The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, internet sales (both physical and via digital downloads) and verifiable sales from concert venues in United States.

There were twenty number-one albums on this chart in 2001, including the first Spanish language album by Christina Aguilera, which spent five weeks at the top in 2001 and 14 weeks in 2000 and won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. Ricky Martin, Marco Antonio Solís, Conjunto Primavera and Los Tigres del Norte hit the top spot for the second time on their careers, respectively. Singer-songwriter Marc Anthony with Libre achieved his third chart-topper on this list. Grupo Bryndis became the third act to release two number-one albums in the same year, after Tex-Mex performer Selena on 1995 and 1996 (see: Top Latin Albums of 1995 and Top Latin Albums of 1996) and Enrique Iglesias in 1999 (see: Top Latin Albums of 1999).

Vicente Fernández, Víctor Manuelle, Lupillo Rivera, A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings, El Original de la Sierra, Jaguares, Joan Sebastian, Ozomatli, Carlos Vives and Los Ángeles de Charly peaked at number one for the first time. Paulina by Mexican performer Paulina Rubio received three Latin Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year and ended the year as the best selling Latin album of 2001.

Albums

Issue Date	Album	Artist	Reference
January 6	Mi Reflejo	Christina Aguilera
January 13
January 20
January 27
February 3
February 10	Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1	Vicente Fernández
February 17	Instinto y Deseo	Víctor Manuelle
February 24	Paulina	Paulina Rubio
March 3
March 10	Despreciado	Lupillo Rivera
March 17	La Historia	Ricky Martin
March 24
March 31	Shhh!	A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings
April 7	La Historia	Ricky Martin
April 14	Ansia de Amar	Conjunto Primavera
April 21
April 28	La Historia	Ricky Martin
May 5
May 12	Shhh!	A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings
May 19
May 26	Paulina	Paulina Rubio
June 2	Shhh!	A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings
June 9
June 16	Más de Mi Alma	Marco Antonio Solís
June 23
June 30
July 7	Homenaje a Chalino Sánchez	El Original de la Sierra
July 14	Más de Mi Alma	Marco Antonio Solís
July 21	Shhh!	A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings
July 28	Cuando la Sangre Galopa	Jaguares
August 4	Historia Musical Romántica	Grupo Bryndis
August 11
August 18
August 25
September 1
September 8	Uniendo Fronteras	Los Tigres del Norte
September 15
September 22
September 29	Embrace the Chaos	Ozomatli
October 6	Galería Caribe	Ricardo Arjona
October 13	En El Idioma del Amor	Grupo Bryndis
October 20
October 27
November 3	En Vivo: Desde la Plaza El Progreso en Guadalajara	Joan Sebastian
November 10
November 17
November 24	Te Voy a Enamorar	Los Ángeles de Charly
December 1	Déjame entrar	Carlos Vives
December 8	Libre	Marc Anthony
December 15
December 22
December 29