Unhealthy Bunny is the primary Latin American artist to win an IFPI International Chart Award. Un Verano Sin Ti, the massively celebrated fifth album from the Puerto Rican rapper and singer, was launched in Might 2022. The 23-track album, which is an all-Spanish language document, went on to spend 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200 album chart, and later that yr turned the primary Spanish-language album to be nominated for Album of the Yr on the GRAMMY Awards.
Elsewhere within the International Albums Chart, there have been successes for a variety of artists – from Taylor Swift, IFPI’s International Recording Artist Of The Yr 2022, whose album Midnights charted at #2, to the UK’s Harry Kinds’ Harry’s Home which charted at #3 (Kinds additionally received the IFPI International Single of the Yr Award 2022 for his smash success As It Was). Each Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR (#9) and Ed Sheeran’s = (#10) spent a second yr within the High 10, whereas the unique soundtrack for Encanto reached #5.
BTS led amongst eight albums from South Korean acts to function within the High 20, with Proof taking the #4 spot. Each Stray Youngsters (MAXIDENT #6 and ODDINARY #14) and SEVENTEEN (Face The Solar #7; SECTOR 17 #18) had two albums within the High 20, whereas TOMORROW X TOGETHER and ENHYPEN each appeared within the International Albums Chart for the primary time, at #11 and #16 with MANIFESTO: DAY 1 and minisode 2: Thursday’s Little one respectively. South Korean woman group BLACKPINK additionally made their debut within the High 10 with their album BORN PINK which charted at #8.
Frances Moore, Chief Government, IFPI, mentioned: “We’re extremely excited to award Unhealthy Bunny, the primary Latin American artist to win an IFPI International Award, with the Album of the Yr Award. His distinctive sound, encapsulated in his award-winning album Un Verano Sin Ti, has captured the world’s consideration on a exceptional scale during the last 12 months.
“This yr’s International Albums Chart bears testomony to the unbelievable partnerships that exist between artists and document labels. These partnerships nurture and help artists whereas they write and document their music earlier than occurring to advertise albums on a world stage, reaching extraordinary quantities of success around the globe.”
