Reggaeton drum patterns.

1. 1990s

   1. 1990
      

      Landmark

      Dem Bow

      Shabba Ranks

      Cross-genre root: the Jamaican hit on Steely & Clevie's Poco Man Jam riddim that gave dembow its name and loop
   2. 1991
      

      Landmark

      Te Ves Buena

      El General

      Panamanian reggae en español: Spanish deejaying over dancehall riddims, the bridge that carried the beat to Puerto Rico

2. 2000s

   1. 2002
      

      Pa' Que Retozen

      Tego Calderón

      Single from El Abayarde, a debut steeped in Afro-Caribbean roots; raw early-2000s dembow before the pop boom
   2. 2003
      

      Quiero Bailar

      Ivy Queen

      Iván Joy production; a female-empowerment perreo anthem over a hard, classic dembow loop
   3. 2003
      

      Dile

      Don Omar

      The Last Don single sampling Joe Arroyo's La Noche; dembow meets Colombian tropical music
   4. 2004
      

      Landmark

      Gasolina

      Daddy Yankee

      Luny Tunes-assisted Barrio Fino single; first reggaeton song in the US Hot 100 Top 40, taking the dembow loop global
   5. 2004
      

      Yo Voy

      Zion & Lennox feat. Daddy Yankee

      Motivando a la Yal hit; melodic duo vocals over the synth-and-dembow sound of the 2004 boom
   6. 2005
      

      Rakata

      Wisin & Yandel

      Luny Tunes and Nely production from Mas Flow 2; driving boom-era dembow built for clubs
   7. 2005
      

      Atrévete-te-te

      Calle 13

      Built on a Colombian cumbia beat and coastal clarinet riff; showed reggaeton could absorb other Latin grooves

3. 2010s

   1. 2010
      

      Danza Kuduro

      Don Omar & Lucenzo

      Adapts Lucenzo's Vem Dançar Kuduro; Angolan-Portuguese kuduro energy fused with reggaeton for a global hit
   2. 2013
      

      Landmark

      6 AM

      J Balvin feat. Farruko

      Medellín breakthrough: a smoother, mid-tempo romantic dembow that set up Colombia's 2010s reggaeton wave
   3. 2015
      

      El Perdón

      Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias

      Slow, sung romantic reggaeton; the softer dembow that ruled mid-2010s streaming
   4. 2016
      

      Soy Peor

      Bad Bunny

      Latin trap breakout: 808s and hi-hat rolls instead of dembow, a branch that fed later reggaeton production
   5. 2019
      

      Con Calma

      Daddy Yankee feat. Snow

      Reworks Snow's dancehall-pop hit Informer over dembow, closing the loop between Jamaica and reggaeton
   6. 2019
      

      Callaíta

      Bad Bunny & Tainy

      Tainy's minimal, spacious dembow sampling Zion's Alócate; the airy late-2010s production style

4. 2020s

   1. 2020
      

      Landmark

      Dákiti

      Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez

      Tainy and Mora's slow-burning, futuristic reggaeton: thumping kicks under wavy synths, a template for the 2020s
   2. 2022
      

      Delincuente

      Tokischa, Anuel AA & Ñengo Flow

      Dominican dembow crossover: the faster, choppier Santo Domingo cousin of the reggaeton beat
   3. 2022
      

      De Carolina

      Rauw Alejandro & DJ Playero

      Saturno track with 90s underground pioneer DJ Playero; a modern nod to the mixtape era's raw dembow
   4. 2025
      

      DtMF

      Bad Bunny

      A plena song with reggaeton touches: Puerto Rico's hand-drum tradition folded into a global hit

Press play to loop each record's busiest two bars. Patterns are machine-detected from the recordings, not verified transcriptions.