Latin Pop Airplay is a

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that ranks the top-performing songs (regardless of genre or language) on

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radio stations in the United States, published by ''

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'' magazine based on weekly airplay data compiled by Nielsen's Broadcast Data Systems. It is a subchart of

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, which lists the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country. In 1996, 16 songs topped the chart, in 52 issues of the magazine. The first number one of the year was "

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" by

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, which had been in the top spot since the issue dated December 30, 1995, and spent a total of three weeks at this position.

Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the ...

Cristian Castro Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro (born 8 December 1974), known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés ...

Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...

, and

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were the only acts to have more than one chart-topper in 1996. Iglesias's debut single, " Si Tú Te Vas", became his first chart-topper and spent two weeks at number one. He also had the best-performing Latin pop song of the year with "

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" despite it only spending one week at number one. Castro's self-penned track, " Amor", held the top spot for the longest in 1996 with 10 weeks. "Sueña", which spent four weeks at number one, is the Spanish-language adaptation of "

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" from

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's 1996 film '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', which Miguel recorded for the Latin American edition of the movie's soundtrack. Soraya achieved her only number ones with "

De Repente "De Repente" () is a song by Colombian-American singer-songwriter Soraya, taken from her bilingual debut studio album '' En Esta Noche / On Nights Like This''. It was released in 1996 by Island Records and Polydor Records as the lead single from ...

" and " Amor en Tus Ojos". Other artists to top the chart for the first time in 1996 were

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with "

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" and Chayanne with " Solamente Tu Amor", while Olga Tañón,

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, and

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obtained their first and only chart-toppers in the year. Both "Estoy Aquí" and Ramazzotti's "La Cosa Más Bella" (originally recorded in Italian as " Più bella cosa") held the top spot for four weeks. " Ámame una Vez Más" by Amanda Miguel was number one song for the longest, at eight weeks, by a female act. It also won the ''Billboard'' Latin Music Award for Latin Pop Song of the Year in

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. The final number one of the year was "Las Cosas Queue Vives" by

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, the Spanish-language version of her song " Le cose che vivi".

Chart history

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1996 in Latin music 1996 in American music

Chart history

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