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In 1998, the compilation album released for the film Dance with Me, which starred Vanessa L. Williams and Chayanne, became the first soundtrack to reach the top spot of this chart. Buena Vista Social Club, produced by Ry Cooder, also peaked at number one and won the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance. [15]
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"
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.
Tejano music suffered and its popularity waned following Selena's death, and record labels began abandoning their Tejano artists. [38] By the mid-1990s, Tejano music was replaced by Latin pop as the dominant Latin music genre in the United States, [39] while radio stations in the US switched from Tejano to Regional Mexican music. [38]
In 1999, Selena was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "best-selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard, for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits. [115] The singer also had the most successful singles of 1994 and 1995, "Amor Prohibido" and "No Me Queda Más". [116]
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]
Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 2 "Castillo Azul" Ricardo Montaner [1]January 9 [2]January 16 [3]January 23 [4]January 30 [5]February 6 [6]February 13
Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. . Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club D