Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart Data with Artist and Genre Attributes (1986–2024)

Billboard Hot Latin Songs weekly chart data from 1986 to 2024, compiled by researcher Diego Olivares and hosted on Harvard Dataverse. The dataset includes chart performance metrics and has been enriched with artist gender, ensemble type, country of origin, and collaboration type variables. A complementary dataset provides genre classifications for individual songs sourced from iTunes.

Use Cases

• Analyze chart performance trends over time based on weekly position, peak position, and weeks on chart.
• Study artist demographics and collaboration patterns based on the enriched variables for gender, ensemble type, and collaboration type.
• Investigate the relationship between song genre and chart longevity using the complementary iTunes genre classification data.
• Examine the geographic distribution of popular Latin music artists based on the ISO country codes provided.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1986 to 2024, enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Enriched with researcher-added variables for artist demographics and collaboration types.
• Includes a complementary dataset for song genre classification.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Billboard charts, enriched by research team.

Collection Method

Weekly chart data compilation and enrichment with additional variables.

Time Range

1986–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 04:47:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Primarily artists' countries of origin (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes); chart is U.S.-based.