The morning after the 27th Latin Grammy Awards, two stories stand out from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Rosalía turned a leading seven nominations into five wins, including the night’s two biggest prizes, and a 19-year-old from Argentina walked away with Record of the Year.
The ceremony took place on Thursday, 12 November 2026, hosted for the 10th time by Roselyn Sánchez, with Daddy Yankee honoured as the Latin Recording Academy’s 2026 Person of the Year. The full winners list is in our Latin Grammy Awards 2026 winners report, and the night’s fashion is covered in our Latin Grammys 2026 red carpet report.
Rosalía’s sweep: a third Album of the Year
Rosalía won Album of the Year for LUX (Complete Works) and Song of the Year for “La Perla”, her collaboration with Yahritza y Su Esencia. She also took Best Pop Song for the same track, Best Alternative Music Album for LUX and Best Short Form Music Video for “Sauvignon Blanc” — five awards in total, more than anyone else on the night.
The Album of the Year win is the historic one. It is Rosalía’s third victory in the category, after El Mal Querer in 2019 and Motomami in 2022, making her the first woman to win Album of the Year three times as a lead artist.
What the win signals goes beyond the trophy count. LUX is an orchestral, deliberately uncommercial record — a long way from the reggaeton and urbano sounds that dominate Latin streaming charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Yet the Academy’s voters chose the most ambitious album in a ten-way field that included Karol G’s Tropicoqueta, Jorge Drexler’s Taracá, Anitta’s Equilibrivm and Milo J’s own La Vida Era Más Corta.
That matters because the Latin Grammys are not a popularity contest. Recordings released between 1 June 2025 and 31 May 2026 were eligible, and the winners are chosen by Academy members — working music professionals — rather than by sales or streams. When those voters hand the top prize to an orchestral album for the third time to the same artist, they are saying something about what Latin music can be.
The Song of the Year win carries a second signal. “La Perla” was written by Noah Goldstein, David Rodríguez, Rosalía, Ryan Tedder and Dylan Wiggins, and pairs Rosalía with Yahritza y Su Esencia, the American urban sierreño trio — a Spanish star, a US-based Mexican-American group, and a songwriting team spanning continents. That is the shape of Latin music in 2026: rooted in Spanish-language tradition, made everywhere at once.
Milo J, 19, and the night’s biggest surprise
If Rosalía’s win was the coronation, Milo J’s was the shock. The 19-year-old Argentine singer-songwriter won Record of the Year for “Niño”, beating a field that included Karol G, Jorge Drexler, Carín León and Rosalía herself. Record of the Year rewards a single recording — the performance and the production — and it is one of the three general-field prizes, alongside Album and Song of the Year. Milo J took it with a folk-rooted song, not a radio hit.
He did not stop there. Milo J finished the night with four awards: Record of the Year, Best Urban Performance for “Gil” with Trueno, Best Folk Album for La Vida Era Más Corta and Best Recording Package for the same album. He was also nominated for Album of the Year.
The breakthrough matters because Milo J’s wins came from the folk side of Latin music — an Argentine singer-songwriter tradition that rarely takes the televised prizes at a show built around pop and urbano. His four awards, spread across folk, urban and packaging categories, suggest the Academy’s voters are rewarding artists who move between worlds rather than staying in one lane.
The night’s other storylines
Karol G, who entered the night with seven nominations, won two awards: Best Urban Music Album for Tropicoqueta and Best Reggaeton Performance for “Verano Rosa” with Feid. Her album lost the Album of the Year race to LUX, but the two wins confirm her position at the centre of Latin pop.
Jorge Drexler, the Uruguayan singer-songwriter, took home three awards: Best Singer-Songwriter Album for Taracá, Best Alternative Song for “Ante la duda, baila” and Best Roots Song for “El tambor chico” — a sweep across album, song and roots categories that underlines his standing as the Academy’s most respected songwriter.
The Argentine duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso also won three: Best Electronic Music Performance for “Beto’s Horns – Fred Remix” with Fred Again.., Best Pop/Rock Song for “Hasta Jesús Tuvo Un Mal Día” with Sting, and Best Long Form Music Video for FREE SPIRITS (The Film) — electronic, rock and film in one night.
Beyond the competitive awards, Daddy Yankee was honoured as Person of the Year, and he also won Best Urban Song with Bizarrap for “Daddy Yankee: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 0/66”. The honour recognises a career that carried reggaeton from a Puerto Rican underground sound to global pop. Two other names deserve a mention: ARIA VEGA won Best New Artist from a field of eleven nominees, and Édgar Barrera — the night’s most-nominated artist, with ten nominations — was named Producer of the Year, his fourth win in that category, taking his career total to 30 Latin Grammy wins, the most in the awards’ history.
What the wins mean
Three things are worth taking from the night. First, the Academy rewarded ambition over familiarity: an orchestral album and a folk record took the two biggest performance prizes. Second, the winners came from across the Spanish-speaking world — Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Puerto Rico — rather than from one scene. And third, the night belonged to two generations at once: an artist winning her third Album of the Year and a 19-year-old winning Record of the Year.
For readers in the US, the UK, Australia and Canada, the practical takeaway is simple. The records that won on Thursday night — LUX, La Vida Era Más Corta, Tropicoqueta, Taracá — are all available on streaming services now, and they are a better guide to where Latin music is heading than any chart.
For the full list of all 60 winners, see our Latin Grammy Awards 2026 winners report, and for the fashion from the night, our Latin Grammys 2026 red carpet report. The official winners list is published by the Latin Recording Academy on latingrammy.com.