A total of 10 songs have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in 2023 so far.
All but one — Bad Bunny‘s “Titi Me Preguntó,” from Un Verano Sin Ti — were released in 2023, and reflect a year dominated by música mexicana. Four out of the 10 are regional Mexican-influenced songs, and demonstrate the power of collaboration, as seven out of the 10 are team-ups.
After Bunny’s “Titi Me Preguntó” topped the tally, Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera helped ring in a significant year for Mexican music with their cumbia-tinged “Bebe Dame,” which scored both bands their first No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart. “We were aiming for a hit, but we didn’t know it’d be this big,” Fuerza Regida’s lead singer Jesús Ortiz Paz told Billboard earlier this year.
Following the first No. 1 hit for regional Mexican music in 2023 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma‘s global sierreño anthem “Ella Baila Sola” would rule the tally for a total of 19 weeks. Later, Karol G‘s grupero-tinged cumbia song “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” would lead the chart, and then the attitude-heavy corrido “Lady Gaga” by Peso Pluma, Gabito Ballesteros and Junior H peaked at No. 1 in early September, and stay atop for two weeks.
Star-studded collaborations, such as Shakira and Bizarrap (“Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”), Karol G and Shakira (“TQG”), and Karol G and Peso Pluma (“QLONA”), proved to have a stronghold on the chart. All three collabs ruled the tally for five weeks each.
Below, the 10 songs that reached No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart so far this year — in order of peak date.
