New Music Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs and albums recommended by Billboard and Billboard Español ...

Esaú Ortiz's Discontrol has topped Billboard's latest new Latin music poll, published on Friday, Oct. 10. In support of the weekly New Music Latin roundup and playlist, curated by Billboard Latin and ...

In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests. “One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice ...

One of the lone bright spots for the music industry in 2003 appears to be an increase in shipments of Latin music CDs, which have risen 1.7% in the first six months of the year, the Recording Industry ...

When Joel Massicot released his debut CD “Masacote", everyone was pleasantly asking “who is this kid?" The Boston based pianist brought the masses 8 smokin' tracks backed by a handful of New York ...

EVERY musical genre has its traditional form, a signature sound that helps fans identify with familiar harmonies. But La Costumbre lead singer and accordionist Jose Zamora Jr. says that just as ...

In a moment that electrified the Latin music world, two-time Latin Grammy winner and Florida International University (FIU) alumnus Tony Succar, alongside his mother, Mimy Succar, took center stage at ...

I’m feeling as grumpy as Andy Rooney, the cantankerous TV commentator. If you could see me sitting at my desk, looking rumpled and annoyed, you’d see an array of Latin music CDs in front of me. Then I ...

Agustin Gurza is to be commended for his criticism of the cheap designs that befall many Latin music CDs (“Good CD, Shame About the Cover,” April 7). Should we really be surprised at the labels’ ...

LOS ANGELES – Record-company shipments of Latin music CDs to U.S. retailers rose 13 percent last year, an increase driven in part by growing demand for Reggaeton, the recording industry's trade group ...