Bad Bunny reigns as the No. 1 Latin act on Billboard’s recap of the first 25 years of the quarter-century, ruling Billboard’s Top Latin Artists of the 21st Century chart. The retrospective is based on performance on the Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Songs charts from January 2000 through December 2024.
Bad Bunny’s placement atop the Top Latin Artists of the 21st Century chart is all the more impressive in that he didn’t appear on Billboard’s rankings until 2016. His tallies over 2000-24: 14 No. 1s on Hot Latin Songs and eight on Top Latin Albums. He has since extended his respective counts to 16 and nine leaders, as well as a record 89 Hot Latin Songs top 10s — more than twice the totals of runners-up Enrique Iglesias and Luis Miguel (39 each) — dating to the chart’s 1986 start.
Benito was also Billboard‘s all-genre top artist of 2022 and is the reigning top Latin artist for five straight years, from 2020 to 2024.
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Plus, check back Wednesday (Oct. 8) for Billboard’s Top Latin Albums of the 21st Century chart, Thursday (Oct. 9) for Billboard’s Top Hot Latin Songs of the 21st Century chart and Friday (Oct. 10) for Billboard’s rundown of The Top Producers of the 21st Century on the Hot Latin Songs Chart, with all coverage of Billboard’s 21st Century Charts here.
Billboard’s Top Latin Artists, Top Latin Albums and Top Hot Latin Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The Top Latin Artists category ranks the best-performing acts in that span based on activity on Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Songs. (Titles released prior to mid-1999 are excluded, although such entries that appeared on Top Latin Albums or Hot Latin Songs in that span contribute to the calculation of the Top Latin Artists chart.) The Top Producers of the 21st Century on the Hot Latin Songs Chart reflects producers with the most No. 1s on weekly Hot Latin Songs charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024, with ties broken by most top 10s and most overall chart entries.