2020 in Latin music

Events

January–March

• January 6 – "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee becomes the highest-certified song of all-time in the United States after receiving a 13× platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America for units of over 13 million sales plus track-equivalent streams.
• January 26 – The 62nd Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
• *Alejandro Sanz receives his fourth career Grammy Award by winning Best Latin Pop Album for El Disco.
• *Rosalía wins her first Grammy Award by winning Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for El Mal Querer.
• *Mariachi Los Camperos receives their second career Grammy Award by winning Best Regional Mexican Music Album for De Ayer Para Siempre.
• *Marc Anthony's Opus and Aymée Nuviola's A Journey Through Cuban Music both win Best Tropical Latin Album. Anthony receives his third career Grammy Award, while Nuviola wins her first one.
• *Chick Corea's Antidote garners his 23rd career Grammy Award by winning Best Latin Jazz Album and extends his record for the artist with most wins in jazz categories.
• February 20 – The 32nd Annual Lo Nuestro Awards are held at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
• *Daddy Yankee is the artist with most wins, with 7, including Artist of the Year and Single of the Year and Song of the Year for "Con Calma"; the latter two shared with Canandian rapper Snow.
• *Oasis by J Balvin and Bad Bunny wins Album of the Year.
• *Rosalía and Lunay win New Female Artist and New Male Artist, respectively.
• March 8Bad Bunny's second studio album YHLQMDLG achieves the highest peak for a completely-Spanish-language album in the United States by debuting at number two, surpassing Shakira's Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 and Maná's Amar Es Combatir number four peaks. It also breaks the record for the largest streaming week for a Latin album, with 201.4 million streams, surpassing Ozuna's Aura. Additionally, all tracks from YHLQMDLG enter the US Hot Latin Songs chart in the album's debut week, with eight in the top 10 and 20 in the top 25. Bad Bunny also breaks the record for the most Spanish-language songs simultaneously charting on the Billboard Hot 100, with 11.
• March 17Due to concerns of the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards and Latinfest+, which was scheduled for April 20–23, have been postponed.

  April–July

• April 2 – Following the complaints of reggaeton acts due to the Latin Record Academy not nominating reggaeton songs for its general fields' categories at the 20th Latin Grammy Awards, two new categories were created for the 2020 edition: Best Reggaeton Performance and Best Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song. A Best Pop/Rock Song category will also be introduced.
• May 30 – Many artists reunite at 'Se Agradece' a virtual music festival organized by Mexican TV network TeleHit, to celebrate those who fight against COVID-19.
• July 13 – Colombian reggaeton singer Karol G reveals that she had tested positive for COVID-19 a few weeks earlier.

  Number-one albums and singles by country

• List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 number-one singles of 2020
• List of number-one albums of 2020
• List of number-one songs of 2020
• List of number-one albums of 2020
• List of number-one albums of 2020
• List of number-one singles of 2020
• List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
• List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2020
• List of number-one Billboard Regional Mexican Songs of 2020
• List of number-one songs of 2020

  Awards

Latin music awards

• 32nd Lo Nuestro Awards
• 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards
• 2020 Latin American Music Awards
• 2020 Latin Grammy Awards
• 2020 Heat Latin Music Awards
• 2020 MTV Millennial Awards

  Awards with Latin categories

• 27th Billboard Music Awards
• 62nd Grammy Awards
• 7th iHeartRadio Music Awards
• 37th MTV Video Music Awards
• 22nd Teen Choice Awards

  Albums released

First-quarter

January

February

March

April

Second-quarter

May

June

July

August

Third-quarter

September

To be announced

Deaths

• January 4Puerto Plata, 96, Dominican singer and guitarist.
• January 10Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, 67, Colombian harpist.
• January 27Alberto Naranjo, 78, Venezuelan musician.
• March 4Adelaide Chiozzo, 88, Brazilian actress, accordionist and singer
• March 10Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine multi-instrumentalist and composer
• March 22Carmen de Mairena, 87, Spanish cuplé singer
• March 30Riachão, 98, Brazilian samba composer and singer
• May 1Tavo Limongi, 52, Mexican guitarist and singer
• May 14Jorge Santana, 68, Mexican guitarist
• May 15Sergio Denis, 71, Argentine singer, songwriter and actor
• May 25Otto de la Rocha, 86, Nicaraguan singer, songwriter and actor
• June 4Fabiana Anastácio, 45, Brazilian CCM singer
• June 9Pau Donés, 53, Spanish songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist
• June 26Narcisa Toldrà, 96, Spanish singer and musician
• June 28Manuel Donley, 92, Mexican-born Tejano singer and musician
• July 11Iñaxi Etxabe, 87, Spanish bertsolari singer
• July 16Víctor Víctor, 71, Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist, COVID-19.
• July 18Martha Flores, 91, Cuban radio host, journalist and singer