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For the monthly number-one songs of the decade, see List of number-one songs from the 1950s (Mexico). This is a list of the 10 most popular songs in Mexico for each year between 1950 and 1960, as published in the book "El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana", by Fernando Mejía Barquera. [1]
As of 2025, 352 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 226 in the 2020s. A total of 22 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.
The following article lists the monthly number-one songs on the Mexican Selecciones Musicales chart from January 1950 to December 1960. The source for these charts is the book Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión by Roberto Ayala, who was the director of the Selecciones Musicales magazine.
Carlos Santana. Mexican rock music, often referred to in Mexico as rock nacional ("national rock"), originated in the 1950s. Standards by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, and Chuck Berry were soon covered by bands such as Los Apson, Los Teen Tops, Los Twisters, Los Hitters, Los Nómadas, Los Rockets, Los Rebeldes del Rock [], Los Locos del Ritmo, Los Crazy Boys ...
In 1958 Daniel Flores, who some call the "godfather of Latin Rock", performed his hit song "Tequila". *Pedro Infante was a Mexican actor and singer. Hailed as one of the greatest actors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, he is considered an idol in Mexico and Latin American countries.
Song Artist 4 January "Lonely Boy" Paul Anka: 11 January 18 January 25 January "La Montaña" Lucho Gatica: 1 February 8 February "El Día De Los Enamorados" Monna Bell: 15 February 22 February 29 February "Mackie El Navaja" (Mack The Knife) José Guardiola: 7 March 14 March "Ansiedad" Nat "King" Cole: 21 March 28 March 4 April 11 April 18 April ...
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses): Country of origin
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 ...