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\n\tRegional Mexican music is dominating the Billboard<\/em> charts thanks to artists such as Peso Pluma<\/a>, Fuerza Regida<\/a>, Carin Le\u00f3n<\/a>, Banda MS<\/a> and Ed\u00e9n Mu\u00f1oz<\/a>. Overall, the Mexican style is having an unprecedented year, with consumption up 42.1% so far in 2023, outpacing all genres except K-pop, which is up 49.4%. As of July 15 alone, 27 Mexican regional tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tBut what, exactly, is Mexican music \u2014 or as it is better known in many places, regional Mexican music?<\/p>\n \n\tThe general term encompasses many subgenres, from corridos and mariachi to norte\u00f1o and banda. Historically, Mexican music \u2014 alive for more than a century and a half \u2014 has had a strong presence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mariachi was symbolic of Mexico internationally, with which the country was recognized by outsiders. It is arguably the most international Mexican style, thanks to legends such as Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez \u2014 and, before him, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Jim\u00e9nez, during the great Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1950s.<\/p>\n \n\tTwo decades ago, the rise of Sinaloan banda and norte\u00f1o music (named after the region where it was born) came to complement the strength of Mexican music with new sounds and new forms.<\/p>\n \n\tFor example, pioneering artists like Sinaloa native Ariel Camacho led the sierre\u00f1o style with Los Plebes del Rancho. Although his life was cut short at the age of 22 in 2015, years later he inspired a whole group of Generation Z musicians, such as Ivan Cornejo and Yahritza y Su Esencia, who have brought the movement to the masses. Similarly, Sonora-born Natanael Cano, also inspired by Camacho, revamped the corridos with his own tumbado version and gave them a more streetwise approach, closer to the current generation.<\/p>\n \n\tMexican music has gone from being a niche genre to securing a global audience thanks to a traditional musical base such as Banda MS or the revolutionary new approach of Peso Pluma. Over the last five years, the genre grew 604% in Mexico, compared to 212% in the United States and more than 400% globally on Spotify.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cM\u00fasica mexicana has gone through a similar evolution that reggaet\u00f3n also went through when it blew up; [the artists have] modernized the way they look, the way they write lyrics, creating a movement for their generation,\u201d Maykol S\u00e1nchez, head of artist and label partnerships for Latin America and U.S. Latin at Spotify, previously told<\/a> Billboard<\/em>. \u201cIt has been a long time coming, and Mexican being such a strong culture in the U.S. with the population, it just makes sense.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAcross the border, in the United States \u2014 home to the second largest Mexican community in the world \u2014 this genre is constantly evolving and continues to be the soundtrack of multigenerational households. Below, Billboard Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> dissects the nuances and rhythms that exist within the burgeoning Mexican music scene.<\/p>\n \n\t\u2014 With additional reporting by Griselda Flores and Isabela Raygoza.<\/em><\/p>\n Regional Mexican music is dominating the Billboard charts thanks to artists such as Peso Pluma, Fuerza Regida, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azucar.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}