06/19/2026
The US right spent months trying to cancel the skirt-wearing pop star whose Super Bowl show was so q***r it triggered a congressional investigation. He just became the first Latin artist ever to gross $1 billion on tour, without setting foot in their country.
Fewer than 25 acts have ever crossed that mark in the four decades Billboard has tracked it, and Bad Bunny is the first to do it singing in Spanish, not English.
His current tour grossed $360 million while deliberately skipping the US entirely, the biggest tour in history to never play a single American date.
This is the same man who kissed a male dancer on stage at the 2022 VMAs, wears skirts on magazine covers, and has spent his whole career putting himself on the line for the q***r community in a genre that rarely makes room for it.
The reason he left America off the map: he said last fall he worried ICE could be waiting outside his shows, rounding up Latino fans. So he took it everywhere but the states.
A billion dollars, sung in Spanish, earned almost everywhere except the country that spent months telling him he didn't belong. Benito didn't need them after all.
