List of Latin Grammy Award ceremony locations

The Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas NV has hosted the Latin Grammys since 2009

This is a list of Latin Grammy Award ceremony venues and locations. Unlike the Grammy Awards which are usually held in Los Angeles, the Latin Grammys have been held in different cities more often, however it had been taking place in Las Vegas up until 2012. In 2003 the Latin Grammy Awards took place at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. This marked the first time the show took place outside Los Angeles. The last time the show took place in Los Angeles was in 2005. The Latin Grammy Awards have been held in five different cities through its ten-year history. The show has never been held outside of the United States.

Host cities and venues

Year	Date	Venue	Host City	Host(s)	Person of the Year	Viewers (in millions)
2000	September 13, 2000	Staples Center	Los Angeles, California	Gloria Estefan Jennifer Lopez Andy García Jimmy Smits Antonio Banderas	Emilio Estefan	7.5[1]
2001	October 30, 2001	Conga Room ^[a]		Jimmy Smits Paul Rodriguez	Julio Iglesias	N/A
2002	September 18, 2002	Kodak Theatre		Gloria Estefan Jimmy Smits	Vicente Fernández	4.0[2]
2003	September 3, 2003	American Airlines Arena	Miami, Florida	George Lopez	Gilberto Gil	5.0[3]
2004	September 1, 2004	Shrine Auditorium	Los Angeles, California		Carlos Santana	3.3[4]
2005	November 3, 2005			Rebecca de Alba Eduardo Santamarina	José José	5.0[5]
2006	November 2, 2006	Madison Square Garden	New York City, New York	Lucero Víctor Manuelle	Ricky Martin	5.7[6]
2007	November 8, 2007	Mandalay Bay Events Center	Las Vegas, Nevada	Lucero Eugenio Derbez	Juan Luis Guerra	6.2[7]
2008	November 13, 2008	Toyota Center ^[b]	Houston, Texas	Patricia Manterola Cristián de la Fuente	Gloria Estefan	5.8[8]
2009	November 5, 2009	Mandalay Bay Events Center	Las Vegas, Nevada [9]	Lucero Eugenio Derbez	Juan Gabriel	6.0[10]
2010	November 11, 2010				Plácido Domingo	6.2[11]
2011	November 10, 2011			Lucero Cristián de la Fuente	Shakira[12]	5.7[13]
2012	November 15, 2012				Caetano Veloso	5.7[14]
2013	November 21, 2013			Omar Rafael "Chaparro" Alvidrez, Lucero, Blanca Soto	Miguel Bosé	4.6[15]
2014	November 20, 2014	MGM Grand Garden Arena		Eugenio Derbez	Joan Manuel Serrat	4.8[16]
2015	November 19, 2015			Gabriel Abaroa Jr.	Roberto Carlos	N/A

• ^a - Ceremony was originally set to take place on September 11 at the Shrine Auditorium but were canceled due to the terrorist attacks earlier that day; winners were announced at a later press conference at the Conga Room the following month.
• ^b - Awards in the Brazilian Field were presented at Auditório Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil.

Most Frequent Venues

The Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas has hosted six telecasts.

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center	Shrine Auditorium	American Airlines Arena, Conga Room, Dolby Theatre, Madison Square Garden, Staples Center, Toyota Center
Number of Telecasts	6	2	1

Most Frequent Host Cities

Las Vegas has hosted the Latin Grammy Awards six times, with Los Angeles close behind with five.

Los Angeles has hosted five times

Las Vegas has been hosting the Latin Grammys since 2009

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd
Venue	Las Vegas	Los Angeles	Houston, Miami, New York
Number of Telecasts	6	5	1

See also

• List of Grammy Award ceremony locations

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