In October 2020, Iglesias was awarded the "Top Latin Artist of All Time" at the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards. and in December 2016, Billboard magazine named him the 14th most successful and top male dance club artist of all time. He has earned the honorific title King of Latin Pop.
Iglesias also has 14 number-ones on Billboard's Dance charts, more than any other male artist. Iglesias holds the record for the most number-one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart with 27 songs, the Latin Airplay chart with 31 songs, and the Latin Pop Airplay chart with 24 songs. As of October 2020, Iglesias holds the number-one position on the Greatest of All-Latin Artists charts. He has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones. Iglesias is one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 70 million records worldwide. He signed with Sony Music and his subsequent albums were to be released by Sony Music Latin in Spanish and RCA Records in English. In 2015, he parted ways with Universal Music Group after being there for over a decade. In 2010, Iglesias parted with Interscope Records and signed with another Universal Music Group label, Republic Records, to release bilingual albums.