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Latin music (Portuguese and Spanish: música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese. (Full article...)

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Billboard Latin charts

Billboard Hot Latin Songs (05/11/24)

The current number-one song on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart is "Gata Only" by FloyyMenor and Cris Mj.

Billboard Top Latin Albums (05/11/24)

The current number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart is Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada by Fuerza Regida.

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... that the song "Te Regalo Amores" by R.K.M & Ken-Y reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay and Latin Tropical Airplay charts?
... that Tejano singer Pete Astudillo won a Lo Nuestro Award with a song written as a tribute to late performer Selena?
... that the music video for "Amor Puro" was filmed at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a building built in 1133 AD in Spain and dismantled and sent to New York in more than 11,000 crates in 1925?
... that Venezuelan singer Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin?
... that Cuban singer-songwriter Jon Secada earned the Grammy Award and received the highest number of nominations at the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1993?
... that Dorival Caymmi, one of the fathers of bossa nova, loved to skinny dip?

"Nunca Voy a Olvidarte" (English: "I Am Never Going to Forget You") is a song written by Roberto Belester and first recorded by Mexican norteño band Bronco for their album Salvaje y Tierno (1991). In the song, the protagonist is leaving and vows to never forget the time he spent with his lover. In 1993, Mexican singer-songwriter Cristian Castro covered the song on his album, Un Segundo en el Tiempo. Castro's version peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States became his first number-one single.

The song received a Lo Nuestro and a Billboard Latin Music award for Pop Song of the Year. It earned an award for Latin Pop Song of the Year at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards of 1994. In the following year, Puerto Rican-American recording artist La India covered the song as the lead single from her album Dicen Que Soy which peaked at number eleven on the Hot Latin Songs chart, number thirteen on the Billboard Latin Pop Songs chart, and number-one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.

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The Hot Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin 50 and Hot Latin Tracks), 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. Those radio stations were selected based on their number of listeners, and were asked to report their playlists for the week. This information was then entered to the Billboard computer system, and points were tabulated for each song. This data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, which electronically monitors radio stations in more than 120 music markets across the United States. Before this chart's inception, the Latin music information on the magazine was presented only in the form of the biweekly album sales chart Top Latin Albums, which continues to be listed separately.

During the 1980s, 33 different songs topped the chart. According to the Billboard electronic database, the first was "La Guirnalda" by Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986.

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Joyas Prestadas: Pop and Joyas Prestadas: Banda (English: Borrowed Jewels) are the twelfth and final studio albums released by American recording artist Jenni Rivera on November 21, 2011 by Fonovisa Records. Joyas Prestadas consists of eleven cover versions, with the first album being recorded in Latin pop, while the second was recorded in banda. Both albums were produced by Enrique Martinez. According to Rivera, the songs she chose to cover were those she was enamored with while working as a cashier in a record store. It was her first production to include ballad recordings.

Joyas Prestadas: Pop reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart in the United States while Joyas Prestadas: Banda peaked at number three on the Mexican Albums Chart and number two on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. Three singles were released from the album: "¡Basta Ya!", "A Cambio de Qué", and "Detrás de Mi Ventana". David Jeffries of Allmusic gave both albums a positive review and called the productions "polished".

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Latin music WikiProject

Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin music was created with the purpose of assembling writers and editors interested in Latin music.
The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to the various genres of Latin music, as well as to create missing articles.
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