1.9.25

J BALVIN, “AY VAMOS”

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7th Mar, 2015 Wiki  |  Video Picture a crusty, several-generations-old image of a Rat Fink-esque illustration of a yellow smiley face scream...
25.8.25

MANÁ FT. SHAKIRA, “MI VERDAD”

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28th Feb, 2015 Wiki  |  Video A pair of Nineties veteran acts joining up for a laid-back swayalong feels like the kind of thing that the str...
18.8.25

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. DESCEMER BUENO & GENTE DE ZONA, “BAILANDO”

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17th May, 2014 Wiki  |  Video Forty-one weeks at number one. Only one other behemoth, lurking ahead in the shadows of 2017, will (as of this...
11.8.25

ROMEO SANTOS FT. DRAKE, “ODIO”

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15th February, 2014 Wiki  |  Video I can't be sorry that I dragged my heels on this blog so long that I didn't get to this song unti...
21.7.25

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. MARCO ANTONIO SOLÍS, “EL PERDEDOR”

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8th February, 2014 Wiki  |  Video My farewell to Marco Antonio Solís back in 2007 (chart time) and 2019 (blog time) was premature: I'd ...
14.7.25

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. ROMEO SANTOS, “LOCO”

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19th October, 2013 Wiki  |  Video It's been a litle while since we had to consider Enrique Iglesias, a one-time constant feature of this...
7.7.25

ROMEO SANTOS, “PROPUESTA INDECENTE”

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28th September, 2013 Wiki  |  Video "It feels good to be king," mutters Romeo Santo during a typically florid instrumental break. ...
23.6.25

PRINCE ROYCE, “DARTE UN BESO”

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7th September, 2013 Wiki  |  Video Our final encounter (to date) with Prince Royce in the main travelogue is his second-biggest hit (certifi...
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...