Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida Make Chart History as Spanish-Language Albums Claim Top Spots

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Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida Make Chart History as Spanish-Language Albums Claim Top Spots

For the primary time within the almost 70-year historical past of Billboardโ€™s albums chart, a pair of Spanish-language albums โ€” Bad Bunnyโ€˜s ode to Puerto Rico, โ€œDebรญ Tirar Mรกs Fotos,โ€ and Mexican-American band Fuerza Regidaโ€˜s โ€œ111xpantiaโ€ โ€” lead the cost.

โ€œDebรญ Tirar Mรกs Fotosโ€ is the No. 1 album in america, climbing up from its earlier No. 7 place following its first launch on vinyl. Itโ€™s the fourth complete week at No. 1 for the album, which spent three consecutive weeks on the peak beginning Jan. 25. The 17-song set returns with a complete of 84,500 equal album items, with greater than half of that complete deriving from vinyl purchases, in keeping with Luminate.

Making Latin music historical past, and attaining the highest-charting set of its profession, Fuerza Regida debuts at No. 2 with โ€œ111xpantia.โ€ The album was initially launched with 12 songs and was expanded to fifteen with a deluxe version that was launched three days after its Could 2 debut. It earned a complete of 76,000 items with 39,000 album gross sales and 50 million streams. With 39,000 copies offered,ย โ€œ111โ€ย surpasses the earlier largest gross sales week for a regional Mexican album, when Selenaโ€™sย โ€œAmor Prohibidoโ€ offered 36,000 copies in 1995.

Itโ€™s additionally the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting regional Mexican music album (ย Peso Plumaโ€™sย โ€œGรฉnesisโ€ held the title since 2023), as reported by Billboard.

Previous to โ€œ111,โ€ the band โ€” led by Jesรบs Ortiz Paz (JOP) with Josรฉ โ€œPelรณnโ€ Garcรญa, Moisรฉs Lรณpez, Khrystian Ramos and Samuel Jรกimez โ€” scored its largest debut on the Billboard 200 in 2023 with the discharge of โ€œPa Las Childโ€™s y Belikeada.โ€

The second debut within the Top 10 of the checklist this week comes from rapper Key Glock and โ€œGlockaveli,โ€ which debuts at No. 8 with 34,000 items. The 18-song set was additionally expanded with a deluxe version that includes a further three tracks.

As for the remaining high titles: SZAโ€™s โ€œSOSโ€ strikes to No. 3 from No. 2; Morgan Wallenโ€™s โ€œOne Factor at a Timeโ€ is at No. 4; Kendrick Lamarโ€™s โ€œGNXโ€ is at No. 5; Sabrina Carpenterโ€™s โ€œBrief nโ€™ Candyโ€ is at No. 6; PartyNextDoor and Drakeโ€™s โ€œ$ome $exy $ongs 4 Uโ€ is at No. 7; and Wallen logs his second simultaneous Top 10 album with โ€œHarmful: The Double Albumโ€ at No. 9. In the meantime, Shaboozeyโ€™sย โ€œThe place Iโ€™ve Been, Isnโ€™t The place Iโ€™m Goingโ€ rounds out the head at No. 10.