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Karol G is the best selling female artist of all time in Spain, with over 8 million certified units sold. Song Artist(s)/Group Detailed Sales Total Sales Physical
[6] [7] [8] Billboard categorizes an artist as "Latin" if they perform in Spanish or Portuguese. [9] Music journalists and musicologists define Latin music as musical styles from Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America and from Spain. [10] [11] Music from Brazil is usually included in the genre and music from Portugal is occasionally included ...
Rosalía holds the record for the most number-one songs by a Spanish artist with 11. Depeche Mode holds the record for the most number-one songs by a band with 10. This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on the singles chart in Spain, published by Productores de Música de España (PROMUSICAE) since 1959.
Latin music has an ambiguous meaning in the music industry due to differing definitions of the term "Latin". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example, the Latin music market in the United States defines Latin music as any release that is mostly sung in Spanish, regardless of genre or artist nationality, by industry organizations including the Recording Industry ...
As of 2025, 369 Latin songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, 1 in the 1950s, 1 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 5 in the 1990s, 36 in the 2000s, 80 in the 2010s and 243 in the 2020s. A total of 25 singles managed to reach the top 10 and 4 have peaked at number 1. Only 5 Latin songs reached the top 10 between 1958 and 2016.
Also in 1986, two Spanish versions of the Italian song "Tutta la vita", performed by Franco and Emmanuel succeeded one another at the top of the chart. [5] Two songs recorded by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias peaked at number one, "Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" and "Que No Se Rompa la Noche". These songs were released from the album Un hombre solo, which ...
Spanish recording artist Julio Iglesias has received various accolades through his career spanning seven decades. Renowned for sung in various languages aside from his native Spanish, he is the all-time best-selling Latino artist and one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
Since Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan are inconsistent with the definition of Latin music (Billboard states that the US Latin Digital Songs chart only ranks Spanish-language songs [114] but the English-language song "Conga" was ranked on the 2016 US Latin Digital Songs year-end chart), [115] some Spanglish songs primarily sung in English were excluded from the table above.