The
''Billboard'' Top Latin Songs
The ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50) is a record chart in the United States for Latin songs, published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. Since October 2012, chart rankings are based on digital sales, rad ...
ranked the best-performing songs on Spanish-language radio stations and was published by ''
Billboard
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'' magazine weekly. Since 1994,
Nielsen BDS
Broadcast Data Systems (also known as BDS or Luminate BDS), is a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned ...
was used to measure the songs on the chart. On the week ending October 20, 2012, ''Billboard'' changed the methodology on the Hot Latin Songs to include
digital downloads and streaming in addition to airplay from all radio stations in the United States, as opposed to just Spanish-language radio stations. ''Billboard'' also included imposed a linguistic rule in which only songs predominantly sung in Spanish are eligible to rank on the Hot Latin Songs chart. The Hot Latin Song's former methodology was formatted into the
Latin Airplay
Latin Airplay is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It was established on October 20, 2012.
This chart lists the 50 most-played songs on Spanish-language radio stations across the country as monitored by Niel ...
chart.
Chart history
Hot Latin Songs
Latin Airplay
References
External links
Current Top Latin Songs Chart
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United States Latin Songs
2012
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2012 in Latin music