Artist · chart history · #148 in indie & aaa artist polls
Los Lobos
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1973 Chicano rock band
Los Lobos formed in 1973 in Los Angeles, United States. Los Lobos has 103 chart appearances on 63 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Kiko and the Lavender Moon”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #93. The station that charted Los Lobos most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 31 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Los Lobos have been East Los Angeles' bar band, folk ensemble and rock and roll outfit all at once since 1973, when David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas and Louie Pérez got together, with Conrad Lozano joining the following year. Their name is Spanish for "the wolves", and their sound is a whole neighborhood's record collection turned loose: rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, R&B and blues, rubbing shoulders with cumbias, boleros and norteños.
Signed to Slash, with Steve Berlin added in 1984, they made How Will the Wolf Survive? that year, and its title track and "I Got Loaded" showed a band that could swing from heartland ache to a barroom stomp without breaking a sweat. Then came 1987 and their version of "La Bamba", which went to number one in America, the UK and beyond and made them international stars overnight. By the Light of the Moon, from the same year, proved they had plenty more of their own songs to give.
Kiko, in 1992, is the bold one: a dreamlike, shape-shifting record where "Kiko and the Lavender Moon", "Reva's House" and "That Train Don't Stop Here" drift through strange textures and shadowy corners. The lifetime-achievement awards have piled up since, from Billboard's Latin Music Awards in 2001, the Latin Grammys in 2014 and the Americana Awards in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Los Lobos on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiko and the Lavender Moon | 18 | #93 | – | – | |
| 2 | Will The Wolf Survive? | 21 | #238 | – | – | |
| 3 | La Bamba | 9 | #26 | – | 1987 | |
| 4 | Reva's House | 9 | #295 | – | – | |
| 5 | Burn It Down | 5 | #24 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | I Got Loaded | 6 | #375 | – | – | |
| 7 | Good Morning Aztlan | 4 | #276 | – | – | |
| 8 | I Wan'na Be Like You | 2 | #252 | – | – | |
| 9 | Bertha | 1 | #96 | – | – | |
| 10 | That Train Don't Stop Here | 4 | #1571 | – | – | |
| 11 | The Road To Gila Bend | 2 | #367 | – | – | |
| 12 | Love Special Delivery | 2 | #49 | – | 2021 | |
| 13 | Shakin' Shakin' Shakes | 2 | #371 | – | – | |
| 14 | Life Is Good | 1 | #331 | – | – | |
| 15 | Angel Dance | 1 | #403 | – | – | |
| 16 | Dream In Blue | 2 | #469 | – | – | |
| 17 | Evangeline | 1 | #461 | – | – | |
| 18 | Rita | 1 | #443 | – | – | |
| 19 | Made To Break Your Heart | 3 | #74 | – | 2015 | |
| 20 | Is This All There Is | 1 | #632 | – | – | |
| 21 | Billy 1 | 1 | #689 | – | – | |
| 22 | The Neighborhood | 1 | #732 | – | – | |
| 23 | The Fear | 1 | #86 | – | 2018 | |
| 24 | Don't Worry Baby | 1 | #811 | – | – | |
| 25 | One Time One Night | 1 | #887 | – | – | |
| 26 | Come On, Let's Go | 1 | #1065 | – | – | |
| 27 | 27 Spanishes | 1 | #93 | – | 2010 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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