Billboard_Top_Latin_Albums

<i>Billboard</i> Top Latin Albums

Billboard Top Latin Albums

Record chart


Top Latin Albums (formerly Latin 50) is a record chart published by Billboard magazine and is labeled as the most important music chart for Spanish language, full-length albums in the American music market. Like all Billboard album charts, the chart is based on sales. Nielsen SoundScan compiles the sales data from merchants representing more than 90 percent of the U.S. music retail market. The sample includes sales at music stores, the music departments of electronics and department stores, direct-to-consumer transactions, and Internet sales of physical albums or digital downloads. A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated.[1] To rank on this chart, an album must have 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish.[2] Listings of Top Latin Albums are also shown on Telemundo's music page through a partnership between the two companies.

The first album to appear at number-one on this chart was Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan on July 10, 1993.[3] This album spent 58 non-consecutive weeks at the top of this chart. Mexican singers Marco Antonio Solís holds the record for the most number-one albums by an artist overall with 12. Fellow Mexican performers Los Temerarios is the group with the most chart-toppers, eight. Jenni Rivera and Selena are the female artists with the most number-one albums with 7 each.[4][5] Selena's album Dreaming of You was, until 2022, the only album to peak at number one during three different calendar years (1995–97). YHLQMDLG, by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, also achieved the feat by charting at #1 during four consecutive calendar years (2020–2023) The current number-one album on the chart is Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada by Fuerza Regida[6]

History

On July 10, 1993, Billboard premiered the revamped Latin 50 chart, which lists the best-selling Latin albums in the overall American music market.[7]

Before this, the first chart regarding Latin music albums in the magazine (Billboard Hot Latin Albums in Texas) was published on the issue dated December 30, 1972.[8] Then, all Latin music information was featured on the first incarnation of the Top Latin Albums chart, which began on June 29, 1985, and divided Latin records on three different genre subcharts: Pop, Regional Mexican and Tropical, all of them now published in addition to the overall chart.[7] The Latin Pop Albums chart features music only from the pop genre, while the Regional Mexican Albums chart includes information from different genres like duranguense, norteño, banda and mariachi, and the Tropical Albums includes different genres particularly salsa, merengue, bachata, and cumbia. In May 2005, another chart, Latin Rhythm Albums, was introduced in response to growing sales of reggaeton records.[9]

On the week ending January 26, 2017, Billboard updated the methodology to compile the Top Latin Albums chart into a multi-metric methodology to include track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent albums units.[10]

Chart achievements

Artist with the most number-ones

Top 20 Albums with Most Weeks at Number-One

The following are the top 20 longest-leading albums on the Top Latin Albums chart.[11]

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Top 10 Albums of All-Time (1993–2018)

In 2018, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 20 best albums on the chart since its inception in 1993. The chart is based on the most number of weeks the albums spent on top of the chart. For albums with the same number of weeks at number one, they are ranked by the most total weeks on the chart.[12]

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Number-one debuts

Year-end best selling albums

According to the RIAA certification, regular gold certification is awarded for shipping of 500,000 copies, platinum for one million units, and multi-platinum for two million unites, and following in increments of one million thereafter.[13] In addition, albums containing more than 50% Spanish language content may be awarded with Latin certification award, gold, (Disco de Oro) for shipments of 30,000 units, platinum (Disco de Platino) for 60,000 and multi-platinum (Multi-Platino) for 120,000 and following in increments of 60,000 thereafter (previously, Spanish-language albums were certified gold and platinum for 50,000 and 100,000 units shipped respectively before December 2013).[14] In the following table, the certification shown is either the standard or Latin certification depending on whichever one results in a higher value.

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Year-end charts

See also


References

  1. "Billboard Methodology". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Archived from the original on 2008-07-22. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  2. Cobo, Leila (July 21, 2007). "The Latin Lag". Billboard. Vol. 119, no. 29. Prometheus Global Media. p. 16. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  3. "Top Latin Albums – The Week of July 10, 1993". Billboard. July 10, 1993. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
  4. Zellner, Xavier (June 21, 2017). "Shakira Earns Sixth No. 1 on Latin Albums Chart With 'El Dorado'". Billboard. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  5. Mendizabal, Amaya (December 11, 2014). "J. Balvin & Jenni Rivera Collect New No. 1s". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  6. "Top Latin Albums". Billboard. April 23, 2024. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  7. "Billboard's Latin Charts Switched to SoundScan". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. July 10, 1993. p. 4. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
  8. Cobo, Leila (21 May 2005). "New Latin Charts Bow". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 21. Prometheus Global Media. p. 10. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  9. "Billboard's Genre Album Charts Will Now Incorporate Streams & Track Sales". Billboard. January 26, 2017. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  10. "Longest-Leading No. 1s Ever on Top Latin Albums Chart". Billboard. October 11, 2020. Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  11. Roiz, Jessica (September 20, 2018). "The Top 20 Latin Albums of All Time". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  12. "RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America". riaa.com. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  13. "RIAA Updates Latin Gold & Platinum Program". RIAA. December 20, 2013. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
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  20. "Year-End 2014: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  21. "Year-End 2015: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  22. "Year-End 2016: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  23. "Year-End 2017: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  24. "Year-End 2017: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  25. "Year-End 2019: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  26. "Year-End 2020: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  27. "Year-End 2021: Top Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  28. "Top Latin Albums". Billboard. 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2023-05-24.

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