List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums from the 1980s

The Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. The Latin Pop Chart was the first of the Latin charts along with, Regional Mexican Albums and Tropical Albums, to be released from Billboard. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States. The data for this chart was published every two weeks, unlike most Billboard charts.

During the 1980s, there were 19 number-one albums in this chart, which was first published on June 29, 1985. The first album to peak at number one in the first year of publication was Reflexiones, by Mexican singer José José. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album and received a platinum certification in Mexico for sales of 250,000 units, Reflexiones spent 8 weeks at number one in 1985. Three other albums by José José: Promesas, Siempre Contigo, and Soy Así also reached number-one on the chart. Un hombre solo by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias holds the record for having the most consecutive weeks at number-one. It won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 1988, defeating albums from veteran pop such as singers José José, Danny Rivera, Yolandita Monge, and Emmanuel; the latter had two albums which peaked at number one on March 1987 with his albums Solo and Entre Lunas in May 1988. In addition, a compilation album related to the artist reached number-one in 1986.

Primitive Love by the Miami Sound Machine peaked number-one on October 4, 1986 for six weeks and twenty-three on the Billboard 200. The eponymous album by Roberto Carlos, released in 1988, spent two weeks at the top of the chart and won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album. One compilation album related to Spanish singer-songwriter Camilo Sesto spent six non-consecutive weeks as number-one . Another performer of Spanish descent, Isabel Pantoja, reached number-one with her album, Desde Andalucía. The album spent 24 weeks on top making it the longest consecutive number-one album on the chart by a female artist. Tierra de nadie by Ana Gabriel was her first number-one album and the last album to chart in the 1980s.

Number one albums

Key

    – Best-selling Latin pop album of the year

Artist	Album	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
José José	Reflexiones	29 June 1985	16
Julio Iglesias	Libra	19 October 1985	10
Miami Sound Machine	Primitive Love	28 December 1985	2
Artist	Album	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
Miami Sound Machine	Primitive Love	11 January 1986	4
José José	Promesas	8 February 1986	12
Rocío Jurado	Paloma Brava	3 May 1986	4
José José	Promesas	31 May 1986	20
Emmanuel	Toda la Vida y Otros Grandes Exitos	1 November 1986	2
José José	Siempre Contigo	15 November 1986	4
Artist	Album	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
José José	Siempre Contigo	10 January 1987	8
Emmanuel	Solo	7 March 1987	2
José José	Siempre Contigo	21 March 1987	2
Emmanuel	Solo	4 April 1987	2
José José	Siempre Contigo	21 March 1987	2
Braulio	Lo Bello y lo Prohibido	7 May 1987	6
Julio Iglesias	Un Hombre Solo	13 June 1987	30
Artist	Album	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
José José	Soy Así	16 January 1988	18
Emmanuel	Entre Lunas	21 May 1988	4
José Luis Rodríguez	Señor Corazón	18 June 1988	12
Camilo Sesto	Amor Libre: 12 Grandes Exitos	10 September 1988	4
Yolandita Monge	Vivencias	8 October 1988	2
Camilo Sesto	Amor Libre: 12 Grandes Exitos	22 October 1988	2
Braulio	Con Todos Mis Sentidos	5 November 1988	2
Yolandita Monge	Vivencias	19 November 1988	2
Angela Carrasco	Boca Rosa	3 December 1988	2
Isabel Pantoja	Desde Andalucía	17 December 1988	4
Artist	Album	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
Isabel Pantoja	Desde Andalucía	14 January 1989	12
Ricardo Montaner	Ricardo Montaner	8 April 1989	2
Isabel Pantoja	Desde Andalucía	22 April 1989	6
Roberto Carlos	Roberto Carlos '88	3 June 1989	2
Isabel Pantoja	Desde Andalucía	17 June 1989	4
Julio Iglesias	Raíces	15 July 1989	18
Ana Gabriel	Tierra de Nadie	18 November 1989	8

See also

• List of number-one Billboard Regional Mexican Albums from the 1980s
• List of number-one Billboard Tropical Albums from the 1980s

References

General

• For information about every week of this chart, follow this link; in the chart date section select a date and the top ten positions for the week selected will appear on screen, including the number-one album, which is shown in the table above.
  • Week of August 23, 1986:
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