Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a dance music style from Panama and Puerto Rico that sets rapped and sung Spanish vocals over the steady, syncopated dembow drum pattern.
Its beat comes from Jamaican dancehall, especially the 1990 Shabba Ranks track 'Dem Bow', mixed with hip hop and Latin Caribbean music. Spanish-language reggae in Panama laid the groundwork in the 1980s, and the style took shape in Puerto Rico's underground scene in the 1990s before going global in the mid-2000s. The dembow rhythm, a steady kick drum with snares falling between the beats, is what separates it from Latin trap and Latin pop.
Artists it is known for: Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Ivy Queen, Tego Calderón.
- Family
- Latin
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Panama and Puerto Rico, 1990s
- Also called
- reggaetón, reguetón
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 10%
About 8,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have reggaeton among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Reggaeton artists
Bad Bunny
Rauw Alejandro
J Balvin
KAROL G
Daddy Yankee
Myke Towers
Anuel AA
Feid
Ozuna
MoraThe reggaeton 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.