Pablo Alborán

Concert with Pablo Alboran in Cantanhede , Portugal

Pablo Alborán (born May 31, 1989 in Málaga ; full name Pablo Moreno de Alborán Ferrándiz ) is a Spanish cantor and the most successful musician of the 2010s in his country. In addition, he is also a successful international representative of Latin Pop .

biography

Pablo Alborán in 2012 in Cantanhede, Portugal .

His father is the architect Salvador Moreno de Alborán Peralta, his mother Helena Ferrándiz Martínez. Pablo Alborán learned to play the guitar at an early age and began writing his first songs at the age of twelve. At the age of 20 he was under contract with EMI and at the end of 2010 he released his debut single Solamente tú . At first, the song only entered the charts hesitantly, but with the support of the Internet, its popularity rose quickly. When his debut album named after him was released in early February 2011, it immediately rose to number one on the charts. The album stayed on top for six weeks and returned to the top twice during the year. At 15 number one weeks, it was the most successful album of the 2000s to date. It was also the best-selling album of the year, going six times platinum . In autumn 2011, the Spaniard was nominated three times for a Latin Grammy , including Newcomer of the Year, and also appeared at the awards ceremony. In the same year he won the newcomer award at the Premios 40 Principales of the radio station of the same name.

The live version of the debut album was released under the title En Acústico in November 2011 and exceeded the debut album with 20 weeks at number one and 8 times platinum. The single Solamente tú also rose to number one, it was the third most successful song of the year and was represented in the Spanish top 50 single charts for over two years. With Perdóname in the live version with the singer Carminho , a second number one single followed. The live album also reached number one in Portugal, and Alborán was also successful in South America and the Latin pop charts in the USA.

The extraordinary career start was surpassed by the second album. Tanto was released just one year after En Acústico in early November 2012 and sold over 200,000 times in just two months. Two years in a row, the album was number one in the annual charts, which no artist in Spain had achieved before. In 2012 he even took number one, two and five there with his three albums. At 27 weeks at the top of the chart, his third album was the most successful in 25 years. It has been awarded platinum 10 times. The album produced two more number one singles and a guest contribution to Vuelvo a verte by the singer Malú raised the number of top positions in the single charts to five. He was also able to build on his first success internationally.

It was two years before Pablo Alborán's next album. Terral was released on November 10, 2014 and returned to number one on the album charts. Two singles had already reached the top of the chart beforehand.

Pablo Alborán also benefits from developments on the Internet. He published an official video on YouTube for his first single Solamente tú in September 2010 . It is his most successful Internet video with over 100 million views. Five more videos had between 15 and 25 million hits by 2015.

In June 2020, Alborán confessed to his homosexuality via an Instagram video .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		IT	PT	CH	Latin
2011	Pablo Alborán	IT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (100 weeks)IT	PT6 (15 weeks) PT	-	Latin14 (5 weeks) Latin	First published: Jan 28, 2011 Sales: + 240,000
2012	Tanto	IT1 × 10 Tenfold platinum (103 weeks)IT	PT1 platinum (47 weeks)PT	-	Latin11 (18 weeks) Latin	First published: November 6th, 2012 Sales: + 415,000
2014	Terral	IT1 × 8 Eight times platinum (104 weeks)IT	PT2 (16 weeks) PT	-	Latin1 (16 weeks) Latin	First published: November 11, 2014 Sales: +320,000
2017	Prometo	IT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (… Where.)IT	PT2 (19 weeks) PT	CH89 (1 week) CH	Latin3 (12 weeks) Latin	First published: November 17, 2017 Sales: + 240,000

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		IT	PT	CH	Latin
2011	En acústico	IT1 × 8 Eight times platinum (101 weeks)IT	PT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (96 weeks)PT	-	-	First published: November 15, 2011 Sales: + 410,000
2015	Tour terral - Tres noches en Las Ventas	-	PT6 (8 weeks) PT	-	-	First published: November 2015

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	PT	Latin
2010	Solamente tú Pablo Alborán	IT1 × 2 Double platinum (108 weeks)IT	-	Latin13 (14 weeks) Latin	First published: September 14, 2010 Sales: + 80,000
2011	Miedo Pablo Alborán	IT40 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	First published: May 13, 2011
	Perdóname En acústico	IT1 platinum (64 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: October 3, 2011 Sales: + 40,000; feat. Carminho
2012	Te he echado de menos En acústico	IT2 platinum (65 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: February 28, 2012 Sales: + 40,000
	Tanto tanto	IT2 platinum (42 weeks)IT	-	Latin29 (7 weeks) Latin	First published: September 9, 2012 Sales: + 40,000
2013	El beso Tanto	IT1 (23 weeks) IT	-	-	First published: February 9, 2013
	Quien Tanto	IT1 gold (40 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: May 7, 2013 Sales: + 20,000
	Éxtasis Tanto	IT16 (15 weeks) IT	-	-	First published: August 27, 2013
	Dónde está el amor Tanto	IT32 (5 weeks) IT	-	-	First published: September 30, 2013 feat. Jesse & Joy
2014	Por fin Terral	IT1 platinum (48 weeks)IT	-	Latin20 (13 weeks) Latin	First published: September 16, 2014 Sales: + 40,000
	Pasos de cero Terral	IT1 gold (24 weeks)IT	-	Latin34 (6 weeks) Latin	First published: November 11, 2014 Sales: + 20,000
2015	Recuérdame Terral	IT15th gold (30 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: June 2nd, 2015 Sales: + 20,000
	Vívela Tour terral - Tres noches en Las Ventas	IT32 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	First published: October 5, 2015
	La escalera Terral	IT27 gold (9 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: October 28, 2015 Sales: + 20,000
2016	Se puede amar single track	IT74 (1 week) IT	-	-	First published: April 22, 2016
2017	No vaya a ser Prometo	IT9 × 2 Double platinum (32 weeks)IT	PT55 (15 weeks) PT	-	First published: September 8, 2017 Sales: + 80,000
	Saturno Prometo	IT16 platinum (23 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: September 8th, 2017 Sales: + 40,000
	La llave Prometo	IT42 platinum (26 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: October 20, 2017 Sales: + 40,000
2018	Prometo Prometo	IT35 gold (16 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: January 19, 2018 Sales: + 20,000
2019	Taboo	IT13 platinum (24 weeks)IT	-	-	First published: November 6, 2019 Sales: + 40,000; with Ava Max
2020	Sueño	IT25th platinum (… Where.)IT	-	-	with beret
	Cuando estés aquí	IT69 (1 week) IT	-	-	First published: April 13, 2020
	El mismo aire	IT28 (... weeks) IT	-	-	First published: June 12, 2020 with Camilo
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2012	No te olvidaré En acústico	IT37 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: January 15, 2012
2014	Gracias Terral	IT22 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 9, 2014
	Quimera Terral	IT30 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 16, 2014 feat. Ricky Martin
2017	Boca de hule Prometo	IT54 (2 weeks) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017
	Al paraíso Terral	IT72 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017
	Vivir Terral	IT74 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017
	Cuerda al corazón Terral	IT92 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017
	Te refugio Terral	IT93 (2 weeks) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017
	Lo nuestro Terral	IT98 (1 week) IT	-	-	Chart entry: November 26, 2017

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 2015: Ne m'oublie pas (French version by Recuérdame )
• 2015: Inséparables (feat. Zaz ) (French version of Pasos de cero )
• 2015: Palmeras en la nieve
• 2016: Dónde está el amor (feat.Tiê)

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
2012	Cuestión de prioridades por el cuerno de África	IT36 (3 weeks) IT	First published: January 20, 2012 Melendi feat. Dani Martín , Pablo Alborán, La Dama, Rasel , Malú y Carlos Baute
	Vuelvo a verte dual	IT1 gold (43 weeks)IT	First published: November 19, 2012 Sales: + 20,000; Malú con Pablo Alborán
2013	La de la mala suerte ¿Con quién se queda el perro?	IT17 (8 weeks) IT	First published: June 21, 2013 Jesse & Joy feat. Pablo Alborán

Further guest contributions

• 2014: Solamente tù (Damien Sargue feat. Pablo Alborán)
• 2016: Tu frialdad ( José Mercé feat. Pablo Alborán)
• 2019: Rayando el sol ( Maná feat.Pablo Alborán)

Web links

• Official Homepage (Spanish)
• Pablo Alborán at Allmusic (English)
• Chart sources: ES PT CH US

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Top 50 albumes 2011 - lista anual de ventas 2011 , Promusicae
2. ↑ Top 100 albumes - Semana 01: de 31.12.2012 al 06.01.2013 , Promusicae
3. ^ Pablo Alborán: de YouTube al Latin Grammy , David Dorantes, Chron, October 14, 2011
4. ↑ Top 100 albumes - Semana 45: del 04.11.2013 al 10.11.2013 , Promusicae
5. ↑ Top 50 canciones anual 2011 , Promusicae
6. ↑ Tengo las entradas para Pablo Alboran , Tengo Entradas, accessed on January 8, 2015
7. ↑ Top 50 albumes 2012 - lista anual de ventas 2012 , Promusicae
8. ↑ Top 50 albumes 2013 - lista anual de ventas 2013 , Promusicae
9. ↑ Top 100 albumes - Semana 44: del 27.10.2014 al 02.11.2014 , Promusicae
10. ↑ YouTube search for Pablo Alborán
11. ^ Curtis M. Wong: Singer Pablo Alborán Comes Out As Gay, Vows To Be '100% True To Myself' . In: Huffpost . June 18, 2020. Accessed June 19, 2020.
12. ↑ Pop star Pablo Alborán speaks for the first time about his homosexuality. In: queer.de. June 18, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: ES
14. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales: PT