CSPC: Enrique Iglesias Popularity Analysis

Streaming Sales

Below table lists Spotify streaming of all songs from the albums we are studying. The Comprehensive Streaming is reached by multiplying Spotify figures by 68/26. In fact, as shown in IFPI 2015 Report, there were 68 million paying subscribers to all streaming platforms by the end of 2015. While the exact count of Spotify paying subscribers by the end of 2015 is unknown, that figure reached 20 million in June 2015 and 30 million in March 2016, thus an estimated 26 million is used as of the end of 2015.

The equivalent album sales is the division of the comprehensive streaming figure by 1500 as it is now the norm in the new industry model.

Streaming Part 1 – Early Spanish Album

While the third album doesn’t seem to be very well remembered – except for Nunca The Olvidaré -, the first two ones have a bunch of very successful hits, especially Enrique Iglesias, his first output. His debut provided him with over 50,000 equivalent albums sold and all of its track, including non-singles, have reached at least 1 million streams on Spotify.