The Latin music industry is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Here are TIME's picks for the best Latin songs and albums of 2022
atin music is not a monolith. It encompasses so many different types of music from so many different countries. This year saw the Latin music space become more and more expansive, with its most engaging artists hailing from all over: Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro representing Puerto Rico, Tokischa, Natti Natasha, and El Alfa from the Dominican Republic, J Balvin and KAROL G from Colombia, Becky G and Christian Nodal from Mexico.
The more popular it gets, the more the Latin label has inspired debate and even consternation about who and what it encompasses. The Latin Recording Academy, which is responsible for handing out Latin Grammys, includes the requirement that the music have at least “51% of its content recorded in Spanish or Portuguese” and have been released in North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Spain, or Portugal.
expands on an already great work of art. A large portion of the album is sung in English, but he mixes in some Spanish on the Neptunes-produced “Tamagotchi” and another song called “Highlight.”
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