Regional Mexican

Regional Mexican music, also known as Música Mexicana, is an umbrella term encompassing the regional subgenres of Mexico's folk music and its derivatives from the Southwestern United States. It is characterized by its stylistic diversity, with each subgenre representing and originating from a specific region of Mexico. Its roots date back to the 16th–19th centuries, emerging from a fusion of Indigenous, Spanish, African and other European instruments and musical traditions.

Major subgenres include mariachi, banda, norteño, corridos, Tejano, duranguense, and sierreño. Mariachi, which originated in 18th-century Jalisco, achieved international recognition during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema through figures such as Pedro Infante and Vicente Fernández. The 1990s saw the rise of technobanda, grupero and the so-called "Golden Age of Tejano", led by Selena. In the 2000s, duranguense gained prominence. The 2010s were dominated by Sinaloan banda music led by Banda MS. The 2020s were defined by the presence of corridos tumbados, a contemporary fusion incorporating elements of trap and hip-hop, and an unprecedented global growth of regional Mexican music popularity driven by recording artists such as Peso Pluma, Natanael Cano, Grupo Frontera, and Carín León.

Within the music industry of the United States, regional Mexican music became a dominant format on Spanish-language radio, resonating strongly with the Mexican American population. This expansion has been marked by record-breaking streaming figures and chart success on platforms such as Billboard, where the genre has regularly placed songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.