No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí

No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí
Residency by Bad Bunny
Poster for the residency
LocationSan Juan, Puerto Rico
VenueJosé Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
Associated albumDebí Tirar Más Fotos
Start dateJuly 11, 2025 (2025-07-11)
End dateSeptember 14, 2025 (2025-09-14)
No. of shows30
Websitenomequieroirdeaqui.com
Bad Bunny concert chronology

No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí (transl. I Don’t Want To Leave Here) is the ongoing first concert residency by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny in support of his sixth studio album Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025). The residency, which began on July 11, 2025, is composed of 30 concert dates, currently being held at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan and is set to conclude on September 14.[1][2]

Background

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. The album was immediately met with critical acclaim from fans and critics in less than a week 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]

The name of the residency means I do not want to leave here in English, taken from a direct lyric from the outro to Bad Bunny's song "El Apagón", off 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 as well as gentrification and the loss of cultural identity, which are themes that have been heavily explored by the artist in both Un Verano Sin Ti and Debí Tirar Más Fotos.[7]

This residency marks the first one being held at the venue and the first time a concert residency is held in Puerto Rico, slated to break 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]

Promotion

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.[12] 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 the 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.[13][14] 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 half-brother of Domingo (Marcello Hernández) and Renaldo (Pedro Pascal),[15][16] 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,[17] where he performed "Nuevayol" and "Perfumito Nuevo", the latter with RaiNao.

Venue

Main article: José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
The José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, the venue where Bad Bunny's concert residency is taking place.

The concert residency is taking 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.[18] It is the largest entertainment and sports venue in the island, with a capacity of 18,500 spectators, having hosted over one thousand events and over ten million visitors since opening in September 2004.[19]

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.[20] 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.[21] 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.[22] 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.[23]

Stages

The residency's stages inside the Choliseo. On the left, the mogote stage, while the house stage faces on the opposite side of the venue.

The residency features two stages, both set up on opposite sides of the venue. The main large-scale stage, located at the north side of the arena, is modeled after a mogote, from which the jíbaros became a staple of Puerto Rican farming, between the 18th century to the early 19th century. Grass, dirt, chickens, plantain trees, and a flamboyán tree, adorn the rest of the stage. The upper level of the stage resembles a giant LED billboard, where visuals are transmitted, also doubling with an elevated walkway integrated in front of the screen for additional performances, notably "Weltita", featuring Chuwi. The second but smaller stage, located on the South side of the arena, is modeled after a common rural Puerto Rican house, commonly constructed from concrete, concrete bricks and galvanized steel, resembling the house that is featured in the short film of the same name as the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Performances at this stage take place 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, as well as on the roof of the structure, complete with an elevator stage and a spiral staircase from the ground to the roof. The stage doubles as a fully functioning indoor structure, complete with furniture, televisions and a bar. The structure also serves 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 and Adriana Díaz, among many more.[24]

The main 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.[25][26]

Ticket sales

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.[27] 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.[28]

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.[29]

Set list

The set list varies for every concert in the residency concert; this set list is from the first concert, held on July 11, 2025.[30] Bad Bunny is accompanied by a backing band composed of young musicians under the age of 25, dubbed Los Sobrinos, while Chuwi and Los Pleneros de la Cresta join Bad Bunny for "Weltita" and "Café con Ron", respectively, at every concert. The residency begins with a new single titled "Alambre Púa" (transl. Barbed wire), which was released on July 14, 2025, after the third day of the residency.[31] Actor and filmmaker Jacobo Morales appears in a pre-recorded video alongside Concho, an anthropomorphic Puerto Rican crested toad and mascot of the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, before segueing to "Weltita".

  1. "Alambre Púa"
  2. "Ketu Tecré"
  3. "El Clúb"
  4. "La Santa"
  5. "Pitorro de Coco"
  6. Plena/"El Apagón"
  7. "Weltita" (with Chuwi)[32]
  8. "Kloufrens"
  9. "Bokete"
  10. Acoustic set
    1. "Si Estuviésemos Juntos"
    2. "Ni Bien Ni Mal"
    3. "Amorfoda"
    4. "Turista"
  11. Extraño a Puerto Rico interlude
  12. "Nuevayol"
  13. "Tití Me Preguntó"
  14. "Neverita"
  15. "Si Veo a Tu Mamá"
  16. "La Romana"
  17. "La Jumpa"
  18. "Voy a Llevarte Pa' PR"
  19. "Me Porto Bonito"
  20. "No Me Conoce"
  21. "Soltera"
  22. "Perro Negro"
  23. "Yo Perreo Sola"
  24. "Efecto"
  25. "Safaera"
  26. "Veldá"
  27. "Eoo"
  28. "Café con Ron" (with Los Pleneros de la Cresta)[32]
  29. "La Mudanza" (Interlude)
  30. "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii"[a]
  31. Los Sobrinos interlude
  32. "Callaíta" (Salsa version)
  33. "Baile Inolvidable"
  34. "DTMF"
  35. "La Mudanza" (Encore)
Guest artists

Shows

List of 2025 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, attendance (tickets sold / total available), and gross revenue
Date (2025) City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
July 11 San Juan Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum — —
July 12
July 13
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 25
July 26
July 27
August 1
August 2
August 3
August 8
August 9
August 10
August 15
August 16
August 17
August 22
August 23
August 24
August 29
August 30
August 31
September 5
September 6
September 7
September 12
September 13
September 14

Notes

  1. ^ The song is performed by a guest artist on Sundays, in place of Bad Bunny.

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