Las Que No Iban a Salir (pronounced[ˈlaskenoˈiβanasaˈliɾ]; Spanish for "The Ones That Were Not Coming Out"; stylized in
all caps)[1] is the first compilation album by Puerto Rican rapper and singer
Bad Bunny. It was released without any previous announcement on May 10, 2020, by Rimas Entertainment.[2][3] It features guest appearances by
Zion & Lennox,
Yandel,
Don Omar,
Nicky Jam,
Jhayco, and Bad Bunny's former girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri.[4]
Background and singles
Bad Bunny teased some of the songs included on the album on
Instagram, one week before the official release.[2] Some songs were presented by him as unreleased tracks that didn't make the final cut of his studio albums X 100pre and YHLQMDLG.[5][6][7][8] Parts of the album were recorded while being in quarantine due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.[9] "En Casita" featuring Bad Bunny's then-girlfriend Gabriela was released on April 4, 2020, as the album's lead single, exclusively on
SoundCloud. "Cómo Se Siente (remix)" was released as the album's second single on May 10, 2020, alongside the album.
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 7 on the US
Billboard 200 with 42,000
album-equivalent units, including 46.2 million streams and 8,000 pure album sales. It marked Bad Bunny's third top 10 album in less than a year. Notably, the album debuted in the top 10 the same week his previous album YHLQMDLG fell out of the top 10 for the first time since its debut on the chart.[1] Also, the album debuted at number one on the US
Billboard Top Latin Albums replacing his previous album YHLQMDLG becoming one of the few artist to do that in that chart. Simultaneously, in that same week Bad Bunny held the numbers one, two and three (with YHLQMDLG and X 100pre) on the Top Latin Albums chart, becoming the first time that this happened since
Juan Gabriel's death.[10]Las que no iban a salir was the fifth best selling
Latin album of 2020 in the United States, with 315,000
equivalent album units.[11]
Critical reception
Six days after its release, Pitchfork's Matthew Ismael Ruiz described Las que no iban a salir as "quick and dirty, with uncharacteristically crunchy production value and lo-fi aesthetics."[12] 9 out of 10 songs were scrapped from his previous album YHLQMDLG, and was put together in two days.[12] Despite its roughness, it received positive reviews from
music critics.