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First solo number one hit on the Hot 100
Bad Bunny’s winning streak continues. The Puerto Rican superstar has officially scored his first solo number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the nostalgic Plena track “DtMF.”. Bad Bunny previously topped the charts in 2018 as a featured artist on Cardi B’s “I Like It.” Since then, he has achieved 14 top 10 placements, making him the most chart-topping Latin artist.
This achievement follows a double historic week for Bad Bunny, in which he became the first artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for a Spanish-language album and the first to present an entire Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish. Last week, “DtMF” re-entered the Hot 100 at number ten as Bad Bunny’s entire catalog enjoyed a streaming boom across all platforms following his two triumphs.
Streaming records and cultural significance
“DtMF” reached number two on the Hot 100 when it was released in January 2025 as part of Benito’s genre-bending opus “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.” Bad Bunny has three more songs in the top 10 this week, including “Baile Inolvidable,” “Nuevayol” and his 2022 hit “Tití Me Preguntó.”
According to Luminate, its music was streamed 99.6 million times in the U.S. on February 9, the day after the Super Bowl, a 175 percent increase from the previous week. That increase followed a 117 percent increase on Feb. 2 following the 2026 Grammys. “DtMF” was Bad Bunny’s most-streamed song in the U.S. on Feb. 9, with 10.4 million streams, according to Luminate.
Modern plenary session with an emotional message
Sonically, “DtMF” brings a modern twist to the lively Plena, a Puerto Rican folk genre with a call-and-response structure, and is the first Plena song to top the Hot 100. It’s also one of the most moving songs in Benito’s discography, in which he looks back on the past and regrets not taking more photos to capture those moments. At the same time, it is an invitation to live in the present and to appreciate life while you still can.
“Sometimes there are these moments that I experience and enjoy, but I didn’t take any photos,” Bad Bunny said in an interview with Rolling Stone last year. Of the album title and song, he added: “It has a lot of meaning in terms of wanting to have certain moments captured. That’s the idea: enjoying the moment when I can and cherishing memories.”
