With its platinum certification and 36 weeks on the chart, The Tortured Poets Department, by Taylor Swift, became the best-selling album in Spain in 2024 and it makes it the first work in a language other than Spanish to achieve this in at least the last 22 years.
This is how it appears in the annual balance sheet Promusicae published this Wednesdaythe entity that brings together the vast majority of the Spanish record market and which on its website gathers official sales data since 2003.
In all this time the gold was dominated first by Spanish pop albums by artists like La Oreja de Van Gogh, Sergio Dalma, Miguel Bosé and, above all, Alejandro Sanz and Pablo Alboránto give relief in recent years to urban Latin artists such as Bad Bunny or Quevedo, who won this distinction in 2023.
Probably driven by the passage through Spain of their long-awaited tour The Eras TourSwift has been the only Anglo-Saxon artist who has managed to break that constant and also managed to sneak into the ‘Top 100’ albums of 2024 four other albums: 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, Speak now (Taylor’s Version) and Grid (Taylor’s Version), none of which saw the light of day that year.
There is no other artist who sings in English until the eleventh position of the table, where he appears Billie Eilish with Hit me hard and soft, published in 2024.
Behind Swift they appear on the podium, Tomorrow will be nice, by Karol G, who maintains second place which he already obtained in the 2023 annual list, and Where I want to be (2023) from Quevedo, in third place, after having occupied first in the previous year. sakura (2024) by Saiko was fourth and A summer without you (2022), by Bad Bunny, fifth.
The annual balance sheet has also confirmed that, as Spotify had anticipated based on listening to its catalogue, If I had met you beforeby Karol G was the most successful song, with its status as an eight-time platinum record for its 480,000 units sold.
They followed him Moonby Feid/ATL Jacob, second; X’clusiveby Gonzythird; The skirtby Myke Towers, fourth; and Santaby Rvssian, Rauw Alejandro and Ayra Starr. It should be noted that the phenomenon of Wild filly, of the Spanish Isabel Aaiún was sixth.
For its part, the most broadcast song in Spain in 2024 has been Beautiful Things, by the young American debutant Benson Boone.
Promusicae has highlighted that the consumption data of streaming last year’s audio in all its variants surpassed those of 2023, with 98,500 billion listens on all digital platforms, compared to 87,000 million from the previous year.
He streaming It already represents 90 percent of music consumption in Spain, with an 11 percent increase in paid subscriptions to the platforms, which already account for 57 percent of total consumption in this modality compared to free options with advertising.
The physical vinyl market also grew, with 9 percent more of units sold, although overall the sale of physical formats fell by 2 percent, a smaller decrease than in 2023.
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