- Source: 2012 in Latin music
This is a list of notable events in Latin music (i.e. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking music from Latin America, Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2012.
Events
October 20 – Billboard updates their methodology for several of their charts including the Hot Latin Songs. The new methodology for the Hot Latin Songs chart includes sales of digital downloads and streaming activity of Spanish-language songs as well as airplay of Spanish-language songs on all radio stations in the United States. Billboard also imposes a linguistic rule of a song being predominantly sung in Spanish to be eligible to rank on the Hot Latin Songs. Previously, the Hot Latin Songs chart ranked the most-played songs on Spanish-language radio states regardless of language or genre. The Latin Airplay, which was also established, is based on the Hot Latin Song's former methodology.
November 15 — The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards are held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"¡Corre!" by Jesse & Joy wins Record the Year and Song of the Year
Juanes: MTV Unplugged by Juanes wins Album of the Year
3Ball MTY wins Best New Artist
Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
December 9 — A plane carrying Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera and six other passengers crashes near Iturbide, Nuevo León, killing everyone on board.
Number-ones albums and singles by country
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012 (Brazil)
List of number-one songs of 2012 (Colombia)
List of number-one albums of 2012 (Mexico)
List of number-one albums of 2012 (Portugal)
List of number-one albums of 2012 (Spain)
List of number-one singles of 2012 (Spain)
List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs of 2012
Awards
2012 Premio Lo Nuestro
2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards
2012 Latin Grammy Awards
2012 Tejano Music Awards
Albums released
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=The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums in the United States in 2012, according to Billboard.
= Best-performing songs
=The following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2012, according to Billboard.
Deaths
January 9 – Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981).
February 8:
Wando, 66, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
February 12 – Erick Garza, 56, Mexican keyboard player (Grupo Bronco)
February 24 – Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.
April 14 – Pedro Arroyo, Puerto Rican radio programmer, creator of "National Day of Salsa" in Puerto Rico
May 7 – Sergio Mihanovich, 74, Argentine jazz pianist, singer and composer
May 10 – Junior Gonzalez, 63, Puerto Rican salsa singer
May 31 – Horacio "Chivo" Borraro, 90, Argentine tenor sax and clarinet player
June 6 – Estela Raval, Argentine singer
June 12 – Adrián Otero, 53, Argentine singer
June 22 – Nelson Schwenke, 55, Chilean singer and songwriter (Schwenke & Nilo)
June 30 – Yomo Toro, 78, Puerto Rican cuatro player, kidney failure.
July 4 – Homero Patrón, 61, Mexican arranger, producer, musician and composer
July 13 – Leda Valladares, 92, Argentine singer, songwriter, musicologist and folklorist, and poet
July 14 – Marcel Curuchet, 40, Uruguayan musician and composer (No Te Va Gustar)
July 29 – Osvaldo Fattoruso, 64, Uruguayan musician (Los Shakers, Opa), cancer.
August 5 – Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest.
August 8 – Jairo Varela, 62, Founder and leader of Grupo Niche
August 22 – Charles Flores, 41, Cuban bass player
September 21 – José Curbelo, 95, Cuban-born American jazz musician and manager, heart failure.
September 27 – Paquito Hechavarría, 73, Cuban pianist
September 29:
Eduardo Baptista Fernandez, 39, Mexican music publisher
Hebe Camargo, 83, Brazilian television presenter, cardiac arrest.
September 30 – José Luis "Choche" Villareal, 55, Mexican drummer for Grupo Bronco.
October 22 – Norberto Kaminsky, Argentine producer
October 31 – Gustavo Sánchez, 56, Latin American Idol judge
November 4 – Valentin Velasco, 80, Mexican American founder of Balboa Records
November 5 – Leonardo Favio, 74, Argentine singer, actor and director
November 7 – Sylvia Cantarell, Mexican manager and producer
November 18 – Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, 83, Spanish clown, accordionist, and singer.
November 25 – Juan Carlos Calderón, 74, Spanish composer and conductor.
December 9:
Arturo Rivera, Mexican publicist
Jenni Rivera, 43, American banda singer (plane crash)
December 23 – Ema Elena Valdelamar, 87, Mexican songwriter
References
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