Pop star Enrique Iglesias made YouTube history this week when his song "Bailando" became the first Spanish-language tune to surpass a billion views on the video site, Billboard reported.

The Spaniard celebrated with a bilingual Instagram message: "Thank you guys so much for getting Bailando Spanish version to 1 BILLION views," he wrote. "Incredible!!!" The milestone also means that Iglesias' clip is the most-watched Spanish-language video ever to be posted to YouTube, 20 Minutos explained.

Further, "Bailando" ranks sixth among all YouTube tunes, superseded only by Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" and "Roar" (fourth and fifth respectively) and the all-time top three of "Gangman Style" by PSY, "Baby" by Justin Bieber and "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift, the Spanish newspaper added.

YouTube, the California-based video-sharing website that was founded in early 2005 and -- a year and a half later -- sold to Google for $1.65 billion, has become an increasingly important outlet for artists both well-known and emerging. The website is available in 76 languages and attracts some 15 billion visitors per month.

Iglesias, for his part, may have little time to surf the Web these days as he is in the final stretches of his "Sex and Love Tour," which kicked off in February 2014 and it set to conclude in September, Billboard noted.

The Spaniard is scheduled to perform in Willemstad, Curaçao, tonight and next month will hold events in Las Vegas; Costa Mesa, California; and the Mexican cities of Puebla México, Tampico, Monterrey and Hermosillo. "Sex and Love" has attracted more than a million people around the world to date, the music publication detailed.

And as if that were not enough, Iglesias has also been nominated for a number of awards, including two Premios Tu Mundo, given out by the Spanish-language Telemundo network. The singer is competing in the "favorite pop artist" category, and his hit ""El Perdón" -- a collaboration with Nicky Jam -- is up for a possible award as the year's best "party-starting song."

Meanwhile, Iglesias and the Puerto Rican reggaeton star hope to win over an English-language audience with a new bilingual version of their tune, titled "Forgiveness," Billboard noted.

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