Listen to the best songs by Enrique Iglesias on Apple Music and Spotify. Today we celebrate his birthday (May 8, 1975) and pick 20 of the best Enrique Iglesias songs, demonstrating just how that story unfolded. With plenty of hit albums, countless music videos, and dozens of massive singles, Enrique has stayed one sharp step ahead of pop’s fickle marketplace to become one of the best-selling Spanish artists of all time. But at the end of the 20th century, a Latin-pop track buried away on a largely forgotten Will Smith movie soundtrack became a surprise international smash, and then… it just continued.

Pop dynasties are notoriously unreliable when it comes to launching lasting careers, so Enrique Iglesias, the son of Europe’s most successful singer-songwriter of all time, Julio Iglesias, didn’t appear to be any sort of candidate for the spectacular career that followed.