Un Verano Sin Ti

Bad Bunny first teased Un Verano Sin Ti on January 24, 2022, when he posted a teaser announcing his upcoming 2022 stadium tour World's Hottest Tour: "now yes, 2022 has started". A few months later, on April 21, 2022, he posted a classified advertisement for his Bugatti Chiron with a phone number attached. When called, it would play a snippet of "Un Ratito", and send the following text message: He called the album "a record to play in the summer, on the beach, as a playlist". == Composition ==

Un Verano Sin Ti is primarily a reggaeton, cumbia, and indie pop record, driven by musical styles hailing from the Caribbean, such as reggae, bomba, calypso, soca, dembow, merengue, and bachata. The album also contains elements of a cappella, acoustic, afrobeats, alternative rock, ambient, ballad, bossa nova, chillwave, dancehall, dance-pop, disco, electronic, hip-hop, house, jazz, lambada, lo-fi, pop, psychedelia, R&B, rock, rocksteady, samba, sandungueo, ska, soul, surf, synth-pop, synthwave, techno, and trap. == Artwork ==

The artwork for Un Verano Sin Ti features a sad one-eyed heart in front of a vibrant beach setting with the light blue ocean, beaming sunset, breezy palm trees, happy dolphins, and pink flowers that was designed by the Los Angeles-based artist and graphic designer Adrian Hernandez, professionally known as Ugly Primo, with whom Bad Bunny has been in friendship since 2018. Although designed by Hernandez himself, Bad Bunny claims that the idea of the album cover was all his. Ideas for the album cover were conceived as early as the summer of 2021 when Bad Bunny had reached out to Hernandez with the idea of the cover and how he wanted it to look like. Hernandez explains even further that he made about seven versions, in different styles and aesthetics, based on a drawing that Bad Bunny gave him, and a little after six months, the cover art of Un Verano Sin Ti was finally finished and unveiled to the public on May 4, 2022, just two days before the official release of the album. == Critical reception ==

Un Verano Sin Ti was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 85, based on seven reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Honored with its "Best New Music" tag, Jennifer Mota of Pitchfork echoes Villa's remarks, writing that the album is a "cohesively packaged voyage through the various sounds synonymous with the Caribbean region—reggaetón, reggae, bomba, Dominican dembow, Dominican mambo, and bachata, among others. Julyssa Lopez of Rolling Stone praised the album, but noted that it "does fall into some of the problems of modern reggaeton. Many have pointed out that though Bad Bunny draws inspiration from the Dominican Republic in particular, no Dominicans appear in the actual features. And the length of the album produces some lulls and selections that are pretty mid: Unsurprisingly, the most mainstream reggaeton songs on here land among the least interesting." Year-end lists == Awards and nominations ==

Un Verano Sin Ti is the first Spanish-language album nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. == Commercial performance ==

Un Verano Sin Ti debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 274,000 album-equivalent units. It is Bad Bunny's second number-one album and the second all-Spanish language album to top the Billboard 200. The album also achieved the biggest streaming week for a Latin album ever, accumulating 356.66 million official streams in the United States, the most for any album since Drake's Certified Lover Boy (2021), and was the most-streamed album on Spotify in 2022 by that point. It spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart, becoming the album with the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022 and the ninth album overall to spend more than 10 weeks on top of the chart since 2000. Un Verano Sin Ti is also the first album to spend its first six months on the chart in the top two, since the Billboard 200 began publishing in 1956. It topped the 2022 Billboard 200 Year-End Chart, the first all-Spanish album to do so. In addition, it also placed at No. 1 on the year-end Independent Albums, Top Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums charts. Luminate reported 3.398 million album equivalent-units by 2022, including 70,000 physical sales (CDs) and digital download. Un Verano Sin Ti ranked 7th at 2023 Year end chart of Billboard 200 and sold over 1.47 million of units that year. The album reached number one on the Spanish Albums Chart and has received a five-times platinum certification for having moved 200,000 units in the country. Un Verano Sin Ti became Bad Bunny's first album to reach the top 10 on the music charts of Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. == Track listing ==

Credits adapted from Apple Music, Tidal and the ASCAP and BMI Repertoire. Notes • "Tití Me Preguntó" contains a sample of "No Te Puedo Olvidar", written and performed by Antony Santos. • "El Apagón" features uncredited vocals by Gabriela Berlingeri and contains samples of: • a radio interview with Ismael Rivera, • "Controversia", written by Gilbert Santa Rosa and Victor Ruiz, and performed by Ismael Rivera y Sus Cachimbos, • "Vamos a Joder", written by Hector Pagan and Rosario Joselly, and performed by DJ Joe and Great Kilo. • "Callaíta" contains a sample of "Alócate", written by Felix Ortiz, Francisco Saldaña, Marco Masís and Victor Cabrera, and performed by Zion and Luny Tunes. ==Personnel==

Credits adapted from Apple Music. Vocalists • Bad Bunny – lead vocals • Chencho Corleone – vocals (track 3) • Jhayco – vocals (track 7) • Tony Dize – vocals (track 9) • Chimbala – vocals (track 10) • Rauw Alejandro – vocals (track 11) • Elena Rose – background vocals (track 11) • Li Saumet – vocals (track 14) • María Zardoya – vocals (track 17) • Raquel Berríos – vocals (track 19) • Tainy – vocals (track 23) Technical • Colin Leonard – mastering • Josh Gudwin – mixing • Duran the Coach – recording engineer (track 3) == Charts ==

Weekly charts Year-end charts == Certifications and sales ==