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The overwhelming success of Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Photos” world tour has earned him several records – This is what current data shows Billboard Boxscore, which has been evaluating tour data for four decades.
Most significantly, the tour, which included stadium shows in South America, Australia, Asia and Europe, pushed his cumulative tour total past the billion dollar mark. This makes him not only the first Latin artist to achieve this feat, but also the first artist to not perform in English. Fewer than 25 acts have ever achieved this mark. Additionally, the tour, with no U.S. stops, is the highest-grossing and most attended in history, which deliberately left out the United States.
The “Debí Tirar Más Photos” world tour is also Bad Bunny’s biggest tour to date. So far it has grossed $360 million and sold 2.4 million tickets – including a ten-part residency in Madrid. That surpasses his 2022 outing, the World’s Hottest Tour, which earned him $314.4 million and 1.9 million tickets sold.
Record without America
For comparison: loud Billboard Bad Bunny earned almost twice as much as Take That, who staged a tour without a US date in 2011 and earned $185.2 million. He also leaves the Rolling Stones, whose 2014 tour through Asia, Europe and Oceania grossed $165.2 million, far behind.
Bad Bunny had already made history before: his 2020 album “El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo” was the first purely Spanish-language album to hit the Billboardcharts.
Last September, Bad Bunny explained why he avoided the US on the Debí Tirar Más Photos world tour: he was concerned about the Trump administration’s rhetoric and ICE deportation actions against Latinos. At that time he was playing a residency in Puerto Rico. “I’ve always enjoyed connecting with Latinos living in the U.S. But specifically for a residency here in Puerto Rico – since we’re an incorporated territory of the U.S. – people from the States might come here to see the show,” he said. “Latinos and Puerto Ricans from the U.S. could also travel here or anywhere else in the world. … But here was the thing – damn it, ICE could be in front of my concert. We discussed that and were seriously worried.”
Super Bowl as an exception
He didn’t turn down a US appearance after all: the Super Bowl halftime show. Around 137.8 million viewers watched the spectacle in Santa Clara, California in February – and more than 4 million people saw it across all platforms combined.