Live Nation EMEA president John Reid has hailed the global growth of Latin music after witnessing “phenomenal demand” for the European leg of Bad Bunny’s 2026 Debí Tirar Más Fotos Tour.

The Puerto Rican rapper has sold out 25 European stadiums, with 600,000 tickets moved in Spain alone for his ten sold out nights at Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metropolitano (30 May-15 June) and two dates at Barcelona’s Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (22-23 May).

Presented by Live Nation and Rimas Nation, the expanded tour will kick off in November 2025 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and will travel through Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and Japan.

It arrives in Europe next spring for shows in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, France, Sweden, Poland and Italy, before wrapping in Belgium on 22 July next year.

“The response in Spain has been beyond anything seen before”

“We saw phenomenal demand for Bad Bunny last week – with 25 stadiums sold out across Europe and the UK already,” Reid tells IQ. “The response in Spain has been beyond anything seen before, with an unprecedented ten stadium shows in Madrid alone. With added dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Italy and the UK, you can see just how powerful and far-reaching the appeal of Latin music is right now.”

The historic outing will see Bad Bunny, real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, become the first Latin act to headline stadiums globally. The 31-year-old, who is managed by Noah Assad of Rimas Entertainment and booked by Jbeau Lewis of UTA, is returning to Europe for the first time since 2019 and Latin America for the first time since 2022, in addition to visiting countries such as Australia, Brazil and Japan for the first time ever.

Puerto Rican ticketing firm Ticketera recently earned a Guinness World Record for its role in Bad Bunny’s No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí homecoming residency at San Juan’s 19,500-cap José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. The company distributed more than 21,000 unique promo codes in just eight hours for the rapper’s 30-date run between 11 July and 14 September this year.

The first nine shows were exclusively reserved for Puerto Rico residents, leading Ticketera to implement an in-person distribution model. Thousands of physical cards containing unique promotional codes were handed out across nine locations on the island after verifying each person’s residency. Only those who received a card were then able to access the online sale. More than 400,000 tickets have been sold for the stint overall.

Colombian superstar Karol G scored the largest Latin music European tour to date last year

Last year meanwhile, fellow Latin superstar Karol G scored the largest Latin music European tour to date with her Mañana Será Bonito Europe Summer Tour.

The Colombian singer’s trek included sold out days in ten cities, seeing her play two nights respectively at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in the Netherlands, London’s The O2 in the UK, Paris’s Accor Arena in France, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum in Italy and Lisbon’s MEO Arena in Portugal.

She closed the run with four stadium performances at Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (85,000), which saw her crowned as the first artist to fully sell out four consecutive nights at the Spanish stadium.

A documentary about the tour, Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful, premiered on Netflix last week.

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Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny has announced a global stadium run titled Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos).

Produced by Live Nation, the 23-date tour kicks off on 21 November 2025 in the Dominican Republic and wraps on 22 July 2026 in Belgium.

Other stops on the tour include Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Poland, and Italy.

Debí Tirar Más Fotos marks the star’s return to Europe for the first time since 2019, and to Latin America for the first time since his World’s Hottest Tour (2022). It’ll be his first time performing in Australia, Brazil and Japan.

Live Nation says the ambitious outing will see Bad Bunny (real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) make history as the first Latin act to headline stadiums globally.

The Debí Tirar Más Fotos tour follows other Bad Bunny mega tours, including World’s Hottest Tour and the more recent Most Wanted Tour.

The former set the record in 2022 for the highest-grossing Latin tour in Billboard Boxscore history, earning $232.5 million and selling 944,000 tickets. The latter grossed more than $207.8 million, selling 703,000 tickets across 30 concerts.

Before hitting the road for Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny will perform a 30-date residency at El Choli in his native Puerto Rico, which is set to draw an estimated 250,000 visitors to the island over the summer.

See the full schedule for Debí Tirar Más Fotos below:

Nov. 21 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | Estadio Olimpico
Dec. 5 | San Jose, Costa Rica | Estadio Nacional
Dec. 10 | Mexico City, Mexico | Estadio GNP
Dec. 11 | Mexico City, Mexico | Estadio GNP
Jan. 23 | Medellin, Colombia | Estadio Atanasio Girardot
Jan. 30 | Lima, Peru | Estadio Nacional
Feb. 5 | Santiago, Chile | Estadio Nacional
Feb. 13 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Estadio River Plate
Feb. 20 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Allianz Parque
Feb. 28 | Sydney, Australia | ENGIE Stadium
March 2026 | Tokyo, Japan
May 22 | Barcelona, Spain | Estadi Olimpic
May 26 | Lisbon, Portugal | Estadio Da Luz
May 30 | Madrid, Spain | Riyadh Air Metropolitano
May 31 | Madrid, Spain | Riyadh Air Metropolitano
June 20 | Dusseldorf, Germany | Merkur Spiel-Arena
June 23 | Arnhem, Netherlands | Gelredome
June 27 | London, UK | Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
July 1 | Marseille, France | Orange Velodrome
July 4 | Paris, France | La Defense Arena
July 10 | Stockholm, Sweden | Strawberry Arena
July 14 | Warsaw, Poland | PGE Narodowy
July 17 | Milan, Italy | La Maura
July 22 | Brussels, Belgium | King Baudouin Stadium

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Puerto Rican ticketing firm Ticketera has earned a Guinness World Record for its role in Bad Bunny’s homecoming residency.

The company distributed more than 21,000 unique promo codes in just eight hours for the rapper’s upcoming No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí stint at San Juan’s 19,500-cap José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, which takes place between 11 July and 14 September this year.

The first nine shows of the 30-date run were exclusively reserved for Puerto Rico residents, leading Ticketera to implement an in-person distribution model. Thousands of physical cards containing unique promotional codes were handed out across nine locations on the island after verifying each person’s residency. Only those who received a card were then able to access the online sale.

More than 80,000 tickets were sold in the period, with sales surpassing $11 million (€9.7m).

“Being recognised by Guinness World Records places us on the global stage”

“This achievement is about more than just speed. It’s a global validation of the ingenuity and tech capabilities designed right here in Puerto Rico,” says Ticketera founder Manny Morales. “Being recognised by Guinness World Records places us on the global stage and reaffirms that Puerto Rico is a place where innovation is born.”

Ticketera, which powers more than 700 events annually and processes over two million tickets each year, was recognised by Guinness World Records for the most single-use promotional codes distributed for in-person ticket sales within eight hours.

“When the Bad Bunny production team asked how to ensure an online sale exclusive to Puerto Rico residents, we knew the solution had to be innovative and reliable,” adds Morales. “That led us to develop a model that involves in-person distribution, on-site residency validation and QR technology to deliver a secure, local and efficient experience.”

General sale tickets for the remaining 21 nights of Bad Bunny’s residency were snapped up in four hours.

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Bad Bunny has unveiled a 21-show residency in his native Puerto Rico at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, following the release of his latest album.

The residency spans 21 July to 24 August and will see Bad Bunny, real name Benito Martínez Ocasio, play Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the stint. The first nine shows will be exclusively reserved for Puerto Rico residents, with an in-person presale beginning tomorrow (15 January).

“I’m in Puerto Rico, I’m home, having fun and, to be honest, I don’t want to leave,” he says (as translated by Billboard) in his announcement video.

His historic Residencia en El Choli, the most expansive at the 18,000-capacity arena known locally as “El Choli”, is aptly named No me quiero ir de aquí (I don’t want to leave here).

Further international tour dates are expected later this year, including stops in Mexico, Brazil and Spain.

“Thanks to music and the love you give me through my music, I’ve had the privilege of travelling to sing in different places of the world. I appreciate and love to do it,” he continues.

“There are places I for sure will return to like Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia. And some I’ve never been to but would like to visit, like Brazil and Japan. And there are places I haven’t been to in a long time, like Italy, London, Spain, I know, and I promise before the year ends, I’ll tell you the date and time I will be visiting,” he hints.

“I’m in Puerto Rico, I’m home, having fun and, to be honest, I don’t want to leave”

Bunny released his sixth studio album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, earlier this month. The Spanish-language album, which debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard 200, is the global superstar’s recommitment to his native island as explained to the New York Times. The 17-track album was created entirely in the country and also features all-Puerto Rican collaborators.

Despite “El Choli” being located in the capital San Juan, in-person presale for the first six shows will happen across the island while presale for the final three resident-exclusive shows will be held online, according to Ticketera.

Demand for the event will be sky high, with the Reggaeton star’s last outings shattering multiple records. In 2022, Bad Bunny usurped Ed Sheeran as the highest-grossing touring artist in a calendar year, selling over 3 million tickets across his El Último Tour del Mundo North American tour and the World’s Hottest Tour stadium trek across Latin and North America.

The Grammy Award-winning artist last visited Europe on his 2019 X 100pre Tour.

The ASM Global-managed “El Choli” celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Booking manager Melanie García Vélez told IQ that local artists — like Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Daddy Yankee — are a major draw for Spanish-speaking artists and fans to stop by the country.

“We are blessed to have many internationally recognised Puerto Rican artists; this helps us position the island strategically in the industry. This opportunity is often used by international artists who use the Coliseo to meet and connect with their Latino audience, giving them the opportunity to visit other Spanish-speaking venues,” she revealed in IQ‘s 2024 Global Promoters Report.

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The US federal government has charged a man who allegedly planned to stage a mass shooting at a Bad Bunny concert in Atlanta, in the hope of inciting a “race war” before the 2024 presidential election.

Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was charged in Arizona on Tuesday (11 June) with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Firearms Trafficking, and Transfer of a Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime.

The indictment alleges that between January and March this year, Prieto was held under surveillance by the FBI after a source reported that he had expressed his desire to incite a race war ahead of the election (via NBC News).

According to the source, the FBI said that they had spoken to Prieto more than 15 times over the course of three years at gun shows. Within the last year, the source told authorities that Prieto began making suspicious and alarming comments, including “advocating for a mass shooting,” and specifically targeting Blacks, Jews or Muslims, the affidavit says.

“Prieto believes that martial law will be implemented shortly after the 2024 election and that a mass shooting should occur prior”

The source said, “Prieto believes that martial law will be implemented shortly after the 2024 election and that a mass shooting should occur prior” to it, allegedly asking the source late last year if they were “ready to kill a bunch of people.”

Prieto allegedly also attempted to enlist an undercover FBI agent to assist him with the planning of the mass shooting, reportedly targeting two Bad Bunny shows at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on May 14 and 15.

Prieto was arrested on a New Mexico interstate on 14 May. He admitted to knowing the undercover agent and the confidential source and to having discussed with them conducting an attack on a public venue in Atlanta like a “rock” concert attended by young people and minorities.

“However, he told agents that he did not intend to go forward with the attack,” the affidavit states. He is also alleged to have admitted to having sold an AR-15 to the undercover agent and that he told the agent it would be a good firearm to use in the attack. The affidavit says he also told agents he had five firearms in his vehicle and more at his home. Law enforcement subsequently executed a search warrant at his home and recovered more firearms, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

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Bad Bunny has wrapped the US leg of his Most Wanted Tour, shattering multiple records and selling out every date.

The Live Nation-promoted tour spanned 46 dates in 30 different arenas, grossing approximately US$208 million (€191m) and selling over 700,000 tickets.

Of the 30 arenas played, the Puerto Rican rapper broke the all-time concert gross record in 16 venues including Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, CA, (47,586 tickets, $20,226,378 gross), Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, (45,529, $17,769,046) and Kia Center, Orlando, FL, (31,759, $9,101,053), according to the Pollstar Boxoffice.

The Most Wanted Tour boasted a 37-song setlist and saw the rapper accompanied by The Philharmonic Orchestra Project: 24 musicians led by the multi-Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, and conductor Carlitos Lopez.

The Live Nation-promoted tour grossed approximately US$208 million (€191m) and selling over 700,000 tickets

Spanning two hours, the show was divided into four segments, taking attendees on a journey through every chapter of Bad Bunny’s career, with a special focus on his most recent album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (Nobody Knows What Will Happen Tomorrow).

The tour followed his World’s Hottest Tour stadium outing and before that El Último Tour del Mundo, which together closed in 2022 with a staggering $435 million. The gross saw him usurp Ed Sheeran as the highest-grossing touring artist in a calendar year.

Next, Bad Bunny will return to Puerto Rico for three sold-out shows at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico between 7-9 June.

The artist is represented by UTA’s David Zedeck and Jbeau Lewis in North America, as well as Carlos Abreu in the London office. Henry Cardenas handles Central and South America.

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Bad Bunny has launched a lawsuit against a fan who posted “bootleg” concert footage from the artist’s recent Utah show.

The Puerto Rican rapper, real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is suing Eric Guillermo Madronal Garrone over videos recorded at his 21 February performance at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which were uploaded to Garrone’s MADforliveMUSIC YouTube channel.

The suit, which claims copyright infringement, violation of anti-bootlegging statute and false endorsement, was filed in the Northern District of California after Garrone, who lives in Madrid, Spain, contested the removal of the clips from YouTube.

“Each of the unauthorised bootlegs, both individually and collectively, negatively impacts the market for authorised uses of the Bad Bunny Works by, among other things, luring YouTube viewers and associated advertising revenue away from authorised videos of the Bad Bunny Works and the official Bad Bunny YouTube channel, and towards the unauthorised bootlegs,” reads the lawsuit.

YouTube took down the ten videos following a request by the rapper but – after receiving a counter-notification from the defendant – the platform informed Ocasio’s representatives that it would repost the recordings by 8 March unless a lawsuit was filed seeking injunctive relief “preventing Garrone’s continued infringements”.

“Ocasio has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial, immediate, and irreparable injury, for which there is no adequate remedy at law”

According to Billboard, Garrone is claiming “legitimate use of the content” and says the takedown notice “constitutes a serious detriment to my informative and outreach activities”.

But Osacio argues the recordings “do not qualify as fair use because, among other reasons, they are direct recordings without any transformative nature or purpose”.

“Defendants have objected to the removal of the unauthorised bootlegs from YouTube, refused to agree not to re-post the unauthorised bootlegs, and requested that YouTube reinstate the unauthorised bootlegs on the MADforliveMUSIC YouTube channel,” adds the filing.

“As a result, Ocasio has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial, immediate, and irreparable injury, for which there is no adequate remedy at law. Unless enjoined by this court, defendants will continue to infringe Ocasio’s rights in the Bad Bunny Works and in other works belonging to Ocasio. Ocasio is therefore entitled to injunctive relief to enjoin defendants’ ongoing and future infringement.”

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A new festival in Puerto Rico curated by rapper Eladio Carrión and co-promoted by Move Concerts and Noah Assad Presents drew sellout crowds to its debut editions.

The Sauce Boyz Fest was the first music festival to be staged on the Caribbean island since the Covid pandemic began in 2020.

The first event took place on 18 May at Cervecera de Puerto Rico in Mayaguez before a 7,000-strong crowd and was headlined by Carrión, who was joined by surprise guest Bad Bunny to perform Coco Chanel live for the first time.  Acts such as Tokischa and Young Miko also performed.

The leg was held at the Convention District in San Juan – at just five days’ notice after switching from the original venue Estadio Sixto Escobar due to an infrastructure problem – on 20 May before a sold-out crowd of 25,000. Artists included Bizarrap and Duki, Wiz Khalifa and Carrión, who was joined onstage by Lil Wayne, Myke Towers and Jhayco.

“I’m so proud of all of the people that pushed and worked day and night to make this festival a world class event in just five days of buildup”

“I’m so proud of all of the people that pushed and worked day and night to make this festival a world class event in just five days of buildup, proud to be a part of this team and experience,” says Alejandro Pabon, MD of Move Concerts Puerto Rico.

Other attractions included a gaming area, multiple art structures, three stages and more than 30 international and local artists. The festival was also the first in Puerto Rico to be livestreamed via YouTube.

Move Concerts is Latin America’s biggest independent concert promoter with offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Puerto Rico, as well as its headquarters in the US in Miami, Florida.

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Move Concerts and Noah Assad Presents co-promoted WWE’s first premium live event to be held in Puerto Rico in 15 years, headlined by Bad Bunny.

The show, titled Backlash, took place on 6 May at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, and marked the largest gate ever for any WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) event held in Puerto Rico and the largest gate in the history of the Backlash brand.

Bad Bunny, who is managed by Assad, wrestled WWE superstar Damian Priest in the co-main event.

“We have been very proud of our on-going relationship with WWE throughout the region and specially in Puerto Rico” says Fabiano de Queiroz, VP of talent & tours at Miami-headquartered Move Concerts.

“The rich wrestling history and the incredibly strong music scene made for the perfect combination on a historic night”

Organisers confirmed back-to-back sellout nights for WWE’s Backlash (17,944 attendees) and the previous night’s SmackDown TV show (16,896 attendees).

“The rich wrestling history and the incredibly strong music scene made for the perfect combination on a historic night with the best crowd in the world,” adds Alejandro Pabón MD of Move Concerts Puerto Rico.

In addition, Backlash broke merchandise and sponsorship records, as the first-ever WWE event under the expanded partnership with Fanatics overseeing the on-site event retail experience. Sponsorship revenue surpassed any Backlash event in history, breaking last year’s record with a 98% year-on-year increase through partnerships with Netflix’s FUBAR, Mike’s Harder Lemonade, and Xfinity.

Move Concerts is the biggest independent concert promoter in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Puerto Rico.

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Ticketmaster Mexico has provided refunds and additional compensation after more than 2,000 fans were denied entry to a Bad Bunny concert at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium.

The company reported that problems occurred “due to failures in its ticket reading system” at the first of two dates at the venue by the Puerto Rican rapper. It also cited “an unprecedented number of fake tickets”, with upwards of 4.5 million people having registered for the 120,000 available tickets for the 10-11 December shows.

Ticketmaster has avoided being fined as it has refunded the full price of the ticket, plus 20% compensation, to those affected, with the total amounting to almost 18.2 million pesos (€914,000). So far, 2,155 customers have received reimbursement and compensation.

For the second concert, federal consumer protection office Profeco deployed a team of verifiers at the entrance of the venue in an effort to minimise the issues seen on night one.

“Unlike the first show, access flowed without major problems and 110 consumers turned to Profeco because they could not enter,” reads a press release from Mexico’s Federal Consumer Attorney’s office.

“Ticketmaster also referred to failures in the scanning equipment given the high concentration of mobile devices”

“For its part, the Ticketmaster company reported at the time that there were a large number of tickets that were not purchased through official channels and/or legitimate tickets printed several times; that is, simple photocopies of the same ticket with which it was intended to enter the event. Due to these events, the company reported that it filed two complaints with the competent authorities.

“Ticketmaster also referred to failures in the scanning equipment given the high concentration of mobile devices; the signal degraded intermittently, causing ticket reading to stall on devices while offline and to break out when handhelds were reconnected, resulting in valid tickets not being read correctly.”

The fallout from the incident was such that Mexico president Andrés Manuel López Obrador called on Bad Bunny to give a free concert in the capital’s central Zócalo plaza.

Last year saw Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – usurp Ed Sheeran as the highest-grossing touring artist in a calendar year, generating $435,388,660 for 81 shows in 2022.

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