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Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos made history at the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 1), becoming the first Spanish-language album to win album of the year. The only previous Spanish-language album to be nominated in this category was Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, which lost to Harry StylesHarry’s House three years ago. In a nice touch, Styles presented the award to Bunny on this night.

Debí Tirar Más Fotos also won best música urbana album, while a track from the album, “EOO,” won best global music performance.

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The culture wars were seen as weighing in Bunny’s favor. His win is seen, in part, as a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric (even though, as a Puerto Rican, Bunny is American), in the same way that The Chicks’ sweep in 2007 was seen as the voters taking the trio’s side in their war-of-words with President George W. Bush.

Another factor that worked in Bunny’s favor: The Recording Academy invited all voting members of the Latin Recording Academy to join their ranks, and, according to Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., nearly 1,000 of them them accepted the offer. That infusion of new Latin members may also have helped Buena Vista Social Club win the award for best musical theater album over such hot challengers as Maybe Happy Ending and Just in Time.

While most were pleased with Bunny’s win for album of the year, the fact remains that no rap album has won in that marque category since OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 22 years ago. The fact that three rap albums were nominated for album of the year for the first time may have hurt Lamar’s chances of winning.

Bunny is set to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in one week on Feb. 8. He’ll become the first person to win the Grammy for album of the year and perform in the Super Bowl Halftime Show in the same year since Tony Bennett did it in 1994. The legendary singer performed alongside Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, Arturo Sandoval and Miami Sound Machine on Jan. 29. One month later, on March 1, he won album of the year for MTV Unplugged.


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