Me Gustas Tanto

"Me Gustas Tanto" (English: I Like You So Much) is a song by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio. The song was recorded for her tenth studio album, Brava!, due out on November 15, 2011.[1] The song made its debut online as the lead single on September 2, 2011 and was made available for purchase on Amazon.com and iTunes starting on September 6, 2011, about a week before it was released as a digital single worldwide and sent to radio station globally. The track was nominated for Pop Song of the Year at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2013.[2]

"Me Gustas Tanto"
Single by Paulina Rubio
from the album Brava!
ReleasedSeptember 6, 2011
Recorded2011
GenrePop, dance-pop, latin pop
Length3:45
LabelUniversal
Songwriter(s)Paulina Rubio, Miguel Mendoza "Nacho" & Andrés Recio
Producer(s)RedOne
Paulina Rubio singles chronology
"Golpes en el Corazón"
(2011)		 "Me Gustas Tanto"
(2011)		 "Me voy"
(2011)
Music video
"Me Gustas Tanto" on YouTube

Background

"Me Gustas Tanto" was written by Rubio herself along with Nacho, from the Venezuelan due Chino & Nacho and Andrés Recio, and it was produced by RedOne,[3] the man responsible for huge hits of Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Mohombi, Usher, Kelly Rowland, Pitbull and others. The single has been described as a fresh song with simple lyrics and a catchy beat. It is a dance-pop song with a Latin rhythm touch and it clearly uses an electronic sound with a pulsating repeat of “OE OE EO!” chorus. Italian platform Notizie Musica describes it as an "unbearably captivating" song that "finds its way between Latin rhythms and purely Latin vocal influences".[4]

Release

Paulina confirmed the release of the single via Twitter saying “I want to be the first one to let you know my NEW single hits radio Sept 13th.” While she didn't indicate the genre of the new song, her statement suggested the song might be a dance track. “Are you ready to dance?” Rubio, additionally, did not indicate if the single will be released in both English and Spanish. But her statement to news announcing the track was given in both languages. According to LALATE, a celebrity news site narrowing on Rubio's career, the single, "Me Gustas Tanto" made its debut September 2, 2011 on the same site. The single is available for purchase on Amazon.com and ITunes starting on September 6, 2011, about a week before it was released as a digital single worldwide and sent to radio station globally.[5]

Music video

On September, 27, Rubio started shooting the video in Miami, Florida. She invited fans to join the shooting of the video throungth Twitter. She described the first day of shooting the video as "a looong productive, fashionable, exciting, happy, explosive and well worth day!" Paulina stated on her second Twitcam that the music video was directed by Gustavo Lopez Mana and herself. The video for the song premiered on October 27 on her VEVO channel, on YouTube.

The CromosomaX gay website was very rigorous with the reception of the video and compared some of Rubio's looks with the latest works of the English singer Alison Goldfrapp.[6]

Remixes
  • Me Gustas Tanto (DJ Morales Radio Edit)
  • Me Gustas Tanto (Mambo version) featuring Gocho

Chart performance

The song debuted at #15 on the Spanish Promusicae Top 50 Songs as the major entry to the list. The song peaked at #4 on the Spanish Promusicae Top 50 Songs. It eventually peaked #1 on the Spanish Airplay Chart.[7] In the US the song has picked up some steam with local radio stations playing the song more, and now it has become Rubio's fifth number-one song on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs component chart and her last #1 to date. The song also moved up from #6 to #2 on the Latin Pop Songs. In Mexico the song peaked at #4. The song also made a huge jump to #1 in Puerto Rico.

Charts

Weekly charts
Chart (2012) Peak
position
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[8] 5
Spain Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[9] 4
Mexico Pop Español Airplay (Billboard)[10] 5
Mexico Airplay (Billboard)[11] 12
US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard)[12] 1
US Latin Pop Airplay (Billboard)[13] 1
US Tropical Airplay (Billboard)[14] 3
US Latin Pop Digital Songs Sales (Billboard)[15] 9
Venezuela Top Latino (Record Report)[16] 35

Year-end charts
End of year chart (2011) Position
Colombia (National-Report)[17] 5
End of year chart (2012) Position
US Latin Songs Year End 2012[18] 44
US Latin Pop Songs Year End 2012[19] 35

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "List of Nominees - Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Award 2013" (PDF). Univision (in Spanish). Univision Communications. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  4. "Paulina Rubio, le migliori canzoni: da Boys Will Be Boys a Heat of the Night". notiziemusica.it. Notizie Musica. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  5. "Paulina Rubio". news.lalate.com. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  6. "Paulina Rubio se disfraza de Alison Goldfrapp en su nuevo vídeo". Cromosoma X. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  8. "Spanishcharts.com – Paulina Rubio – Me Gustas Tanto" Canciones Top 50. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  9. "Paulina Rubio - Spain Digital Song Sales (Chart History)". Billboard. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  10. "PAULINA RUBIO - Mexican Pop Español Airplay Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  11. "PAULINA RUBIO - Mexican Airplay (Chart History)". Billboard. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  12. "Paulina Rubio Chart History (Hot Latin Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  13. "Paulina Rubio Chart History (Latin Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  14. "Paulina Rubio Chart History (Tropical Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  15. "Paulina Rubio - Chart History (Billboard)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  16. "Record Report Top Latino". Record Report. August 4, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  17. "Top Retro 2011 Colombia" (in Spanish). National-Report. Archived from the original on December 5, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  18. "Hot Latin Songs - Year-End".
  19. http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/hot-latin-pop-songs?begin=31&order=position
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