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Release Date
14 March 1994
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Length
10 tracks
Amor Prohibido (English: Forbidden Love) is the name of an album by Latin superstar Selena. The album remains as the biggest selling Latin album of all time, being certified 20x Platinum (Latin type) by the RIAA for selling over 2 million copies. The album produced four number-one singles (one posthumous) on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart, the only Spanish album by a female to achieve this feat.
Album history
Continuing the formula of previous albums, A.B. Quintanilla III teamed up with Pete Astudillo and Ricky Vela to come up with what they hoped would be a successful Selena album. Its singles ("Amor Prohibido", "No Me Queda Más", "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom", and "Fotos Y Recuerdos") became hits at radio stations in the U.S. and Mexico.
Original pressings of this album, included a mariachi like version, of the song "No Me Queda Más". Selena would later re-record a more contemporary version, to help attract a wider audience. Pressings of the album with the re-recorded version, have a decorative red stamp in the top right corner, indicating the change.
Selena recorded a song with Latin pop group Barrio Boyzz, titled "Donde Quiera Que Estés", prior to recording Amor Prohibido. The duet was another number one hit for Selena. This track originally appeared on the Barrio Boyzz album of the same title and is included on the 2002 reissued version of this album as a bonus track.
The album made the Billboard 200 pop albums chart and replaced Gloria Estefan's Mi Tierra at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. It spent twenty non-consecutive weeks at number one on the chart over the next year, the final 16 weeks being propelled by Selena's death in March 1995. It also led to six awards at the Tejano Music Awards, another Grammy nomination in 1995 for Best Mexican/Mexican-American album, and Lo Nuestro award for "Regional Mexican Album of the Year". The unexpected success of this album led to extensive touring and promotion that is much to blame for the stalled efforts of recording Selena's English-language album, Dreaming of You, which was incomplete and posthumously released in 1995.
The album was certified Platinum (Latin type) shortly after its March 1994 release for selling over 200,000 units. To capitalize on the success Capitol/EMI-Latin records re-released the album with a red label on the front cover indicating that album included a new version of "No Me Queda Más".
Charts
Album
Year Chart Position Weeks
May 6, 1995 Billboard 200 29 23 weeks
June 11, 1994 Billboard Latin Albums 1 147 weeks
April 9, 1994 Billboard Mexican Regional albums 1 144 weeks
Singles released
1."Amor Prohibido" #1 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
2."Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" #1 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
3."No Me Queda Más" #1 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
4."Fotos Y Recuerdos" # 1 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
5."Si Una Vez" #4 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
6."El Chico Del Apartamento 512" #6 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
Certifications
Note that RIAA has launched its Oro y De Platino certification scheme for those albums the 50% of the content of which are in Spanish, initially, the award-levels for Oro y De Platino were: Gold=100,000 and Platinum=200,000. In February 2008, RIAA reduced the certification-award-levels for Oro y De Platino to Gold=50,000 and Platinum=100,000.
Country Certification Sales
USA 20x Platinum (Certification type: Latin) 2,000,000+
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