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55 albums · 1935–2021

Music of Argentina, from Gardel and Piazzolla to Mercedes Sosa, rock nacional, Soda Stereo and today

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A bandoneón player bent over his instrument, the bellows fanned open, against a black background
Mercedes Sosa in profile, eyes lowered, in a black and white studio portrait of 1967Charly García in a hat and white jacket at his keyboards on stage, making a V sign to the crowd
Matías Rubino playing the bandoneón in Buenos Aires, 2006. Photo: Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Mercedes Sosa in 1967, photographed by Annemarie Heinrich. Photo: Annemarie Heinrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. · Charly García at his seventieth-birthday concert at the CCK in Buenos Aires, October 2021. Photo: Silvina Frydlewsky, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Argentina's popular music begins, for this list, with the tango of Buenos Aires, Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo and Osvaldo Pugliese, and Astor Piazzolla's Adiós Nonino and Libertango, then the folklore of the north-west, Atahualpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa, and Chango Spasiuk's chamamé from Misiones, the rock nacional of Los Gatos, Almendra, Spinetta's Artaud, Charly García's Clics modernos, Soda Stereo's Canción animal, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Fito Páez's El amor después del amor from Rosario, the cuarteto of Córdoba with La Mona Jiménez and Rodrigo, the cumbia villera of Damas Gratis, Gustavo Cerati's Bocanada and Juana Molina, Wos, Duki, Nathy Peluso and María Becerra today, with Gato Barbieri's jazz and Martha Argerich's piano beside them. The list has 55 records from 1935 to 2021, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made, Yupanqui, Sosa and Piazzolla counted as Argentina's through the years each spent abroad; Mercedes Sosa's Mujeres argentinas and Cuchi Leguizamón's own records are not on Deezer, and the tango orchestras beyond a few, the folklore of each province, cuarteto and cumbia beyond a nod and most of the classical tradition would each need a list of their own. About 41 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 27%Latin 9%Folk & Country 7%Other 57%
  • Rock 27%
  • Latin 9%
  • Folk & Country 7%
  • Other 57%

The genres named most: argentine, rock nacional, rock, folklore, tango, pop.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 2 countries: Argentina 54, Uruguay 1. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

The 1930s

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More lists

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