Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin music/Resources

This page contains useful sources including charts, certifications, awards, and other useful links to help our members for a specific article or project they wish to expand or cleanup. You may add any sources that you feel could be potentially useful to the project. Make sure that the source satisfies WP:RS before adding it to the list.

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 * List of online newspaper archives
 * Resource Request (for access to offline and paywall sources)

Books available from Latin music members

 * The Billboard Guide to Tejano and Regional Mexican Music (1999) [Burr, Ramiro] – jona  ✉ 15:00, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Chicano Renaissance (2000) [Edited by: Macial, David R., Ortiz, Isidro D., Herrera-Sobek, Maria] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Latin: 100 Essential CDs, The Rough Guide (2001) [Steward, Sue] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * World Music: The Rough Guide, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific (2000) [Edited by: Broughton, Simon, Ellingham, Mark] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Latino Popular Culture, Vol. 2 M-Z (2004) [Various] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Music of Latin America: Mexico and the Caribbean (2012) [Edited by: Loza, Steven] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Musica Tejana (1999) [Pena, Manuel] – jona  ✉ 17:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Charts and certifications
Below are music charts that listed as reliable sources by Wikipedia. See WP:CHARTS for more available charts. Charts marked with an asterisk (*) means that the chart must be manually archived using online services such WebCite or Wayback Machine as the site does not have a searchable database. Charts that are listed under WP:BADCHARTS should not be used.

CAPIF (albums only):
 * Argentina
 * Official website
 * Mirror site
 * For chart positions before 2010, refer to the Billboard Hits of the World which only be accessed from the physical magazines (see below).
 * Certifications Down as of December 2011. It is uncertain if or when it will be available again. At the moment, an archive for all certifications up to 2010 can be found here. Until then, certifications for Argentina will have to come from a reliable source. For diamond certifications, see here.

ABPD:
 * Brazil
 * Official website
 * Albums chart (see Sourcing guide on how to use the Brazilian albums chart.)
 * Certifications

Billboard Brazil:
 * Official website

National-Report* (singles chart):
 * Colombia
 * Official website. Use only the "Top Nacional" as chart listings by cities are not allowed.

Monitor Latino* (singles chart):
 * Dominican Republic
 * Official website

Monitor Latino* (singles chart):
 * Ecuador
 * Official website

Monitor Latino* (singles chart):
 * Guatemala
 * Official website

AMPROFON (albums only):
 * Mexico
 * Official website
 * Hung Media NOTE: Not updated as of December 2011.

Monitor Latino* (singles chart):
 * Official website
 * Alternative website

AFP (albums only):
 * Portugal
 * Official website
 * Albums chart
 * Hung Media
 * Certifications 1 (weekly)
 * Certifications 2 (from 2007)

PROMUSICAE (albums and singles chart):
 * Spain
 * Official website
 * Hung Media


 * For album and singles chart before 2004, they can be found on Billboard Hits of the World (see below). They may also be found on the book Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (2005) by Fernando Salaverri.

Billboard:
 * United States
 * Official website
 * Top Latin Albums chart
 * Hot Latin Songs chart
 * Latin Airplay (use from October 20, 2012 onwards as the Hot Latin Songs and the Latin Airplay were previously the same charts)

Note: Per WP:USCHARTS, the Latin Pop Airplay, Regional Mexican Airplay, Latin Tropical Airplay, and Latin Rhythm Airplay may also be used provided that the song has not ranked on other Billboard genre charts.

Year-end charts (2002-2005): The year-end charts listed on the physical Billboard volumes from 2002 to 2005 are not complete. The full year-end charts were only available to subscribers before it was taken down. The links to year-end charts were archived prior to being removed via Webcite, Below are links to each year, chart, and a mirror site should WebCite go down again:

You may use also Allmusic as an alternative source for Billboard chart positions. The charts are listed under the "Awards" section. However, Billboard should be preferably used as Allmusic lists singles released in the same year are arranged alphabetical order and takes two weeks to update chart positions. As of 2016, Allmusic no longer displays Billboard charts due to licensing costs.
 * Latin Albums: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Latin Songs: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Latin Pop Albums: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Latin Pop Airplay: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Regional Mexican Albums: 2003, 2004, 2005 (Note: The full year-end chart for the 2002 Regional Mexican Albums is missing)
 * Regional Mexican Airplay: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Tropical Albums: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 * Tropical Airplay: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Physical scans can be found on Google Books and on World Radio History. Note that not all issues may be available.

RIAA (certifications):
 * Official website

Note: The RIAA also has special certifications for Latin albums and singles. See Recording Industry Association of America certification for more details.

Record Report* (singles chart):
 * Venezuela
 * Official website

For certifications of other Latin American countries see (as of 2005)

Awards
Billboard Latin Music Awards
 * Latin music awards
 * Official website

Heat Latin Music Awards
 * Official website

Latin American Music Awards
 * Official website

Latin Grammy Awards
 * Official website
 * Searchable database

Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame
 * Official website

Lo Nuestro Awards
 * Official website
 * 1989-2000 Awards

Los Premios 40 Principales
 * Official website

MTV Millenial Awards
 * Official website

American Music Awards
 * Awards with categories for Latin music
 * Official website

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Awards (awarded to songwriters)
 * Awards page

Billboard Music Awards
 * Official website

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Awards (awarded to songwriters)
 * Latin page

Grammy Awards
 * Official website
 * Searchable database

iHeartRadio Music Awards
 * Awards page

Premios Juventud
 * Official website

Premios Tu Mundo
 * Official website

Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC) (awarded to songwriters)
 * Latin website

Argentina
 * Country-specific
 * Premios Gardel

Brazil
 * Prêmio da música brasileira

Colombia
 * Premios Nuestra Tierra
 * Premios Shock

Cuba
 * CubaDisco
 * Premios Lucas

Dominican Republic
 * Premios Soberano

Mexico
 * Premios Oye!
 * Premios monitorLATINO a la Radio

Spain
 * Premios Ondas
 * Premios de la Música (until 2011)

United States
 * Tejano Music Awards

Uruguay
 * Premios Graffiti

Possible sources for editors

 * General
 * Al Borde
 * Allmusic Latin page
 * American Sabor
 * Billboard en español
 * Billboard Latin music articles
 * Diaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection at Florida International University
 * Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at University of California
 * Foundation for Iberian Music the Brook Center at The City University of New York Graduate Center
 * Google Newspapers
 * TheFreeLibrary.com now
 * Rolling Stone Latin music articles
 * Terra Música music section of Terra Networks
 * Iberoamérica Musical

Note that the sources below may not focus on music exclusively
 * Country-specific
 * Argentina
 * Suplemento Sí, part of the Clarín newspaper.
 * Suplemento No, part of the Página/12 newspaper.
 * Jedbangers, a Heavy Metal magazine.


 * Brazil
 * Billboard Brasil, the Brazilian edition of Billboard.
 * Discos do Brasil, a website maintained by renowned journalist and musicologist Maria Luiza Kfouri and focused on reproducing information from booklets of Brazilian albums.
 * Estadão Cultura, the culture section of O Estado de S. Paulo, one of the largest newspapers and news portals in Brazil.
 * Folha Ilustrada, the culture section of Folha de S.Paulo, one of the largest newspapers and news portals in Brazil.
 * O Globo - Cultura, the culture section of O Globo, one of the largest newspapers and news portals in Brazil.
 * Jornal do Brasil - Cultura, the culture section of Jornal do Brasil, one of the largest newspapers and news portals in Brazil.
 * Rock Brigade, a traditional magazine about heavy metal/rock.
 * Rolling Stone Brasil, the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone
 * Tenho Mais Discos Que Amigos!, a notorious music website, and a good source for indie stuff.
 * Terra Música, the music section of Terra Networks, a large Spanish-Brazilian news website.
 * UOL Música, the music section of UOL, a news portal and a sister project to Folha de S.Paulo.
 * Zero Hora Música, the music section of Zero Hora, one of the largest newspapers and news portals in Brazil.


 * Chile
 * Sociedad Chilena de Derechos de Autor, has some good information related to Chilean music, including websites for some artists. Also publishes a magazine called País de Músicos
 * Memoria Chilena, has some material related to Chilean music


 * Spain
 * Efe Eme music magazine founded in 1998.
 * Rockdelux music magazine founded in 1984.
 * MariskalRock, a website from the editors of the traditional Spanish magazine Heavy Rock (known as La Heavy now) founded in 1982.
 * Rock Estatal, a Spanish rock-oriented magazine founded in 2002.
 * Maneras de Vivir, a Spanish rock-oriented website since 2002.
 * Rolling Stone Spain, on run from 1999 until 2015. Some online archived articles can still be checked. Otherwise, see the printed versions.