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Daddy Yankee performs in Inglewood, California, on July 27, 2022.
Daddy Yankee performs in Inglewood, California, on July 27, 2022. JC Olivera/Getty Images

Daddy Yankee decided to retire with a final tour in 2022. His plan changed after he put tickets on sale. The tickets sold out in half an hour and his promoter got a lot of calls from all over the world.

The people began calling from all over the world. I wasn't thinking of going to El Salvadoran.

One of the biggest tours of the year was turned into a small farewell trip. The Puerto Rican rapper has performed 86 shows in the last five months. He made more money than most of the other acts, including the Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga.

Daddy Yankee is one of three Latin musicians to rank among the year's 25 biggest tours. Latin music accounted for more than 6% of all consumption in the US during the first half of the year, a 34% increase from two years ago.

It is easy to write off this as a bad bunny effect. The Puerto Rican trap star had the largest tour of the year. Latin America is home to a lot of talent and fans. Latin acts made up 22% of the 200 biggest tours in the world. Eight of the top 25 spots in the Pop Star Power Ranking were claimed by them.

Hip-Hop Pop R&B Rock Electronic Country
Bad Bunny
Taylor Swift
Drake
Harry Styles
KAROL G
BTS
21 Savage
BLACKPINK
Billie Eilish
Daddy Yankee
Dua Lipa
Sam Smith
Ozuna
Eminem
Kim Petras
Shakira
Selena Gomez
Rosalía
Rihanna
Rauw Alejandro
Pawan Singh
Elton John
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown

He moved to the US in 1972 and has promoted Latin acts for 46 years. He started by hiring DJs to play disco music at college parties.

He was a key figure in the boom in Latin music that took place around the turn of the century, when pop singers like Calle 13 and Luis Fonsi gained a following in the US. Daddy Yankee's first tour in Latin America and the US was promoted by him. Artists had to travel to New York, Chicago and Mexico City to promote their work and had a hard time reaching audiences outside of those big cities. Latin music didn't sustain the breakthrough on a global stage

In the past few years, that has changed, as evidenced by Daddy Yankee's song "Despacito," the most popular song in the world in 2017: J Balvin is one of the most popular singers in the world.

Global distribution has made a difference. It used to be that acts had to compete for shelf space in Walmart and a spot on radio in order to get noticed.

The digital era is the biggest difference. Daddy Yankee and Ozuna come out with a record.

Daddy Yankee has performed in more cities in Mexico than they originally planned. He sold out a stadium in Mexico City for five nights in a row. He has never been to many US cities that he had never been to before.

Bad Bunny has set a higher bar than Daddy Yankee did when he recorded the first Reggaeton hit. He sold more than two million tickets and his tour is on track to gross more than $430 million.

Next year it will be up to a new artist to keep Latin music going strong after Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny retire.

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