All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos
All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos | ||||
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AMEN Studios, Q-Productions | ||||
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Length | 1:01:21 | |||
Language | English, Spanish | |||
EMI Latin | ||||
Producer | A.B. Quintanilla | |||
Selena chronology | ||||
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All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos is a
By 1999, Selena remained EMI Latin's top-selling act, outselling living musicians, and contributed to the company's dominance in the United States Latin music market. Behar wanted to release a commemorative album that would help continue to preserve Selena's music. He based his marketing strategy on
The recording includes 16 previously released songs that range from Selena's second studio album
The recording provided Selena with her second consecutive album to place atop the year-end chart for the Regional Mexican Albums category, following
Background
On March 31, 1995, American
By 1999, Selena remained
Music
The album contains 16 tracks ranging from Selena's second studio album
Track number eight, "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" was improvised during a rehearsal starting off as a song with few, if any, lyrics. Selena started singing, coming up with lyrics "as ideas came to her". It started off with lyrics about a cheerful fish swimming freely in the ocean,[21] which Astudillo likened to a nursery rhyme,[22] organized around a wah-wah guitar riff using a crybaby improvised by Selena's husband and the guitarist of the group Chris Pérez.[21] "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" transitioned into a cumbia and reggae song,[23] its onomatopoeic title and its nonsensical lyrics suggest the sound of a woman's heart palpitating for the object of her affection.[24] The following track, "La Llamada" follows the protagonist's former lover calling her and protesting his innocence, not buying his excuses, she tells him to refrain from calling her again.[25] The eleventh song, "No Me Queda Más", was penned by keyboardist Ricky Vela, who had romantic inclinations toward the drummer of the group, Suzette, which he kept private from her.[26] After hearing of her wedding to Bill Arriaga in September 1993, Vela wrote of his feelings of betrayal and unrequited love and hid the lyrics that he wrote based on these feelings. Vela eventually provided Selena with the lyrics and she recorded the song for Amor Prohibido. According to Abraham, Selena provided an emotional delivery while recording the track and was seen sobbing in the recording studio because "she knew how [Vela] felt" about Suzette.[27]
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Promotion and release
On February 8, 1999, it was revealed that All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos would be commercially available on March 9. It was hailed as the final release by the singer for the millennium.
Lupe de la Cruz, marketing director for EMI Latin, hoped that the direct-TV campaign would generate interest. De la Cruz confessed that consumers haven't bought "as much as we would want them to" from previous direct-TV campaigns. He believes that consumers might make a connection when browsing through a music retailer and remembering that they saw All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos on TV and might be more inclined to purchase the album. He also hoped that with the push into English-language networks, those who saw the
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [35] |
Austin American-Statesman | [13] |
Writing for the Austin American-Statesman, John T. Davis proclaimed that the release of All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos marked the day that Selena had more posthumous releases than those released during her lifetime. Davis noticed an uptick in sales for anything containing Selena during the annual markings of her death and felt that recent releases have suffered in quality in order to meet demand. He found All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos as a solid release, containing much of the singer's best songs, though found that it was neither remarkable nor complete of Selena's best works. Davis opined the album for those curious on works done by Selena or casual fans. He found it peculiar that the recording was marketed for die-hard fans and believed that they were the least to benefit from the album. Applauding its wide marketing, Davis concluded that All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos misses the mark in the quality afforded by the label.[13]
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez of the
Commercial performance
As a result of some retailers releasing the album ahead of its debut, All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos debuted at number 24 on the Top Latin Albums chart on the week ending March 20, 1999.[39] The album peaked at number one on the Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums chart the following tracking week. It received the greatest album sales gain for any Latin album on the chart from the previous tracking week. All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos unseated Ricky Martin's Vuelve from the top spot. Selena and Martin's albums contributed the most to the 167,500 units measured by Nielsen SoundScan of Latin albums sold in the United States for that week.[40] The album became Selena's fifth number-one album on the Top Latin Albums chart, the most any artist has placed on the chart, at that time.[41] All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos debuted at number 59 on the Billboard 200 chart selling 25,380 units in its first week of availability.[40] All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos provided Selena with 73 cumulative weeks atop the Top Latin Albums chart, extending her record for most logged weeks on the chart for any artist, at that time.[41]
EMI Latin shipped 500,000 units to retailers and by April 9, 1999, All My Hits/Todos Mis Éxitos sold 250,000 copies in the five weeks of availability, according to the label.[11] Selena and Martin contributed significantly toward Latin album sales in the first quarter of 1999, with Lannert noticing their respective albums were "blowing through the sales roof".[42] According to Nielsen SoundScan, All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 176,705 units by May 22, 1999. The album represented 8% of the 1.5 million copies sold of Latin albums in the United States in the first quarter of 1999. It was the second-highest sold Latin album, behind Martin's Vuelve for the quarter, despite only being available for two months.[43] All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos received a platinum certification from Music Canada, selling 100,000 units in the country by June 12, 1999, and received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting 500,000 units shipped in the United States.[44] The album reclaimed the top spot of the Top Latin Albums chart for the week ending June 26, 1999, selling 11,500 units, a 26% increase from the previous week. Lannert called the sales spike surprising, though believed it could have been a result of the impending June 30 deadline, which would end production of the album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 207,500 units by June 1999, ranking at number three on their year-to-date Top Latin Albums chart.[45]
By August 21, 1999, All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 268,000 units, the second-most sales of a Latin album for the year, behind Martin's Vuelve. Music executives claim that the sales reported by Nielsen SoundScan only cover 30-45% of the Latin music market. The company responded that they believe their coverage is extensive, while Ritmo Latino argues that the actual numbers for Latin music are stagnant and the rise of sales is due to Martin and Enrique Iglesias who sell well in more accessible music retailers that cater to mainstream pop music.[46] EMI Latin albums sold a cumulative 422,000 units, making it the top Regional Mexican imprint and label by August 28, 1999. Selena's All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos comprise 69% of those numbers, claiming the top Regional Mexican Artist category during Billboard's recap reports.[47] By October 23, 1999, All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 343,000 units, representing the second-largest sales for a Latin album so far for 1999, behind Martin's Vuelve. In October 1999, Latin albums sold in the United States broke 1998's record sales, Martin, Selena, and Elvis Crespo, were the three biggest selling acts during a Nielsen SoundScan report.[48] All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos ended 1999 as the top Regional Mexican Album and the third largest-selling Top Latin Album of the year. Her second consecutive album to place atop the year-end chart for the Regional Mexican Albums category, following Anthology (1998). EMI Latin's albums sold 893,000 units, and Selena's album contributed 40% of their revenue, selling 360,000 units by mid-December.[49] In 1999, EMI Latin posted a sales gain for the first time since Selena's death in 1995, as a result of her album All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos.[50] All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 386,500 units by January 1, 2000, it was the fifth largest-selling album in the United States in 1999.[51] Writing for The Monitor, Vilma Maldonado believed All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos sold 600,000 units and claims that Nielsen SoundScan's report does not adequately represent the true number of units sold in the United States.[52] In 2017, the album was certified diamond (Latin) by the RIAA, denoting 600,000 units consisting of sales and on-demand streaming.[53]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Production | Length |
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1. | " ¿Qué Creias?" (previously on Entre a Mi Mundo) | A.B., Astudillo | A.B. | 3:30 |
7. | "Baila Esta Cumbia" (previously on Ven Conmigo) | A.B., Astudillo | A.B. | 2:56 |
8. | "Dreaming of You" (previously on Dreaming of You) | Franne Golde, Tom Snow | Guy Roche | 5:21 |
9. | "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" (previously on Amor Prohibido) | Selena, Astudillo | A.B. | 3:27 |
10. | "La Llamada" (previously on Selena Live!) | A.B., Astudillo | A.B. | 3:10 |
11. | "No Me Queda Más" (previously on Amor Prohibido) | Vela | A.B. | 3:18 |
12. | "I'm Getting Used to You" (previously on Dreaming of You) | Diane Warren | Rhett Lawrence | 4:01 |
13. | "La Carcacha" (previously on Entre a Mi Mundo) | A.B., Astudillo | A.B. | 4:08 |
14. | "Disco Medley" (previously on Selena: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Dino Fekaris, Donna Summer, Freddie Perren, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Jabarra, Steve Greeberg, Van McCoy | A.B. | 7:41 |
15. | "No Debes Jugar" (previously on Selena Live!) | A.B., Vela | A.B. | 2:48 |
16. | "Missing My Baby" (previously on Entre a Mi Mundo) | A.B. | A.B. | 3:51 |
Total length: | 1:01:21 |
Charts
Weekly charts
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Quarterly charts
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Year-end charts
Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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US Top Latin Albums[49] | 3 |
US Regional Mexican Albums[49] | 1 |
Chart (1999)[Note 1] | Peak position |
US Top Latin Albums[51] | 5 |
US Regional Mexican Albums[51] | 1 |
Chart (2000) | Peak position |
US Regional Mexican Albums[55] | 10 |
Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada | — | 100,000[56] |
Mexico | — | 100,000[57] |
United States (RIAA)[53] | Diamond (Latin) | 600,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Notes
- ^ With the admission of catalog titles.
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