Bad Bunny rides Super Bowl wave as 'DtMF' tops Hot 100

Just a week after creating Grammy history by becoming the first Spanish-language album to win Album of the Year, Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos achieved another milestone with the song 'DtMF' topping the Billboard Hot 100. Bad Bunny had earlier topped the Hot 100 with Cardi B and J Balvin for 'I Like It'. The Puerto Rican singer currently occupies four of the top 10 spots, with the other songs being 'Baile Inolvidable', 'Nuevayol', and 'Tití Me Preguntó'.

The milestone follows Bad Bunny's contentious performance at Super Bowl LX performance on February 8, which saw him turn the "American" stage into a high-energy celebration of Caribbean life. At Levi's Stadium, the Grammy winner opened the show, emerging from towering sugarcane stalks, in a nod to the island's colonial past. His performance, entirely in Spanish, also featured independence-era flag imagery and references to Hurricane Maria, before closing with the message: "Together, we are America."  

Bad Bunny's performance, however, received mixed political reactions. While Democratic figures like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Patty Murray praised the show as a beautiful "all-American" performance, Republicans, including President Donald Trump, severely criticised Bad Bunny's performance. In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the performance "absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!" 

Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Randy Fine, urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate the February 8 broadcast, with Fine writing in a social media post that the "woke garbage we witnessed on Super Bowl Sunday needs to be INVESTIGATED and put to an END." "There is NO reason that over 130 million people — including CHILDREN — should have been exposed to the vulgar and disgusting content of the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. It's time to get answers about what happened and why this was allowed to take place NOW," Fine stated. 

Federal regulators, however, concluded that Bad Bunny's halftime performance at Levi's Stadium broke no rules. The FCC found that the songs the rapper performed during the halftime show—'Tití Me Preguntó', 'Monaco', and 'Safaera'—were scrubbed of lyrics that normally include references to sex acts and genitalia, as per the New York Post. The agency reportedly shelved the investigation just days after it began, noting that many of the formal complaints appeared to be based on studio lyrics translated via apps rather than the actual censored versions broadcast at the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, the Puerto Rican singer, whose original name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is reportedly making a career move towards acting. As per a Deadline report, Bad Bunny will be joining Edward Norton, Javier Bardem, and Viggo Mortensen for René "Residente" Pérez Joglar's directorial debut, 'Porto Rico'.