LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Notch Another #1 Album – The Norteño Legends’ New Album La Granja (The Barn) Lands Atop Billboard’s “Top Latin Albums” Chart As The #1 Latin Album In The Country.
Tagged: Billboard, los tigres del nortePosted on: September 18th, 2009
- La Granja Is Actually The First New Latin Album In The Last Three Months That Achieved First Week Sales Strong Enough For A #1 Debut
“[Regional Mexican] music’s greatest statesmen are Los Tigres del Norte…Los Tigres sell millions of records, regularly top Billboard’s Latin charts and draw tens of thousands of fans to stadiums… In short, they are among the most popular acts in Latin music today… Updating an old tradition that carries news and history in songs …Los Tigres del Norte have been singing border stories for more than [four] decades” – New York Times
With Numerous Chart-Topping/Multi-Platinum Albums Spanning Los Tigres’ Four Decade Career As The Voice of the Immigrant Community, The #1 Debut Of La Granja Shows That Los Tigres Del Norte Continues To Be The World’s “most influential Regional Mexican group” (Billboard).
Los Tigres Del Norte Have Also Set Another Radio Airplay Record As The Album’s Title Track “La Granja” Has Become The Legendary Group’s Record-Setting 41st Top-10 Hit During Just The 15-Year History of Billboard’s “Regional-Mexican Airplay” Chart
“Los Tigres del Norte has reinvented Mexican popular music… the most perceptive chroniclers of the Mexican American experience…[they take] the side of millions of immigrants who are voiceless on both sides of the border… The songs of Los Tigres remain one of the clearest windows into the immigrant soul.” – LA Times
“The lyrical voice of the immigrant community…Los Tigres are 21st-century troubadours” –Washington Post
“Los Tigres del Norte [is] the most popular Norteño group in the world. For the last 40 years these grand men of music have taken their message of hope and hardship beyond the borderland and into millions of hearts throughout the United States and Mexico.” –Dan Rather
“Los Tigres are huge. U2 huge. Beatles huge. As in regularly selling out 100,000-seat stadiums. But most important, they are beacons-of-artistic-activism huge … Los Tigres have become revolutionary leaders through their songs about the struggles of Mexican immigrants and issues of class consciousness… one of the most important activist musical groups in any language… In their songs is the struggle of a people and two nations”
- OC Weekly
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