Local music dominates Spanish charts in 2019 with mainly Spanish music in the Top 100 Albums and reggaeton predominating in the Top 100 Songs according to Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. Streaming continued its growth increasing by a quarter over 2018 so that now more than 10 million Spaniards use an audio streaming service. Physical sales were also up for the first time in the last five years.
#ElDisco, the latest release by Alejandro Sanz, became the best-selling album of 2019 in Spain in Promusicae and AGEDI’s annual Top 100 Albums list of 2019. Contando Lunares by Don Patricio went to the top in the Top 100 Songs list. Puerto Rican Bad Bunny made number 1 in the list of the most listened to full streaming albums in the Top 100 Streaming Albums with their debut record X 100Pre.
In preliminary sales figures for the year, Promusicae reported that overall music revenues in 2019 increased by 20% with streaming growing by 25% and physical sales increasing for the first time in 5 years.
The Music Listening Report published in Autumn 2019 showed that Spaniards spent an average of 19.8 hours per week listening to music. By year end more than 10 million Spaniards used an audio streaming service such as Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, Napster, Spotify, Tidal or You Tube Music to access the music they listen to. Ad supported, video and paid for subscriptions have all increased with 3 million users having a premium paid for subscription up 30% on the previous year.
Spanish music dominates the Top 100 Albums list
Nine of the top ten positions are occupied by the latest works of Spanish musicians who are as popular worldwide as they are in Spain. Alejandro Sanz who topped the album charts was recently awarded the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. Manuel Carrasco (La cruz del mapa) repeats his second place position after 55 weeks in the charts a success backed by his live tour that earned him an Odeón Award for Best Director. In third place was El Barrio with El danzar de las mariposas achieving nine weeks in the charts. The Catalan artist, Rosalía (El mal querer) who charted fourth has captured international attention with millions of views of her videos and awards (Best Video in the Odeón and Grammy for the Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album). The highest placing of an international artist was Bruce Springsteen with Western Stars who came in at 19th place.
Latin best sellers
Reggaeton is the most streamed musical genre in an annual list of songs that mostly features Latin music heavyweights. The Spanish exception is Don Patricio coming in first position with Contando Lunares and Rosalía with Con Altura in 6th place. After Don Patricio, the songs that played the most were Daddy Yankee and Snow (Con Calma), Pedro Capó and Farruko (Calma remix), AnuelAA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G and J Balvin (China), Ozuna (Baila, baila, baila) and Bad Bunny and Tainy (Callaita) in this order.
The top radio play of 2019 was Love someone by Lukas Graham which was a surprise given that Spanish radio has local music quotas.
The top compilation of 2019 was Los números 1 de Los 40 and the top DVD was the documentary Sanz: Lo que fui es lo que soy.
