List of number-one debuts on Billboard 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 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, the music departments of electronics and department stores, direct-to-consumer transactions, and Internet sales of physical albums or digital downloads. A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated.^[1] To rank on this chart, an album must have 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish.^[2] Before this chart, all Latin music information was featured on the Latin Pop Albums chart, which began on June 29, 1985, and is still running along with the Regional Mexican Albums and Tropical Albums chart.^[3]

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.^[4]

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[]

Mi Tierra by Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan was the first number-one album on the chart and spent 48 consecutive weeks at the top position, a record that has not yet been surpassed.

Marco Antonio Solís (above) and Intocable (below) hold the record for most number-one album debuts (8).

American singer Jenni Rivera is the female act with most number-one album debuts (6). Five of them were achieved posthumously.

Spanish singer Julio Iglesias became the first male soloist to achieve a number-one debut on the chart.

American group Santana became the first band to achieve a number-one debut on the chart with Supernatural, which also became the first rock record to debut at No. 1.

Barrio Fino by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee was the first reggaeton album to achieve a number-one debut. It spent 24 non-consecutive weeks at the top position.

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Artists with most number-one debuts[]

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