The phenomenon of Bad bunny has arrived in Mexico City. After revolutionizing Monterrey, Bad Bunny has landed this Friday in the capital for his two concerts with sold out in the Azteca Stadium, where more than 80,000 people fit. The singer’s team, who has emerged as the most listened to artist for the third consecutive year, posted a video this morning of him entering through airport security control. Meanwhile, hundreds of fans have been camped out since Wednesday night in the vicinity of the stadium. Tickets, which sold out in hours in the first batch, are fetching unbeatable prices at resale: up to $4,500.
The World’s Hottest Tour, which would be something like the hottest tour on the planet, ends this weekend in Mexico City after sweeping the United States and Latin America. The artist mainly presents his latest album, a summer without youbut according to the list of songs from other concerts, some of the greatest hits that launched his career will not be missing, such as Safaera either I threw you awayconsidered by the magazine rolling stones as two of the 10 best reggaeton songs in history.
Bad Bunny has not yet announced which collaborations he is going to take to the stage in Mexico City —in Monterrey they were the regueyoneros Ivy Queen and Arcangel—, but he has confirmed that the Mexican dj Uzielito Mix is going to be the opening act for the Show.
Exactly 10 months ago tickets went on sale for the two dates in the capital, December 9 and 10. The platforms collapsed, the virtual waiting lists were kilometers long, with starting prices that doubled the monthly minimum wage in Mexico, and thousands of people were left without a ticket. The perfect breeding ground for irregularities in resale, for the concerts in Nuevo Leon, for example, 18 complaints have been filed with the Prosecutor’s Office for fraud, and for the problems with the criticized Ticketmaster, which in recent days has released more tickets available “with limited visibility”, that is, some practically behind the scenes.
With the concerts in the Mexican capital, Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio puts an end to two years of madness in which he has released four albums: YHLQMDLGan acronym for I do what I want, which catapulted him to the top of Latin music, Those Who Weren’t Going Out, The Last World Tour Y A summer without you.
Since 2020, the artist has filled the awards closet, he has it all: Grammy, Billboard, MTV. In addition to having starred in the highest-grossing Latin tour in history in the United States this year. Billboard Box Score He calculated that Bad Bunny pocketed about 11 million dollars per show in the US: only in September he took more than 120 million dollars. With all this, in August when picking up the MTV VMA award for best artist of the year, which was awarded for the first time to a non-English-speaking person, the artist claimed: “I’ve been saying it and I always believed from the beginning that I could reach to be great, that I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my idiom, my slang. I am Benito Antonio Martinez, from Puerto Rico to the entire world”.
The artist has revealed that he is going to take a break in 2023. “2023 is for me, for my physical health, my emotional health to breathe, to enjoy my achievements. Let’s celebrate. Let’s go here, let’s go there, let’s go on the boat. I have a couple of sporadic commitments and I go to the studio, but there is no pressure, ”he told Billboard magazine. But first, he has to succeed in Mexico.
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