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🗓️ 12 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Big international music tours from stars like Beyonce and Taylor Swift haven't just been exciting for fans over the past few years. |
| 0:13.8 | They've also been exciting for local economies. |
| 0:16.5 | Wherever Taylor Swift goes, so do people's wallets. |
| 0:19.8 | It's been called the Beyonce effect, a noticeable boom in business. |
| 0:23.6 | The typical Swifty will spend about $1,300 per night. |
| 0:27.6 | The Queen Bee seems to be Houston's very own sugar mama. |
| 0:31.6 | This summer, the musician Bad Bunny has also been getting a lot of attention |
| 0:35.6 | for the economic impact of his |
| 0:37.7 | latest concert series. But unlike others, Bad Bunny is focusing on one place. And it's not Las Vegas |
| 0:45.2 | or New York. He's posted up in his hometown of San Juan, and hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the world have been flocking to the island to see him. |
| 0:59.0 | So I just got my tickets to see Bad Bunny. |
| 1:03.0 | This video is for everybody looking for Bad Bunny tickets because we bought our... |
| 1:07.0 | I'm just excited. I'm excited. |
| 1:08.0 | Counting down the days when I'm over there in Puerto Rico. I'm going to see a bad buddy in August. I'm going to see my buddy in August. |
| 1:16.3 | Bad Bunny's Puerto Rican residency, which is ending this weekend, has done the same thing a Beyonce or Taylor Swift concert does when it pops into a city. |
| 1:24.8 | Except he's doing it 30 times in a row. |
| 1:29.0 | The estimates we got were around $200 million |
| 1:32.0 | flowing in due to all the travel and hotels |
| 1:35.3 | and souvenirs and food and drink and whatnot. |
| 1:39.9 | Our colleague Elias Light covers the music industry. |
| 1:43.2 | He says that by spending so much time in Puerto Rico, |
| 1:46.1 | Bad Bunny is flexing his superstar power in a new way. |
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