The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Album of the Year was an honor presented annually by American television network
Univision
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at the
Lo Nuestro Awards
The Lo Nuestro Awards or Premios Lo Nuestro ( Spanish for "Our Thing") is a Spanish-language awards show honoring the best of Latin music, presented by Univision, a Spanish-language television network based in the United States. The awards began i ...
. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of
Latin music
Latin music ( Portuguese and es, música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America (including Spain and Portugal) and the Latino United States inspired by Latin Amer ...
.
The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on ''
Billboard
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'' Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm
Deloitte
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.
However, since 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey.
The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a
treble clef
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.
The award was first presented to ''
Desde Andalucía'' by Spanish singer
Isabel Pantoja in 1989. Spanish performer
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By th ...
holds the record for the most wins with four. Mexican singer
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...
won consecutively in 1994 for ''
Aries'' and in 1995 for ''
Segundo Romance
''Segundo Romance'' ( en, italic=yes, Second Romance) is the tenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, released on 30 August 1994 through WEA Latina. Like Miguel's 1991 album '' Romance'', ''Segundo Romance'' comprises cover versions o ...
''; both albums also earned the
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin pop genre. Honors in ...
.
[
] In 1999, the Pop Album of the Year accolade was shared by Mexican band
Maná
Maná () is a Mexican pop rock band. The band is considered one of the best-selling Latin music artists and the most successful Latin American band of all time with over 40 million records sold worldwide. The group's current lineup consists o ...
and Shakira with ''
Sueños Líquidos
''Sueños Líquidos'' (Spanish for ''Liquid Dreams'') is the fifth studio album (ninth overall) recorded by Mexican rock band Maná, It was released by WEA Latina on October 14, 1997 (see 1997 in music). After its release for the first time in ...
'' and ''
Dónde Están los Ladrones?'', respectively. Both albums were nominated at the
41st Grammy Awards for
Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance, with Maná receiving the award.
Spanish band
La 5ª Estación
La Quinta Estación (Spanish for "The Fifth Season/Station", often spelled La 5ª Estación) was a Spanish pop/rock band composed of two musicians from Madrid: Natalia Jiménez (lead singer and harmonica) and Ángel Reyero (guitar). Pablo Domí ...
, and Mexican groups
Camila, Maná,
Pandora
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,
RBD,
Sin Bandera, and
Santana are the only musical ensembles to receive the accolade, the latter group also won the
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the The Recording Academy, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording ...
.
In 2017, ''
Primera Cita'' by American band
CNCO became the last recipient of the award. Mexican singer
Cristian Castro
Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro (born 8 December 1974), known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés ...
was the most nominated artist without a win, with six unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
Multiple wins and nominations
See also
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Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin pop genre. Honors in ...
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (awarded as Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album until 2019) is an award presented by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. It began to be presented at the 2012 ceremony. The awards replaced ...
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
References
{{Premios Lo Nuestro categories
Pop Album
Latin pop albums
Pop music awards
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2017
Album awards