In October 2023, Íñigo Quintero, a 21-year-old younger man from A Coruña, managed to dethrone Taylor Swift and Unhealthy Bunny on Spotify. He was the primary Spaniard to succeed in Spotify’s world primary with a music. Nevertheless, success was created a yr earlier than turning into in style, removed from the most important music studios, when Íñigo is a scholar of Psychology and Educating and resides in a residence corridor, which certainly one of its residents signifies “is from Opus Dei.”
After composing the music, the artist, who ended up confessing that it’s a music devoted to God, begins by doing small performances on the college degree. It’s a YouTube channel that will get the music out of the coed surroundings. At that second, the audio has 22,000 views: “On a Catholic platform referred to as ‘Ten minutes with Jesus’, the priest who runs that software chooses the music by Íñigo Quintero to be the guiding thread of the meditation,” says José Beltrán, director of ‘Vida Nueva’.
With a distributor, the 22-year-old begins to seem on numerous Spotify lists, though the massive leap comes on the networks in the course of the summer time of 2023, after María Pombo, with greater than three million followers on Instagram, consists of your music in your tales. Thus, in October, nobody talks about anything within the music trade, and 6 months later, the younger college scholar reappears with new songs.
A number of media retailers are ready to talk with the artist from A Coruña and ask him how it’s to have greater than 600 million views of ‘If You Are Not’: “Little by little; in the long run a profession isn’t constructed by a music,” says the younger man, alongside who provides: “I am making an attempt to make songs like I’ve all the time achieved, and see in the event that they like them.”
When requested if he’s going to proceed with the identical advertising and marketing methods, Quintero responds: “What methods are these? I am very dangerous at social networks and platforms, to be sincere.” “It isn’t a technique, but it surely’s how I’m,” says the artist, whose case is one in one million.
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