Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album honors the best Latin pop album released in a given year. It is awarded at the Grammy Awards in the United States by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The award recognizes artistic achievement, technical skill, and overall excellence in the recording, regardless of sales or chart positions.
History and name changes: The category has changed names several times. It was called Best Latin Pop Performance (1984–1991, 1995–2000), then Best Latin Pop or Urban Album (1992–1994, 2021), and has been Best Latin Pop Album since 2022. In 2012 the award was not given as part of a Grammy category overhaul; recordings were moved to Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album. It returned in 2013 with a rule that the album must contain at least 51 percent new Latin pop material. In 2020 the Recording Academy decided to move the Latin urban genre toward this area, but from 2022 Latin urban music has its own category, Best Música Urbana Album. From 1984 to 1991 the award could be given to singles or albums; since 1992 it has honored only albums. Since 1998, voters in the Latin field include members of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS).
Notable winners and records: The first winner was José Feliciano for Me Enamoré (1984). The biggest winners are José Feliciano and Alejandro Sanz, with four awards each. Luis Miguel has the most nominations — 12 — and has won three times (including Aries in 1994 and Segundo Romance in 1995). In 1998 Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias were nominated against each other for their albums Vivir and Tango, but Miguel won with Romances. In 2007, Ricardo Arjona and Julieta Venegas tied for Adentro and Limón y Sal. Rubén Blades has won three times (2000, 2015, 2023) and is also recognized in other Latin categories. Laura Pausini became the first Italian female artist to win a Grammy with Escucha in 2006. Some winners have also won the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year, including No Es lo Mismo (Sanz), La Vida... Es un Ratico and MTV Unplugged (Juanes), and Vida (Draco Rosa). Shakira is the only woman to win this award three times, for MTV Unplugged (2001), El Dorado (2018), and Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (2025). As of 2025, José José has the most nominations without a win, with six.
Current and official details: The current holder is Natalia Lafourcade for Cancionera (2026). The official Grammy website is grammy.com.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 17:41 (CET).