

Song of the Year — Duo or Group
“Los Cachos” – Piso 21, Manuel Turizo
“Si Te Pillo” – Jowell & Randy, Wisin & Yandel
“Berlín” – Zion & Lennox, María Becerra
“Besos Moja2” – Wisin & Yandel, Rosalía
“Plutón” – CNCO, Kenia Os
“Miami” – Mau y Ricky

Remix of the Year
“Loco por Perrearte Remix” – De La Ghetto, Rauw Alejandro
“Marisola Remix” – Cris MJ, Duki, Nicki Nicole, Standly, Stars Music Chile
“La Bebe Remix” – Yng Lvcas, Peso Pluma
“Ultra Solo Remix” – Polimá Westcoast, Feid, Pailita, Paloma Mami, De La Ghetto
“Desde Mis Ojos Remix” – Chris Lebrón, Sech, Jay Wheeler
“Si La Calle Llama Remix” – Eladio Carrión, Myke Towers
“Después de las 12 Remix” – Ovi, Kim Loaiza, Grupo Firme, Pailita

Collaboration of the Year
“Yandel 150” – Yandel, Feid
“Punto 40” – Rauw Alejandro, Baby Rasta
“La Jumpa” – Arcángel, Bad Bunny
“ La Inocente” – Mora, Feid
“TQG” – Karol G, Shakira
“La Corriente” – Bad Bunny, Tony Dize
“Hey Mor” – Ozuna ,Feid
“En La De Ella” – Jhayco, Feid, Sech
“Party” – Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro

Top Artist — Pop Urban
Jay Wheeler
Manuel Turizo
Rosalía
Pedro Capó
Tini
Becky G
Danny Ocean
Shakira

Top Artist — Tropical Urban
Rafa Pabón
Gente de Zona
Prince Royce
Romeo Santos
Pirulo y la Tribu

Top Artist — Dembow
Kiko el Crazy
Rochy RD
Tokischa
Chimbala
Ángel Dior

Top Artist — Trap
Anuel AA
Eladio Carrión
Bryant Myers
Hozwal
Young Miko
Yovngchimi
Duki
Dei V

Top Artist — Regional Urban
Natanael Cano
Peso Pluma
Grupo Firme
Grupo Frontera
Santa Fe Klan
Junior H
Eslabón Armado
Fuerza Regida

Top Artist — Christian/Spiritual
Funky
Alex Zurdo
Redimi2
Gabriel EMC
Farruko
Indiomar
Onell Díaz

Top Song — Pop Urban
“Te Felicito” – Shakira, Rauw Alejandro
“X Si Volvemos” – Karol G, Romeo Santos
“Ojitos Lindos” – Bad Bunny, Bomba Estéreo
“Playa del Inglés” – Quevedo, Myke Towers
“Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” – Bizarrap , Shakira
“LLYLM” – Rosalía
“Cairo” – Karol G, Ovy On The Drums
“La Triple T” – Tini
“Traductor” – Tiago PZK, Myke Towers

Top Song — Tropical Urban
“Si Te Preguntan…” – Prince Royce, Nicky Jam, Jay Wheeler
“La Fórmula” – Maluma , Marc Anthony
“Agüita de Coco” – Rafa Pabón
“Desnúdate” – Zion & Lennox
“Arranca” – Becky G, Omega
“Lotería” – Luis Vázquez, Rafa Pabón
“Baila Bien” – Vf7, Nio García

Top Song — Dembow
“Feliz” – Chimbala
“Tití Me Preguntó” – Bad Bunny
“Gogo Dance” – El Alfa, Chael Produciendo
“Delincuente” – Tokischa , Anuel AA, Ñengo Flow
“Piropi” – Ángel Dior
“Tamo en Nota” – Rauw Alejandro, Ángel Dior
“Chukiteo” – Kiko el Crazy, Ñengo Flow
“Ojos Ferrari” – Karol G, Justin Quiles, Ángel Dior
“To’ Esto Es Tuyo” – Natti Natasha

Top Song — Trap
“Diamantes En Mis Dientes” – Anuel AA, Yovngchimi
“JS4E” – Arcángel  Mbappe – Eladio Carrión
“El Nene” – Anuel AA , Foreign Teck
“Lisa” – Young Miko
“Givenchy” – Duki
“Coco Chanel” – Eladio Carrión , Bad Bunny
“Big Booty” – Hozwal, Young Miko , Lil Geniuz

Top Song — Christian/Spiritual
“Nubes” – Indiomar, Blanca
“100 x 35” – Redimi2, Alex Zurdo, Christian Ponce, Gabriel EMC, Borrero, Joeky Santana
“Sigo Aquí” – Gabriel EMC, Redimi2
“Nazareno” – Farruko
“Tuyo Remix” – Omy Alka, Indiomar, Musiko
“A Ciegas RMX” – Indiomar, Musiko, Alex Zurdo, Funky
“Tu Manto Remix” – Funky, Od anis BSK, Lizzy Parra
“En La Mia Remix” – MC Albertico, Isaias Francotirador, Farruko

Album of the Year — Male Artist
Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
La Última Misión – Wisin & Yandel
OzuTochi – Ozuna
Paraíso – Mora
Saturno – Rauw Alejandro
Sr. Santos – Arcángel
LLNM2 – Anuel AA
Resistencia – Yandel
Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo Te Pirateamos El Álbum – Feid

Album of the Year — Female Artist
La Nena De Argentina – María Becerra
Mañana Será Bonito – Karol G
Cupido – Tini
Versions of Me – Anitta
Esquemas – Becky G
Nena Trampa – Cazzu
Motomami – Rosalía

Album of the Year — Rising Stars
Portales – Tiago PZK
Tú crees en mi ? – Emilia
Temporada de Reggaetón 2 – Duki
Sen2 Kbrn VOL.2 – Eladio Carrión
Reggaetonea – Ryan Castro
Donde Quiero Estar – Quevedo
El Cambio – Lyanno

Video of the Year
“Punto 40 Año 2077” – Rauw Alejandro, Baby Rasta
“La Llevo al Cielo” – Chencho Corleone, Chris Jedi, Anuel AA, Ñengo Flow
“TQG” – Karol G, Skakira
“JS4E” – Arcángel
“La Reina” – Maluma
“Bombón” – Daddy Yankee, El Alfa, Lil Jon
“Chorrito Pa Las Animas” – Feid
“La Loto” – Tini, Becky G, Anitta
“Riri” – Young Miko

Top Music Producer
Los Legendarios
Tainy
Mr. NaisGai
Ovy on the Drums
Caleb Callloway
Bizarrap
MAG
Subelo Neo
Dimelo Ninow & Dulce Como Candy

Songwriter/Composer of the Year
Rauw Alejandro
Justin Quiles
Keityn
Jhayco
Edgar Barrera
MAG
La Paciencia
Feid
Rios

Tour of the Year
“World’s Hottest Tour” – Bad Bunny
“Saturno World Tour” – Rauw Alejandro
“$trip Love Tour” – Karol G
“La Última Misión” – Wisin & Yandel
“La Última Vuelta World Tour” – Daddy Yankee
“Ozutochi World Tour” – Ozuna
“Motomami World Tour” – Rosalía

The Best Comeback
Maldy
Vico C
Tony Dize
Baby Rasta
Don Omar
Ivy Queen

Luis Miguel Announces 43-Date North & South American Tour

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Luis Miguel is hitting the road…

The 53-year-old Mexican singer, known as El Sol de Mexico, has revealed the dates for his 43-date stint in North and South America that will kick off on August 3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Luis-MiguelThe trek will visit major cities in the U.S. such as Chicago, Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles before wrapping up on December 17 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The tour is produced by CMN.

It’s Luis Miguel’s first tour in years. His last tour — México Por Siempre, which ran from 2018 to 2019 — grossed $101.4 million and sold 965,000 tickets across 116 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.

It was the highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history until last year when Bad Bunny‘s El Último Tour del Mundo and World’s Hottest Tour surpassed it.

The anticipation for this trek began when Luis Miguel simply posted on Instagram “Luis Miguel Tour 2023” in February without offering more details.

Whether he’ll drop new music to coincide with the tour is still up in the air.

The elusive artist released ¡MÉXICO Por Siempre! in 2017, which won album of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards.

Luis Miguel is one of Latin music’s biggest star and one of the top vocalists of his generation. The chart-topping artist has notched 16 No. 1 songs on Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart, and nine leaders on the Top Latin Albums tally.

Daddy Yankee’s “La Ultima Vuelta World Tour” Becomes Biggest-Ever Tour of His Career

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Daddy Yankee has ended his touring career with a bang…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar has played the final shows of his farewell tour, ending at Miami’s FTX Arena on Thursday, December 22.

Daddy YankeeAccording to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour wrapped with $197.8 million and 1.9 million tickets sold over 83 shows in 2022. That makes it the biggest tour of his career, by a long shot.

The tour kicked off at Denver’s Ball Arena on July 25, and played 33 shows until finishing its first leg at Madison Square Garden. The U.S. and Canada run earned $61.6 million and sold 376,000 tickets before venturing to Latin America.

There, Daddy Yankee hit 22 Spanish-speaking markets and earned $112.7 million and sold 1.383 million tickets.

He then closed the tour with 12 additional American shows, adding $23.4 million and 143,000 tickets to the final count.

With something of a home-field (or language) advantage, Latin American shows averaged $3 million and 36,000 tickets in mostly stadiums, compared to $1.9 million and 12,000 tickets in mostly domestic arenas.

Daddy Yankee’s geographical divide is in contrast with that of the year’s other major Latin tour from Bad Bunny. With more significant crossover success in recent years, Bad Bunny paced a similar 40,000-plus attendance in both territories but earned nearly three times more per show in the U.S. and Canada because of more elastic ticket scaling.

Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee played a major role in lifting promoter Cardenas Marketing Network to No. 3 on the year-end Top Promoters ranking. After the final show in Miami, Henry Cardenas reflected to Billboard via email on the impact of Daddy Yankee’s final tour and touring career that started on day one.

“It was an unforgettable tour for me and for the entire CMN team. Having produced the farewell tour of the icon and influencer of an entire generation is one of the greatest accomplishments that our company has achieved. In 2005 we were the producers of his first tour, Barrio Fino, and today we say goodbye to him in La Ultima Vuelta. I thank Raymond and Mireddys for giving us the opportunity to be part of this dream that is now a reality and for allowing us to be direct witnesses of their great legacy.”

The La Ultima Vuelta World Tour was 2022’s second-biggest tour in Latin America, besting Bad Bunny’s $80 million-plus total, but falling short of Coldplay’s $127.9 million from two separate legs of Music of the Spheres Tour.

Still, Daddy Yankee’s nearly $2 million average in the states on a robust 45-date routing made for a gargantuan global total. Excluding Latin American dates, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour represents a leap of more than 100% from his previous nightly best. All shows considered, he’s up by 162%.

Regardless of geography or genre, Daddy Yankee finished at No. 13 on the year-end Top Tours chart, ranking artists on their concert business between November 1, 2021-October 31, 2022.

On Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart, he’s climbed from No. 22 in July to No. 9 to No. 5 and, for October and November, to No. 3 (December’s ranking will publish next month).

Further, in the calendar year of 2022, Daddy Yankee has the sixth-highest grossing tour worldwide, behind Bad Bunny, Elton John, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles.

And even beyond his year-end achievements, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour finishes as the second-highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history, sandwiched between Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1 million) and El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo ($116.8 million).

Bad Bunny Teases New Single He’ll Release “to Close the Year”

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Bad Bunny is ending the year with a banger…

Just five days before Christmas, the 28-year-old Puerto Rican superstar has unveiled a preview clip of a never-before-heard track on TikTok.

Bad Bunny“OK, now yes, check this out,” he said in the 50-second clip. “Let me play this for you. This is to close the year.”

Bunny’s sultry vocals are heard over a simple beat that soon transitions into a hard-hitting reggaeton track.

“He loves you and gives you everything/ But you’re the devil and you’re crazy for me/ You like the bad boys and are playing fire with me […] although you’re a sin, I’m going to hell following that big a–/ I’m on my way/ Today I’m picking you up after midnight,” he chants in the saucy snippet.

He teased fans some more in the caption. “Let me know if you want another preview,” he wrote, which has fans speculating in the comments that this could either mark the return of “Trap Bunny,” or that he might drop a whole new album before 2022 comes to an end.

As fans patiently wait for El Conejo Malo’s next big move, there’s no denying that Bad Bunny was the year’s biggest music star.

Bad Bunny ruled Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for the first time, while his Un Verano Sin Ti made history as the first all-Spanish album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 year-end albums chart (and has spent 13 weeks at the top so far), and the album also became the first-ever all-Spanish release to earn a Grammy nomination for album of the year.

He also closed out the year with his record-breaking $435 million in tour grosses that combine more than 80 concerts from two separate tours (El Último Tour del Mundo and The World’s Hottest Tour). That amount became the highest gross for an artist in a calendar year since Billboard Boxscore launched in the late 1980s.

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me dicen si quieren otro preview…

♬ original sound – Bad Bunny

The unreleased track he teased on TikTok will follow his Arcangel-assisted “La Jumpa,” which debuted at No. 3 on the Hot Latin Songs chart dated December 10, 2022.

Bad Bunny: Spotify’s Most-Streamed Artist for Third Consecutive Year

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Bad Bunny is (three) ringing in the New Year with a bang…

The 28-year-old Puerto Rican global superstar has generated more than 18.5 billion streams in 2022, landing him the title of Spotify’s top artist for the third year in a row—the first artist ever to claim such an accomplishment.

Bad BunnySpotify celebrated the artist’s success with 1,000 of his biggest fans, collaborators, and supporters in Mexico, the top market to stream his music over the last three years.

Spotify and Rimas (Bad Bunny’s label) joined forces to throw the ultimate after-party at Ragga Club in Mexico City to celebrate the end of his World’s Hottest Tour.

Artists Rauw Alejandro, paopao, Jowell & Randy, Carin Leon, Danna Paola, Kim Loaiza, Juan de Dios Pantoja, Mario Bautista, Buscabulla, and Arcángel were among some of the guests toasting Bad Bunny.

The artist even took to the stage in a surprise special performance where he thanked everyone for streaming his music and for celebrating this incredible moment with him. He surprised the crowd with an improvised performance of his hit “Despues de la Playa,” and with acoustic versions of “Neverita,” “Callaita,” and “El Apagon” with the backing of a Dahian El Apechao’s live merengue band.

Bad Bunny, Spotify Three RingsKey to the celebration was the Ring Ceremony, where Jeremy Erlich, Spotify’s Global Head of Music Content, joined Bad Bunny for a celebratory moment on behalf of Spotify.

“Congratulations on the three-peat—the first time any artist is the most streamed for three years in a row,” he shared. “An epic showing for a career-defining year.”

Then, Jeremy presented the artist with three championship-style rings, designed by Jason of Beverly Hills, to symbolize each year he was the top-streamed global artist on Spotify.

Spotify also created five plaques, each representing a Bad Bunny track that has passed the one billion stream mark—“Yonaguni,” “Callaita,” “LA CANCIÓN,” “Te Boté – Remix,” “No Me Conoce – Remix”—and Jeremy presented some of these to him as well.

Bad Bunny’s music hasn’t just made an impact for the artist: It’s also contributed to the growth of reggaeton and trap Latino worldwide. Reggaeton listening grew 147% from 2018-2020, and trap Latino listening grew 187% in the same timeframe. Meanwhile, newcomers are still finding and falling in love with Bad Bunny’s music. Over the past 90 days, 95 million listeners played one of his tracks for the first time, with 51% of those plays occurring outside of Spanish-speaking markets.

What’s more, his fourth studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti, topped the world’s most-streamed album list in 2022, and the rest of his albums continue to have staying power. His first album, X 100PRE, is still ranked in the Top 100 most-streamed albums globally, coming in at slot 68. And out of the six Latin albums in the Top 50 most-streamed albums globally this year, three of them were Bad Bunny’s: Un Verano Sin Ti (#1), YHLQMDLG (#8), and EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO (#21).

Bad Bunny Breaks Billboard Boxscore Record for Highest Gross for Artist in Calendar Year

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Bad Bunny is closing out the year with a bang…

The 28-year-old Puerto Rican superstar closed out his World’s Hottest Tour over the weekend in Mexico City, closing out a historic year on the Billboard Boxscore charts.

Bad BunnyUltimately, his 81 concerts in 2022 – culled from two separate tours –  combine for the highest gross for an artist in a calendar year ever, since Billboard Boxscore launched in the late 1980s.

Some may have thought there were no Boxscore records left to break for Bad Bunny.

His arena tour in the spring, titled El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo, grossed $116.8 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

This made it the highest grossing Latin tour of all time. On a city-by-city basis, he broke local revenue records in 13 North American markets.

He then launched World’s Hottest Tour, a stadium run that made him the first artist to ever mount separate $100-million-tours in the same year. That trek broke local records in 12 of its 15 domestic markets, ultimately earning $232.5 million in the U.S.

Its 11 shows in September grossed $123.7 million, breaking the record for the highest one-month gross since Billboard launched its monthly rankings in 2019.

Bad Bunny topped the year-end Top Tours chart with a $373.5 million take, though he was still in the middle of a Latin American leg when the year-end tracking period ended. (Year-End Boxscore charts are based on shows that played between Nov. 1, 2021 – Oct. 31, 2022.)

In doing so, he became the first Latin artist, and first artist to primarily perform in any language other than English, to crown the annual ranking.

Finally, Bad Bunny closed out World’s Hottest Tour with two shows at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on December 9-10, adding $10.3 million and 116,000 tickets to its total. The Latin American run spanned 21 shows in 15 cities, earning $81.7 million from 910,000 tickets sold. Mexico was the highlight – not only for its two CDMX concerts, but for the $17.1 million out of Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA.

Altogether, the tour grossed $314.1 million and sold 1.9 million tickets, re-setting the record for the biggest Latin tour ever.

Added to his arena tour, plus three hometown shows in San Juan in July that were not a proper part of either of his two tours, Bad Bunny grossed $434.9 million in 2022, narrowly eclipsing Ed Sheeran’s $434.4 million in 2018, for the highest calendar-year gross in Billboard Boxscore history.

Bad Bunny’s gigantic year on the road is just one piece of his 2022 puzzle. He was also named Billboard’s Top Artist of the year, bolstered by the success of Un Verano Sin Ti. Released in May, his seasonal smash spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and landed seven of its tracks on the year-end Billboard Hot 100 ranking.

That album, plus his two 2020 releases, brought Bad Bunny from arena-contender to stadium-conqueror. His previous touring cycle, 2019’s X100 PRE Tour, earned $45.8 million between two legs, averaging $1.1 million per night. World’s Hottest Tour went stratospheric, pacing $3.7 million per show in Latin America and $11.1 million in the U.S.

Dating back to a Rosemont Theater show in October 2017 — his first show reported to Billboard Boxscore as a headliner — Bad Bunny has grossed $508.7 million and sold 3.3 million tickets. That’s one more broken record — enough to make him the highest grossing Latin artist in Boxscore history.

Bad Bunny Becomes First Latin Act to Lead Billboard’s Year-End Top Tours Chart

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Bad Bunny is officially this year’s tour de force…

The 28-year-old Puerto Rican superstar has finished as the year’s top touring act (No. 1 on Top Tours) with total gross of $373.5 million from 1.8 million tickets across 65 shows.

Bad BunnyBad Bunny is the first Latin act, and first act who doesn’t perform in English, to finish atop Billboard’s year-end Top Tours chart. Beyond the historic nature of his win for genre and language, he is the only artist to mount separate $100-million tours in the same year.

Further, while Boxscore charts often favor older acts with deeper histories on the road, like 2020 and 2021 champs Elton John and The Rolling Stones, Bad Bunny’s win this year is a testament to the growing power of contemporary stadium acts.

In fact, he is just the third artist to simultaneously crown the year-end Top Tours and overall Top Artists charts, following Taylor Swift in 2015 and One Direction in 2014.

Bad Bunny’s year in touring breaks down into several parts. First, he played two hometown stadium shows at San Juan’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium, earning $6.5 million on December 10-11, 2021.

That was followed by El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo, an arena run named after his 2020 album that broke ground as the first all-Spanish-language set to top the weekly Billboard 200 chart.

On that trek, he earned $116.8 million from 35 shows, enough to set a record for the highest-grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history.

That tour broke local records in Inglewood, Calif., Miami, Houston, Seattle, and more, setting the stage for an even bigger fall in 2022.

After releasing Un Verano Sin Ti and spending most the summer at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Bad Bunny played three Puerto Rico shows for a $4 million gross, and then properly embarked on World’s Hottest Tour, living up to its name at each stop.

The trek leveled Bad Bunny to stadiums and took in $232.5 million in North America, plus another $13.8 million from its first four Latin American shows. After setting arena records throughout the U.S. in the spring, he set revenue records in 12 of the 15 domestic markets he played in the fall.

While Daddy Yankee’s La Ultima Vuelta World Tour quickly stole Bunny’s all-time Latin tour record from earlier this year, World’s Hottest Tour re-sets the pace as the first pan-American stadium tour of its size.

All of that combines to $373.5 million during the twelve-month tracking period, amounting to a record-setting, historic No. 1 finish, eclipsing Elton John and Ed Sheeran at Nos. 2-3, each of whom was a previous year-end victor.

These men lead the most eye-popping Top Tours chart ever. Five acts grossed more than $200 million, beating the previous high of four in 2018, and 16 acts generated more than $100 million in ticket sales, nearly doubling the previous high of nine in 2017 and 2018.

Billboard’s Year-End Boxscore charts are based on figures reported to Billboard Boxscore for engagements that played between November 1, 2021-October 31, 2022.

Bad Bunny Notches Highest Grossing Latin Tour in Billboard Boxscore History with “World’s Hottest Tour”

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Bad Bunny is rolling past an iconic group into the concert history books…

Earlier this year, the 28-year-old Puerto Rican superstar embarked on his massive tour, earning $116.8 million in North American arenas on El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

Bad BunnyIt became the highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history and rewrote local records in more than half of the markets where he played.

Only six months later, Bad Bunny launched his second tour of 2022 and doubled the gross of his prior record-breaking trek – and he’s only just finished the first leg.

World’s Hottest Tour wrapped its U.S. leg in stadiums, grossing $232.5 million and selling 944,000 tickets from just 21 shows.

That averages out to $11.1 million and 45,000 tickets per show. Currently, World’s Hottest Tour boasts a bigger per-show average gross than any tour by any artist in any genre, in Boxscore history (dating back to the late 1980s).

The Rolling Stones previously paced $9.4 million on the No Filter Tour (2017-21), but have been bested by el Conejo Malo with the first tour to average more than $10 million per night. Inflation, dynamic pricing and platinum ticketing certainly give an advantage to more recent tours, but Bad Bunny’s unrelenting pace in the U.S., especially as a contemporary artist who doesn’t perform in English, makes World’s Hottest Tour one to watch, to say the least.

World’s Hottest Tour broke venue revenue records in 12 of the 15 U.S. markets that it played. Shows in Cumberland, Ga.; Miami; the Bronx; Houston; San Antonio; San Diego; and Phoenix were the highest grossing engagements in each venue’s history. Further, his shows in Orlando; Boston; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and Oakland, Calif., were all-time highs among single-night performances.

Arlington, Texas; Las Vegas; and Inglewood, Calif., are the only markets where Bad Bunny didn’t set a record, coming in second in each. In the latter two cities, he was blocked by BTS, who played four shows at each stadium, compared to Bad Bunny’s two.

Breaking the record he set earlier this year, his latest trek is now the biggest tour by a Spanish-speaking performer in Boxscore history, giving Bad Bunny the top two positions on the all-time Latin breakout. But, again, his big year goes far beyond genre distinctions, as he is the only artist to ever launch two separate $100 million tours in the same calendar year.

Combined, and including three Puerto Rican shows in July that were not officially part of either tour, Bad Bunny has earned $353.2 million and sold 1.6 million tickets in 2022, all in North America. World’s Hottest Tour resumes on Oct. 21 in Santo Domingo, kicking off a 22-show run in Latin America before closing in Mexico City on Dec. 10.