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Issue Date Song Artist 6 January "That's What I Like" Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers: 13 January 20 January "Pump Up the Jam" Technotronic: 27 January 3 February "All Around the World"
Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 6 "La Chica de Humo" Emmanuel [1]January 13 "Cómo Fuí a Enamorarme de Tí" Los Bukis [2]January 20 [3]January 27 "La Cima del Cielo"
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
February 10 – "Lambada" by French-Brazilian group Kaoma becomes the first non Spanish-language song to top the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart. The song is performed entirely in Portuguese. [3] [4] May 23 – Billboard commences its first ever Latin Music Conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Miami, Florida. [5]
Tango by Julio Iglesias, the last number-one album of 1996, spent 10 weeks at the top of the chart and became the best-selling Latin album of 1997. [13] Romances by Luis Miguel won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, debuted at number 14 in the Billboard 200, and spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at number one on this chart. [14]
As of 2025, 369 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 243 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.
The English versions of these songs all peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot 100. [12] [13] [14] With his song "No Me Doy Por Vencido", Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi became the first artist to appear in the top ten for two consecutive years for the best-performing Latin singles with the same track. [15] [16]
Billboard also imposed a linguistic rule requiring an album to have 70% of its content in Spanish (later reduced to 50%) to be eligible to rank on the chart. [2] [3] The first number one of the decade was Tierra de Nadie (1988) by Ana Gabriel, which had been in the top spot since the issue dated November 18, 1989. [4]