Norteño
Norteño is a style from northern Mexico led by the accordion and the bajo sexto, a twelve-string bass guitar, playing polkas, waltzes and corridos.
German and Czech settlers brought the accordion and polka to northern Mexico in the 1800s, and local musicians combined them with Mexican song forms. A typical group adds electric bass and drums, and some include saxophone. Norteño is the classic home of the corrido, and its small accordion-driven line-up separates it from brass-based banda. Its close Texas relative is called conjunto.
Artists it is known for: Los Tigres del Norte, Ramón Ayala, Intocable, Los Tucanes de Tijuana.
- Family
- Regional Mexican
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Northern Mexico, late 19th century
- Also called
- música norteña, norteña
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have norteño among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Norteño artists
Fuerza Regida
Grupo Frontera
Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga
Grupo Marca Registrada
Christian Nodal
Los Tigres Del Norte
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón De Rene Camacho
Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda
Vicente Fernández
Joan Sebastian
The norteño 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.