Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a world without “Despacito,” the global phenomenon that shattered the boundaries of the Latin market. Co-written by Luis ...

The direct translation of “La Negra Tiene Tumbao” is “the black woman has swagger,” and Celia Cruz embodied this title, proving that she was the “queen of salsa.” Cruz was not just a talented musical ...

From J Balvin's "Ginza" to Shakira & Maluma's "Chantaje," see all the songs that crowned the Hot Latin Songs chart ten years ...

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the commercial front, and in the stylistic detours and avant-garde tendencies favored by artists across the Americas.

Salsa started as a Caribbean phenomenon, but it spread all over the world like wildfire, and its devilish rhythm and sinuous melodies are now universal. At its best, salsa can rock as hard as rock. It ...

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

Bad Bunny reigns as the No. 1 Latin act on Billboard's recap of the first 25 years of the quarter-century, ruling Billboard's Top Latin Artists of the 21st Century chart. The retrospective is based on ...

Latin Songs Are Popular AF, So Why Don’t They Get Their Due at the Grammys? In his column, The Download, THR’s senior music editor Mesfin Fekadu delves into the ways in which the chart-busting music ...

This year saw an explosion in Latin music, from Peso Pluma’s rise to superstardom to the instant success of Grupo Frontera’s “un x100to,” featuring the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. Outside of the ...