Kid Rock mocked as Bad Bunny has 16 TIMES more monthly | Music News

Kid Rock has been mercilessly mocked on social media after it emerged that Bad Bunny has 16 occasions as many monthly listeners as he does.

This week, the 55-year-old musician, whose real title is Robert James Ritchie, was announced as the headliner for Turning Point USA’s various efficiency, scheduled for February 8, the same day as the Super Bowl halftime show.

MAGA supporters have been outraged since Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny, whose real title is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was announced as the performer during the well-known show.

Over the past few months, they’ve been calling for a boycott of the show in Santa Clara, California, for a number of causes, including the fact that the Debí Tirar Más Fotos hitmaker has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and his insurance policies.

While at the Grammy Awards last weekend, Bad Bunny shouted “ICE OUT” during his acceptance speech. Previously, he excluded the continental US from his world tour, stating he did not need his live shows to develop into targets for ICE raids against his followers.

Supporters of the president are also enraged because Benito, who endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024 and publicly condemned the outline of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” by a comic at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden, sings virtually completely in Spanish.

To specific their disapproval of the performer chosen for the halftime show, they’ve organized a rival efficiency which is able to happen on the same night, as the Seattle Seahawks face off against the New England Patriots.

Kid Rock will likely be joined by Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett at the event, which has been dubbed “The All-American Halftime Show.”

While organizers and MAGA followers have expressed their pleasure for the show, which Fox News host Jesse Watters said “will be a hit,” followers of Bad Bunny have been mocking the Detroit rocker, mentioning the massive hole in global attain between the 2 artists, and saying Kid Rock has no likelihood to compete with the Puerto Rican star.

Bad Bunny constantly ranks as one of the world’s most-streamed artists on Spotify, with latest figures inserting him around 83 to 85 million monthly listeners.

The rapper was topped Spotify’s most-streamed artist globally for 2025, amassing practically 20 billion streams that yr.

Kid Rock, in distinction, has around 5 to 5.8 million monthly listeners – and while his listenership has remained regular, it’s considerably decrease than top global artists, including Bad Bunny.

Since the figures emerged, many people have been hitting out at the rocker on social media, with people mentioning that the hole between him and Bad Bunny is important.

“Kid Rock has 5.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Bad Bunny has 86 million monthly listeners. So yeah, Bad Bunny is an international icon,” a fan wrote on X.

Another posted, “85 million monthly listeners vs 5 million… kid rock is going to flop so hard.”

A 3rd said, “Kid Rock, 5M monthly listeners on Spotify. Bad Bunny, 85M. The free market has spoken.”

“‘It’s over for Bad Bunny, I fear.’ Bad bunny has x16 more monthly listeners than kid rock.. very interesting you guys think that?” another person added. 

One more fan shared, “To put this into perspective for you MAGA s–mbags… If Kid Rock has 5m monthly listeners on Spotify, that’s 60m across a whole year. Bad Bunny gets 82m per MONTH. This means Bad Bunny pulls in more listeners in a single month than Kid Rock does in an entire year!”

An individual shared, “Kid Rock has 5 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Bad Bunny has 84 million. Eighty-four million. That is 17x more listeners than Kid Rock.”

And one more added, “Yup. Spotify’s global top artist for four years in a row, with over 19 BILLION streams, with a worldwide diverse audience. By contrast, Kid Rock ranked 388th most popular music artist by YouGov polling with a paltry 5.1 million monthly listeners.”

A critic described Kid Rock as “a washed-up, one-trick pony, who always looks like he needs to bathe.”

After Turning Point USA announced its own show, Kid Rock said in a assertion, “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath. Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible…or is it?”

He added, “He’s said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress, and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America.”

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Fox News Digital that the choice broadcast goals to give households another viewing option and, in contrast to the Super Bowl halftime show, which is held at a stadium, the Turning Point USA efficiency “lets the viewer up close and personal.”

The show will air on a number of platforms, including Turning Point USA’s social media channels on YouTube, X, and Rumble, on The Charlie Kirk show on YouTube and Rumble, as nicely as Daily Wire+, Real America’s Voice, TBN, Charge!, The National News Desk, NTD, and Oan News.