Eslabon Armado’s ‘NOCTURNO’ Scores Double Top 10 Billboard Entries

Eslabon Armado scores its eighth straight top 10 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart with its ninth studio album, NOCTURNO, as the album bows at No. 8 on the July 11-dated list. The set also arrives at No. 5 on Top Regional Mexican Albums chart.

Fueled largely by streaming, NOCTURNO debuts in the top 10 on both tallies after earning 9,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week ending July 2; the album’s 16 songs drew 9.4 million official on-demand streams in its opening week, per Luminate.

As Eslabon Armado returns to the top 10 on Top Latin Albums, it becomes the first regional Mexican group to debut in the chart’s upper region in 2026 — and the first in more than a year, since Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTÍA in May 2025. Five other regional Mexican acts have debuted in the top 10 on Top Latin Albums this year, all soloists; Tito Double P accounts for two of those entries, with the Peso Pluma collab, DINASTÍA (No. 1 in January) and ACOMODO (No. 3 in June).

Eslabon Armado adds its eighth consecutive top 10 start on both Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums. Among those, Corta Venas remains the longest-leading No. 1 album by a group in the history of the Top Regional Mexican Albums chart, which launched in 1994. Overall, the album still holds the third longest command, after Selena’s Amor Prohibido (97 weeks atop) and Christian Nodal’s Me Dejé Llevar (73 weeks at the summit).

Consisting of 16 songs, NOCTURNO features guest appearances by Peso Pluma, Calle 24, Tombochio, Clave Especial, Gabito Ballesteros, Jorsshh and ERRE. Leading the album’s chart action, “Amigos Con Derechos,” with Peso Pluma, opens at No. 7 on Hot Latin Songs, largely powered by 2.5 million streams during the tracking week —enough for a No. 14 start on Latin Streaming Songs.

The song returns Eslabon to the top 10 on Hot Latin Song for the first time since “La Durango,” its Peso Pluma and Junior H team-up, peaking at No. 2 in 2024.

Elsewhere, “Amigos Con Derechos” proves its pull beyond its Hot Latin Songs success, giving Eslabon its first entrance on the Hot Regional Mexican Songs chart, where it starts at No. 2 thanks to its streaming activity.