Chartbreaker: Inside Eslabon Armado’s No. 1 Three-Peat

By early December 2020, rising trio Eslabon Armado had released its first two albums — and they both hit No. 1 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. They also entered the top 10 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart: its February debut, Tu Veneno Mortal, peaked at No. 7, and its July release, Vibras de Noche, debuted at No. 1, scoring the biggest week for a regional Mexican album that year.“I saw it coming,” says Angel Del Villar, founder/CEO of DEL Records, the inde