Bad Bunny Sweps Spain: 12 full stages and over 600,000 tickets sold | Culture
“Joder, don’t be loaded, don’t make me upload!” —Grita on a road in Madrid Miquel Lorente, 17 years old, while suffering when the website shows where you are about to buy tickets for the Bad Bunny Concert in MadridInitially announced for 30 and 31 May 2026, together with another date, on May 22 in Barcelona.
“We remained without entry!” It exclaims, agitated, surrounded by three other friends who also look at his cell phone with concern.
Like him, it is estimated that there were about a million people, only on the first day of presale, who wanted to buy a ticket to see the Puerto Rican reggaeton, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, who broke all the registers of the sale of tickets in the history of Spain with the world tour that I had to launch more photos of the world tour, as reported by the national live platform, one of those responsible.
“More than 600,000 tickets sold and 12 full stages … in less than 24 hours,” says a publication of live nation in his account X in which he ends: “Benito, if you want to have fun, is not in summer or in New Yol … it’s in spring in Madrid and Barcelona. Salito”.
It is the last of a succession of messages published by the platform between 13.54 on Thursday 8 May When he announced the first two additional dates After exhausting, in advance, all tickets for the two initial concerts and 19.31 on Friday 9 May, When he published the Worn out final.
In one day, Bad Bunny went from three dates to Spain to 12. It will be presented on 22 and 23 May in Barcelona and 30 and 31 May and 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 15 June in Madrid. And not in no scenario. In the Spanish capital he will sing the metropolitan Riyadh stadium, which has the ability of about 70,000 spectators in concert, while in Barcelona he will do it at the Olympic stadium, in which about 56,000 in concert form.
For some, lucky by chance, the publication of each new date was like a gift from heaven. For others, it was an infinite cycle of torture. Clara Díez, 29 years old Ecuadorian, says: “It was five minutes of illusion in which I said:” Maybe I can get them “.
Only in the virtual row, Díez found up to 301,825 people in front of her. “I entered the waiting room 25 minutes before the start of the presale, then you entered the tail and passed 3 hours for your turn.” Nothing was enough and eventually ran out of his entry. It entered to review how much you might be a pre -heal penalty, on the Viagogo platform, and found prices up to 10,183 euros for a position almost behind the stage. “But I feel they are already people who are half mad thinking that it will be able to sell it,” he says. On that same platform, the cheapest tickets exceed 300 euros, in remote offices on stage and, with the exception of that of 10,000, the most expensive are at 2,079 euros.
Carla was certainly not the only frustrated. Each of the publications of the live nation in X announced new dates is flooded with dissatisfied users: “Because you blocked me I can’t even enter the virtual tail that I was in the virtual tail,” says one. “When it was my turn, after being 2 hours in the queue, does this appear to me and expel me?
Much of the emotion and confusion generated by the Puerto Richam with the announcement of his concerts is because it is his return to Spain since 2019, after six years of absence. Michelle Castillo, a 20 -year -old summit that accompanies Miquel and his friends, says with his cell phone in his hand and under a roof sheltered from the rain in Madrid that the news was not expected. “It gives me a lot of emotion, at the beginning I didn’t care how much I could spend, but there is always a limit.”
Although in 2019 Bad Bunny was already a global phenomenon he had put Perish For the whole world, since then his career has not stopped growing: his album YhlqmdlgPublished in 2020, it was the most listened album globally that year, when he also took The last tour of the worldWhich became the first album entirely in Spanish to reach the number one in 200. A summer without you (2022). In addition, he participated in Hollywood productions such as Bullet train (He had stars like Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in his cast), he collaborated with international brands such as Adidas, Gucci and Calvin Klein, and was the cover of the fashion magazine Vogue. Only from 2019 until this year, he won 12 Latin Grammy Awards and 3 Anglo Grammy. A phenomenon is small.
The phenomenon of which the young man who shouted on the streets of Madrid dressed in black can enjoy next year. Miquel entered to buy his tickets – the only one in the group of four who were trying – and also took them for his friends. “When there are 10 people left to touch me, we got our hands to be lucky and we got six tickets,” he says from WhatsApp. They celebrated such a business and a waitress from the restaurant where Chupitos were listened to and invited.
