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These songs were released from the album Un hombre solo, which received the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance. [ 6 ] In 1987, a biographical film about Ritchie Valens was released and American band Los Lobos were among the musicians chosen for the movie soundtrack, since the director chose to record new music for the film rather than ...
In Chile, which was ruled by a military dictatorship all over the 80s, Nueva canción protest songs from the 60s and 70s maintained their popularity despite severe censorship. The progressive/folk-rock band Los Jaivas made a Latin American trademark album with Alturas de Macchu Picchu [sic] based on Pablo Neruda 's homonymous poem.
As of 2025, 368 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 242 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 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson. 30 of the Most Iconic Songs of the 1980s ...
This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1985, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil [1] (which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981). [2] Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1980, with data provided by Radio Mil as published on the Billboard and Notitas Musicales magazines. Radio Mil had provided both magazines with charts for many years, however Billboard stopped regularly publishing their charts on September, so for continuity reasons the Notitas Musicales number-ones are also included in this article.
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 ...
In 1987, Ana Gabriel won third place at the OTI Festival, celebrated in Lisbon, Portugal, where she performed an orchestral version of the pop-power ballad song "Ay Amor", which later was released as a single in its album version; it climbed to the top position in Mexico, throughout Ibero-America and on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for 14 consecutive weeks.