Regional Mexican Albums

Regional Mexican Albums is a genre-specific record chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

The chart was established in June 1985 and originally listed the top twenty-five best-selling albums of mariachi, tejano, norteño, and grupero, all subgenres of regional Mexican music.

[2][3][4] Originally, Billboard based their methodology on sales surveys it sent to record stores across the United States and by 1991 began monitoring point-of-sales compiled from Nielsen Soundscan.

[14] The first album to peak at number one was Jaula de Oro by Los Tigres del Norte on June 29, 1985.

[15] In 1994, Selena's Amor Prohibido debuted and peaked at number one in three different calendar years (1994–1996), making her the first artist to do so.