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Shakira has received numerous awards and recognition for her work. Shakira has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.[10] Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems said that "Hips Don't Lie" was the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history. It was played 9,637 times in one week. Shakira became the first artist in the history of the Billboard charts to earn the coveted number one spots on both the Top 40 Mainstream and Latin Chart in the same week doing so with "Hips Don't Lie".[122] Additionally, she is the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, and the UK Singles Chart.[123]
Her song "La Tortura" at one time held the record for Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, appearing at number-one more than any other single with a total of 25 non-consecutive weeks, a record currently held by the Enrique Iglesias song "Bailando" with 41 weeks.[124] Nokia stated in 2010, that there were more Shakira music downloads in the prior year than for any other Latino artist in the last five years, and She Wolftopped the Top 10 Latino downloads.[125] In 2010, she was ranked number five on the 'Online Video's Most Viral Artists of 2010' with 404,118,932 views.[126] She has become a YouTube sensation having surpassed 14 billion views on the website with "Chantaje accounting for over 2.2 billion views and "Waka Waka" accounting for over 2 billion views, and her channel is currently the 42nd most subscribed on YouTube.
In 2011, Shakira was honored at the Latin Grammys as 2011's Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.[127] She also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6270 Hollywood Blvd.[128][129] Originally, she was to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, but she turned the offer down.[130] In 2012, she received the honor of Chevalier De L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[131] In 2014, Shakira became the first musical act to perform three times at the FIFA World Cup.[85] In the same year, Aleiodes shakirae, a new species of parasitic wasp was named after her[132] because it causes its host to “shake and wiggle” [133]
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