Cuéntame (Lucerito album)

Cuéntame coincided with the 10 year celebration of Lucero's career, and also was the album designed to show her mature stage. Although Melody, the record label, refused to change the diminutive Lucerito to Lucero, for marketing reasons, Cuéntame is the last album that carried the diminutive, closing "infant stage" of her career; Lucero's following release, Con Mi Sentimiento (1990) was the first album to achieve this. The singer recorded the album from January to March 1989, in Madrid, Spain, and Bologna, Italy, places where shed had the opportunity to meet some European countries for the first time. Executive producer Miguel Blasco, was commissioned to create the new image for the singer, including art design, clothing and music. J.R. Florez and Loris Ceroni were responsible for selecting and composing all the music and lyrics of the album along with Gian Pierto Di Felisatti. Blasco's idea was to show Lucero as a much more mature singer and with a stronger image (Lucero appears in the front cover in black leather with studs, heavy earrings and curly hair).

Melody decides to launch the album in the Mexican TV show Siempre en Domingo on June 1989. Cuéntame was Lucero's sixth full-length studio album. The album was first promoted by the track "Madre" on April 1989, but the lead single was the title track, which became a number-one hit in Mexico and peaked at number two in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States; this single ranked in the list for the "Best 100 Songs of the '80s in Spanish" by TV network VH1. "Corazón a la Deriva" was selected as the third single, and peaked at number 8 in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart. "Tanto" and "Caso Perdido" were also released as the fourth and fifth singles. The track "Me Gusta Tu Dinero" was used to promote the film Deliciosa Sinvergüenza (1989).

The album is composed by eleven songs and a bonus track for the Cd format, Cuando Llega el Amor from the telenovela of the same name.[1]

Cuéntame surpassed Lucero's previous releases on sales, managing to shi. It manages to ship 400,000 units, being awarded a gold and platinum certification in Mexico. The album was a high seller in Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and the United States, countries which Lucero visited to promote it.[4]