And the list of artists whose music gets the most streams in Santiago reads like a reggaetón hall of fame: Bad Bunny, Anuel AA, J Balvin, Ozuna, Daddy Yankee, Nicky Jam (pictured above), Karol G, Don Omar.

In Santiago, the average reggaetón fan plays 126 songs a month, which is more than twice the average amount of songs listened to by fans in other cities where the genre is popular. Of all the reggaetón streams in the world, the people of Santiago are responsible for 10% of them. “What we are seeing with reggaetón in Chile is a great testimony to the absolute powerhouse that is Latin America when it comes to building and delivering audiences for Latin artists,” said Mia Nygren, Managing Director for Spotify in Latin America. Twice as many reggaet ó n songs are played in Santiago as the second city on the list, Mexico City (even though the Mexican capital has a population nearly double the size of its Chilean counterpart). Puerto Rico and Panama might be the birthplaces of the genre -and Colombia a current production powerhouse-but with over 400 million plays per month, Santiago, Chile is the indisputable capital of reggaetón streaming. Though potentially surprising at first glance, a closer look shows this chart-topping is right in line for reggaetón. When the Colombian reggaet ó n star J Balvin and Puerto Rican trap artist Bad Bunny dropped their eight-track collaborative album, OASIS, in June this year, every single song made it into Chile’s Top 50 on the first day of its release.

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