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'' (2020). Comprising twenty-three tracks, the album is primarily a

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record, and contains guest appearances from

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, the Marías and Buscabulla. 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-

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album to top the chart. It spent 13 weeks atop the chart and topped the ''Billboard 200'' Year-End Chart as the best-performing album of the year, the first Spanish language album to do so. It was also the first album by a Latin artist to reach 10 billion streams on

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. At the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, ''Un Verano Sin Ti'' won Best Urban Music Album, while at the

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, it became the first Spanish-language album to earn a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

Background

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". He called the album "a record to play in the summer, on the beach, as a playlist". The music video for "

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" was filmed in

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and

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Composition

''Un Verano Sin Ti'' is primarily a

, and

record driven by musical styles hailing from the

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, such as

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, bomba,

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, merengue, and bachata. The album also contains elements of

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, hip-hop,

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, psychedlia, R&B,

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, and

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Critical reception

''Un Verano Sin Ti'' was met with critical acclaim. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an

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score of 85, based on seven reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". David Crone of

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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." Lucas Villa of ''

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'' 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

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some much-needed flavor, swagger, and sounds by way of the Caribbean." Honored with its "Best New Music" tag, Jennifer Mota of ''

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'' 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. Julyssa Lopez of ''

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'' 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

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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."

Year-end lists

Awards and nominations

''Un Verano Sin Ti'' is the first Spanish-language album nominated for the

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Commercial performance

''Un Verano Sin Ti'' debuted at number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with 274,000

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s. 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

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'' (2021), and was the most-streamed album on

in 2022 by that point. 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 six months on the chart in the top two, since the ''Billboard'' 200 began publishing in 1956. It topped the 2022 ''Billboard'' 200 Year-End Chart, the first all-Spanish album to do so. In addition, it also placed at No. 1 on the year-end

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and

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charts. According to the magazine ''

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'', ''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

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's ''

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'' at 2.5 million units. The album reached number one on the

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and has received a four-times platinum certification for having moved 160,000 units in the country. ''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.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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