High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally . The award goes to solo artists, duos, or groups for releasing vocal or instrumental albums containing at least 51% of new recordings in the contemporary tropical music genre that are not salsa, cumbia or vallenato. The award has undergo some changes throughout the years. From 2002 to 2007 it included Cumbia and Vallenato recordings until the recent Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album was introduced and since 2008 merengue recordings became elegible after the Best Merengue Album was discontinued.