Íñigo Quintero, the Galician who passes in front of Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift and conquers number 1 on Spotify: “Locura”

The Galician singer-songwriter Inigo Quintero has reached the first position of Spotify’s ‘Global Top 50’ with his song Si no tú, surpassing songs by stars such as Bad Bunny, Tate McRae, Jung Kook, Taylor Swift o Doja Cat. He has thus become the first Spanish artist to put a solo song in the first position of this list.

The man from A Coruña has reached number 1 on the list, which includes the fifty most listened to songs on the platform worldwide, with more than 5.7 million views on Monday, October 23, of his song, which already went viral on Tiktok in August. After noon this Tuesday, October 24, Quintero himself celebrated it on his Instagram profile, where he has 186,000 followers: “Without words. Thank you very much for this madness. We continue.”

The young man, 22 years old, has become the first Spanish artist to put a solo song in the first position of this top, which was already headed at the time by the Canarian Quevedo for his session with the Argentine Bizarrap.

Thus, Quintero, who in March 2023 had 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and is now around 20 million, is the musical phenomenon of the moment for his song, which is reported on social media to include a religious message.

His team has not ruled out this theory and pointed out in a statement to the “debate on networks” about whether it is “a song dedicated to God” or “a love breakup.”

“Little or nothing did Íñigo Quintero suspect that his If You Are Not was going to become an anthem for thousands of young people and that it would be placed above superstars on lists around the world. His music is a reminder of the ability of art to touch “the young man’s team also indicated.

Likewise, he placed Quintero as part “of a generation of musicians that once again treats music as a tool to transmit real day-to-day emotions.”

The success of the Galician singer-songwriter has been boosted by TikTok, where at the end of September users were uploading up to 30,000 videos a day with the subject. “The new hit accumulates more views per day than the legendary Flowers by Miley Cyrus or songs by Taylor Swift herself,” his team said in this regard.