Regional Mexican Albums

Regional Mexican Albums is a genre-specific record chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. The chart was established in June 1985 and originally listed the top twenty-five best-selling albums of mariachi, tejano, norteño, and grupero, which are all sub genres of regional Mexican music. The genre is considered by musicologist as being "the biggest-selling Latin music genre in the United States", and represented the fastest ever growing Latin genre in the United States after tejano music entered the mainstream market during its 1990s golden age. Originally, Billboard based their methodology on sales surveys it sent out to record stores across the United States and by 1991 began monitoring point-of-sales compiled from Nielsen Soundscan. Musicologist and critics have since criticized the sales data compiled from Nielsen, finding that the company only provides sales from larger music chains than from small shops that specialized in Latin music—where the majority of Latin music sales are generated. The magazine decided to rank Latin music recordings in August 1970 under the title Hot Latin LPs, which only ranked the best-selling Latin albums in Los Angeles (Pop) and the East Coast (Salsa). Before the chart's inception, musicians' only chart success was the Texas Latin LPs (formerly the San Antonio Latin LPs) section where regional Mexican music was more prominent. Beginning in November 1993, Billboard lowered the rankings from twenty-five to fifteen positions on its Latin genre-specific charts, while the Top Latin Albums expanded to fifty titles. From July 2001 until April 2005, the chart increased to twenty titles and then lowered back to fifteen titles. Since 2009, the Regional Mexican Albums chart list the top twenty best-selling albums determined by sales data compiled from Nielsen SoundScan.

The first album to peak at number one was Jaula de Oro by Los Tigres del Norte in June 1984. In 1994, Selena's Amor Prohibido debuted and peaked at number one in three different calendar years (1994-1996), becoming the first artist to do so. Amor Prohibido currently holds the record for the most weeks at number one, with 96 nonconsecutive weeks. Jenni Rivera is the female act with the most number ones at nine on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. The current number one album is Danado by Ivan Cornejo.

Year-end best selling albums

According to the RIAA, albums containing more than 50% Spanish language content are awarded with gold certifications (Disco de Oro) for U.S. shipments of 100,000 units; platinum (Disco de Platino) for 200,000 and multi-platinum (Multi-Platino) for 400,000 and following in increments of 200,000 thereafter. In the following table, the certifications shown are standard as any album release in United States: gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies; platinum, for one million units, and multi-platinum for more than one million sold.

Year	Artist	Album	Label	RIAA certification
1986	Los Bukis	A Donde Vas	Profono	N/A
1987		Me Volvi a Acordar de Ti	Laser Records	N/A
1988		Si Me Recuerdas	N/A
1989	Grupo Bronco	Un Golpe Más	Fonovisa Records	N/A
1990		A Todo Galope		N/A
1991		Amigo		N/A
1992	La Mafia	Estas Tocando Fuego	Sony Discos	N/A
1993	Selena	Entre a Mi Mundo	EMI Latin	6× Platinum
1994	Selena	Amor Prohibido	EMI Latin	2× Platinum
1995
1996
1997	Grupo Limite	Partiendome El Alma	Universal Music Latino	Gold
1998	Selena	Anthology	EMI Latin
1999		All My Hits Vol.1		Gold
2000	Los Temerarios	En La Madrugada se Fue	Fonovisa	Platinum
2001	Vicente Fernández	Historia de Un Idolo, Vol. 1	Sony Music Latin	Gold
2002	Los Temerarios	Una Lágrima No Basta	Fonovisa	Gold
2003	Los Tigres del Norte	Herencia Musical: 20 Corridos Inolvidables		N/A
2004	Grupo Climax	Za Za Za	Balboa	N/A
2005	Grupo Montéz de Durango	Y Sigue La Mata Dando	Disa Records	N/A
2006		Borrón y Cuenta Nueva		N/A
2007	Vicente Fernández	Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1	Sony Music Latin	Gold
2008		Para Siempre		5× Platinum (Latin)
2009	El Trono de Mexico	Almas Gemelas	Fonovisa	N/A
2010	Jenni Rivera	La Gran Señora		Platinum (Latin)
2011	Los Bukis	35 Aniversario		N/A
2012	3Ball MTY	Inténtalo	Universal Music Latino	N/A
2013	Jenni Rivera	La Misma Gran Señora	Fonovisa	2× Platinum (Latin)
2014		1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1		Platinum (Latin)
2015	Gerardo Ortíz	Hoy Más Fuerte	Sony Music Latin	N/A
2016	Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho	Recuerden Mi Estiló	DEL Records	N/A
2018	Christian Nodal	Me Dejé Llevar	Universal	N/A
2019				N/A
2020	Natanael Cano	Corridos Tumbados	Rancho Humilde	N/A
2021	Eslabon Armado	Corta Venas	DEL Records	N/A

See also

• Regional styles of Mexican music

External links

• Official Billboard website