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Las Que No Iban a Salir (2020)

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Bad Bunny released this compilation with no prior announcement, and most of its songs were leftovers cut from his earlier album.

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Las Que No Iban a Salir: first compilation album by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny
Title translates as 'The Ones That Were Not Coming Out'
Released 10 May 2020 by Rimas Entertainment without any previous announcement
Guest appearances by Zion & Lennox, Yandel, Don Omar, Nicky Jam, Jhayco and girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri
Italian Wikipedia lists ten tracks, including the remix of 'Cómo Se Siente' featuring Jhay Cortez

Bad Bunny teased some of the songs on Instagram one week before the official release
Some songs were presented as unreleased tracks that did not make the final cut of X 100pre and YHLQMDLG
Lead single 'En Casita' featuring Gabriela was released 4 April 2020, exclusively on SoundCloud
Second single 'Cómo Se Siente (remix)' came out alongside the album on 10 May 2020
The Don Omar collaboration was originally announced in September 2018

Parts of the album were recorded during quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Pitchfork's review noted that nine of ten songs were scrapped from YHLQMDLG and put together in two days

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, was born March 10, 1994, in Bayamón and raised in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
He wrote music from age 14 and rose to prominence in 2016 with the song "Diles", which led to a deal with Hear This Music.
His debut studio album X 100pre was released December 24, 2018.

Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity.
The single "I Like It" with Cardi B and J Balvin topped the US Billboard Hot 100.
YHLQMDLG (2020) became Spotify's most-streamed album of the year worldwide.
El Último Tour Del Mundo (2020) became the first all-Spanish language album to top the US Billboard 200.
Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) was the year's most successful album globally according to IFPI.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025) became the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
He headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show in February 2026, the first solo Latino artist to do so.
He also performs in professional wrestling for WWE and has appeared in films including Bullet Train and Cassandro.

Pitchfork's Matthew Ismael Ruiz reviewed the album six days after its release
Pitchfork described the album as 'quick and dirty, with uncharacteristically crunchy production value and lo-fi aesthetics'
The album was put together in two days from songs scrapped from the previous album
Despite its roughness, the album received positive reviews from music critics

US Billboard 200 debut: number 7, with 42,000 album-equivalent units
That debut week included 46.2 million streams and 8,000 pure album sales
Third top 10 album for Bad Bunny in less than a year
Debuted at number 1 on the US Top Latin Albums chart, replacing YHLQMDLG
In that same week Bad Bunny held numbers 1, 2 and 3 on the Top Latin Albums chart with YHLQMDLG and X 100pre
First time this happened since Juan Gabriel's death
Fifth best-selling Latin album of 2020 in the United States, with 315,000 equivalent album units

Bad Bunny teased some songs on Instagram one week before release, and the album itself had no formal announcement
In a radio interview after release, Bad Bunny described the ten tracks as leftovers from YHLQMDLG, according to Italian Wikipedia
The Italian entry adds that the songs were later gathered into a second project after the critical response to the first album
Spanish Wikipedia notes that tracks like 'Canción con Yandel' and 'Bad con Nicky' carry unusual names
Spanish Wikipedia notes the Don Omar collaboration was announced in September 2018, long before the album came out