For the First Time, the Top Two Albums in the U.S. Are in Spanish

For 69 years, the Billboard 200 has ranked the most consumed albums in the United States, and for the first time, the albums in the Number One and Two spots are both in Spanish. Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos sits atop the chart at Number One after a new vinyl release. It had previously been Number One for three consecutive weeks after its release in January.

New to the chart is música mexicana band Fuerza Régida’s album 111XPANTIA, which debuts at Number Two. Not only does this make for Fuerza Régida’s highest-charting album yet, 111XPANTIA is now the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting album in its genre. 

In another record-breaker, Debí Tirar Más Fotos’s roughly 48,000 vinyls sold marks the largest vinyl sales week for a Latin album since Luminate began tracking those sales in 1991. For the crown, Bad Bunny bested Kali Uchis, whose Orquídeas sold 20,000 on chart from Jan. 27, 2024.
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Last week, in an interview with Rolling Stone on 111XPANTIA, Fuerza Régida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz said, “This album right here, is all about making your dreams come true, bro. The eye [in the artwork], it resembles manifestation. It resembles new beginnings. The 111 [angel numbers] in the name. The name Ixpantia comes from the Aztecs… It’s all about manifesting.”

On Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which means “I Should Have Taken More Photos,” Bad Bunny told Rolling Stone, “It has more to do with the way that sometimes there are these moments I live through, and I enjoy them, but I didn’t take any photos. I have a good memory, but I know there’s going to be a time where I’m not going to remember really incredible times. It has a lot of meaning in terms of wishing I had seized certain moments. That’s the idea: enjoying the moment when I could and valuing memories.”