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Música Mexicana

Música mexicana is the umbrella name for Mexico's regional popular styles, including banda, norteño, mariachi, ranchera, sierreño and corridos.

The music industry long called this group 'regional Mexican'; música mexicana has become a common name for it in the 2020s as the music reached global charts. Styles under it use very different line-ups, from brass bands to accordion groups to acoustic guitar trios, but share roots in rural Mexico and its border with the United States. Many of its artists are Mexican-American.

Artists it is known for: Vicente Fernández, Los Tigres del Norte, Peso Pluma.

Family
Regional Mexican
On Spotify
A current genre
What it is
A broad heading
From
Mexico and the US Southwest
Also called
regional Mexican, Mexican regional music
Trackify listeners who play it
4%

About 3,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have música mexicana among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Música Mexicana artists

The música mexicana artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.