![]() songs have charted for roughly the same amount of time, give or take a week, plus you find Adictiva’s certified 37-weeker “Después de Ti, ¿Quién?”, a real tantric filibuster. ![]() Verdadero but if you check out Billboard‘s radio-only Regional Mexican chart, the U.S. (And one that doesn’t account for NorteñoBlog’s fave wristwatch porn jam “Tomen Nota.”) You might also be thinking these two charts aren’t equivalent, because Hot Latin measures radio plus streams plus downloads, whereas the Mexican Popular chart only measures radio. songs after five months! You’re right, but that quality judgment is probably just a coincidence. I know what you’re thinking: the Mexican list is way better, and not just because you’re sick of all the U.S. #12 – “María” by Pepe Aguilar, 11 semanas #7 – “Espero Con Ansias” by Remmy Valenzuela, 13 semanas #17 – “El Borrachito” by Julión Álvarez, 14 semanas #13 – “Préstamela a Mí” by Calibre 50, 14 semanas #8 – “Tragos de Alcohol” by El Komander, 14 semanas #19 – “DEL Negociante” by Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho, 20 weeks #13 – “Broche de Oro” by Trakalosa, 24 weeks #4 – “Solo Con Verte” by Banda MS, 25 weeks #19 – “Ya Te Perdí La Fe” by Arrolladora, 26 weeks For example, check out the norteño and banda songs that have been hanging around the charts the longest: Although it’s been several weeks since NorteñoBlog tuned in to the Mexican radio, the rate of turnover feels much quicker there than in El Norte. Welcome to the Mexican charts, where change, as my cosmetic podiatrist likes to say, is afoot. And if you ever wondered what’s behind the Houston Rodeo’s “Go Tejano Day” - well, here you go.Īlso - and be sure to pour one out for the late George Michael, who inspired the name of this feature - Yo. We also looked at the histories of the Mexican radio market in Houston and, in a still-popular 2015 article, Chicago. And, perhaps feeling guilty about all these corrido articles but nonetheless digging the new Tucanes tune, Josh wondered How Do We Hear Violent Corridos?ġ00 Regional Mexican Compilations Released in 2015īut it wasn’t all corridos! The article above looked at the curious prevalence of Regional Mexican compilation albums, even though such albums seem to be dying in the rest of the music industry. radio hit and sent people to Manuel’s above-linked 2015 article, where you can see Ruiz singing the song to its subject, Boston narco George Jung. Speaking of corridos, Omar Ruiz‘s song “El Americano,” re-recorded with the kickass band Fuerza de Tijuana, became an unexpected U.S. We also heard from a band of hyphy-not-hyphy progenitors in Marco Flores y Los Inquietos Saluden a Su Madre. NorteñoBlog covered both in the 2015 article Pronounced “Jai-Fi”: The Rise and Fall of Hyphy Norteño, and happily learned about Martín Patrón‘s hardcore “trap corridos” in the above linked Trap Is Hyphy and Hyphy Is Trap. Speaking of stubborn, the twin phenomena of hyphy norteño (existence iffy) and the Hyphy record label (going strong!) continued to fascinate. Buncha people also clicked on 2015’s Who Played It Better: Ariel Camacho or These Dudes? “Tomen Nota”), and Attack of the Teen Idols. NorteñoBlog looked the Sierreño wave in the articles ¡Pisteando! (featuring Chuy Zuñiga), Wristwatch Porn and White Slavery (ft. His own songs and those of his band, Los Plebes del Rancho, racked up enormous numbers of internet streams and had a stubborn presence on Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart for most of the year. Speaking of dead corrideros, Ariel Camacho continued to intrigue internet listeners. Roughly one fifth of NorteñoBlog’s 2016 visitors came to read Manuel’s 2015 article on Beto, which covered his previous assassination attempt as well as some of his best songs.Įl Karma Karma Karma Comes Back to You Hard Juan Gabriel might have been the most iconic musician in Mexico, but for certain music fans - the kind who run internet searches for the details of sordid deaths - Beto Cervantes’ untimely death in September came as a shock. Here are some of the most-clicked items from the blog’s most clicked year. Well, that was a terrible year, wasn’t it? But as disappointment turns to fear, fear into love, and love to resistance, let’s remember why you came to NorteñoBlog in the first place: accordions and tubas, cumbias and corridos, gritos and gallos, all racing around at breakneck speeds and knocking shit over.
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