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53 albums · 1942–2024

Music of Spain, from copla and the cantautores to the Movida, flamenco pop and trap

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Enrique Morente singing seated between two guitarists on the stage of the Palau de la Música Catalana
Paco de Lucía bent over his flamenco guitar on stageRosalía in red with her dancers under red light at the Palau Sant Jordi
Enrique Morente at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, March 2009. Photo: alterna2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Paco de Lucía on stage at a jazz festival in July 2010. Photo: Alberto Cabello, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Rosalía with her dancers at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, December 2019. Photo: Davidpar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Spain's popular music has a word of its own, the cantautor, and a music of its own, flamenco, and both run through this list: the copla of Concha Piquer, Serrat, Aute and the nova cançó of Lluís Llach, Paco de Lucía and Camarón, the rumba of Las Grecas and the rock andaluz of Triana, then the Movida of Nacha Pop, Alaska y Dinarama, Radio Futura and Mecano, the rock of Héroes del Silencio and Extremoduro, Sabina, Los Planetas and Estopa, the rap of Mala Rodríguez and Violadores del Verso, the indie pop of La Casa Azul and Vetusta Morla, and Rosalía, C. Tangana, Quevedo and Bad Gyal today. The list has 53 records from 1942 to 2024, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; zarzuela, flamenco's own cante, the Basque and Galician scenes and the Latin America that Spain sings with would each need a list of their own. About 39 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Pop 16%Rock 15%Latin 9%Other 60%
  • Pop 16%
  • Rock 15%
  • Latin 9%
  • Other 60%

The genres named most: spanish, pop, rock, flamenco, cantautor, hip hop.

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: Spain 53. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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