16.6.25

MARC ANTHONY, “VIVIR MI VIDA”

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18th May, 2013 Wiki  |  Video A Nuyorican cover of a song in Arabic and French song by a singer born in Algeria and resident in Luxembourg, ...
9.6.25

DADDY YANKEE, “LIMBO”

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2nd February, 2013 Wiki  |  Video I was mostly disconnected from popular Latin music in 2013. I had moved to Chicago in the beginning of the...
2.6.25

TITO EL BAMBINO & MARC ANTHONY, “¿POR QUÉ LES MIENTES?”

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19th January, 2013 Wiki  |  Video The streaming-era chart can still be punctuated by one-week wonders, especially on songs like this that un...
26.5.25

WISIN Y YANDEL FT. CHRIS BROWN & T-PAIN, “ALGO ME GUSTA DE TI”

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20th October, 2012 Wiki  |  Video The first #1 of the streaming era is almost a caricature of the immediate effect that replacing the carefu...
21.10.24

CARLOS VIVES, “VOLVÍ A NACER”

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13th October, 2012 Wiki  |  Video This is it: the final #1 of the Hot Latin chart as it had been calculated since its beginning in 1986. Des...
14.10.24

RICARDO ARJONA, “TE QUIERO”

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22nd September, 2012 Wiki  |  Video I loved Arjona's first #1 from the Independiente album, which I called "a literary prank in p...
7.10.24

MANÁ, “HASTA QUE TE CONOCÍ”

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15th September, 2012 Wiki  |  Video One of the few upsides of having taken forever to get through this blog is that songs that had yet to be...
3.6.24

ALEJANDRO SAENZ, “NO ME COMPARES”

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8th September, 2012 Wiki  |  Video Including this song, there are four Hot Latin #1s left until Billboard changes its source for chart calcu...
15.4.24

TITO EL BAMBINO, “DAME LA OLA”

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1st September, 2012 Wiki  |  Video Over the past few years of coverage, I've continued to use the "reggaeton" tag for tropical...
18.12.23

ELVIS CRESPO FT. ILEGALES, “YO NO SOY UN MONSTRUO”

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25th August, 2012 Wiki  |  Video When Elvis Crespo first appeared on this blog, I said he would only appear here once more; two weeks after ...
6.11.23

CHINO Y NACHO FT. JAY SEAN, “BEBÉ BONITA”

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18th August, 2012 Wiki  |  Video I genuinely adored Chino y Nacho's "Mi Niña Bonita" , both at the time and in retrospect when...
4.9.23

ROMEO SANTOS, “LA DIABLA”

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4th August, 2012 Wiki  |  Video The fourth and final #1 off of Formula, Vol. 1  reached the top fifteen months after the first, a feat which...
28.8.23

DON OMAR, “HASTA QUE SALGA EL SOL”

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21st July, 2012 Wiki  |  Video Don Omar's history in these pages has been checkered: other than his initial 2006 appearance with a rare ...
14.8.23

WISIN Y YANDEL FT. JENNIFER LÓPEZ, “FOLLOW THE LEADER”

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7th July, 2012 Wiki  |  Video The rolling timeline of this blog's updates means that the cultural meanings of the songs I'm writing ...
31.7.23

GOCHO, “SI TE DIGO LA VERDAD”

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30th June, 2012 Wiki  |  Video The "post"-reggaetón era continues: producer turned would-be heartthrob singer Gocho, who netted hi...
24.7.23

JUANES, “LA SEÑAL”

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5th May, 2012 Wiki  |  Video The reign of "Ai Se Eu Te Pego" at the top of the chart in the spring and early summer of 2012 was in...
3.7.23

MICHEL TELÓ , “AI SE EU TE PEGO!”

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14th April, 2012 Wiki  |  Video I have partly been looking forward to and partly dreading this song as it came nearer in the timeline. Looki...
26.6.23

DON OMAR FT. NATTI NATASHA, “DUTTY LOVE”

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7th April, 2012 Wiki  |  Video Reggaetón proper is still bubbling just under the surface of urban tropical pop. Although this is formally mo...
24.4.23

JUAN MAGÁN FT. PITBULL & EL CATA, “BAILANDO POR EL MUNDO”

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31st March, 2012 Wiki  |  Video "Inténtalo" was the first new #1 of 2012 to get a second week at the top, although they weren...
13.3.23

PRINCE ROYCE, “LAS COSAS PEQUEÑAS”

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17th March, 2012 Wiki  |  Video I've catalogued a number of firsts in the thirteen years (!) I've been writing this blog, but here...