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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay Number Ones Of 1996
Latin Pop Airplay is a chart that ranks the top-performing songs (regardless of genre or language) on Latin pop radio stations in the United States, published by Billboard magazine based on weekly airplay data compiled by Nielsen's Broadcast Data Systems. It is a subchart of Hot Latin Songs, which lists the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country. In 1996, 16 songs topped the chart, in 52 issues of the magazine.

The first number one of the year was "Más Allá" by Gloria Estefan, which had been in the top spot since the issue dated December 30, 1995, and spent a total of three weeks at this position. Enrique Iglesias, Cristian Castro, Luis Miguel, and Soraya were the only acts to have more than one chart-topper in 1996. Iglesias's debut single, "Si Tú Te Vas", became his first chart-topper and spent two weeks at number one. He also had the best-performing Latin pop song of the year with "Por Amarte" despite it only spending one week at number one. Castro's self-penned track, "Amor", held the top spot for the longest in 1996 with 10 weeks. "Sueña", which spent four weeks at number one, is the Spanish-language adaptation of "Someday" from Disney's 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which Miguel recorded for the Latin American edition of the movie's soundtrack. Soraya achieved her only number ones with "De Repente" and "Amor en Tus Ojos".

Other artists to top the chart for the first time in 1996 were Shakira with "Estoy Aquí" and Chayanne with "Solamente Tu Amor", while Olga Tañón, Amanda Miguel, and Eros Ramazzotti obtained their first and only chart-toppers in the year. Both "Estoy Aquí" and Ramazzotti's "La Cosa Más Bella" (originally recorded in Italian as "Più bella cosa") held the top spot for four weeks. "Ámame una Vez Más" by Amanda Miguel was number one song for the longest, at eight weeks, by a female act. It also won the Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Pop Song of the Year in 1997. The final number one of the year was "Las Cosas Que Vives" by Laura Pausini, the Spanish-language version of her song "Le cose che vivi".

Chart history

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Cristian Castro had the longest-running number-one-song of 1996 with his self-penned track "Amor".
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Shakira's "Estoy Aquí" was her first song to reach number one on the Latin Pop Airplay chart.
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Eros Ramazzotti obtained his only chart-topper in 1996 with "La Cosa Más Bella".
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"Ámame una Vez Más" by Amanda Miguel had the most weeks at number one by a female artist.
Key
† Indicates number 1 on Billboard's year-end Latin pop chart
Chart history
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 6 "Más Allá" Gloria Estefan
January 13
January 20 "Si Tú Te Vas" Enrique Iglesias
January 27
February 3 "Amor" Cristian Castro
February 10
February 17
February 24
March 2
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13 "Estoy Aquí" Shakira
April 20
April 27
May 4
May 11 "De Repente" Soraya
May 18
May 25 "¡Basta Ya!" Olga Tañón
June 1 "Amarte a Ti" Cristian Castro
June 8
June 15 "Por Amarte" † Enrique Iglesias
June 22 "La Cosa Más Bella" Eros Ramazzotti
June 29
July 6
July 13
July 20 "Sueña" Luis Miguel
July 27
August 3
August 10 "Amor en Tus Ojos" Soraya
August 17
August 24
August 31
September 7 "Dame" Luis Miguel
September 14
September 21
September 28
October 5
October 12 "Solamente Tu Amor" Chayanne
October 19 "Atada a Tu Volcán" Ednita Nazario
October 26
November 2 "Ámame una Vez Más" Amanda Miguel
November 9
November 16
November 23
November 30
December 7
December 14
December 21
December 28 "Las Cosas Que Vives" Laura Pausini

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