Quédate (Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52)
Bizarrap & Quevedo
A short story told entirely in the preterite: llegué, vi, se acercó, dijo, fuimos, se quedó. If you would rather learn the Spanish past by following a sequence of events than by drilling a table, this is the card. Pay particular attention to the pair me dijo and le dije. Same verb, opposite directions — one is she said to me, the other I said to her — and all that changes is a two-letter pronoun. Getting those the wrong way round is among the commonest mistakes at this level. The vocabulary is a night out: club, copa, botellas, champán, baile. Quevedo sings with heavy Canarian elision, which is what earns the B1-.
How to study this song
“Quédate (Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52)” carries 49 Spanish words, 4 adjectives and 42 verb forms — 95 study entries in all, graded B1-. The glossary is the place to begin — apartamento, botellas and champán are the song’s keywords. This one leans on its verbs: 42 distinct forms against 4 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level part of the list will already be familiar; the rest is what closes the gap.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| ES | EN | IT | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apartamento | apartment | appartamento | appartement | apartamento | appartement | Wohnung |
| botellas | bottles | bottiglie | bouteilles | garrafas | flessen | Flaschen |
| champán | champagne | champagne | champagne | champanhe | champagne | Champagner |
| club | club | club | club |
What this song teaches you
Level · B1-
- Vocabulary words
- 49
- Adjectives
- 4
- Word combos
- 11
- Expressions
- 14
- Verb forms
- 42
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
“Quédate” is the hugely popular collaboration between the Argentine producer Bizarrap and the Spanish singer Quevedo, released in 2022 as the fifty-second edition of Bizarrap’s celebrated “Music Sessions”.
Blending reggaeton and melodic electronic pop, it pairs a glossy, night-drive beat with Quevedo’s hazy, auto-tuned vocal about a fleeting romance and the wish for someone to stay, capturing the sound of a new generation of Spanish-language urban music.
Bizarrap produced it and shares the writing credit with Quevedo and Santiago Alvarado; the session went out on 6 July 2022.
Did you know?
The track was an immediate global phenomenon, topping the charts in Spain and across Latin America and breaking streaming records on its release. It became the breakthrough hit for Quevedo, an artist from the Canary Islands, and one of the most successful entries in Bizarrap’s influential series of studio sessions.
Charts & streaming
“Quédate” racked up hundreds of millions of streams within months and became one of the biggest Spanish-language songs of its year worldwide. It confirmed Bizarrap’s Music Sessions as a global hit factory and remains a defining track of the modern Latin-urban wave.
It reached number one on the Billboard Global 200 and topped the charts in Italy and Portugal as well as a dozen Spanish-speaking markets, while peaking at 79 on the American Hot 100. It is certified 17× platinum in Spain, 8× platinum in Italy and 15× platinum in the United States Latin field.