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55 albums · 1953–2023

Music of Mexico, from Pedro Infante and the bolero to Los Tigres del Norte, Café Tacvba, Natalia Lafourcade and today

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Four mariachis in blue charro suits playing on a trajinera boat in Xochimilco
Lila Downs singing on stage, holding out a wide embroidered flowered skirtRubén Albarrán of Café Tacvba singing with his arms raised, a sousaphone behind him
A mariachi on a trajinera on the canals of Xochimilco, Mexico City, in 2019. Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Lila Downs at the Maison de la Musique in Nanterre in 2013. Photo: Eunostos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Rubén Albarrán of Café Tacvba at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato in 2022. Photo: Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mexico's popular music has the ranchera of Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, José Alfredo Jiménez, Lola Beltrán and Vicente Fernández with the Mariachi Vargas behind them, the bolero of Agustín Lara, Trío Los Panchos and Armando Manzanero, the son jarocho of Mono Blanco and the huapangos of Los Camperos de Valles, the norteño of Los Alegres de Terán, Ramón Ayala and Los Tigres del Norte, the brass of Banda El Recodo, the rock that runs from Los Teen Tops and El Tri to Caifanes, Café Tacvba, Maná, Molotov and Zoé, the ballads of Juan Gabriel, José José and Luis Miguel, Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade and Carla Morrison, the cumbia of Celso Piña and Los Ángeles Azules, Control Machete's rap, Nortec's Tijuana, and today the corridos tumbados of Natanael Cano and Peso Pluma. The list has 55 records from 1953 to 2023, one by each name and only a small part of what they made; the sones of each region beyond a few, the brass bands of Oaxaca, the Tejano side of the border, the trova of Yucatán and most of the classical tradition, with Revueltas's Sensemayá as a single nod, are left for other lists. About 42 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Latin 21%Rock 14%Pop 7%Other 58%
  • Latin 21%
  • Rock 14%
  • Pop 7%
  • Other 58%

The genres named most: mexican, rock, pop, ranchera, bolero, norteño.

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 1 country: Mexico 55. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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