Enamorada De Ti

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Enamorada de Ti (English: In Love with You) is the second remix album by American singer Selena. It was released posthumously on 3 April 2012 through EMI Latin and Q-Productions, making it her second remix album, after Siempre Selena (1996). Enamorada de Ti was produced by Sergio Lopes, Leslie Ahrens, Andres Castro, Moggie Canazio, Cesar Lemons and Chilean record producer Humberto Gatica. Gatica had the idea of updating Selena's songs with popular contemporary music genres. Selena's family had already been working on a similar idea, but they set it aside in favor of Enamorada de Ti, which had gained the approval of EMI Latin. The selection of artists to sing duets with Selena began in late summer 2011. Gatica and Selena's family chose American singer and actress Selena Gomez, Puerto Rican singer Don Omar, Samuel "Samo" Parra from the Mexican rock band Camila, Mexican singer Cristian Castro, Puerto Rican DJ mixer Juan Magan, and the Carlos Santana band to sing duets with Selena. The remaining songs were remixed. Recording sessions began shortly after the selected artists had been chosen. Once Selena's family released confirmation of a duets album in January 2012, it quickly caught media attention and became a word-of-mouth promotion. Several music and talk shows, including E!, the Cristina Show, Sábado Gigante, El Gordo y La Flaca and Acceso Total, competed to release the news. In March 2012, the official track listing was released by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and was soon duplicated in several other online news sources. Gomez used her Twitter account to promote the album's release, a move that Gatica praised. Castro and Samo performed their duets from the album during the 2012 Latin Billboard Music Awards. The duet version of "Amor Prohibido" was released digitally on iTunes on 7 February 2012. It peaked at number 8 on the Latin Pop Airplay chart, number 25 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, and number 8 on the Latin Tropical Airplay chart. Other songs on the album, including the title track (duet with Magan), "Como La Flor" (duet with Castro), "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" (duet with Gomez), and "Fotos y Recuerdos" (duet with Omar), have charted on Billboard digital charts for the first time since their original release in 1995. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold, denoting shipments of 50,000 copies in the United States. Enamorada de Ti debuted and peaked at number one on the US Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts. It remained at number one on the latter for two consecutive weeks. After debuting and peaking at number 135 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album slipped off the chart and never returned, as sales declined. Enamorada de Ti peaked at number 56 on the Mexican Albums Chart. The album received a mixed response from music critics, many of whom preferred the original recordings. Carlos Quintana of About.com named Enamorada de Ti one of the "Best Latin Music Albums of the Year, So Far" and one of the "Most Popular Albums of the Year". After its debut at number one, EMI Latin confirmed a followup album in English. As of October 2012, its release date has not been announced. Enamorada de Ti reworks original Selena recordings in order to illustrate how she may have sounded in 2012 if she were still alive. Generally, this means that the original recordings have been pushed ever so slightly toward the mainstream -- for instance, "Amor Prohibido" has much of its overly stiff drum machines stripped away, replaced by warmer studio musicians. This isn't quite enough to make Selena sound contemporary -- these songs are rooted in the '90s and sound that way -- but it is a relatively fresher repackaging of her music than many of her posthumous releases.

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