Love him or hate him, Bad Bunny is a music icon on a global scale in this digital age. Everything the 26-year-old touches turns to gold and his tours are spectacles that are increasingly being added to bucket lists around the world.
That’s why some fans interviewed by Orlando’s WESH 2 admitted they spent more money on a ticket to the opening concert for Benito’s newest ‘World’s Hottest Tour’ than they did on plane tickets there from California.
According to the local NBC affiliate, the scene outside Orlando’s 65,000-capacity Camping World Stadium before the concert resembled a tailgate before a Saturday college or Sunday NFL football game. Shuttles also ran up to half a mile from the stadium to get fans to the door at the most convenient time.
The stadium’s 65,000 seats were packed for the concert, and the Friday night sky lit up with cellphone flashlights as Bad Bunny took the stage and performed his setlist.
Orlando was the first stop on what is a two-legged stadium tour over the next four months. The initial tour consisted of 29 shows, 17 of which were in the US before the second Latin American tour.
Most tickets sold out within minutes of going on sale at almost every stop. Additional dates were added to the US stops in Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Los Angeles. In Latin America, additional shows were added in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Santiago, Chile. Those additional shows also sold out within minutes.
The next stop on Bad Bunny’s Hottest World Tour is Atlanta, at Brave’s 41,000-seat Truist Park on August 9. The largest venue of the entire tournament is Dallas’ AT&T Stadium, which can be expanded to accommodate 105,000 people. The largest in Latin America is Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, with more than 87,000.
The Hottest World Tour is the first stadium tour of Bad Bunny’s career and is in support of his latest album, Un Verano Sin Ti, which has been the soundtrack to Summer 2022 since it jumped to 6 May 2022.
The album is Bad Bunny’s second number-one album on the US Billboard 200, and only the second number-one record ever recorded entirely in Spanish. The first was Benito’s previous album, El Último Tour Del Mundo, released in 2020. The tour that accompanied that project also sold out.
On Spotify, Un Verano Sin Ti is the most streamed album of 2022 just three months after its release.
The Puerto Rican’s popularity speaks for itself when you look at his concert stages.
