“Joder, don’t charge me, don’t charge me!” —Asch at a street in Madrid Miquel Lorente, 17, while suffering when he see the website where he prepares to buy tickets for him, initially announced for May 30 and 31, 2026, along with another date, on May 22 in Barcelona.
“We are left without entry!” He exclaims, agitated, surrounded by three other friends who also look at his mobile with concern.
Like him, it is estimated that there were about one million people, only the first day of presale, who wanted to buy a ticket to see the Puerto Rican reggaeton, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, who has broken all the records of sale of tickets in the history of Spain with the world tour I had to throw more photos World Tour, as reported by the Live Nation platform, one of those responsible for the sale.
“More than 600,000 tickets sold and 12 stadiums full … In less than 24 hours,” says a Live Nation publication in his X account in which he finishes: “Benito, if you want to have fun, it is not in summer or in New Yol … it is in spring in Madrid and in Barcelona. SOLD OUT”.
It is the last of a succession of messages that the platform published between 13.54 on Thursday, May 8, after exhausting, in presale, all the tickets for the two initial concerts, and the 19.31 on Friday, May 9 ,.
In one day, Bad Bunny went from having three dates in Spain to 12. It will be presented on May 22 and 23 in Barcelona and May 30 and 31 and 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, June 14 and 15 in Madrid. And not in any scenario. In the Spanish capital he will sing at the Riyadh Metropolitano stadium, which has the capacity for about 70,000 spectators in concert, while in Barcelona it will do so in the Olympic stadium, in which around 56,000 in concert fit.
For some, fortunate by chance, the publication of each new date was like a gift from heaven. For others, it was an endless cycle of torture. Clara Díez, 29 -year -old Ecuadorian, says: “It was five minutes of illusion in which I said: ‘Maybe I can get them.’
Only in the virtual row, Díez found up to 301,825 people before her. “I entered the waiting room 25 minutes before the presale began, then you entered the tail and it was 3 hours for your turn.” Nothing was enough and in the end he ran out of his entrance. He entered to review how much one could be worth pre -sale, on the Viagogo platform, and he found prices of up to 10,183 euros for a position that is almost behind the stage. “But I feel that they are already people who are half crazy thinking that she will be able to sell that,” he says. On that same platform, the cheapest tickets exceed 300 euros, in remote locations on the stage and, except for that of 10,000, the most expensive are at 2,079 euros.
Carla was not definitely the only frustrated. Each of the Live Nation publications in X announced new dates is flooded with dissatisfied users: “Why you have blocked me I can’t even enter the virtual tail I have been in the virtual tail,” says one. “When it was my turn, after being 2 hours in tail this appears to me and expels me ??? It makes no sense,” says another, who adds an emoji with an anger face.
Much of the emotion and commotion generated by the Puerto Rican with the announcement of its concerts is because it is its return to Spain since 2019, after six years of absence. Michelle Castillo, a 20 -year -old who accompanies Miquel and his friends, says with his mobile in his hand and under a roof sheltered from the rain in Madrid that the news was not expected. “It gives me a lot of emotion, at first I didn’t care how much I could spend, but there is always a limit.”
Although in 2019 Bad Bunny was already a global phenomenon that had put PERRARE To the entire world, since then his career has not stopped growing: his album YHLQMDLGreleased in 2020, was the most listened album globally that year, when he also took The last tour of the worldwhich became the first album entirely in Spanish to reach number one in the 200. A summer without you (2022). In addition, he participated in Hollywood productions such as Bullet Train (He had stars like Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in his cast), he collaborated with international brands such as Adidas, Gucci and Calvin Klein, and has been the cover of the fashion magazine Vogue. Only from 2019 until this year, has won 12 Latin Grammy Awards and 3 Grammy Anglo. A phenomenon is little.
Phenomenon of which the young man who shouted in the streets of Madrid dressed in black can enjoy next year. Miquel did enter to buy his tickets – the only one in the group of four who were trying – and also got them for his friends. “When there were 10 people left to touch me, we took our hands to be lucky and got six tickets,” he says by WhatsApp. They celebrated such a feat and a waitress from the restaurant where they were heard and invited Chupitos.
