Bad Bunny had his first top 10 single in the UK thanks to a Super Bowl boost Bad bunny

Despite being one of the most listened to musicians in the world, Bad Bunny has never had a Top 10 single in the UK – until now.

The Puerto Rican musician attracted a slew of curious new fans — and previously thrilled fans — after last week’s Super Bowl, performing a halftime show that many described as one of the greatest performances in NFL history.

His album Debí Tirar Más Fotos – which won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards this month – jumped 42 places to No. 2 on the Top 40 albums chart this week, surpassing its previous high of No. 13, while single DTMF rose 39 places to No. 4.

Bad Bunny has been in the UK Top 20 singles chart twice before as a guest artist, on tracks by Cardi B and Drake. Two more Debí Tirar Más Fotos tracks are in this week’s Top 20, with Nuevayol at No. 15 and Baile Inolvidable at No. 20. In the UK, where non-English hits are rare, having an artist with three Spanish-language songs in the Top 20 simultaneously would likely be unprecedented.

Bad Bunny’s halftime show was a global sensation: according to the NFL and Ripple Analytics, its 128.2 million viewers made it the fourth most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in US television history (behind Kendrick Lamar’s show last year, Michael Jackson in 1993 and Usher in 2024), while more than half of its social media views came from outside the US.

Right-wingers had criticized the reservation, and after the show Donald Trump called it “absolutely terrible, one of the worst shows… a slap in the face to our country.” But there has been an outpouring of admiration elsewhere, from political figures like Gavin Newsom and Meghan McCain to a five-star review for The Guardian by Stephanie Fernandez, who wrote that Bad Bunny “reminds many of us of the love, community, and sheer joy we create together every day despite everything else.”

Elsewhere in the charts, Taylor Swift jumped 14 places to number one with her single Opalite, boosted by the release of her music video starring Graham Norton and his talk show guests the week Swift appeared, including Domhnall Gleeson and Lewis Capaldi.

Olivia Deen’s The Art of Loving has held the top spot on the album chart for a seventh non-consecutive week, having not left the top five since its release in September. J Cole is the highest new entry at number three with what has been described as his final album, The Fall Off.

The Official Charts Company launched a new Classic Albums chart this week, featuring albums “released in the past 12 months that have made an impact across the UK, ranked by UK sales and streams”. It is headlined in its first week by 21-year-old South Korean pianist Yeonchan Lim, with an album of Bach’s Goldberg Variations recorded live at Carnegie Hall.