Bachata and Merengue Radio: Dominican Rhythms Live

Published 26 September 2026

You can listen to bachata and merengue radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. The Dominican Republic gave Latin music two of its great dances, and both have stations of their own.

From the Dominican Republic

• Radio Bachata — bachata, the most-voted bachata station in the directory.
• Top Merengue Radio — merengue from Santo Domingo.
• FieraMix — tropical music.
• Tropical 100 Mix — from Santiago.
• Latina 104 — from Santo Domingo.
• Comando 88 FM — from Santiago.

Across the region

• Mix 89.9 — merengue, bachata and reggaeton from Medellín.
• YXY 105.7 — bachata and salsa from El Salvador.
• El Nuevo Zol 106.7 — tropical music from Florida, at 320kbps.
• Latina Bachata — from France.

Two dances

Merengue, fast and brassy, and bachata, the guitar-led music of heartbreak once dismissed as music of the poor, are both recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage — merengue in 2016 and bachata in 2019. Dominican radio and salsa radio go further.

A route in

1. Radio Bachata, for bachata.
2. Top Merengue Radio, for merengue.
3. El Nuevo Zol, for Miami.

For the rest of the Caribbean, salsa radio is next.