There’s actually no denying at this level, that Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” was 2022’s largest album of the yr. Not solely did it make Billboard’s number-one spot for 13 consecutive weeks, however it was additionally streamed 4.6 billion occasions in simply the U.S. The record-breaking album moved the equal of 273,000 models in streams and downloads with two singles breaking one billion streams: “Tití Me Pregunto” with 1.4 billion and “Me Porto Bonito” with 1.5. “Un Verano Sin Ti” has made historical past and but it continues to get snubbed an Album of the Year award. But tonight, on the 2023 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards broadcasting dwell by way of Univision, “El Conejo Malo” lastly acquired the respect of being awarded the Álbum Del Año (Album of The Year) award and it is about freaking time!
While Bad Bunny has acquired reward and awards for “Un Verano Sin Ti,” it is all the time been within the musica urbana class. For far too lengthy now we have seen rappers, reggaetoneros, and different city artists of colour solely obtain excessive awards particularly in city music classes, as if their work wasn’t ok for Artist of the Year or Album of the Year awards. At final yr’s Latin Grammy Awards Bad Bunny misplaced the Album of the Year award to Rosalía for her 2022 album “MOTOMAMI” and Harry Styles took dwelling the Album of the Year award at this yr’s Grammys for “Harry’s House.”
But in contrast to the Grammys and Latin Grammys, Premio Lo Nuestro are fan-voted awards and it looks like Benito’s loyal followers got here via. Sebastían Yatra who had probably the most nominations for the evening — 10 nods —took dwelling 4 awards together with Pop-Male Artist of the Year, Pop -Song of the Year, Pop/Ballad -Song of the Year, and Pop-Album of the Year.
In addition to Album of the Year, Bad Bunny additionally took dwelling the awards for Urban-Album of The Year and Urban-Collaborator of the Year. He was not in attendance at this yr’s Premio Lo Nuestro to obtain his awards.
After all these award present nubs, lots of the Puerto Rican artist’s supporters had come to the conclusion that award exhibits for validation and vindication is not sensible. But seeing Bad Bunny take dwelling a Premio Lo Nuestro award for Album of the Year and never simply Urban Album of the Year proves that the folks have spoken.