Bad Bunny's latest album, 'Un Verano Sin Ti', has achieved unprecedented success, with its title track 'DtMf' reaching number one on both Apple Music and Spotify's global charts. The song, performed in the Afro-Puerto Rican folk music style of plena, has broken records and brought mainstream attention to a genre largely unknown outside of Puerto Rico. The album also features salsa, another Afro-Caribbean genre with roots in Puerto Rican diaspora communities. Bad Bunny's project celebrates Puerto Rican culture and heritage while addressing the challenges of forced migration and gentrification on the island.
For the past week, the number one song in the world has been a plena. On January 11, the title track of, took over the number one spot on Apple Music . It reached number one on Spotify’s global chart the next day, and remains in the number one position on both streaming platforms. It also broke the record for the Spanish language song to reach number one in the most countries in Spotify history.
As one of the most popular artists in the world, Bad Bunny has brought together these historically marginalized genres in one album as part of a larger political statement.is filled with messages warning of the risk that Puerto Rican culture — including its musical heritage — could disappear as a result of forced migration off the island and gentrification on it. These messages have clearly resonated with listeners.
Although Bad Bunny’s takes on salsa and plena are not traditional, “there is a direct link from the old-school plenas to what Bad Bunny is doing on this album. He’s working with people who are deeply invested in upholding plena’s history like Los Pleneros de la Cresta — a group that came together precisely to encourage social change through their music,” Rivera-Rideau says. and I got back to my hotel and couldn’t sleep. I was hearing bomba and plena circulating in my head. At 8am.
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