December 19, 2022, 4:00 AM
December 19, 2022, 4:00 AM
The Bad Bunny phenomenon also hits Bolivia and, despite what detractors of the urban genre say, the musician Puerto Rican is the most listened to artist on Spotify and YouTube, and reggaeton also reigns in popular taste Bolivian in 2022.
In addition to ‘Bad Rabbit’, Karol G, Quevedo, Rauw Alejandro, Maluma, Tini and Anitta, among others, are the reggaeton singers, some merged, who launched topics that hit the country.
To a much lesser extent, Bolivians listen to bachata, pop and norteña, a trend that continues with Christian Nodal and Grupo Frontera.
I congratulate you, by Shakira and Rauw Alejandro, ranks 15th on Spotify
What Spotify Says
With 456 million users worldwide, Spotify is the leading platform for music streaming services. As every year, in December, he prepared the Top Songs 2022 list, with the 50 songs that dominated the trends.
I behave pretty, by Bad Bunny ft. Chencho Corleone leads the list; followed by Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52, by Quevedo and Bizarrap, and Ojitos lindos, again with Bad Bunny ft. Stereo Bomb.
In total there are 19 songs by Benito Martínez Ocasio that are in this ranking; 12 of Un verano sin ti, the first album entirely in Spanish to be nominated for album of the year at the Grammys and the top winner of the 2022 Latin Grammys (five awards).
The same is a good year for Rauw Alejandro, who slipped in with Desperados (ft. Chencho Corleone); I congratulate you (ft. Shakira); Party (from Bad Bunny) and All of you.
Rosalía and her Despechá sounded in 2022
YouTube Bolivia
Bad Bunny is the lead artist and his name has been in the top 100 for 320 weeks.
Within the list The 100 most popular music videos in Bolivia, updated every week, are No se va, by Grupo Frontera (live and regular version); What agony, by Yuridia and Ángela Aguilar; and La bachata, by Manuel Turizo.
National artists could not be missing from the country’s trends, including Maroyu, Los Kjarkas, Agrupación Los Capos, Chila Jatun and Hiteria. In other months Bonny Lovy was also on the podium.
