Hitmaker of the Month: Producer Tainy Shares Shares in Bad Bunny’s 2022-Dominating Glory While Prepping His Own Solo Debut
variety.comA.D. Amorosi On the afternoon that Variety interviewed Tainy in honor of his being named Variety‘s Hitmaker of the Month, the Puerto Rican-born producer and songwriter got word that Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” had returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for its eighth non-consecutive week.
The record is headed toward the fall with a top-album-of-the-year status that will be difficult for any other artist to topple by the end of 2022.If the news that “Un Verano Sin Ti” had displaced Beyonce’s “Renaissance” from the top of the U.S.
chart made Tainy — aka Marcos Efraín Masís Fernández — feel sunny, that would be very much in keeping with the design they had for this unexpected runaway blockbuster. “Going into ‘Un Verano Sin Ti,’ Bad Bunny wanted to do something completely different than that which he had done in the past.
He wanted happiness, from start to finish – light. The past albums of his that we have worked on have had ups and downs, as well as dark and mellow moments.
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