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[6] [7] [8] Billboard categorizes an artist as "Latin" if they perform in Spanish or Portuguese. [9] Music journalists and musicologists define Latin music as musical styles from Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America and from Spain. [10] [11] Music from Brazil is usually included in the genre and music from Portugal is occasionally included ...
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 Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Airplay are charts that rank the best-performing Latin songs in the United States and are both published weekly by Billboard magazine. The Hot Latin Songs chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay from all radio stations. [1]
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (Spanish: [ˈxuljo jˈɣlesjas]; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer.Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 300 million records worldwide [1] in 14 languages. [2]
The Billboard Music Award for Top Latin Artist recognizes the most successful Latin artists over the past year. Colombian performer Shakira was the first artist to win the accolade in 2011 and also won the following year in 2012. Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Bad Bunny is the only artist to have won the accolade three years back to back.
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Since Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan are inconsistent with the definition of Latin music (Billboard states that the US Latin Digital Songs chart only ranks Spanish-language songs [114] but the English-language song "Conga" was ranked on the 2016 US Latin Digital Songs year-end chart), [115] some Spanglish songs primarily sung in English were excluded from the table above.
The Billboard logo. The Billboard Hot Latin Songs is a record chart in the United States for Latin singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine since September 6, 1986. The chart's methodology was only based on airplay from Spanish-language radio stations from its inception until the issue dated October 13, 2012, when Billboard updated its methodology to a multi-metric system, including ...