Qué Te Pasa

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"Qué Te Pasa"
J.R. Florez
Producer(s)DiFelisatti
Yuri singles chronology
"Mamá Dame"
(1987)
"Qué Te Pasa"
(1987)
"Cuando Baja la Marea"
(1988)

"Qué Te Pasa" ("What's Up With You") is a

studio album Aire (1987), and became her first number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart and won the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year in 1989.[1]

This song was a success in Mexico and United States, leading the parent album to its peak at number eight in the Billboard Latin Pop Albums and approximate sales of one and a half million units in Latin America.[2][3]

Background

In 1987, after her third participation on the

EMI, since she signed with Sony Music in 1988. The first single released from this album was "Qué Te Pasa", a song that was included twenty years later on Yuri's first live album Vive la Historia.[4][5] The song was also featured in the film Selena (1997), starred by Jennifer López.[6]

Chart performance

"Qué Te Pasa" spent sixteen weeks at number-one, surpassing the records held by fellow Mexican singers

Son By Four with "A Puro Dolor", which spent 20 weeks at number-one in 2000.[8] To date, only one female singer have spent more weeks at the top: Shakira with "La Tortura", 25 weeks in 2005.[7] Currently the song ranks twelfth for songs with most weeks at the top of the chart.[9]

The song debuted on the

second best-performing single of 1988
only surpassed by Gabriel's "Ay Amor".

References

  1. ^ "Premios Lo Nuestro - Ganadores 1989". Univision (in Spanish). Univision Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  2. ^ "Ay Amor - Week of November 21, 1987". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1988-06-18. Retrieved 2009-06-17. [dead link]
  3. ^ "Los 100 Discos Más Vendidos de la Década de los 80s". AMPROFON (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  4. ^ "Yuri" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  5. ^ "Yuri - Vive la Historia". Allmusic. Macromedia Corporation. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  6. ^ "Selena (1997)". Internet Movie Database. 1997. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  7. ^ a b Brito, Joel (2008-07-31). "Flex invencible en Billboard Hot Latin Songs". Billboard en Español (in Spanish). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  8. ^ Brito, Joel (2009-02-02). "Aventura vuelve a la carga". Billboard en Español (in Spanish). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  9. ^ Brito, Joel (2008-12-19). "Gloria Trevi, RKM & Ken-Y, Reik y Arcángel, fuertes en las listas". Billboard en Español (in Spanish). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  10. ^ "Qué Te Pasa - April 9, 1988". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1988-04-09. Retrieved 2009-06-17. [dead link]
  11. ^ "Qué Te Pasa - Week of April 30, 1988". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1988-04-30. Retrieved 2009-06-09. [dead link]
  12. ^ "Qué Te Pasa - Week of May 14, 1988". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1988-05-14. Retrieved 2009-06-17. [dead link]

See also