Bad Bunny: Un Verano Sin Ti review – this is why he is the world’s biggest pop star – The Guardian
Bad Bunny
(Rimas Entertainment)Hopping from psychedelia to indie-pop to woozy reggaeton, this giant album flaunts the Puerto Rican’s boundless creativity
If you Google Bad Bunny – AKA 28-year-old Puerto Rican Benito Ocasio – one of the suggestions the search engine throws up is the question: “Why is Bad Bunny so big?” It’s a pertinent query, particularly on this side of the Atlantic, where he remains a marginal figure with a solitary hit single, 2018’s Drake-assisted Mia. Yet he could call himself the biggest pop star in the world: he was the most streamed artist on Spotify in both 2020 and 2021, racking up 17.4bn streams in two years. In the US, he is huge on a historic scale: the first artist to top the Billboard charts with an entirely Spanish-language album, El Último Tour Del Mundo....