For Latin music, the decade started inauspiciously. Revenue was down and labels were tightening their rosters. But as we look back to 2010, we find a year of exciting, ambitious albums, rife with experimentation.
They set the stage for what would become Latin music's big comeback, fueled by a streaming revolution, the explosion of urban music and a bounty of new artists. Billboard's Latin staff traversed genres and countries to bring you our top 50 albums of the decade, arranged below by year of release.