Latin Music is Taking Over

Latin artists dominated in 2018, according to a new-year report, music consumption company BuzzAngle, Latin music is now popular than that of country music.

According to the report, Latin music accounted for 9.4 percent of all album listening in the United States in 2018, reportedly measured by combining the physical and digital sales, song downloads, and on-demand streams. Country music made up 8.7 percent of all album consumption in the United States.

While country music still dominates on the radio, but the Latin music genre is reportedly closing in on R&B (11.2) and rock (11.7).