Artist
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla appears 3 times in our Tango list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Tango
- Years
- 1959–1974
- Highest placing
- No. 2 in Tango
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Adiós Nonino
1959
Ranked No. 2 in Tango
Written the day after his father died, in a hotel room in New York. Piazzolla was hated in Buenos Aires for what he did to tango, and this is the piece that eventually ended the argument.
Libertango
1974 · Carosello
Ranked No. 5 in Tango
A riff rather than a song, and the most covered thing he wrote. Tango nuevo at its most exportable, and it lost him the last of the traditionalists.
Balada para un Loco
1969
Ranked No. 8 in Tango
Half spoken, half sung, and booed at the festival where it premiered before becoming a standard. Horacio Ferrer's lyric is deranged in the best way.