Un Verano Sin Ti (transl. "A Summer Without You") is the fourth solo studio album, and fifth overall, by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny.[2] It was released on May 6, 2022, by Rimas Entertainment following the release of his previous record El Último Tour Del Mundo (2020). Comprising twenty-three tracks, the album is primarily a reggaeton, cumbia and indie pop record, and contains guest appearances from Chencho Corleone, Jhay Cortez, Tony Dize, Rauw Alejandro, Bomba Estéreo, the Marías and Buscabulla.[3]
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Released | May 6, 2022 (2022-05-06) | |||
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Length | 81:53 | |||
Language | Spanish | |||
Label | Rimas | |||
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A critical and commercial success, Un Verano Sin Ti debuted atop the US Billboard 200, marking Bad Bunny's second number-one album and the second all-Spanish language album to top the chart.[4] It received two nominations at the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, for Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album.[5] At the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, Un Verano Sin Ti became the first Spanish-language album to earn a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.[6]
Bad Bunny first teased Un Verano Sin Ti on January 24, 2022, when he posted a teaser announcing his upcoming 2022 stadium tour World's Hottest Tour: "now yes, 2022 has started".[7] He called the album "a record to play in the summer, on the beach, as a playlist".[8] The music video for "Moscow Mule" was filmed in Miami, Florida and Puerto Rico.[9][10]
Un Verano Sin Ti is primarily a reggaeton, cumbia, and indie pop record[11] driven by musical styles hailing from the Caribbean, such as reggae, bomba, dembow, mambo, merengue and bachata.[12] The album also contains elements of dancehall, dance-pop and techno.[13]
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 85/100[14] |
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Consequence | 9.1/10[16] |
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Pitchfork | 8.4/10[12] |
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Un Verano Sin Ti was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 85, based on seven reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[14]
David Crone of AllMusic writes, "Un Verano is not only a seasonal statement-piece but a testament to Benito's singular songwriting -- across genres, generations, and even languages, he works to produce enduring landmarks that trace universal joys, sorrows, and passions."[15] Lucas Villa of Consequence praised the album's musical versatility, highlighting that "Side B is the more adventurous half of the album, pushing Bad Bunny's sound into new places with collaborations with alternative acts. ... With the sun-kissed Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny continues to proudly give pop music some much-needed flavor, swagger, and sounds by way of the Caribbean."[19] Honored with its "Best New Music" tag, Jennifer Mota of Pitchfork echoes Villa's remarks, writing that the album is a "cohesively packaged voyage through the various sounds synonymous with the Caribbean region—reggaetón, reggae, bomba, Dominican dembow, Dominican mambo, and bachata, among others.[12]
Julyssa Lopez of Rolling Stone praised the album, but noted that it "does fall into some of the problems of modern reggaeton. Many have pointed out that though Bad Bunny draws inspiration from the Dominican Republic in particular, no Dominicans appear in the actual features. And the length of the album produces some lulls and selections that are pretty mid: Unsurprisingly, the most mainstream reggaeton songs on here land among the least interesting."[17]
Un Verano Sin Ti is the first Spanish-language album nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.[20]
Un Verano Sin Ti debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 274,000 album-equivalent units. It is Bad Bunny's second number-one album and the second all-Spanish language album to top the Billboard 200. The album also achieved the biggest streaming week for a Latin album ever, accumulating 356.66 million official streams in the United States, the most for any album since Drake's Certified Lover Boy (2021), and is the most-streamed album on Spotify in 2022 so far.[21] It spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart, becoming the album with the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022 and the ninth album overall to spend more than 10 weeks on top of the chart since 2000. Un Verano Sin Ti is also the first album to spend its first 18 weeks on the chart in the top two, since the Billboard 200 began publishing in 1956.[22]
According to the magazine Hits, Un Verano Sin Ti sold 2.3 million units as of September 2022, making it the second-best-selling non-English-language album in U.S. history, behind Linda Ronstadt's Canciones de Mi Padre at 2.5 million units.[23][24]
The album reached number one on the Spanish Albums Chart and has received a triple platinum certification for having moved 120,000 units in the country.[25] Un Verano Sin Ti became Bad Bunny's first album to reach the top 10 on the music charts of Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.[26][27]
All tracks are written by Benito Martínez, except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Moscow Mule" |
| 4:05 | |
2. | "Después de la Playa" |
| 3:50 | |
3. | "Me Porto Bonito" (with Chencho Corleone) |
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| 2:58 |
4. | "Tití Me Preguntó" |
| 4:03 | |
5. | "Un Ratito" |
| 2:56 | |
6. | "Yo No Soy Celoso" |
| 3:50 | |
7. | "Tarot" (with Jhay Cortez) |
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| 3:57 |
8. | "Neverita" |
| 2:53 | |
9. | "La Corriente" (with Tony Dize) |
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| 3:18 |
10. | "Efecto" |
| 3:33 | |
11. | "Party" (with Rauw Alejandro) |
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| 3:47 |
12. | "Aguacero" |
| 3:30 | |
13. | "Enséñame a Bailar" |
| 2:56 | |
14. | "Ojitos Lindos" (with Bomba Estéreo) |
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| 4:18 |
15. | "Dos Mil 16" |
| 3:28 | |
16. | "El Apagón" |
| 3:21 | |
17. | "Otro Atardecer" (with the Marías) |
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| 4:04 |
18. | "Un Coco" |
| 3:16 | |
19. | "Andrea" (with Buscabulla) |
| 5:39 | |
20. | "Me Fui de Vacaciones" |
| 3:00 | |
21. | "Un Verano Sin Ti" |
| 2:28 | |
22. | "Agosto" |
| 2:19 | |
23. | "Callaíta" | Tainy | 4:10 | |
Total length: | 81:53 |
Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA)[28] | 2 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[29] | 21 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[30] | 25 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[31] | 23 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[32] | 4 |
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[33] | 38 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[34] | 5 |
French Albums (SNEP)[35] | 23 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[36] | 35 |
Irish Albums (OCC)[37] | 26 |
Italian Albums (FIMI)[38] | 4 |
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[39] | 39 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[40] | 14 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[41] | 1 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[42] | 58 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[43] | 3 |
UK Albums (OCC)[44] | 62 |
US Billboard 200[45] | 1 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[46] | 1 |
US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[47] | 1 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Italy (FIMI)[48] | Platinum | 50,000![]() |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[49] | 4× Platinum | 160,000![]() |
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