Apple Music has chosen Bad Bunny as its 2022 artist of the yr, marking the primary time for the reason that Apple Music Awards launched in 2019 {that a} Latin artist has been given the distinction.
The award acknowledges the musician’s “inventive excellence and affect on world tradition in 2022,” in accordance with the official announcement. He joins earlier AOTY honorees together with Billie Eilish, Lil Child, Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd.
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The Puerto Rican rap-reggaeton titan has spent most of this yr dominating the worldwide music market. His newest studio album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” is Apple Music’s most streamed album of 2022, and powered the “Titi Me Pregunto” singer to grow to be probably the most distinguished Latin artist of all time by worldwide streaming rely on Apple Music. Upon its launch on Might 6, the 23-track set achieved the best report for first-day streams worldwide. Its glimmering opening observe, “Moscow Mule,” additionally holds the Apple Music report for the largest Latin music of all time by first-day streams worldwide.
Moreover, he broke the report for many simultaneous entries by a single Latin artist with 22 songs on the platform’s Day by day High 100 and has reached No. 1 on that very same playlist in 34 international locations worldwide — a milestone no different Latin artist has been in a position to obtain. He holds the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Latin albums, that are tallied by first-day streams.
Additionally this yr, he turned the one artist in historical past to stage two separate $100 million-grossing excursions in lower than 12 months, between his El Último Tour Del Mundo and his newest World’s Hottest Tour, which lately hit the U.S. for seven weeks.
“Once I began, I didn’t have a worldwide fan base,” the artist instructed Apple Music in an unique movie (see beneath). “I’m grateful for every thing I’ve achieved and every thing I’ve skilled. The Latin music motion has grown a lot. I might by no means take full credit score or say, ‘It’s due to me.’ No, it’s each certainly one of us. An entire technology. Our vitality and presence is at all times felt.”
Again in February 2018, Dangerous Bunny was Apple Music’s first Latin Up Subsequent artist for the platform’s rising artist program. He was additionally the debut host for Lure Kingz, their first Spanish-language radio present on Beats 1 radio, and hosted the present’s first six episodes in 2017.
To rejoice his AOTY win, Dangerous Bunny will take over the platform’s La Fórmula playlist which is populated together with his favourite tracks from Myke Towers, Rauw Alejandro, Jhayco, and others. Followers may also tune into Apple Music 1, the place it’s Dangerous Bunny Day with unique radio content material like early profession interviews, specials and extra.
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