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Top Latin Albums
Top Latin Albums is a record chart published by ''Billboard'' magazine and is labeled as the most important music chart for Spanish language, full-length albums in the American music market. Like all ''Billboard'' album charts, the chart is based ...
is a record chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often in combination. These include re ...
published by ''Billboard'' magazine and is labeled as the most important music chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often in combination. These include re ...
for Spanish language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...
, full-length album
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s in the American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
music market
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. Like all ''Billboard'' album charts, the chart is based on sales. Nielsen SoundScan compiles the sales data from merchants representing more than 90 percent of the U.S. music retail market. The sample includes sales at music stores
A music store or musical instrument store is a retail business that sells musical instruments and related equipment and accessories. Some music stores sell additional services, such as music lessons, music instrument or equipment rental, or r ...
, the music departments of electronics and department stores, direct-to-consumer transactions, and Internet sales
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of physical albums or digital downloads. A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated. To rank on this chart, an album must have 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. Before this chart, all Latin music information was featured on the Latin Pop Albums
Latin Pop Albums is a record chart published on ''Billboard'' magazine. It features Latin music information of the Pop music genre. Established in June 1985, this chart features only full-length albums and like all album charts on ''Billboard'', i ...
chart, which began on June 29, 1985, and is still running along with the Regional Mexican Albums and Tropical Albums
Tropical Albums (formerly known as ''Tropical/Salsa'') is a record chart published by ''Billboard'' magazine. Established in June 1985, the chart compiles information about the top-selling albums in genres like salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, ...
chart.
On the week ending February 11, 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.
The table that follows is accurate as of the issue dated August 5, 2017. A total of 253 albums achieved a number-one debut on the chart.
Number-one debuts
Summaries
Artists with most number-one debuts
See also
* List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums from the 1990s * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2000 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2001 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2002 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2003 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2004 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2005 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2006 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2007 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2008 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums of 2009 * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Latin Albums from the 2010s * List of number-one ''Billboard'' Latin Albums from the 2020sReferences
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