The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the latin pop genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Throughout its history, this award has had several minor name changes:
- From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance
- From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album
- From 1995 to 2000 it returned to the title Best Latin Pop Performance
- Since 2001 it has again been awarded as Best Latin Pop Album
The award was not presented in 2012 due to a major overhaul of Grammy categories. That year recordings in this category were shifted to the newly formed Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album. However in June 2012, the Board of Trustees announced that it will be bringing back the category for the 55th Grammy Awards with the following description: "for albums containing at least 51 percent playing time of new vocal or instrumental Latin pop recordings".
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