Bad Bunny has once again conquered the globe’s streaming charts with the songs from his new album, ‘I should have thrown more photos’. The entire album remains for the 5th consecutive day in Spotify’s Global top 40 – the lowest song of its 17 tracks appears in position 36 – and in the top 30 of Spotify in Spain – the least popular song appears in position 27 of our country.
We expected that. What is striking about all this is that neither of the two advance singles are among the public’s favorites. In no country. Neither ‘El CLÚB’ nor much less ‘Pitorro de coco’ appear among the most listened to songs on this album. It is common for Bad Bunny songs to spontaneously go viral, as happened with ‘Safaera’ or ‘Ojitos lindas’. The strange thing is that this time the preview cuts are not among the 5 or 10 most listened to. ‘EL CLÚB’ is more or less the 8th most listened to song on the album, but ‘Pitorro de coco’ is currently in 14th place, that is, among the 4 least listened to.
Here there are several hints of a hit among which it is already clear that it is going to be one of the best albums of 2025. The great spontaneous viral of this album seems ‘DtMF’, the title track, for its choral and evocative character, so ready to TikTok in its final summit «AND MAY YOU SEND ME MORE NUDES!!!». On Today’s Top Hits they have chosen the delicious sauce of ‘UNFORGETTABLE DANCE’; and for now here we are going to choose ‘NUEVAYoL’ as “Song of the Day” because it opens the album, it represents it very well and it is also number 1 on Spotify Spain.
It is initially shocking that Bad Bunny opens his most Puerto Rican album with a song called ‘NUEVAYoL’. What Benito is doing is paying tribute to other Latin music pioneers who exported genres like salsa to the United States, starting in cities as open to change as New York. The referenced group is the Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and Andy Montañez, the latter known as The Godfather of Salsa and 82 years old today. It was on the album ‘Número 7’ released in 1975 that this song was included, which has become a classic among the Latin community.
In antithesis to the later Mecano anthem, the old song ‘A summer in New York’ said: “If you want to have fun with charm and beauty / You just have to live one summer in New York.” A composition that sums up the essence of Latin music, with that movement of hips that it incites, and also its expansion throughout the United States. All you have to do is read the comments that it has historically provoked on YouTube, like this wonder that a user named Samir wrote a year ago:
«Since I was little, every time I heard this song in Lima, I felt that essence that we Latinos have: the body moved on its own. So many nights of partying in the neighborhood: many times I imagined what it would be like to hear it, to dance to it in New York itself, but I thought it was impossible. Today I am 32 years old and as fate would have it, I am just another Latino in the Big Apple, in Brooklyn (…) Long live the Latin Race, long live every Latino who lives his life away from his family in this country. “God bless us and may every moment of sorrow and crying that we have to spend here be worth it.”
Bad Bunny of course modernizes the original song, culminating with a trap-like distorted bass, including James Bond-style shots, and alternating salsa with a reggaeton beat, somewhat faster than usual, and a dembow cadence. In fact, he boasts of being “the king of pop” with “reggaeton and dembow”, as well as of selling “records like Frida Kahlo paintings”, and finally of his physique (“You’re hot, I’m hot too”). Something that our users confirmed a few days ago on Instagram: “he’s gorgeous, isn’t he?” one said, as if he had just discovered wildfire.
