Paulina (album)

Paulina is the fifth studio album by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio. It was released on May 23, 2000 internationally by Universal Music Group and marks her first record production with American global music corporation. Rubio worked with writers and producers such as Estéfano (mostly), Armando Manzanero, Juan Gabriel, Christian De Walden, and Richard Daniel Roman. The album explores a more variety sounds much different to the vein of her albums with EMI Music, and has an overall latin pop and dance-pop vibe, with influences from rock, ranchera, bolero, funk and house. Elaborating a "synthesis of the end of the millennium" theme for the album, Rubio reinvented her image.

Paulina
Studio album by
Paulina Rubio
ReleasedMay 23, 2000 (2000-05-23)
RecordedMay 1999 – January 2000
StudioMidnight Studios
(Miami, Florida)
GenreLatin pop
Length48:47
LabelUniversal Music Latino
Producer
Paulina Rubio chronology
Planeta Paulina
(1996)		 Paulina
(2000)		 Top Hits
(2000)
Singles from Paulina
  1. "Lo Haré Por Ti"
    Released: January 11, 2000 (2000-01-11)
  2. "El Último Adiós"
    Released: July 17, 2000 (2000-07-17)
  3. "Y Yo Sigo Aquí"
    Released: October 13, 2000 (2000-10-13)
  4. "Yo No Soy Esa Mujer"
    Released: April 12, 2001 (2001-04-12)
  5. "Vive El Verano"
    Released: June 19, 2001 (2001-06-19) (in Europe)
  6. "Sexi Dance"
    Released: June 26, 2001 (2001-06-26) (in America)
  7. "Tal Vez, Quizá"
    Released: September 24, 2001 (2001-09-24)

Paulina was generally acclaimed by most critics and earned Latin Grammy Award nominations. In 2001, Billboard cited it as the best-selling Latin album of 2001 in the U.S.[1] The record was a commercial success, reaching at number one both the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, and debuted on the Billboard 200, making it her first album in appeasr on the chart. It was certified octuple platinum (latin) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sold 800,000 units shipped in the United States. Worldwide, the album has sold over 3 million copies making it Rubio's best-selling album, to date.[2] In Mexico, is one of the best-selling albums according to AMPROFON.

Seven singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Lo Haré Por Ti" became an international hit. Its second single "El Último Adiós" peaked at number one in Latin America. Its third single "Y Yo Sigo Aquí", which is often recognised as Rubio's signature international song, received a nomination for the Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 2001 ceremony became a massive commercial success. Follow-up singles "Yo No Soy Esa Mujer" and "Vive El Verano" also performed well on charts internationally. The latest singles "Sexi Dance" and "Tal Vez, Quizá" are often considered classic Rubio songs. To promote the album, she embarked on her concert tour Paulina.

Background and production

Rubio released her fourth studio album Planeta Paulina in summer 1996, she signed a contract that provided for the release of three albums with EMI Music over the course of four years. The disco and Europop-inspired album not was a commercial success, but the critical. The singles off the album reached top ten charts in Mexico and the album's promotion was extended into late 1997 as an attempt by EMI Music to have full control of Rubio. The record company had promised to reclaim her "status" as a prestigious Latin American artist after a record with "moderate success" and another as a commercial failure. She also proposed to release an album in English, which involved her crossover in the United States and Europe, but EMI Music denied her request, which motivated her to seek a new record label.

Soon after, Rubio began work on her fifth studio album. On it she collaborated with producers and writers such as Spanish singer-songwriter Nacho Cano, from the Spanish band Mecano, and Armando Manzanero. The album was recorded mostlly at Midnight Studios in Miami, Florida. Only "Vive El Verano" and an unreleased song titled "Es El Verano" was recorded in Barcelo, Spain, in the period when Rubio was a television host in the show Vive El Verano aired by Antena 3.

After terminating her contract with EMI Music in 1997, Rubio took nearly two years to prepare her fifth studio album. The singer updated her music and got ready for this new challenge with new producers and songwriters such as Estéfano, Armando Manzanero, Alejandro García Abad, Ralf Stemmann, Christian De Walden, Richard Daniel Román, Ignacio Ballesteros and Juan Gabriel.

In early 1999, Universal Music became interested in Rubio's creative process and her concept of the album, so the record company bought the old contract from EMI Music and signed a new one with the division in Latin America.In an interview with EFE, Rubio was questioned about her previously record label. She commented,

"I was with the Capitol (EMI Music) from 1991 to 1997, but there came a time when I didn't want to record what they proposed to me. What happened was that I started recording this album without having a company to edit it, although then Universal bought my contract in America and I was able to release [the album] with them."[3]

Promotion

Singles

"Lo Haré Por Ti" was released in January 2000 as the album's lead single. It marked Rubio's return to industry music, reached at number one in several countries. The video show Rubio reinvented with a style eclectic and sexy. "El Último Adiós" was then released in July 2000 as the second single in Latin America and reached at number one in Mexico, Colombia and Chile. The controversial music video contained racy love scenes, as well as men and women appearing barely clothed.

In October 2000, "Y Yo Sigo Aquí" was released as the third single in America and the second in Europe. The song reached number one in 30 countries and number three in Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. An English version titled "Sexual Lover" of the song with released in summer 2001. Rubio performed the song on the British music show Top of the Pops. "Yo No Soy Esa Mujer" was released as the fourth single from Paulina in April 2001 reaching number seven in the Hot Latin Songs chart. It became her fourth number-one single in Mexico.

"Vive El Verano", written by Richard Daniel Roman and Ignacio Ballesteros was released as the album's fifth single in June 2001, charting at number 31 in Italy. The song was released only in Europe as a third single from Paulina. This enabled it to European Albums chart at number 56. "Sexi Dance" was initially issued as a club-only track in America, but was a success where it reached number 34 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. The song also appeared as an English version titled "Fire (Sexy Dance)" of Rubio's subsequent studio album Border Girl.

"Tal Vez, Quizá", written by Armando Manzanero was released as the album's sixth and final single in September 2001. The song earned critical acclaim.

Paulina spawned official seven singles and other two songs were released as promotional singles. "Sin Aire" was launched in Spain in the summer of 2001 and "Mírame a Los Ojos" in Brazil for the promotion of a soap opera, but it was well accepted that it was launched on radio stations.

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
El Tiempo[5]

Paulina received positive reviews from music critics. Steve Huey from Allmusic gave a very good review, giving the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and stating "Paulina Rubio's fourth (fifth) album, titled simply Paulina, is her first for the Universal label and also her first in four years. The club/dance diva style of Planeta Paulina is still in evidence, but here Rubio also works in plenty of infectious Latin pop, plus a few show-stopping ballads. About half the tracks were written by Colombian songwriter Estéfano, and they display a variety that's never been quite so fully realized on a Rubio album before. All in all, it's one of her best to date."

Commercial performance

Worldwide the album sold 1.6 million copies the first year,[6] the figure increased to 2.5 million in 2002.[2] Since then, worldwide sales stands at 3 million.[7][8] According to a report from EFE, those sales came mainly from United States, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Central America and Venezuela.[9] After reaching the 2 million mark worldwide, her record company gave her a double Diamond certification.[10][11] The presentation to grant these recognitions to Rubio was made in December 2001 during the TV show Otro Rollo.[12]

Paulina was certified 4× Platinum in Mexico according to AMPROFON after reaching sales of 600,000 units. In the United States, Paulina reportedly sold 255,000 copies in 2001.[13] It reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart on February 24, 2001, 33 weeks after its debut on the chart and it stayed there for two consecutive weeks.[14] On May 26, a year after its release, the album topped the chart again at number one.[15] During that period, she received her first standard-type gold certification for shipping 500,000 copies in that country. Rubio set a record by becoming the first Mexican singer to receive a standard RIAA gold certifield. The album reaching No. 156 on the Billboard 200[16] and No. 6 Heatseekers Albums. With its success, Rubio held the record for the highest 2001 sales by a Latin artist and in total was certified 8× platinum for the shipping of 800,000 copies in the U.S alone. According to some sources such as Telemundo, this album sold 1 million copies in the United States,[17] although as of July 2002, Nielsen SoundScan reported a total of 374,000 units.[16]

Paulina also peaked at number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and reached the number two in Spain. With this album, Paulina achieved international recognition and success, as several of the album's singles entered the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart in the US. The album was certified Gold and Platinum in Mexico, U.S, Colombia, Central America, Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador.[18][19]

Track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Lo Haré Por Ti"Estéfano4:43
2."El Último Adiós"Paulina Rubio, Estéfano4:46
3."Tal Vez, Quizá"Armando Manzanero4:35
4."Y Yo Sigo Aquí"Estéfano4:15
5."Sin Aire"Estéfano4:05
6."Tan Sola"Estéfano, Marcello Azevedo, Paulina Rubio5:24
7."Sexi Dance"Estéfano5:04
8."Cancún y Yo"Juan Gabriel3:49
9."Mírame a los Ojos"Alejandro García Abad3:57
10."Yo No Soy Esa Mujer"Christian De Walden, Ralf Stemmann3:45
11."Vive El Verano"Richard Daniel Roman, Ignacio Ballesteros4:12
12."Baby Paulina"GeneraMusic0:17

Charts

Certifications and sales

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Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[32] Gold 30,000^
Chile (IFPI)[33] Platinum 20,000x 
Colombia (ASINCOL)[18][34] Gold+Platinum 30,000x 
Costa Rica[35] 2× Platinum 30,000 
Ecuador (IFPI)[19] Gold 7,500x 
Mexico (AMPROFON)[36] 4× Platinum 600,000^
Peru (IFPI)[19] Gold 5,000x 
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[37] 3× Platinum 400,000[2]
United States (RIAA)[38] 8× Platinum (Latin) 1,000,000[17]^
Venezuela (APFV)[18] Gold 15,000x 
Summaries
Central America[18] Platinum 20,000x 
Worldwide — 3,000,000[7][8]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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