Latin Music Sales Are Down, But At Least We Still Have Our Ringtones

Latin music sales are down this year, despite the fact that we’re fairly certain we’re going be hearing Luis Miguel ballads without end when he go home for Christmas:

The drop in Latin music sales mimics the drop in music sales in the market in general. But a bigger cause for concern is that, in the Latin top 20 there are only two new acts: pop trio Camila and duranguense band Los Creadorez.

Well, if profoundly confusing commercials are any indication, at least there’s always reggaeton. Right? Wrong!:

And then there’s reggaeton, which saved the day in 2006. This year, despite a handful of those 100,000-plus albums — including chart leader Daddy Yankee — emerging from the genre, reggaeton was the ugly baby, privately dismissed by many executives. At the Latin Grammy Awards, all reggaeton acts were bypassed in the urban categories in favor of the more off-kilter Calle 13, whose 2007 sophomore album has yet to top the 100,000 mark.

We shall henceforth refer to reggaeton as “that ugly baby music.” Thank you, Reuters.

Latin music sales plummet in 2007 [Reuters]
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