The 25 Best Latin Albums of 2025: Staff Picks

Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year in which Latin music continued to be released at a fast and furious speed — but also, one in which key artists seemed to take a collective breath.

“If there is something lacking in music today, it’s feeling,” Bad Bunny told Billboard this summer. “I’m generalizing, of course. There’s a lot of great music, música carbona […] But there’s no feeling.” 

Bunny was speaking about the charts in general, not about Latin music in particular. But at a time when music is recorded and released with rapid precision, the same sentiment applies.

The last 12 months saw a deluge of Latin albums and EPs from both stalwarts and newcomers, each one vying for attention in an increasingly crowded and competitive environment. But as the end of the year neared, the musical output that rose to the top of our radar in the Latin realm felt far more intentional than in past years, more focused on quality over quantity, on result versus speed. The collabs that caught our attention where not just the big names, but also the unexpected nods to finding precisely the right kind of artist for the right kind of track.

As has been our Billboard tradition for over a decade, every year, the editors of Billboard Latin and Billboard Español look to the charts but also way beyond, to cull the albums that have most impressed us in the calendar year. While we look at chart impact, innovation, quality of recording, lyrical content, and yes, feeling and emotion overwhelmingly guide our collective decision-making.

The Billboard Latin and Español editorial teams are eclectic, and this list reflects that. Newcomers like Cuba’s Wampi made the cut with El Rey de La Habana, the first reparto album on one of our year-end lists. But so did Joaquina, with her intimate Al romper la burbuja.

This genre-spanning, carefully curated list includes the 25 albums that impressed us the most in 2025, lyrically and sonically, by new and established artists alike.

Below, the 25 best Latin albums of 2025, ranked.