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Despite a tumultuous year, 2020 has blessed fans with a big wave of new Latin music, some of which has been curated to dance at club casa or to forget about our quarantine blues.
Banda MS teamed up with Snoop Dogg for the first time, fusing the best of Regional Mexican and Hip Hop in “Que Maldicion,” Eslabon Armado put themselves on the map with their almost-didn’t-get-released “Con Tus Besos,” and Residente poured his heart out in the ultra-personal “Rene.”
This week,
Billboard Latin editors highlighted 25 of the best Latin songs released in 2020, including some Regional Mexican gems such as Christian Nodal and Angela Aguila’s “Dime Como Quieres,” and some true urban bops such as Bad Bunny’s “Yo Perreo Sola.”
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Couple the era of streaming with a pandemic imposed lockdown and you have a perfect storm for creativity. In a business that is increasingly about singles, never in recent memory have we seen such an output of material from Latin artists of every stripe. Throughout 2020, it felt like every single week brought with it an avalanche of singles.
From major hits like Ritmo, the Black Eyed Peas smash alongside J Balvin, to gems that catapulted careers like Carin Leon s Tú, here are our editors picks for our favorite 25 Latin singles of the year, arranged in alphabetical order by title.