In celebration of the album’s first-year anniversary, currently nominated for best Latin pop or urban album at the 2021 Grammys, check out five ways it made history.
On the Billboard 200: Landing at No. 2 with 179,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 5, 2020, according to MRC Data, YHLQMDLG became the highest-charting all-Spanish-language album ever on the all-genre chart. Prior, the highest rank for an all-Spanish-language album was No. 4 by Mana’s Amar es Combatir (Sept. 9, 2006) and Shakira’s Fijación Oral: Vol. 1 (June 25, 2005).
On Top Latin Albums: YHLQMDLG arrived at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums, replacing himself at No. 1 on both charts. The last album to achieve this feat was Oasis, his joint album with J Balvin, which bowed at No. 1 on both charts (July 13, 2019) and bumped his own X100PRE to the runner-up slot.
On Hot Latin Songs: Bad Bunny broke the record for the most career entries on the chart, placing all 20 tracks of the album on the March 14-dated chart, bringing his total entries on the chart to a record 83, surpassing runner-up Daddy Yankee’s 74 hits.
On the Billboard Hot 100: Out of his 23 songs on the Hot 100 chart, 11 of those were from YHLQMDLG, including “Si Veo a Tu Mama,” “La Dificil,” and “Vete.”
On Spotify: Garnering 3.3 billion streams, YHLQMDLG became Spotify’s most-streamed album globally of 2020. Bad Bunny was also crowned the music platform’s most-streamed artist of the year, with over 8.3 billion streams globally.
