On January 11, 2023, the world stopped due to the launch of the Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, a song by the Argentine producer Bizarrap and the Colombian singer Shakira in which she is comfortable talking about her ex and how their relationship ended. controversial relationship.
For weeks, the musical piece became the topic of conversation and thousands of media outlets from around the world echoed the serious taunts of the Barranquilla player against Gerard Piqué, his family or his new dream, the young Clara Chía.
”A wolf like me is not for a newbie”, ”You left my mother-in-law as a neighbor, with the press at the door and the debt in the Treasury”, ”She has the name of a good person, Clara-mente , it’s not what it sounds like” or ”I’ve outgrown you and that’s why you’re with someone just like you” are some of the phrases that Milan and Sasha’s mother sings in the song.
Furthermore, the publication of said song became the prelude to what was to come, since the interpreter of Las de la intuition, Loba or TQG decided, among other things, to leave Barcelona and start a new life with her children in Miami.
Since its release, the song went viral and became a hit in countless countries around the world. Although it had to compete with the song Flowers by Miley Cyrus (which was released a day later and also triumphed spectacularly), the song scored incredible data. An example of the good numbers she made is the figure she managed to reach in her first week: 80,646,962 views.
At this moment, the song has 674,696,747 streams on YouTube and 865,129,633 views on Spotify, a mark within the reach of very few artists in the music industry around the world.
The Vanitatis portal of El Confidencial has calculated an average of the benefits of the success of the song on the two aforementioned platforms and has estimated (taking into account the parameters published by the Digital Music News portal, which establishes an average of 0.005 dollars per listen on Spotify), that the artists would have earned about $4,322,389.26 with the song on said website. As for YouTube, the platform pays for reproduction at $0.00069, so the musical duo would have earned about $596,489.717.
It must be taken into account that this is not the only song in which Shakira talks about her breakup with Piqué and that there are other great hits such as TQG, Te felicito or Monotonía, which have helped her earn a lot of money and be crowned one of the highest valued and paid artists on the globe.