Bad Bunny's "DTMF" Broke a Chart Record 8 Years in the Making
Bad Bunny, just set the longest-running #1 in the 30+ year history of Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. To see how big a deal that actually is, we lined it up against the reigns it beat.
The dataset
Weeks-at-#1 figures for each song were verified via Guinness World Records' official record listing and Billboard's own chart reporting (linked below). This covers the small set of songs that have held the record for longest #1 reign at some point in the chart's history — it is not every #1 song ever, just the record-holders.
The method
- Identified the songs that have held the "longest-reigning #1" record on Hot Latin Songs at some point since the chart's 1986 debut.
- Recorded each song's peak weeks-at-#1, artist, and year.
- Sorted and charted them by weeks at #1, highlighting DTMF as the current record-holder.
data.sort(key=lambda row: row["weeks_at_number_one"])
# horizontal bar chart, one bar per song, length = weeks at #1
# DTMF bar colored differently to flag the current recordWhat it showed
| Song | Artist | Year | Weeks at #1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTMF | Bad Bunny | 2025 | 61 |
| Despacito | Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber | 2017 | 56 |
| Bailando | Enrique Iglesias ft. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona | 2014 | 41 |
| El Perdón | Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias | 2015 | 30 |
| La Tortura | Shakira ft. Alejandro Sanz | 2005 | 25 |
| Ginza | J Balvin | 2015 | 22 |
DTMF's 61 weeks beat "Despacito" (56 weeks, 2017) by 5 weeks — and "Despacito" itself had held the record for 8 years. Before that, the record climbed more gradually: Enrique Iglesias's "Bailando" (41 weeks, 2014), Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias's "El Perdón" (30 weeks), Shakira's "La Tortura" (25 weeks, 2005), and J Balvin's "Ginza" (22 weeks) each held the title at some point going back to the 2000s.