" Hotel Nacional " ("National Hotel") is a song by Cuban-American recording artist Gloria Estefan . It was released as the second single from her studio album Miss Little Havana (2011). Written by Estefan, the song portrays the need to dance, going to parties and being glamorous. On February 3, 2012 a sneak peek of the video for the song was provided to an audience at the American Airlines Arena in Miami , Florida .
26-482: The song became commercially successful when it debuted at the top of the Billboard Latin Songs chart, the first number-one debut for Estefan and the first single by a female performer to start at this position. "Hotel Nacional" has been widely remixed by several DJs including Pablo Flores , Ralphi Rosario , Mike Cruz, Funk3d among others. Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan announced her retirement from
52-614: Is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesday. Each chart is post-dated with the "week-ending" issue date four days after the charts are refreshed online (i.e., the following Saturday). For example: The methods and policies by which this data is obtained and compiled have changed many times throughout the chart's history. Since October 11, 2012, the Billboard Hot Latin Songs tracks paid digital downloads and streaming activity. Billboard initially started tracking downloads since January 10, 2010, with
78-665: The Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Hot 100 , when combined with sales and streaming data from Soundscan. BDS monitors airplay on more than 2,000 radio stations, satellite radio, and cable music channels across the United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, and Mexico. Luminate distributes BDS airplay data in their suite of music data products, including Music Connect, BDSRadio, BDS RealTime, ENcore and Musictracking. From August 2006 to its final June 2009 publication, BDS also provided chart data for R&R after Nielsen acquired
104-515: The "big-band sound loops" of house music in the late '80s on the track. The song debuted at the top of the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart dated on the week of January 14, 2012, becoming the fifteenth number-one song for Estefan, her number-one debut and debut at the top by a female performer. Estefan joined Juanes , Enrique Iglesias , Juan Gabriel , Maná , Ricky Martin , Romeo Santos , Marco Antonio Solís and Los Temerarios in
130-626: The Hot Latin 50. During the late 1980s , musical data was compiled by the Billboard magazine-affiliated chart and research department, with information from 70 Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Those radio stations were selected based on their number of listeners, being asked to report their playlists for the week. Since 1994, this data has been compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), which electronically monitors radio stations in more than 120 music markets across
156-478: The Hot Latin Songs chart was " La Guirnalda " by Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. As of the issue dated November 30, 2024, the chart has had 464 different number one hits, while 192 artists have reached number one (as a lead or a featured act). The current number-one song on the chart is " Tu Boda " by Óscar Maydon and Fuerza Regida . On September 6, 1986, Billboard premiered a Latin music singles chart,
182-646: The Hot Latin Songs chart, namely Latin Pop Airplay , Regional Mexican Airplay , and Latin Tropical Airplay . A fourth sub-chart, the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, was established in 2005 in response to the growing popularity of Latin hip hop , urbano and reggaetón music. According to the Billboard electronic database, the first number one song on the Hot Latin 50 was " La Guirnalda ", by Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal , on September 6, 1986. However, in
208-665: The Latin Digital Songs chart. However, these downloads did not count towards Hot Latin Songs. In addition, Billboard imposed a linguistic requirement; a song must be predominantly sung in Spanish to be eligible to rank on the chart. A component Latin Streaming Songs chart was introduced on April 20, 2013, which ranks web radio streams from services such as Spotify , as well as on-demand audio titles. Billboard , in an effort to allow
234-577: The United States for Latin songs , published weekly by Billboard magazine . Since October 2012, chart rankings are based on digital sales , radio airplay , and online streaming , and only predominantly Spanish-language songs are allowed to rank. The chart was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986, and was originally based on airplay on Latin music radio stations. Although the chart predominantly allows Spanish-language songs, songs in English and Portuguese have charted. The first number one song of
260-572: The United States. Before The Hot Latin Songs chart's inception, the Latin music information on the magazine was presented only in the form of the biweekly album sales chart, or Top Latin Albums , which continues to be listed separately. There were no language restrictions on the chart, since a few songs in English and Portuguese have charted (and even reached number one) on five occasions. Three genre-specific Latin "sub-charts" were introduced and were factored into
286-558: The United States. The chart's previous methodology was formatted to the Latin Airplay chart with the Latin genre-charts now being component charts of the Latin Airplay chart. There are several component charts that contribute to the overall calculation of Hot Latin Songs. These are: The tracking week for sales and streaming begins on Friday and ends on Thursday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Monday to Sunday. A new chart
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#1732851482329312-433: The album was released on the 25th anniversary of her single " Conga ", and with the album purchase a new version of the track, titled "Conga 25", can be downloaded. "Hotel Nacional" was described by Estefan as a "very woody, old fashioned sound, cause it's jitterbuggy ... It's got clarinets, it's got saxes, and a whole different vibe-it just sounds like you could be in the 20s but with hardcore dance", while commenting on
338-472: The chart if ranking below number 10 after 26 weeks or below number five after 52 weeks. In 2016, for the 30th anniversary of Hot Latin Songs, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 50 best-performing songs on the chart over the 30 years, along with the best-performing artists. Billboard has stated that "due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted differently to account for chart turnover rates over various periods." The top 20
364-413: The chart to remain as current as possible and to give proper representation to new and developing artists and tracks, has removed titles that have reached certain criteria regarding its current rank and number of weeks on the chart. A song is permanently moved to "recurrent status" if it has spent 20 weeks on Hot Latin Songs and fallen below position number 25. Additionally, descending songs are removed from
390-543: The company and develop the technology for tracking airplay data, which was originally developed to detect submarines by military contractors in Washington D.C. In 1986, BDS debuted their revolutionary audio recognition technology in front of the Recording Industry Association of America as a new method of monitoring radio airplay of songs and commercial advertising. Prior to the debut of their tracking system
416-406: The debut issue. Due to the increasing popularity of downloads sales and streaming data, Billboard updated the methodology for the Hot Latin Songs chart on October 11, 2012, to include digital sales and streaming activity in addition to airplay, as well as making only predominantly Spanish-language songs eligible for inclusion and increasing airplay data to more than 1,200 radio stations across
442-451: The first time since its spin-off to E5 Global Media from Nielsen Business Media. The purchase included Soundscan, BDS, and Music360. In October 2020, MRC and Penske Media combined their data businesses to form a joint venture, named P-MRC Data. The joint venture would combine MRC Data, Alpha Data, and Variety Business Intelligence. P-MRC Data rebranded as Luminate in March 2022. The service
468-533: The group of performers that have debuted at the top of the chart at the time. With "Hotel Nacional" Estefan extends her record as the female performer with most number-one songs on the list and the third performer overall, only surpassed by Iglesias and Luis Miguel . Top Latin Songs The Billboard Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50 ) is a record chart in
494-466: The large world tours after the release of her studio album 90 Millas in 2007. Three years later American producer and performer Pharrell Williams presented Estefan with two songs, "I Can't Believe" and "Miss Little Havana", which the singer liked, and they began working on them in the recording studio while writing the rest of the songs included on Miss Little Havana . The album was recorded in English with some Spanish and French lyrics. Coincidentally,
520-448: The listings included in the first printed publication of the chart, on October 4, 1986, the first number-one song was " Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó ", by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel . In 2016, Billboard stated that the chart was introduced on the issue dated October 4, 1986, but the magazine's official website recognizes the previous issues from September 6, 1986, to September September 27, 1986, as well as Rocío Durcal's number one on
546-507: The music industry relied on self-reported playlists from radio stations. BDS airplay data was first used on a Billboard chart on January 20, 1990, when Billboard magazine published their newly revised Hot Country Singles chart. On November 30, 1991, Billboard published the first Billboard Hot 100 chart using airplay data from BDS. Since its debut, BDS has become the standard for the radio and music industry because of its accuracy of detecting, tracking and monitoring songs, thus eliminating
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#1732851482329572-420: The tracks included her album on Billboard . On the review for Miss Little Havana , Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic related the lyrics "cuchi cuchi" to Spanish performer Charo . Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine noted that the track "undercuts its pitched beat with wonky Dixieland clarinet riffs." On the review of the parent album by Soul Bounce , they commended the way producer Motiff reinterprets
598-539: The trade. On September 10, 2009, the website Radio-Info.com struck a partnership with Nielsen BDS to provide radio airplay charts and related data for over 20 formats. BDS was founded as Broadcast Recognition Systems by Robert Uhlmann and Hal Oppenheimer, in 1982. Uhlmann developed the idea for automating airplay recognition after his experience working in the music industry in Florida. After returning to Kansas City, Uhlmann partnered with financier Hal Oppenheimer to start
624-428: The use of reporting and call-outs to trades and record labels when it comes to adding and testing tracks. The method has also helped tracks that only received airplay (songs that are not released as singles) become major hits, especially in Billboard' s Hot 100 chart, where several radio-only tracks have reached the top spot. In 1994, SESAC became the first Performance Rights Organization to use data from BDS. BDS
650-551: Was acquired by Billboard parent company BPI Communications. In 1994, BPI Communications along with BDS were sold to Dutch media conglomerate Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen (VNU). After VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007, BDS became known as Nielsen BDS. In December 2019, Valence Media , the parent company of Billboard , acquired Nielsen's music data business to establish its data division, MRC Data. The acquisition reunited BDS with Billboard for
676-498: Was updated in 2018, while the most current update of the list was published in September 2021. Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Broadcast Data Systems (also known as Nielsen BDS , BDS or Luminate BDS ) was a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data , is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned magazine Billboard , including
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