However, the record was broken by none other than the American singer Taylor Swift: her 11th album, 'The Tortured Poets Department', was the best-selling album in 2024.

Despite the scale of the phenomenon associated with Taylor Swift, the fact is that it is common for artists who perform in Spanish to occupy the top positions in the Spanish music charts. In fact, the American was the only one to manage to do this this century.

This is because, according to El Mundo, the last time an Anglo-Saxon group reached the milestone was 27 years ago, in 1997. At the time, 'Spice', by the Spice Girls, went 'gold', a record that remained until be dethroned by the Pennsylvania artist.

Between streaming and physical sales, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ was the best-selling album and vinyl in Spain, according to data from the association that represents the Spanish music industry, Productores de Música de España (Promusicae).

Taylor Swift's impact is even more noticeable if we take into account that, behind 'The Tortured Poets Department', another album in a language other than Spanish appears only in 11th place ('Hit Me Hard and Soft', by Billie Eilish ). Furthermore, in the last 10 years, only two non-Spanish-speaking artists have managed to position themselves among the three best-selling albums, namely Dua Lipa, with 'Future Nostalgia', in 2021, and Adele, with '25', in 2016.