As measured by the total prize payout, the Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery worldwide.

Early in 2012, the village's homeowner association won the largest prize to date in the Spanish Christmas Lottery drawing, a sum of about 950 million US dollars.

He became very popular in Spain during Christmas 2008 after his song Freeze my senses was selected for the annual advertising campaign of the Spanish Christmas Lottery.

The largest prize given at the Spanish Christmas Lottery (and to a lesser extent at any other Spanish lottery), is also referred to as 'El Gordo'.

It is generally considered that Spain's Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad (Spanish Christmas Lottery) is the world's largest lottery and has the largest first prize jackpot.

After releasing his songs on YouTube and MySpace, his song Freeze my senses was selected by the Advertising agency "Ricardo Pérez Asociados" for the television advertisement they were preparing for the Spanish Christmas Lottery campaign for 2008.