Bad Bunny’s Surprise Album “Los Que No Iban a Salir” Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums Chart

It’s official… Bad Bunny has done it again…

The 26-year-old Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer and rapper’s new albumLas Que No Iba a Salir has debuted in the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart dated May 23. His 10-track set has knocked his own YHLQMDLG from the summit, which arrived at No. 1 on the March 14-dated tally.

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Las Que No Iban a Salirdebuts at the top of the chart having less than five days of tracking activity. While most albums drop on Friday morning, which is the first day of Nielsen Music/MRC Data’s tracking week, the set dropped as an impromptu release on the afternoon of Sunday, May 10 via Rimas Entertainment.

Las Que No Iban a Salir opens with 42,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 14, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that sum, 8,000 were in album sales and the bulk of the remainder attributed to streaming activity.

The Top Latin Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Bad Bunny has built his Top Latin Albums No. 1 debuts on a usual pattern as he has outdone himself with each release. The journey starts with his album debut X100PRE, which has spent 46-weeks atop the list and opened at No. 1 on the chart dated Jan. 5, 2019.

Then, when his joint release with J BalvinOasis, arrived at No. 1 six months later (July 13, 2019), Bad Bunny replaced himself at No. 1, bumping X 100PREfrom the top slot, pushing it to No. 2. Eight months later, YHLQMDLGtook possession of the No. 1 slot, dethroning X100PRE-which had returned to the top- on its 46-week reign on the March 14-dated survey. Las Que No Iban a Salirnow overrules YHLQMDLGin the current chart.

With Las Que No Iban a Salirarriving at No. 1, Bad Bunny now holds the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 slots of Top Latin Albums. The last time an act held the top three ranks? Juan Gabriel in January of 2017 when Los DuoMis Rancheras Queridas and Hoy Mañana y Siempre placed at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, following his death.

Concurrently, Las Que No Iban a Salir opens at No. 1 on the Latin Rhythm Albums chart – his fourth straight No. 1 debut there.

Bad Bunny previewed snippets of a few tunes of Las Que No Iban a Salirduring his unplanned livestream on May 2. The album arrived eight days later.

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