Salsa music at Target

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SnowDancer

Son Montuno
The Target near me has always had a miniscule Latin section in its music department, so I was pleasantly surprised today to find that it had been expanded to include a "Latin/Tropical" section. Still pretty small, but it had several salsa albums by Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Tito Nieves, even the Fania reissue of Celia Cruz/Johny Pacheco.

It's funny, because I didn't think salsa music was popular, other than amongst us dancers.
 
The Target by me has always had a Tropical/Salsa section. There is only one problem with buying music at Target and that is they are horrible at restocking items. So if you see a CD you should by it immediately because if they sell out they may never restock.
 
salsa vs. reggaeton

"Best Buy" electronic store has a pretty good spanish collection in Woodbridge, New Jersey. I've always noticed that reggaeton trumps salsa cd's by 4 to 1 unfortunately.
 
my experience in the US (Miami, Arizona, New York & Conneticut) is that most of the latin/tropical CD's section in big stores like Target and even Virgin are pretty confusing and lacks a sense of proper sub-genres organization.

in an unique alphabetically order you can find mixed latin sub-genres like mariachis, cumbias, merengue, salsa and trios in the same row or column. Next to a Trio Los Panchos CD you can find a Johnny Pacheco's or a Papo Lucca Latin Jazz CD.

maybe it can be easily solved if someone with a little sense of who-is-who in latin music can take a time to fix the mess.
 
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