Top Latin Albums (formerly Latin 50) is a record chart published by Billboard magazine since 1993. It is labeled as the most important music chart for Spanish-language, full-length albums in the American music market. To rank, an album must have 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish.
Like all Billboard album charts, it is based on sales. Nielsen SoundScan compiles the sales data from merchants representing more than 90% of the U.S. music retail market. The sample includes sales at music stores, the music departments of electronics and department stores, direct-to-consumer transactions, and Internet sales of physical albums or digital downloads. A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated. As of January 26, 2017, a multi-metric methodology to compile the Top Latin Albums chart was adopted by Billboard, which also incorporates track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
The first number-one album was Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan. The longest-reigning number-one album is YHLQMDLG by Bad Bunny, which spent 70 weeks at the top. Selena's Dreaming of You (1995âÂÂ97) and Bad Bunny's YHLQMDLG (2020âÂÂ22) and Un Verano Sin Ti (2022âÂÂ24) are the only albums to peak at number one in three different calendar years.
Bad Bunny has the most number-one weeks for albums with 281, the most number-one debuting albums with 9, and the most number-one end-year albums with 7. Marco Antonio SolÃÂs has the most number-one albums with 12. Los Temerarios is the group with the most chart-toppers, eight. Jenni Rivera, Shakira, and Selena are the female artists with the most number-one albums with 7 each.
The current number-one album on the chart is DebàTirar Más Fotos by Bad Bunny.
On July 10, 1993, Billboard premiered the revamped Latin 50 chart, which lists the best-selling Latin albums in the overall American music market.
Before this, the first chart regarding Latin music albums in the magazine (Billboard Hot Latin LPs in Los Angeles) was published on the issue dated December 9, 1972. Y Volveré, by Chilean band Los ÃÂngeles Negros, was the first album to appear at number-one. Then, all Latin music information was featured on the first incarnation of the Top Latin Albums chart, which began on June 29, 1985, and divided Latin records on three different genre subcharts: Pop, Regional Mexican and Tropical, all of them now published in addition to the overall chart. The Latin Pop Albums chart features music only from the pop genre, while the Regional Mexican Albums chart includes information from different genres like duranguense, norteño, banda and mariachi, and the Tropical Albums includes different genres particularly salsa, merengue, bachata, and cumbia. In May 2005, another chart, Latin Rhythm Albums, was introduced in response to growing sales of reggaeton records.
On the week ending January 26, 2017, Billboard updated the methodology to compile the Top Latin Albums chart into a multi-metric methodology to include track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent albums units.
In 2018, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 20 best albums on the chart since its inception in 1993. The ranking is based on the most number of weeks the albums spent on top of the chart. For albums with the same number of weeks at number one, they are ranked by the most total weeks on the chart.
In 2025, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best albums on the chart through the first quarter of the 21st century, from the start of 2000 to the end of 2024. The ranking is based on weekly performance on the chart.
The following list contains the top artists per number of albums at number one on the Top Latin Album chart:
The following list contains the top artists per number of weeks at number one on the Top Latin Album chart:
The following list contains the longest-leading albums per number of weeks at number one on the Top Latin Albums chart:
The following list contains the number-one albums as determined by the year-end chart of the Top Latin Albums chart: