No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí

On December 26, 2024, Bad Bunny announced his sixth studio album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, with a release date for January 5, 2025, the day before Three Kings Day,^[3] which is a national holiday in Puerto Rico. In less than a week upon its release, the album was immediately met with critical acclaim from fans and critics for its themes, described as a "love letter" to Puerto Rico, blending traditional Puerto Rican folkloric music genres such as plena, jíbaro, bomba, and salsa music with reggaeton and house music.^[4] In the early morning of January 12, 2025, two Monobloc chairs, similar to the ones that appear on the cover of the album, appeared atop of the stairs to the entrance of the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hinting the possibility of Bad Bunny performing at the venue.^[5] The following day, January 13, 2025, the singer released a video formally announcing his first residency to take place at the same venue where he has performed numerous times and broken ticket and attendance records.^[6]

No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí translates to "I do not want to leave here," a phrase from the outro of "El Apagón", found on his fifth studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022). This lyric is a reference to the growing number Puerto Ricans relocating to the United States due to high-living costs on the island, gentrification, and the loss of cultural identity. Bad Bunny explores these challenging topics, which create a thematic through-line for both Un Verano Sin Ti and Debí Tirar Más Fotos. ^[7]

This residency marked the first one being held at the venue and the first time a concert residency was held in Puerto Rico, breaking a record held by Wisin & Yandel that was established after a 14-date run of their farewell tour in the month of December 2022, also at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum.^[8] The venue's administrator, ASM Global, further confirmed that the residency had been in plans with Bad Bunny's production team for over a year and that the venue had cleared out additional dates to extend the residency throughout September 2025.^[9] At the end of the day of the in-person pre-sale on January 15, 2025, nine additional dates were announced, extending the residency throughout September 14, 2025. Later that night, to celebrate the launch of the public pre-sale, Bad Bunny made a surprise pop-up performance at El Boricua, a local college bar in Río Piedras in the vicinity of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where he performed songs from his sixth studio album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, as well as salsa versions of various songs from his discography.^[10][11]

On September 15, 2025, one day after the original 30-date run of the residency ended, Bad Bunny announced a thirty first show, dubbed Una Más (transl. One more), to take place on September 20. This additional date was live-streamed worldwide from the Choliseo through Amazon's Prime Music and Prime Video streaming services, as well as through Twitch,^[12][13][14] on the eight anniversary of the impact of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, the most intense, costliest, and deadliest natural disaster to strike the archipelago and island.

On January 13, 2025, the same day that the residency was announced, Bad Bunny co-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he "crashed" Fallon's monologue, joined by Los Pleneros de la Cresta, and also performed "Voy a Llevarte Pa' PR" for the first time.^[21] As part of the fiftieth season of Saturday Night Live, Bad Bunny performed "Baile Inolvidable" and "DTMF" with Los Pleneros de la Cresta on February 14, 2025, during SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, at Radio City Music Hall; he also participated in the Lonely Island medley by singing the opening lyrics to "I Just Had Sex" (in vibrato), originally sung by Akon.^[22][23] Two days later, on February 16, 2025, while not a musical guest, he made an appearance on the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special in the "Domingo: Vow Renewal" sketch, playing Santiago, the hot brother of Domingo (Marcello Hernández) and Renaldo (Pedro Pascal),^[24][25] and later in the "Q&A Segment" hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Bad Bunny also appeared as the musical guest on May 17, 2025, during the show's season finale,^[26] where he performed "Nuevayol" and "Perfumito Nuevo", the latter with RaiNao.

The concert residency took place at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, located nearby the Milla de Oro financial district of Hato Rey in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Named after Puerto Rican comedian José Miguel Agrelot, the venue is colloquially nicknamed El Choliseo (and the shortened El Choli), a portmanteau of the words coliseo ('coliseum' in Spanish) and Cholito, referring to Don Cholito, one of Agrelot's characters and his own adopted nickname.^[27] It is the largest entertainment and sports indoor venue in the insular Caribbean, with a capacity of 18,500 spectators, having hosted over one thousand events and over ten million visitors since opening in September 2004.^[28]

Bad Bunny has held many attendance and sales records at the venue. His 2019 Choliseo headliner debut broke an attendance record, previously held by Metallica nearly nine years prior, with 18,000 spectators in an arena stage concert setup.^[29] He broke this record again in July 2022 with an all-time attendance record of 18,749 spectators, exceeding 249 spectators over the venue's capacity on the first night of his three-date performances.^[30] In 2023, the venue hosted WWE SmackDown and Backlash 2023, back-to-back, where he made his Puerto Rico debut as a professional wrestler at both events. On October 12, 2023 the venue hosted its first ever listening party for the singer's fifth studio album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (2023), released the following day.^[31] Prior to the beginning of his residency, Bad Bunny's last performance at the Choliseo was the culmination of his Most Wanted Tour, June 7–9, 2024, which supported his fifth studio album.^[32]

The residency featured two stages, both set up on opposite sides of the venue. The main large-scale stage, which was used for the first and third act of the show, was located at the north side of the arena and modeled after a mogote, a symbol of the jíbaros, representing the image of the Puerto Rican farmer of the 18th-to-early-19th century. Grass, chickens, goats, plantain trees, and a flamboyán tree, adorned the rest of the stage, resembling the jíbaro's life and farming culture. The upper level of the stage resembled a giant LED billboard, where visuals were transmitted, also doubling with an elevated walkway integrated in front of the screen for additional performances, notably "Weltita", featuring Chuwi.

The opening of Act I of the residency, taking place at the mogote stage (top), while Bad Bunny performs atop the casita b-stage (bottom).

The second but smaller b-stage, situated on the South side of the arena, across from the mogote, was modeled after a common rural Puerto Rican house, commonly constructed from concrete, concrete bricks and galvanized steel, resembling the house featured in the short film of the same name as the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Reggaetón performances took place at this stage, popularly nicknamed la casita (transl. the little house), during the second act of the show in the "front porch" of the house, in the style of a party de marquesina (transl. garage party or carport party), where the reggaetón genre was developed. Performances also took place on the roof of the structure, complete with an elevator stage and a spiral staircase from the ground to the roof. The stage doubled as a fully functioning indoor structure, complete with furniture, televisions and a bar. The structure also served as the VIP area for attendees, personally invited by Bad Bunny, which have included LeBron James, Ricky Martin, J. J. Barea, Kylian Mbappé, Luis Guzmán, Tito Trinidad, Benicio del Toro, Adriana Díaz, Marcello Hernández, John Hamm, Austin Butler, Darren Aranofsky, among many more.^[33]

The mogote stage was constructed in sections, and in complete secrecy inside tension fabric buildings erected on the grounds that was previously occupied by the now-demolished Río Piedras State Penitentiary, located about four miles South from the Choliseo. The house was constructed over the course of four months, after various changes, right up until the final assembly inside the arena, before the residency began. It was transported in three sections to the venue between three flatbed trailers.^[34][35]

On the day the residency was announced, details regarding ticket sales were made public online. The nine concert dates slated for the month of July 2025 were reserved for an exclusive in-person first come first serve distribution on January 15, 2025 throughout nine public locations around Puerto Rico for residents only.^[36] VIP and hotel packages for concert dates for August through September 2025 were released online the same day, each one partnering with different hotels in high tourist areas such as Miramar, Condado and Isla Verde.^[37]

The general sale for the residency took place online on January 17, 2025, selling out over 400,000 tickets across all 30 dates in four hours.^[38] Much like the first nine shows of the residency, tickets for the thirty first show, on September 20, 2025, were reserved exclusively for residents of Puerto Rico who registered for it and immediately sold out.^[39]

The show's set list was divided in three acts and varied for every concert in the residency; this set list is from the first concert, held on July 11, 2025.^[40] The residency kicked off with a new single, titled "Alambre Púa"(transl. Barbed wire), which was released on July 14, 2025, after the third day of the residency.^[41] At every concert, Chuwi and Los Pleneros de la Cresta joined Bad Bunny for "Weltita" and "Café con Ron", respectively. Joining him on the main stage for the third and final act of the residency, Bad Bunny formed Los Sobrinos (transl. The nephews), a backing band composed of young musicians under the age of 25, some of whom were students and alumni from the Escuela Libre de Música in San Juan; Los Pleneros de la Cresta later joined Los Sobrinos on the main stage to serve as backup vocalists. Actor and filmmaker Jacobo Morales appeared in pre-recorded videos alongside Concho, an anthropomorphic Puerto Rican crested toad and mascot of the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, before segueing to "Weltita", the beginning of the second act and the beginning of the third act.