‘Australia Showed Up’: How Bad Bunny Smashed a Sydney Stadium Record

Bad Bunny ’s year is young, but it’s already one for the books. Consider, in the first quarter the superstar Puerto Rican artist has smashed records, filled stadiums, collected awards. And there’s a sense he’s still very much on the rise. During his historic streak, Bunny’s DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS became the first Spanish-language album, and more broadly, the first album not recorded in English, to win album of the year at the Grammy Awards.

He headlined the Super Bowl LX, for what is reportedly the most-watched halftime show of all-time (with 4.157 billion worldwide views ). And the rapper landed a record-busting 29 simultaneous titles on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including the entire top 25, while topping the Billboard Hot 100 with “DtMF.” According to Live Nation, which is producing Benito’s ongoing world tour, close to 90,000 fans packed his first Australian concert , a new record.

Not bad for an artist who had never made a top 10 appearance on Australia’s official ARIA Charts. That changed on the eve of his shows, as DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS...