Bad Bunny, Fuerza Regida make Latin music history on the Billboard 200
Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida just made history for Spanish-language music. As of this week, the Puerto Rican artist's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' and the San Bernardino group's '111XPANTIA' became the first-ever Spanish-language albums to simultaneously sit at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Fuerza Regida's album, which dropped May 2, debuted in the No. 2 spot on the chart. According to Billboard, it became the highest-charting música regional album and Spanish-language album by a group or duo.
Bad Bunny's wide-spanning love letter to his beloved Puerto Rico — 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' — regained the top spot in the charts after he released a vinyl edition of the album. It was previously sitting in the seventh position on the Billboard 200 and has lingered in the top 10 since it debuted on Jan. 5.
Bad Bunny announced a 23-date stadium tour in support of the album that will kick off Nov. 21 in the Dominican Republic, followed by shows in Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina. There are currently no U.S. dates scheduled for the tour.
'111XPANTIA,' Fuerza Regida's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob Records, marks the group's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically-geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music.
The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some call an 'angel number,' or a sign of luck; the second part stems from the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.'
'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, in a press release.
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