It's only been, what, a week and a half since Bad Bunny played his very entertaining Super Bowl Halftime Show? It feels like that happened way longer ago. Congressional Republicans are performatively mad enough to launch an investigation into that performance, but it hasn't stopped Bad Bunny, already one of the world's most popular artists, from racking up more career wins. This week, for instance, Benito landed his first-ever solo #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and he has also been cast in his first-ever feature film lead role.
Back in 2018, Bad Bunny appeared alongside J Balvin on Cardi B's chart-topper "I Like It," but he has never been at #1 on the Hot 100 until now. This week, as Billboard reports, his song "DtMF," which debuted at #2 when it came out last year, has surged to #1. In the wake of the Halftime Show, Bad Bunny actually has four of the top in this weeks' top 10, with "Baile Inolvidable" at #2, "Nuevayol" at #5, and the 2022 banger "Tití Me Preguntó" at #7. If not for the Bad Bunny boom, Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" would've finally reached the top. Dean's song slips past Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas," last week's chart-topper, on this week's list, but it's stuck at #3. Meanwhile, TPUSA halftime show star Kid Rock is down at #69 with "'Til You Can't," so he's got that going for him.
Now, Bad Bunny's movie-star era is upon us. The star has already played supporting roles in the movies Bullet Train, Cassandro, Happy Gilmore 2, and Caught Stealing, and he was supposed to play the lead in El Muerto, a Spider-Man spinoff that never ended up happening. Now, Deadline reports that he has the lead role in Porto Rico, a forthcoming historical drama that'll serve as the directorial debut of René Pérez Joglar, the Puerto Rican rapper better known as Residente. (Residente and Bad Bunny previously worked together on songs like 2019's "Bellacoso.")
In Porto Rico, Bad Bunny will reportedly star alongside heavyweight actors Javier Bardem, Viggo Mortensen, and Edward Norton, and Alejandro Iñárritu will serve as executive producer. Residente co-wrote the script with Iñárritu's Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris, and it's based on the 19th-century story of Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román.
In other news, it looks like Bad Bunny's first post-Super Bowl concert is happening in Tokyo. Variety reports that he'll do a special show as part of Spotify's Billions Club series next month. In the past, that series has included shows from stars like Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd, and Miley Cyrus, which were taped and then turned into full videos on Spotify. Bad Bunny's show is happening March 7 at an undisclosed location, and the audience will be made up of his top Spotify listeners in Japan.
