Most frequent collaboratorErnesto Fernández · 32 tracks
GenresRegional MexicanCorridos TumbadosLatin Trap
Collaborator
60%
Authorship
Holds writing credit on 82 of 137 tracks
Does Junior H write his own songs?
Yes. He and a friend began writing lyrics at the age of 12, years before either of them could play an instrument, and he was still writing alone when he uploaded the first Junior H songs to YouTube. His writing carries over to other artists' records too: he wrote "Ella", the song Natanael Cano cut for Corridos Tumbados, by himself. On $ad Boyz 4 Life II, the solo album with no guest features, the track listing credits Antonio Herrera Perez as the writer of most of its songs, including "Serpiente", "Mientele", "Las Noches", "Miles de Rosas", "Piensalo" and "Mientras Duermes", and lists him as a producer next to Jimmy Humilde and Ernesto Fernandez. The songs he does not write himself go to a small circle around him rather than to outside writers, chiefly Gael Leonardo Iniguez Valenzuela, with Daniel Candia, Jorge Jimenez Sanchez and Gabriel Ballesteros Abril also credited on that album.
By the Numbers
10
Studio Albums
137
Tracks Credited
60%
Self-Written
7
Years Active
71
Collaborators
Authorship Breakdown 82 / 137 self-written
Who wrote the songs?
Across all 137 tracks: how many Junior H wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Junior H has a writing credit60%
42%
18%
40%
Sole author57tracks42%
Co-written25tracks18%
Outside writers55tracks40%
Role Fingerprint how they contribute
Junior H's roles across the catalogue
Share of all 137 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Lyricist (words)60%
Composer (music)60%
Producer37%
Performer94%
Authorship Over Time writing credit per album
Junior H's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
avg 60%
100%
100%
42%
58%
38%
63%
60%
100%
53%
47%
2019Mi Vida en un Cigarro
2020Atrapado en un Sueño
2020Cruisin' with Junior H
2020Musica <3
2020Las 3 Torres
2021$ad Boyz 4 Life
2022Mi Vida en un Cigarro 2
2022Contingente
2023$ad Boyz 4 Life II
2026DEPR</3$$ED MFKZ
Early · 68% written
Mid · 63% written
Late · 50% written
Authorship by Decade track-weighted
100%
2010s
Mi Vida en un Cigarro
59%
2020s
Atrapado en un Sueño, Cruisin' with Junior H +7 more
Authorship Spectrum pure performer to complete author
Where Junior H sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Junior H
Other artists on the site
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
Written by Junior H, El Chachito, Antonio Herrera Pérez, Alexis Armando Fierro Román
Co-wrote
Los Botones Azules
Mi Vida en un Cigarro 2
Written by Manuel De Jesus Wendlant
Outside writers
Extssy Model
Mi Vida en un Cigarro 2
Written by Junior H, Antonio Herrera Pérez
Wrote it
Y Lloro
$ad Boyz 4 Life II
Written by Gael Valenzuela, Gael Leonardo Íñiguez Valenzuela
Outside writers
$ad Boyz II
$ad Boyz 4 Life II
Written by Junior H, Daniel Candia, Antonio Herrera Pérez, Brandon Daniel Candia Núñez
Co-wrote
DROGA LETAL
DEPR</3$$ED MFKZ
Written by Junior H, Gael Valenzuela, Daniel Candia, Antonio Herrera Pérez, Gael Leonardo Íñiguez Valenzuela, Brandon Daniel Candia Núñez
Co-wrote
MI GATA
DEPR</3$$ED MFKZ
Written by Gael Valenzuela, Gael Leonardo Íñiguez Valenzuela
Outside writers
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Discography 10 albums
Las 3 Torres is shared with Natanael Cano and Ovi, and DEPR</3$$ED MFKZ with Gael Valenzuela. Neither of those artists has a page here, so both albums are listed on this page rather than left off the site.
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. EF Ernesto Fernández · JH Jimmy Humilde · ER Edgar Rodríguez · GV Gael Valenzuela · AF Andres Farias · EC El Chachito
The Authorship Story
Data Insight
Junior H writes 57 of his 137 tracks entirely alone and has no credit at all on another 52, which is ordinary for corridos, where a singer interprets what a specialist corrido writer put down. The early records are his own work: seven of the nine songs on the 2019 debut Mi Vida en un Cigarro carry nothing but his name. The balance tips the other way over time, and Depressed Mfkz in 2026 sits at the far end with nothing written alone, seven co-writes and eight songs he did not write. Gael Valenzuela supplies 20 tracks and El Chachito 16. Three early tracks list no writer at all, so their authorship is unknown rather than absent.
Quick Facts
Self-taughtAt 17, working as a cook at a Wendy's while in high school, he learned the accordion and the guitar in his spare time by watching videos on YouTube.
First breakHe uploaded his songs to YouTube without telling friends or family, left them alone for a month, and came back to find "No Eh Cambiado" with more than two million views.
LabelsJimmy Humilde contacted him in 2019 and signed him to Rancho Humilde, where he met Natanael Cano; his albums from Cruisin' with Junior H onward carry Warner Music Latina as well.
RIAA runThe RIAA lists $ad Boyz 4 Life II at 16x Platinum (Latin), Cruisin' with Junior H at 9x Platinum (Latin) and Mi Vida en un Cigarro 2 at 8x Platinum (Latin).
Biggest album debut$ad Boyz 4 Life II entered the US Billboard 200 at number 14 with 32,000 album-equivalent units, and reached number two on Top Latin Albums.
First chart-topper"Lady Gaga" with Peso Pluma and Gabito Ballesteros peaked at number one on both Mexico Songs and Hot Latin Songs.
Creative Fingerprint
He and a friend started writing lyrics at the age of 12, before either of them could play an instrument, and the habit stuck: the writer column on $ad Boyz 4 Life II names Antonio Herrera Perez on most of its tracks, and the same album credits him as a producer beside Jimmy Humilde and Ernesto Fernandez.
The Story
Junior H is a Mexican singer-songwriter, born Antonio Herrera Pérez in Guanajuato in 2001. He started writing lyrics at twelve, before he could play an instrument, and taught himself accordion and guitar from YouTube while working a fast-food job in Utah. Songs he uploaded to YouTube without telling anyone found an audience on their own, and he became one of the artists who carried corridos tumbados out of the regional Mexican scene.
Awards & Recognition
Nominated for Regional Mexican Artist of the Year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2021)
Nominated for Regional Mexican Album of the Year, for Atrapado en un Sueño, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2021)
Nominated for Regional Mexican Artist of the Year, Solo at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2022)
Nominated for Regional Mexican Album of the Year, for Mi Vida en un Cigarro 2, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2022)
Nominated for Hot Latin Songs Artist of the Year, Male at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2023)
Nominated for Artist of the Year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2024)
Nominated for Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year, Male at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2024)
Nominated for Regional Mexican Album of the Year, for $ad Boyz 4 Life II, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards (2024)
Nominated for Top Latin Artist and Top Latin Male Artist at the Billboard Music Awards (2024)
Nominated for Top Artist, Regional Mexican Urban at Premios Tu Musica Urbano (2022 and 2023)
Frequently Asked Questions Junior H
Does Junior H write his own songs?
Yes. He and a friend began writing lyrics at the age of 12, years before either of them could play an instrument, and he was still writing alone when he uploaded the first Junior H songs to YouTube. His writing carries over to other artists' records too: he wrote "Ella", the song Natanael Cano cut for Corridos Tumbados, by himself. On $ad Boyz 4 Life II, the solo album with no guest features, the track listing credits Antonio Herrera Perez as the writer of most of its songs, including "Serpiente", "Mientele", "Las Noches", "Miles de Rosas", "Piensalo" and "Mientras Duermes", and lists him as a producer next to Jimmy Humilde and Ernesto Fernandez. The songs he does not write himself go to a small circle around him rather than to outside writers, chiefly Gael Leonardo Iniguez Valenzuela, with Daniel Candia, Jorge Jimenez Sanchez and Gabriel Ballesteros Abril also credited on that album.
When did Junior H start writing lyrics?
At 12. He has said he and one of his friends started writing lyrics then because they did not know how to play instruments yet. The playing came later, at 17, when he taught himself the accordion and the guitar from YouTube videos while working as a cook at a Wendy's.
How do writing credits work on his corridos tumbados records?
Credit sits with individual named writers song by song, not with the performer as a whole. The published track listing for $ad Boyz 4 Life II shows the pattern: some songs are credited to Herrera Perez alone, others to Gael Leonardo Iniguez Valenzuela, and a few, such as "$ad Boyz II" and "En La Peda", to two writers together. A Junior H album is a mix of his own writing and writing brought in by people he works with every day.
Who writes the songs on his albums that he did not write himself?
Gael Leonardo Iniguez Valenzuela is the main one. He is credited on "Rockstar", "La Cherry", "Y Lloro", "Tres Botellas", "A Tu Nombre" and more of $ad Boyz 4 Life II, and the two of them went on to release the collaborative album DEP</3$$ED MFKZ together in 2026. Daniel Candia, Jorge Jimenez Sanchez and Gabriel Ballesteros Abril also hold credits on that record.
Does Junior H produce his own music?
He is credited as one of the producers of $ad Boyz 4 Life II, under his legal name Antonio Herrera Perez, alongside Jimmy Humilde and Ernesto Fernandez. Spanish-language coverage describes him as a producer and multi-instrumentalist as well as a singer and lyricist.
Who are Junior H's regular collaborators?
Natanael Cano first, from the Rancho Humilde years and "Disfruto Lo Malo" onward. Peso Pluma became the other constant after "El Azul" in 2023, with "El Tsurito", "Lady Gaga", "Luna", "Bipolar", "A Tu Manera" and "La Durango" following. Oscar Maydon, Gabito Ballesteros, Ovi, Grupo Marca Registrada and Grupo Firme all recur across his singles.
Did Junior H write "Ella" for Natanael Cano?
Yes. "Ella" appears on Cano's Corridos Tumbados and was written by Herrera himself. The two met at Rancho Humilde after Jimmy Humilde signed him in 2019, and their first joint single was "Disfruto Lo Malo" from the same album.
What does Junior H write about?
Relationships, mostly the breaking of them. That sad-leaning strain of the music gets called urban sierreno or sad sierreno, a style traced back to Ariel Camacho. One exception is "1004 Kilometros" from $ad Boyz 4 Life, written for his mother, who lived 1004 kilometers away from him at the time.
Which of his best-known songs are not on his own albums?
Several of the biggest ones. "El Azul" is a Peso Pluma single, and "Lady Gaga" and "Luna" belong to Peso Pluma's album Genesis. "Picardia" is on Rauw Alejandro's Playa Saturno, "En Altavoz" on Grupo Frontera's El Comienzo, and "Fin de Semana" with Oscar Maydon, "El Hijo Mayor" and "Vamos Para Arriba" are non-album singles.
How did Junior H get signed?
He put his own songs on YouTube under the name Junior H without telling anyone, and only checked back a month later, when "No Eh Cambiado" had passed two million views. Jimmy Humilde reached him in 2019 and brought him to Rancho Humilde; from Cruisin' with Junior H onward his albums came out through Warner Music Latina with the label.
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