Who is bigger, Shakira or Bad Bunny? Whatever your answer, I think about it again | Spanish

While she is luxurious to visit three times, in the same month, the variety program of Jimmy Fallon, he has been, on three occasions, the musical guest of the legendary program “Saturday Night Live”.

And while Shakira walks full with his tour “Women no longer cry”, Bad Bunny counts the days to start his, entitled “I had to throw more photos.”

To whom he feels tempted to face or compare the two largest stars that the Latin market has today, I fear that the exercise will have the opposite effect. Because for more differences between both artists, none opaque to the other. On the contrary, the sum of both only exposes a power, a scope and influence rarely seen.

Although the reputation of both made explosion in different centuries, there is not much difference between the public that one or the other is able to agglutinate in their concerts, at least not in quantity and universality. All generations, despite some letters not recommended for the little ones – in the case of it – have said ‘present’.

From her Caribbean aging, she in the Colombian city of Barranquilla and he in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, to a tireless search for mergers, Shakira and Bad Bunny have points in common leftover. And while she began being very rocker and he dedicated to the urban rhythm of her island, the originality of both is evident. None can be pointed out of having copied a predecessor.

Through the years, together they have achieved huge brands and recognitions. According to data from the music academies in the United States, Bad Bunny accumulates ten Nominations for Grammy Anglo and 40 to Latin Grammy. Shakira, meanwhile, adds seven nominations to the first and 36 to the second. When it comes to trophies obtained, she with four and he with three gramophones of the Anglo -Saxon Academy are very close.

If we speak specifically about the music industry, not to do so of many others, today the woman continues to fight for spaces and validations that men find it easy to obtain. Just this year, Beyoncé became the first black woman to get the Grammy for the best album of the year from Lauryn Hill, in 1999.

And while Shakira has shown that her colleagues respect her as an artist and business woman, she has not yet been able to conquer the number one of the coveted list of the 200 most popular albums in the United States, according to Billboard magazine. And it is not that the language has been the problem. Because with four albums in Spanish, Bad Bunny has achieved it with each of them. Including its most recent production, “I had to throw more photos”, which although it debuted in mid -January of this year in box number two, has been on top four weeks after 18 in this list.

With regard to the current tours of both, the two were designed for stages or large crowds. She started in February, in Brazil, and is supposed to culminates in November, in Peru. On multiple occasions it has broken brands with the sale of tickets and although at this time its official website has in 38 the number of presentations left in its calendar by 2025, it has already shown that, if the public asks for it, she will continue to add more dates.

Bad Bunny, meanwhile, starts with a series of 30 concerts only and exclusively in Puerto Rico, from July to September, which has been described as a residence and baptized “I do not want to leave here.”

Then he will start in November the homonym tour of his latest album (“I had to throw more photos”) that will cover several countries in Latin America, Australia, Japan and cities in Europe and that will run until mid -2026. For now, he has not announced dates in the United States, where Shakira wanted to concentrate much of this summer.

So each with their respective achievements and ambitions. “While Bad Bunny remains the king in regard to the box office, in terms of total collection and mass assistance, Shakira has established new standards in sales for concert and connection with the public, in addition to breaking multiple records in Latin America and has begun doing the same in the United States,” says Alicia Civita, entertainment journalist in Miami.

“The two have redefined what are the tours of Latin artists, with a repertoire mainly of songs in Spanish,” he concludes on two artists who do not lend themselves for a comparison that moves them away, but rather for one that one and much.

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