Twelve songs on the Hot 100 right now are Mexican regional. Reanna Cruz: We’ve seen a continuous stream of Latin music on the Hot 100 for several years now, but on the recent editions of Hot 100, there’s been a particular influx of a certain category of Latin music, and that’s Mexican regional. Be sure to subscribe to Switched on Pop, and then read on! But as we discuss below, a few things caught our attention: TikTok sped-up remixes, legacy artists, and, on one occasion, a mix of both. 2, and Jersey Club is still all over the charts (look at Bad Bunny’s “ Where She Goes,” at number 16, for example). 1), “ Flowers” by Miley Cyrus is still no. 31.Īs for the other 88 songs on the chart, there hasn’t been much upheaval since our last edition of Chartbreakers in February: Morgan Wallen is Morgan Wallening (he has eight in the top 100, with one of them, “ Last Night,” on its tenth week at no. Between artists like Grupo Frontera and Fuerza Regida, there are currently 12 Mexican regional tracks on the Hot 100, with the 23-year-old phenomenon Peso Pluma himself occupying nine of those slots - including his Bizarrap session at no. In this edition of Switched on Pop’s Chartbreakers, we’re joined by the co-host of NPR Music podcast Alt.Latino Anamaria Sayre, who says that Mexican regional, or simply regional, is a marketing “bucket term” that encompasses Latin genres including everything from Norteño to Corridos, all of which are comfortably finding a home in the top 20 of the Hot 100 in 2023. 60, the past two years have seen many tracks by Mexican artists find success on the charts, with that array of songs highlighting various scenes and sounds from the different states in Mexico. Since 2021’s “ Botella Tras Botella” by Gera MX and Christian Nodal, which peaked at No. This year, however, those usual patterns have been overshadowed by the settling in of a long-emerging trend that can now be found throughout the top half of the Hot 100: the influx of Mexican regional music. Artists churn out releases in a fight for the song of the summer, while listeners stream things they wouldn’t normally in darker and more dreary times. The arrival of summer months typically occasions some shake-ups on the charts.

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