Regional Mexican Albums The Regional Mexican Albums chart was established on the issue dated June 29, 1985. Initially, it was published on a fortnightly basis with its positions being compiled by sales data from
Latin retailers and distributors. The methodology for the chart was amended with the effect from the week of July 10, 1993, to have its sales compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan, basing it on electronic
point of sale data. At the same time, the chart began to be published weekly and became a sub chart of
Top Latin Albums (which was established in the same week as the methodology change).
Billboard also imposed a linguistic rule requiring an album to have 70% of its content in Spanish (later reduced to 50%) to be eligible to rank on the chart. On January 26, 2017,
Billboard updated the Regional Mexican Albums, along with the other genre album charts, to incorporate track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA) to match the current
Billboard 200 methodology. The first number-one album on the Regional Mexican Albums chart was
Jaula de Oro by
Los Tigres del Norte.
Regional Mexican Airplay The Regional Mexican Airplay was established on October 8, 1994, as a subchart of the
Latin Airplay chart. It ranks the top-performing songs played on Regional Mexican radio stations in the US based on weekly
airplay data compiled by
Nielsen's
Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). It is the only subchart of Latin Airplay that continues to be spin-based rather than measure audience impressions. The first number-one song on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart was "La Niña Fresa" by Banda Zeta.
Hot Regional Mexican Songs On the issue dated April 12, 2025,
Billboard established Hot Regional Mexican Songs which ranks the best-performing regional Mexican songs which follows the methodology of the
Billboard Hot 100 by incorporating
digital download sales, streaming data, and radio airplay of regional Mexican songs over all formats. The first number-one song on the Hot Regional Mexican Songs chart was "
Me Jalo" by
Fuerza Regida and
Grupo Frontera. ==References==