Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Is Officially The Most Streamed Album In Spotify History

BusinessHollywood & EntertainmentBad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Is Officially The Most Streamed Album In Spotify HistoryByOlivia Shalhoup,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Olivia Shalhoup covers entertainment marketing and social strategy.Follow AuthorApr 23, 2026, 11:58am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.SAN JUAN,PUERTO RICO - JULY 28: Bad Bunny performs during his concert, "Un Verano Sin Ti" at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot on July 28, 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.(Photo by Gladys Vega/Getty Images)Getty ImagesSpotify turned 20 this week, and to mark the occasion, the platform did something it has never done before: release an all-time greatest hits list of its own data. Most streamed artists. Most streamed songs. Most streamed podcasts. And most streamed albums, which is where history was made.Spotify’s newly unveiled list of the most streamed albums of all time has Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti sitting at number one. Not Taylor Swift. Not Drake. Not The Weeknd, who managed to land three albums in the top 20. Bad Bunny. A kid from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, who raps and sings entirely in Spanish, topped a global streaming chart on the platform that essentially defines the modern music economy.Let that sink in.The full top five most streamed albums of all time on Spotify are Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny, Starboy by The Weeknd, ÷ (Deluxe) by Ed Sheeran, SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo, and After Hours by The Weeknd.Why This Rollout Was Always Going to Be DifferentWhen Un Verano Sin Ti dropped in May 2022, the industry knew it was a moment. A 23-track, genre-bending meditation on Puerto Rican identity, Caribbean summer, and what it means to hold your culture and your commercial ambitions in the same hand — it wasn't built to play by the rules of a traditional album rollout. There was no lead single designe...