Latin Music in America: A look through the Billboard archives from Xavier Cugat to Los del Rio to Bad Bunny.
charts, but the magazine covered it for more than 100 years before Bad Bunny hopped to No. 1. From genre architects like Xavier Cugat to current hit-makers such as Karol G, and from “Bésame Mucho” to “Despacito,” the many subgenres of Latin music have for over a century added flavor to U.S. airwaves — and the pages ofabout Raquel Meller, a Spanish-born Broadway headliner. “These are folk songs, street ballads of her Barcelona….
Latin market had been a widely scattered field with radically different musical tastes,” reported the Sept. 6, 1986,. To make sense of it, the Oct. 4 issue introduced a new chart to address “the growing needs of the Latin market.” That chart, now called Hot Latin Songs, was compiled by staffers by “calling the top 70 Latin radio stations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
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