For the third year in a row, Bad Bunny was the most streamed global artist on Spotify. Garnering over 18.5 billion streams in 2022, he more than doubled the amount he racked up last year.
That success and worldwide reach, Miller said, was exacerbated by the rise of streaming — which not only “drives almost 85 percent of revenue in the recorded music business,” but has also helped Latin music become more popular worldwide. According to Luminate’s report, streaming of Latin music increased by 33 percent this year.
On Wednesday, Robert Wong’s Spotify Wrapped was a testament to that. According to his deck, the 23-year-old from New York spent 8,087 minutes playing Bad Bunny — the equivalent of nearly 135 hours, or more than five full days. Three of Wong’s most-listened-to songs were also by Bad Bunny.“I’m probably the number one Bad Bunny listener who’s Asian American in the world,” he said.
during a trip to the Dominican Republic as a teenager. Then, in college, he heard a Bad Bunny song playing at a bar he and his friends frequented in Indiana. But the moment that would change Wong’s life was when Bad Bunny released his first album. “That’s when I fully became a fan,” he said.
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