He has received many great awards
Next, one of the interesting facts about Marc Anthony, he has received many great awards.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has awarded Marc Anthony with several gold and platinum awards for his more than 12 million record sales worldwide. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C. in September 2009, was inducted into the Billboard Hall of Fame in 2012, and New York magazine named him one of the Ten Most Influential New Yorkers. He is the only male musician to have won a total of 29 Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards, and he also received the ASCAP Founders Award. In the past two years, he has been honored with 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards, 3 Billboard Awards, and a special award from the Univisión television network.
For Contra La Corriente, which ngel "Cucco" Pea directed, orchestrated, and produced, he won his first Grammy in 1998 for Best Latin Tropical Performance. In 2000, he won the first-ever Latin Grammy Song of the Year award for Dmelo (I Need to Know). With the assistance of that successful song, Marc Anthony's debut English-language album went triple platinum in the US, kicking off the 1999–2000 Latin pop craze. He won two Grammy Awards for best albums in 2005: best salsa album for Valió la Pena and best Latin pop album for Amar Sin Mentiras.
The most recent Billboard chart-topping singles for Marc Anthony were Vivir Mi Vida and Flor Pálida, which have amassed over 680 million and 270 million YouTube views, respectively. He obtained his second Vevo PL accreditation in May 2015 for his video A Quien Quiero Mentirle's 100 million views. The first song from 3.0, Vivir Mi Vida, held the top spot on the Billboard chart for 18 weeks in a row in 2013, setting a record. The Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year was given to it. On November 16, 2016, the Latin Recording Academy named Anthony Person of the Year in recognition of his musical accomplishments and charitable endeavors.
