When Bad Bunny dropped "DtMF" as the fourth single from his album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" on January 23, 2025, few could have predicted it would rewrite the record books. Eighteen months later, the plena-infused track — a nostalgic meditation on regret and memory — has logged a record 57 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart (dated May 2, 2026), surpassing the 56-week reign of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, which had held the record since its historic run between 2017 and 2018.
"DtMF" — an initialism for the album title, translating to "I Should Have Taken More Photos" — is the 16th and title track on Bad Bunny's sixth solo studio album, released on January 5, 2025, through Rimas Entertainment. The album blends plena, salsa, jíbaro, and reggaeton into a deeply personal homage to Puerto Rico, produced by La Paciencia, MAG, Tainy, Big Jay, and Saox, and featuring collaborations with Chuwi, Omar Courtz, Los Pleneros de la Cresta, Dei V, and RaiNao.
The song's chart dominance is not without nuance. While "DtMF" has ruled the Latin Streaming Songs chart for months, it has ranked considerably lower — as far down as No. 36 — on the overall all-genre Streaming Songs chart, underscoring how the Hot Latin Songs methodology, which blends streaming, airplay, and sales data within the Latin market, can produce a different picture than the broader pop landscape. The chart itself debuted in 1986 as an airplay-only ranking before adopting its current multi-metric formula.
The record-breaking run has been fueled by a series of cultural moments. Following Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl LX halftime show, "DtMF" surged to No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 as well — making it his first solo song to top that chart and only the fourth Spanish-language song ever to do so. The album behind it has been equally decorated: "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" won Album of the Year at both the 68th Grammy Awards and the 26th Latin Grammy Awards, becoming the first Spanish-language album to claim the Grammy's top prize.
For context, the previous record-holder "Despacito" was itself a landmark — its Bieber-assisted remix transformed Latin music's global reach and set what had seemed like an untouchable standard for longevity on a chart that has been running for nearly four decades. That "DtMF," a song rooted in traditional Puerto Rican folk music rather than crossover pop, has eclipsed it feels like a statement about where Latin music stands today: confident, culturally specific, and more powerful than ever.
