Billboard Regional Mexican Albums Year-end Chart, 1990s
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The Year-End charts for the Regional Mexican Albums chart in the 1990s are published in the last issue of ''Billboard'' magazine every year. The chart was based on information provided by
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, which collected a survey from music retail shops and one-stop sales in the United States until May 1991 when the methodology was changed to include
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data compiled from Nielsen SoundScan. The Year-End charts represent aggregated numbers from the weekly charts that were compiled for each artist, album and
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. Mexican group
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had the best-selling album of 1990 with ''A Todo Galope''. Beginning in 1992,
Tejano music Tejano music ( es, música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican and US influences. Typically, Tejano combines Mexican Spanish vocal styles with dance rhythms from Czech and German genres – particular ...
musicians dominated the year-end chart for five consecutive years; with
La Mafia La Mafia is a five-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas, and has charted a course as a Latin music band. History La Mafia was founded in 1980 in Houston, TX. Vocalist Osca ...
having the best-selling album of the year with their critically acclaimed recording ''Estas Tocando Fuego''.
Selena Selena Quintanilla Pérez (; April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known mononymously as Selena, was an American Tejano singer. Called the " Queen of Tejano music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mex ...
had the best-selling album of the year from 1993 to 1996 with ''
Entre a Mi Mundo ''Entre a Mi Mundo'' ( en, italic=yes, Enter My World) is the third studio album by American singer Selena, released on May 6, 1992, by EMI Latin. In his recording debut with Selena y Los Dinos, guitarist Chris Pérez had fallen in love with Sele ...
'' and ''
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'' (1994–96). The former became the only recording in the 1990s to have been named the best-selling Regional Mexican Album of the year for three consecutive times. The singer became the only female musician to have a year-end best-seller in the 1990s. Selena continued her streak of best-selling year-end albums with '' Anthology'' (1998) and '' All My Hits/Todos Mis Exitos'' (1999) following her death in March 1995. Other female singers to have appeared on the year-end chart includes Mexican singer
Ana Gabriel María Guadalupe Araujo Yong (born December 10, 1955), better known as Ana Gabriel, is a Mexican singer and songwriter from Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico. She first sang on the stage at age six, singing "Regalo A Dios" by José Alfredo Jiménez. ...
whose album ''Mi Mexico'' was the second best-seller of 1992, while Gabriel's ''Con Un Mismo Corazon'' ranked fifth in 1998.
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's double diamond certified album ''
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'' ranked eighth and third on the year-end charts in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
Grupo Límite LMT, Grupo Límite, or Límite, is a Mexican Norteño and Tejano band formed in Monterrey, Mexico in 1994. The group was led by singer Alicia Villarreal until she left to pursue a solo career. History The band debuted in 1995 with the record, '' ...
's previous work, ''Por Puro Amor'' peaked at number one on the Regional Mexican Albums chart in 1996, it was replaced from the top with their album ''Partiendome el Alma''; which became the best-selling album of 1997. In 1995, Tejano musicians dominated the year-end chart with eight best-selling albums in the top ten; most of these were Selena. Seven different Tejano singers ranked within the top ten of the best-selling albums of 1996. Following this, the only performers of Tejano music that appeared in the top ten were Selena and
Intocable Intocable ("Untouchable" in English) is an American band from Zapata, Texas that plays Regional Mexican music; specializing in Norteño and Tejano music. It was started by friends Ricardo Javier Muñoz and René Orlando Martínez in the ear ...
; whose albums ''IV'' (1998) and ''Contigo'' (1999) ranked tenth in their respective years.
Los Tigres del Norte Los Tigres del Norte (English: ''The Tigers of the North'') are a norteño band from San Jose, California. Originally founded in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales of 60 million albums, the band is one of the most recognized groups in the ...
placed a total of eight albums within the top ten including '' Jefe de Jefes'', which is one of the best-selling Latin albums in the United States.


Regional Mexican Albums of the Year

– represents the best-performing single of the year. Sources: 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,


References

{{Billboard Latin charts Regional Mexican Albums Year-end Chart, 1990s Regional Mexican music albums United States Regional Mexican