Overview: Salsa is a Latin American genre that incorporates multiple styles and variations based in Afro-Caribbean music, especially Cuban Son of the early 20th. The evolution of this sound started to be developed in the 1960s and '70s by Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants to the New York City area. The style started to be practiced throughout Latin America rapidly and its influence with jazz, rock and R&B helped to consolidate as a new form of music in the Pop Era.
Criteria: This top 100 songs list contains the Classic Salsa (Salsa Dura), Romantic Salsa & other styles incorporated in the genre as plena, bomba, timba or son montuno songs based on initial and lasting popularity as well as influence and impact in Salsa music. (Note: These are Salsa songs by Salsa artists. Not the occasional salsa song recorded by non-salsa artists.)
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Last Updated: 2011-05-17
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Eddie Palmieri
1. Eddie Palmieri - Vamonos pa'l monte
2. Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Pedro Navaja
3. Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz - Sonido bestial
4. Ray Barretto - Indestructible
5. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - Che che colé
6. Dimensión Latina & Oscar D'León - Llorarás
7. Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Quimbara
8. Ismael Rivera - El nazareno
9. Héctor Lavoe - El cantante
10. Joe Arroyo - Rebelión
11. Fania All Stars & Cheo Feliciano - Anacaona
12. Lalo Rodriguez - Ven, devórame otra vez
13. Héctor Lavoe - Periodico de ayer
14. El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Vagabundo
15. Ismael Miranda & Larry Harlow - Señor Sereno
16. Orquesta La Solución & Frankie Ruiz - La rueda
17. Willie Colón - Idilio
18. Sonora Ponceña - Fuego en el 23
19. La India & Marc Anthony - Vivir lo nuestro
20. Rubén Blades - Decisiones
21. El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Un verano en Nueva York
22. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - Aguanile
23. Bobby Valentin - La boda de ella
24. Eddie Santiago - Lluvia
25. Raphy Leavitt y la Selecta - Jibaro soy
26. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - La murga (panameña)
27. Frankie Ruiz - La cura
28. Lalo Rodriguez & Willie Rosario - Tú no sabes querer
29. Héctor Lavoe - Juanito Alimaña
30. Fania All Stars - Quitate tú
31. Cuco Valoy - Juliana
32. Grupo Niche - Hagamos lo que dice el corazón
33. Cheo Feliciano - Salomé
34. Héctor Lavoe - Mi gente
35. Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Tiburón
36. Conjunto Clásico & Tito Nieves - Señora Ley
37. Gilberto Santa Rosa - Conciencia
38. Ismael Rivera - Las caras lindas
39. Johnny Pacheco - Agua de clavelito
40. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - Calle luna, calle sol
41. Celia Cruz - La vida es un carnaval
42. Victor Manuelle - Dile a ella
43. Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz - Yo soy la zarza
44. Fruko y sus Tesos - El preso
45. Oscar D'León - Detalles
46. Andy Montañez - Casi te envidio
47. El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Brujería
48. Frankie Ruiz - Mi libertad
49. Willie Colón - Gitana
50. Henry Fiol & Saoco - Siempre seré guajiro
51. Joe Arroyo - La noche
52. Gilberto Santa Rosa - Perdóname
53. Marc Anthony - Nadie como ella
54. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - Te conozco
55. Pete El Conde Rodriguez - Carolina La O
56. Tito Rojas - Condename a tu amor
57. Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Plástico
58. Los Van Van - Llegó Los Van Van
59. Anthony Cruz - Me gustas
60. Larry Harlow Orchestra - La cartera
61. Paquito Guzmán - 25 rosas
62. El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Me liberé
63. Frankie Ruiz - Desnúdate mujer
64. Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe - El timbalero
65. Cano Estramara - Viernes social
66. Ismael Rivera - El pañuelito
67. Dimensión Latina - Taboga
68. Roberto Torres - Caballo viejo
69. Sonora Ponceña - Hachero pa' un palo
70. Isaac Delgado - No me mires a los ojos
71. Jerry Rivera - ¿Qué hay de malo?
72. The Lebron Brothers (Los Hermanos Lebrón) - La temperatura
73. Corporación Latina - Solo he vivido
74. Ray Barretto - La cuna
75. Oscar D'León - Hechicera
76. Willie Rosario - Anuncio clasificado
77. Frankie Negrón - No me compares
78. Willie González - Pequeñas cosas
79. Marc Anthony - Y hubo alguien
80. Justo Betancourt - Pa' bravo yo
81. Grupo Niche - Etnia
82. Willy Chirino - Rumbera
83. Ismael Rivera - Las tumbas
84. Eddie Santiago - Mía
85. Eddie Palmieri - Puerto Rico
86. Adalberto Santiago - La noche más linda
87. Maelo Ruiz - Te va a doler
88. NG La Banda - Echale limón
89. Tommy Olivencia - Lobo domesticado
90. Luis Enrique - Mi mundo
91. Puerto Rican Power - Juguete de nadie
92. Melcochita - Madre
93. Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Buscando guayaba
94. Africando - Yay boy
95. Tony Vega - Aparentemente
96. Roberto Roena - Marejada feliz
97. Celia Cruz - Que le den candela
98. Yuri Buenaventura - Salsa
99. Tito Nieves - Sonámbulo
100. Orquesta La Luz - Salsa caliente del Japón
Top Five Afro-Caribbean Songs That Influenced The Birth Of Salsa
1. Tito Puente - Ran Kan Kan (1951)
2. Beny Moré - Bonito y sabroso (1949)
3. Mario Bauzá - Tanga (1943)
4. Rafael Cortijo y su Combo - Quitate de la Vía Perico (1961)
5. Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera - El yerberito (1962)
Greatest Salsa Songs
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