2024 consolidated regional Mexican music, particularly the corridos tumbados, in international taste, but it was also a year in which filmmakers from Mexico and even ballet stood out.
These are the 10 artists who took Mexico’s name to the top in 2024.
Featherweight
The Jalisco singer who “exploded” his fame in 2023 maintained his success in the year that has just concluded. He earned nominations at the Grammys and Latin Grammys, and won the award for Best Mexican Music Album for his album ‘Génesis’.
On Spotify he achieved an average of more than 45 million monthly listeners, being the most listened to Mexican of the year and the second Latin artist with the most listeners worldwide, only surpassed by Bad Bunny.
In Peso Pluma’s Spotify profile, songs like ‘Dos Días’, ‘La Patrulla’, ‘Qlona’ and ‘Los Cuadros’ stand out.
Lee: Featherweight, among the Hispanic favorites for the Billboard Music Award
Luis Miguel
In 2023, Luis Miguel’s return was marked by sold out seats, controversy and fury on social networks due to his renewed image.
The singer continues to capitalize on the success of his tour and by 2024 he extended his performances to more than 50 concerts in countries such as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil , Bolivia and several cities in the United States and Mexico.
Rodrigo Prieto
In 2024, the photographer obtained his fourth Oscar nomination in the category of Best Photography for his work in the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, although he did not win the statuette, and he also participated in the photography of the film ‘Barbie’.
In addition, he directed his first feature film, ‘Pedro Páramo’, based on the work of Juan Rulfo. The film premiered on Netflix starring Manuel García Rulfo and Tenoch Huerta.
Prieto has received several awards, including five Ariel Awards and four BAFTA nominations. Some of his most notable works are his collaborations with Alejandro González Iñárritu in ‘Amores Perros’ and ‘Babel’.
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Alfonso Cuaron
The Mexican who has directed films such as ‘Roma’, ‘Gravity’, ‘The Little Prince’, ‘Great Expectations’ and ‘And Your Mom Too’ for the first time directed a series for Apple TV 2024, ‘Disclaimer’.
Consisting of seven chapters, it explores an intrigue with several timelines with Cate Blanchett as the protagonist. The Mexican filmmaker was recognized at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland and at the Morelia International Film Festival, in Mexico.
Natalia Lafourcade
The singer from Veracruz consolidated herself in 2024 as the Latin American woman who has won the most Grammy Awards, with a total of four Anglo-Saxon awards and 18 in its Latin edition.
Last February he achieved his fourth Grammy by winning the award for best Latin rock/pop album for ‘De todos las flores’.
Kenya Os
Along with Peso Pluma, she was the most listened to Mexican globally on Spotify for the second consecutive year. Their fans listened to an average of 40 hours of music in the year, which is equivalent to 303 million hours of listening.
Os surpassed artists like Yuridia, Bellakath and Ha-Ash and his album ‘Pink Aura’ was ranked in the top 3 of the ‘Best Albums’ list in Mexico. It was presented at the Ceremonia festival and at the Pa’l Norte, and debuted at the Palacio de los Deportes.
Javier Torres Lopez
The Mexican dancer and choreographer was awarded by the Government of Mexico with the Distinguished Mexicans Recognition 2024, for his work as artistic director of the National Ballet of Finland.
Among his most representative creations are: ‘La Bayadère’ (2014), Prague National Ballet; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (2014), Finnish National Ballet; ‘Nereidas’ (2012), National Autonomous University of Mexico; ‘Sleeping Beauty’, Prague National Ballet, and ‘Liquidos’ (2002), Monterrey Dance Company.
Carin Leon
The Sonoran artist won his second Latin Grammy, winning the award for Best Contemporary Mexican Music Album for his work ‘Boca Chueca Vol. 1’.
Carín León has more than 29 million monthly listeners on her Spotify and the award-winning album has more than 432 million views on the same platform.
Read: Mexican music has ‘a whole world to conquer’: Carín León
Border Group
Grupo Frontera reaffirmed itself as one of the most prominent exponents of regional Mexican music and in 2024 won the recognition for Best Northern Album at the Latin Grammys for ‘El Comienzo’. He was also crowned Artist of the Year at the 2024 Billboard Awards.
Damn Paola
Danna Paola established herself as a global artist by accumulating 8.2 million views on YouTube Japan, being the fifth most popular Spanish-language artist and the sixth most viewed Latin artist on the platform during the year in that country.
His album ‘Child Star’ achieved great success on Spotify, with more than 300 million views. Danna returned to ‘Wicked’ by dubbing the film for Latin America and released the documentary about her life ‘Danna: We Have to Talk’ on Disney+.
With information from EFE
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