"the Bomb") is a song recorded by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin for his fourth studio album, Vuelve (1998).

The song was written by Luis Gómez Escolar, K. C. Porter, and Draco Rosa, while the production was handled by the latter two.

The song received widely positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the danceable rhythm and highlighted it as one of the album's best tracks.

The song was included on the set lists for all of Martin's tours since 1998, while he also performed it at the 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.

In an interview with CNN en Español, he emphasized the album is going to "reaffirm the internationalization of my career and I know that it will help me a lot to destroy the stereotypes that may exist with my culture".

[12] Ramiro Burr of the San Antonio Express-News described "La Bomba" as "samba-flavored", a statement which The Dallas Morning News editor Mario Tarradell echoed.

[17] Lyrically, it is a metaphor in which Martin compares the bomba music, a genre native to Puerto Rico, "to a drink that makes you drunk; the listener is high from the rhythm of the dance".

"[25] Newsday critic Richard Torres praised the track's "hip-swaying elegance",[34] while Selene Moral from Los 40 argued that "there was no nightclub that did not play" the song in the summer of 1998.

[35] AllMusic's Jose F. Promis mentioned it as one of the album's highlights, as did Rolling Stone critic David Wild.

[37] Writing for O, The Oprah Magazine, Amanda Mitchell ranked the track as Martin's ninth best song on her 2019 list, saying like the title suggests, it is, "in fact, 'the bomb'.

[43] It was a top-five hit in Central American countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.

[44][45] The song debuted at number 32 on the US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart on July 11, 1998, becoming Martin's 16th entry.

[38][64][65] A live version of "La Bomba" was recorded and taped as part of Martin's MTV Unplugged set in Miami on August 17, 2006.

[66][67] The artist then embarked on the Black and White Tour, including four sold-out shows at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico.

[73] On its 2021 challenge, Malika Dzumaev and Zsolt Sándor Cseke used the song along with Martin's other tracks, "María" (1995), "She Bangs" (2000), "Casi un Bolero" (1998), and "Livin' la Vida Loca" (1999), to perform a dance rendition in the styles of samba, cha-cha-cha, rumba, and jive.