# Regional Mexican Albums

Regional Mexican Albums is a genre-specific record chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. The chart was established in June 1985 and originally listed the top twenty-five best-selling albums of mariachi, tejano, norteño, and grupero, all subgenres of regional Mexican music. The genre is considered by musicologists as "the biggest-selling Latin music genre in the United States", and represented the fastest-growing Latin genre in the United States after tejano music entered the mainstream market during its 1990s golden age.
Originally, Billboard based their methodology on sales surveys it sent to record stores across the United States and by 1991 began monitoring point-of-sales compiled from Nielsen Soundscan. Musicologists and critics have since criticized the sales data compiled from Nielsen, finding that the company only provides sales from larger music chains, omitting small shops that specialized in Latin music—where the majority of Latin music sales are generated. The magazine began to rank Latin music recordings in August 1970 under the title Hot Latin LPs, which only ranked the best-selling Latin albums in Los Angeles (Pop) and the East Coast (Salsa). Before the chart's inception, musicians' only chart success was the Texas Latin LPs (formerly the San Antonio Latin LPs) section, where regional Mexican music was more prominent. Beginning in November 1993, Billboard lowered the rankings from twenty-five to fifteen positions on its Latin genre-specific charts, while the Top Latin Albums expanded to fifty titles. From July 2001 until April 2005, the chart increased to twenty titles and then lowered back to fifteen titles. Since 2009, the Regional Mexican Albums chart lists the top twenty best-selling albums determined by sales data compiled from Nielsen SoundScan.
The first album to peak at number one was Jaula de Oro by Los Tigres del Norte on June 29, 1985. In 1994, Selena's Amor Prohibido debuted and peaked at number one in three different calendar years (1994–1996), making her the first artist to do so. Amor Prohibido currently holds the record for the most weeks at number one, with 96 nonconsecutive weeks. Jenni Rivera is the female act with the most number ones at nine on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. The current number-one album on the chart is Mi Vida Mi Muerte by Netón Vega.

## Year-end best selling albums

According to the RIAA, albums containing more than 50% Spanish language content are awarded with gold certifications (Disco de Oro) for U.S. shipments of 100,000 units; platinum (Disco de Platino) for 200,000 and multi-platinum (Multi-Platino) for 400,000 and following in increments of 200,000 thereafter. In the following table, the certifications shown are standard as any album release in United States: gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies; platinum, for one million units, and multi-platinum for more than one million sold.
| Year | Artist | Album | Label | RIAA certification |
| 1986 | Los Bukis | A Donde Vas | Profono | — |
| 1987 | Los Bukis | Me Volvi a Acordar de Ti | Laser Records | — |
| 1988 | Los Bukis | Si Me Recuerdas | — |
| 1989 | Grupo Bronco | Un Golpe Más | Fonovisa Records | — |
| 1990 | Grupo Bronco | A Todo Galope | Fonovisa Records | — |
| 1991 | Grupo Bronco | Amigo | Fonovisa Records | — |
| 1992 | La Mafia | Estas Tocando Fuego | Sony Discos | — |
| 1993 | Selena | Entre a Mi Mundo | EMI Latin | 6× Platinum |
| 1994 | Selena | Amor Prohibido | EMI Latin | 2× Platinum |
| 1995 | Selena | Amor Prohibido | EMI Latin | 2× Platinum |
| 1996 | Selena | Amor Prohibido | EMI Latin | 2× Platinum |
| 1997 | Grupo Limite | Partiendome El Alma | Universal Music Latino | Gold |
| 1998 | Selena | Anthology | EMI Latin | |
| 1999 | Selena | All My Hits Vol.1 | EMI Latin | Gold |
| 2000 | Los Temerarios | En La Madrugada se Fue | Fonovisa | Platinum |
| 2001 | Vicente Fernández | Historia de Un Idolo, Vol. 1 | Sony Music Latin | Gold |
| 2002 | Los Temerarios | Una Lágrima No Basta | Fonovisa | Gold |
| 2003 | Los Tigres del Norte | Herencia Musical: 20 Corridos Inolvidables | Fonovisa | — |
| 2004 | Grupo Climax | Za Za Za | Balboa | — |
| 2005 | Grupo Montéz de Durango | Y Sigue La Mata Dando | Disa Records | — |
| 2006 | Grupo Montéz de Durango | Borrón y Cuenta Nueva | Disa Records | — |
| 2007 | Vicente Fernández | Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1 | Sony Music Latin | Gold |
| 2008 | Vicente Fernández | Para Siempre | Sony Music Latin | 5× Platinum (Latin) |
| 2009 | El Trono de Mexico | Almas Gemelas | Fonovisa | Gold (Latin) |
| 2010 | Jenni Rivera | La Gran Señora | Fonovisa | Platinum (Latin) |
| 2011 | Los Bukis | 35 Aniversario | Fonovisa | — |
| 2012 | 3Ball MTY | Inténtalo | Universal Music Latino | — |
| 2013 | Jenni Rivera | La Misma Gran Señora | Fonovisa | 2× Platinum (Latin) |
| 2014 | Jenni Rivera | 1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1 | Fonovisa | Platinum (Latin) |
| 2015 | Gerardo Ortíz | Hoy Más Fuerte | Sony Music Latin | — |
| 2016 | Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho | Recuerden Mi Estiló | DEL Records | — |
| 2018 | Christian Nodal | Me Dejé Llevar | Universal | — |
| 2019 | Christian Nodal | Me Dejé Llevar | Universal | — |
| 2020 | Natanael Cano | Corridos Tumbados | Rancho Humilde | — |
| 2021 | Eslabon Armado | Corta Venas | DEL Records | — |
| 2022 | Eslabon Armado | Corta Venas | DEL Records | — |
| 2023 | Peso Pluma | Génesis | The Orchard | Platinum |
| 2024 | Peso Pluma | Génesis | The Orchard | Platinum |