Regional Mexican is a radio format

Radio format

A radio format or programming format not to be confused with broadcast programming describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. Radio formats are frequently employed as a marketing tool, and constantly evolve...

 for music radio

Music radio

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, typically defined to include Banda

Banda music

Banda is a brass-based form of traditional music. Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, baladas, and boleros. Bandas are most widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern Mexican pop, rock, and cumbias...

, Ranchera

Ranchera

Ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico originally sung by only one performer with a guitar. It dates to the years of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. It later became closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco. Ranchera today is also played...

, Mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi is a genre of music that originated in the State of Jalisco, in Mexico. It is an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural impacts of the historical development of Western Mexico. Throughout the history of mariachi, musicians have experimented with brass, wind,...

 and Norteña. It is the most popular radio format targeting Hispanic American

Hispanic and Latino Americans

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s in the United States.

The large number of immigrants from Northern Mexico can lead to an emphasis upon Norteña on Regional Mexican radio stations, though markets with larger Hispanic audiences can have multiple Regional Mexican stations, with variations in which region from which the music is taken.

Related formats

Univision Radio

Univision Radio

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 owns Regional Mexican stations; it also has stations with other formats targeting a Hispanic audience, including Romántica and Balada (combining Romántica

Romantica

-Track listing:# "Lovedust" – 4:00# "Weird and Woozy" – 3:12# "Black Postcards" – 5:12# "Black Champagne" – 3:34# "Swedish Fish" – 2:54# "Renée Is Crying" – 3:13# "Mermaid Eyes" – 3:31...

 and Balada), International Pop Hits, Top 40, Tejano

Tejano music

Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas...

, and Tropical (featuring genres such as Salsa

Salsa music

Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...

, Merengue

Merengue music

Merengue is a type of music and dance from the Dominican Republic. It is popular in the Dominican Republic and all over Latin America. Its name is Spanish, taken from the name of the meringue, a dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar...

, Cumbia

Cumbia

Cumbia is a music genre popular across Latin America. The cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where it is associated with an eponymous dance and has since spread as far as Mexico and Argentina...

 and Reggaeton

Reggaeton

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).

Festival RegiMex is a festival that will be launched in 2012 to celebrate the Regional Mexican Music genre of music.

External links

• Regional Mexican Airplay Charts from Radio & Records
  Radio & Records
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   and based on airplay from the Regional Mexican Airplay panel