List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2007

In 2007, Manu Chao peaked at number one for the first time on this chart.

The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.^[1]

There were twenty-two number-one albums in 2007, including two releases by Mexican band RBD: Celestial and Empezar Desde Cero. Celestial, the last number-one album of 2006, spent five weeks at number one and sold 498,000 units;^[2] this album became the best-selling Latin album of 2007.^[3] Empezar Desde Cero debuted at the top of the chart and sold 102,000 units.^[2] Vencedor, the last recording by Mexican performer Valentín Elizalde, who was killed at the age of 27 on November 25, 2006 in the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas,^[4] spent three non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart.^[5] La Llave de Mi Corazón by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra spent one week at number one and won five Latin Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album.^[6][7] The greatest hits collection Historia de un Idolo by Vicente Fernández became the first album to peak at number one in 2001 and 2007.^[8]

The first Spanish-language release by Jennifer Lopez, Como Ama una Mujer, debuted at number 10 in the Billboard 200 and also peaked at number one on the chart for four consecutive weeks.^[9] La Radiolina by Manu Chao debuted within the Top 10 in the album charts from Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, México, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland; it also spent one week at number one in the chart during the week of September 22, 2007.^[10] The soundtrack for the movie El Cantante, mainly performed by Marc Anthony, was the second soundtrack to peak at number one, ten years after the compilation album for the movie Dance with Me did so in 1997 (see: Top Latin Albums of 1997). Reggaeton performer Daddy Yankee had his first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as El Cartel: The Big Boss debuted at number nine with 82,000 units sold, enough to be the number-one album on the chart during the week of June 23, 2007.^[11]

Albums

Chart date	Album	Artist	Reference
January 6	Celestial	RBD	[12]
January 13			[13]
January 20			[14]
January 27			[15]
February 3			[16]
February 10	Vencedor (Victorious)	Valentín Elizalde	[5]
February 17	Recio, Recio Mis Creadorez (Hurry, Hurry My Creatorz)	Los Creadorez del Pasito Duranguense de Alfredo Ramírez	[17]
February 24			[18]
March 3	Vencedor	Valentín Elizalde	[19]
March 10			[20]
March 17	La Historia Continúa... Parte III (The History Continues, Volume III)	Marco Antonio Solís	[21]
March 24			[22]
March 31			[23]
April 7	La Llave de Mi Corazón (The Key to My Heart)	Juan Luis Guerra	[24]
April 14	Como Ama una Mujer (How a Woman Loves)	Jennifer Lopez	[25]
April 21			[26]
April 28			[27]
May 5			[28]
May 12	Residente o Visitante (Resident or Visitor)	Calle 13	[29]
May 19	Historia de un Idolo, Vol. 1 (History of an Idol)	Vicente Fernández	[30]
May 26			[31]
June 2	Mas Flow: Los Benjamins (More Flow: The Benjamins)	Luny Tunes & Tainy	[32]
June 9	Ahora y Siempre (Now and Forever)	Alacranes Musical	[33]
June 16			[34]
June 23	El Cartel: The Big Boss	Daddy Yankee	[35]
June 30			[36]
July 7			[37]
July 14			[38]
July 21	Agárrese (Hang On)	Grupo Montéz de Durango	[39]
July 28			[40]
August 4			[41]
August 11	El Cantante - Soundtrack	Marc Anthony	[42]
August 18			[43]
August 25			[44]
September 1			[45]
September 8			[46]
September 15			[47]
September 22	La Radiolina (The Small Radio)	Manu Chao	[48]
September 29	Todo Cambió (Everything Changed)	Camila	[49]
October 6	90 Millas (90 Miles)	Gloria Estefan	[50]
October 13			[51]
October 20	Recuerdos del Alma (Memories of the Soul)	Los Temerarios	[52]
October 27	90 Millas	Gloria Estefan	[53]
November 3	Recuerdos del Alma	Los Temerarios	[54]
November 10	La Vida... Es un Ratico (Life... Is a Moment)	Juanes	[55]
November 17			[56]
November 24	Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres (Wisin vs. Yandel: The Extraterrestrials)	Wisin & Yandel	[57]
December 1			[58]
December 8	Empezar Desde Cero (Starting from Zero)	RBD	[59]
December 15	Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres	Wisin & Yandel	[60]
December 22	Capaz de Todo Por Tí (Capable of Doing Anything for You)	K-Paz de la Sierra	[61]
December 29	Real	Ednita Nazario	[62]

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