De Los Picks: 20 best songs by Latino artists in 2025

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De Los recently did a team huddle to determine our personal list of best albums, as well as our favorite songs released in 2025.This is not another garden variety Latin genre list, but a highlight reel of 2025 releases that showcases artists from Latin America and the diaspora.20.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco feat.the Marías, “Ojos Tristes”Released months before their highly-publicized wedding in September, “I Said I Love You First,” the album by multi-hyphenate superstar Selena Gomez and hit songwriter-producer Benny Blanco, was first conceived from nights spent perusing each other’s vintage record collections.

Gomez resonated with the spectral 1982 ballad “El Muchacho de Los Ojos Tristes,” as originally recorded by the O.G.sad girl en español, Jeanette.

After seeing the Marías in concert, the couple hit up the band to further maximize their joint slay — and revamp the classic as a bilingual dream-pop track, simply named “Ojos Tristes.” It not only topped the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, but it introduced a new generation to Jeanette’s timeless allure.—Suzy Exposito19.

JR Torres, “Desde Abajo Vengo”It never fails: True to its ever reliable, unassuming ethos, the genre of música mexicana invariably delivers some of the year’s most gorgeous tunes.The melody on this two-minute single by Culiacán, Sinaloa, native JR Torres is a pearl of astounding purity, a theme developed alternately by the accordion and vocal line, and one that — like so many norteño hits — conveys an ocean of longing.

The lyrics belong to the himnos de superación canon: a self-taught man outlines his road to success, paved with honesty, resilience and hard work.But it is the music itself that cements “Desde Abajo Vengo” as a Mexican classic for the ages.

—Ernesto Lechner18.Juana Rozas, “WANNA HOTEL”Juana Rozas understands the emerging queer Latin under...