The Cabeceo

We've caught your eye across the milonga. Like any good tango, this starts with consent — nothing optional runs until you say so.Cookies only with your yes. What we store.

Skip to content

Milonga

Milonga is tango's quick rhythm, danced in two: 452 songs, 251 of them with a filmed Dance.

Milonga is 5.1% of recordings and 14.6% of filmed Dances
5.1% of recordings (648 of 12,742)
14.6% of filmed Dances (12,525 of 85,544)

Counted: 85,544 of 190,231 filmed Dances, those whose song names one recording; the others have no song named or no known take. Filmed means mostly stage performances, not all social dancing.

Milonga, by place in a filmed Performance

First dance: 2.6% (119 of 4,592)
Second dance: 12.2% (458 of 3,753)
Third dance: 28.5% (685 of 2,401)
Fourth dance: 29.5% (369 of 1,251)
Fifth dance: 22.4% (57 of 255)

Counted: 12,252 of 190,231 filmed Dances, those whose video title gives the number, such as 2/4, and whose song names one recording. A Dance without a number in its title has no known place.

The most danced

  • Reliquias porteñas

    Milonga · Francisco Canaro

    559
  • La cicatriz

    Milonga · Juan D'Arienzo

    527
  • Milonga del recuerdo

    Milonga · Juan D'Arienzo

    523
  • Ella es así

    Milonga · Edgardo Donato

    419
  • Estampa de varón

    Milonga · Juan D'Arienzo

    411

16 songs

  • Dale dale caballito

    Milonga · Fulvio Salamanca

  • De antaño

    Milonga · Juan D'Arienzo

    213
  • De contrapunto

    Milonga · Julio De Caro

    8
  • Del Buenos Aires de ayer

    Milonga · Eduardo Del Piano

  • Del pasado

    Milonga · Alfredo De Angelis

    5
  • Del tiempo guapo

    Milonga · Aníbal Troilo

    45
  • De mi arrabal

    Milonga · Roberto Firpo

    3
  • De mi corral

    Milonga · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)

    7
  • De punta a punta

    Milonga · Edgardo Donato

    28
  • De punta y hacha

    Milonga

  • De pura cepa

    Milonga · Juan D'Arienzo

    128
  • Despedida de soltero

    Milonga

  • Después de quererla tanto

    Milonga · Francisco Canaro

    40
  • De vuelta y media

    Milonga · Roberto Grela

    21
  • Dominguera

    Milonga · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)

    4
  • Duelo curda

    Milonga