YHLQMDLG

"Vete" was released as the lead single of the album on November 22, 2019.[6] The album title was first mentioned during a sequence of the accompanying music video.[7][8] The second single "Ignorantes" with Panamanian singer Sech came out on February 14, 2020.[9] Bad Bunny announced the album on February 27, 2020, during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and stated that it would be released on Leap Day 2020.[10]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	88/100[11]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[12]
Consequence of Sound	B+[13]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 88 based on 5 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[11]

Writing for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated Bad Bunny "turns the notion of the cohesive urbano statement into a sprawling 20-track mix of styles, production techniques, and completely accessible hooks in a work of peerless musical invention," and described YHLQMDLG as "a transformative fever dream of an album that accents freedom by breaking all the rules without writing new ones."[12] In Rolling Stone, Suzy Exposito gave YHLQMDLG 4.5 stars, writing that Bad Bunny "convenes a family reunion of his favorite rappers and reggaetoneros to produce a genre-promiscuous work of reggaeton a la marquesina."[15] For Consequence of Sound, Lucas Villa wrote that Bad Bunny "is emerging as a rarity in the game like the mythical Mew. Benito is game-sharking a system that was once othering Latin music artists with his perreo takeover of pop."[13] Matthew Ismael Ruiz in Pitchfork deemed the album "outstanding" and described it as "a big party record that pushes boundaries and pays homage to reggaetón's past and future, all made by a swaggering star with absolutely nothing to prove."[14]

YHLQMDLG debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 dated March 14, 2020, earning 179,000 album-equivalent units, including 35,000 pure album sales in its first week. It earned 201.4 million on-demand streams in the country, achieving the biggest streaming week ever for a Latin album, surpassing the record set by Ozuna's Aura (2018, 53.2 million streams). It is Bad Bunny's highest-charting album, and the highest-charting all-Spanish album to ever appear on the chart. Previous record-holders for an all-Spanish-language albums were Shakira's Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005) and Maná's Amar es Combatir (2006), both at number four, while two mostly-Spanish albums have reached number one, Selena's Dreaming of You (1995) and Il Divo's Ancora (2006).[20] In its second week, the album dropped to number three on the chart, earning 111,000 album-equivalent units,[21] remained at number three in its third week with 69,000 units,[22] and fell to number four in its fourth week with 51,000 more units.[23]

Bad Bunny charted all 20 album tracks on the US Hot Latin Songs ranking dated March 14, setting several records: most concurrently charting titles in the top 10 (8), in the top 20 (18) and in the top 25 (20). With eight top 10 songs on the chart, Bad Bunny outdid himself as he previously held the record for the most simultaneous top 10s, with six (September 2019). With 18 songs in the top 20, he surpassed J Balvin's nine-song mark (February 2020). Only Ozuna has placed more songs simultaneously on the chart, with 21 (September 2018). Bad Bunny brought his total career entries on the chart to a record 83, surpassing Daddy Yankee's 74 entries.[24]

Bad Bunny also placed 11 album tracks simultaneously on the US Billboard Hot 100, the most for any Latin artist performing only in Spanish.[24]

All tracks were written by Benito Martínez, except where noted. Credits adapted from Universal Music Publishing Group's catalog.[25]

Sample credits

• "Si Veo a Tu Mamá" contains interpolations from "The Girl from Ipanema", written by Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes and Norman Gimbel, performed by Stan Getz and João Gilberto.[26]
• "La Santa" contains interpolations from "Aquí Está Tu Caldo", written and performed by Daddy Yankee.[27]
• "Vete" contains interpolations from "Si Te Vas", written by Cesar Batista-Escalera, performed by Kartiel.[28]
• "Ignorantes" contains interpolations from "No Sé Si Fue", written and performed by Arcángel and Zion.[29]