Bad Bunny is one of the world's biggest pop stars.

His last album, El Ultimo Tour de Al mundo, was the first entirely Spanish language record

ever to hit number one on the U.S. Billboard albums chart.

Now a year and a half later, the Puerto Rican singer is back with a new record called

Un Verano, Sinti, or A Summer Without You.

I'm Stephen Thompson today.

We are talking about Bad Bunny on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

Joining me today is Ana Maria Sayer.

She's a producer for NPR's Alt Latino Hi Ana Maria.

Hey, what's up Stephen.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, it is such a pleasure.

I'm so glad we can talk about this record.

So Bad Bunny has been streamed billions upon billions of times he was spotifies most

streamed artist in both 2020 and 2021.

Now his new album, Un Verano Sinti, has set its own round of streaming records.

This past Friday, the day it came out, Bad Bunny received the most streams any artist

has ever registered in a single day with more than 183 million.

Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio is a full-fledged multimedia superstar.

He performed at the 2020 Super Bowl.

He won the 2021 WWE 24-7 Championship.

He's in the forthcoming Brad Pitt thriller bullet train and he's just been cast in an

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