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The Hot Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin 50 and Hot Latin Tracks), [1] published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart based on Latin music airplay. The data were compiled by the Billboard chart and research department with information from 70 Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. [2]
As of 2025, 367 Latin songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, 1 in the 1950s, 1 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 5 in the 1990s, 36 in the 2000s, 80 in the 2010s and 241 in the 2020s. A total of 25 singles managed to reach the top 10 and 4 have peaked at number 1. Only 5 Latin songs reached the top 10 between 1958 and 2016.
Latin American music imported from Cuba (such as chachachá, mambo, and rhumba) and Mexico (including ranchera and mariachi) had brief periods of popularity during the 1950s. The earliest popular Latin American music in the United States came with the rhumba in the early 1930s, followed by calypso in the mid-1940s, mambo in the late 1940s and ...
This is a list of number one songs on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart by year: . List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs from the 1980s; List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 1990
The 1980s saw the major record labels such as RCA/Ariola, CBS, and EMI form their own Latin music divisions. [1] By 1985, Billboard noted that the Latin music industry saw increase in awareness from major corporations such as Coca-Cola promoting Julio Iglesias and Pepsi advertising Menudo .
José José (pictured in 2011) was the first artist to reach number one on the Latin Pop Albums chart in 1985. He also had the most number one albums of the 1980s with a total of four albums. In June 1985, Billboard magazine established Latin Pop Albums, a chart that ranks the best-selling Latin pop albums in the United States. The chart was published on a fortnightly basis with its positions ...
Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...
This is a list containing the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-ones of 1990. Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 6 "La Chica de Humo" Emmanuel [1] January 13