This angered Behar, as he stormed into the office of EMI Records and demanded the crossover album to begin. During a private dinner in 1994, Selena and Jose Behar began talking about the crossover album, Selena burst into tears and exclaiming that she hadn't record a song for the album.
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As the news of Selena becoming a crossover artist, stress-levels began to arise as Selena was put on pressure by the press after her alleged debut date neared. In November of 1993, Selena was signed to SBK Records, although recording sessions didn't begin until a year later. Īfter becoming the first Tejano artist to certified an album gold, selling more then 500,000 copies and winning a Grammy Award for "Best Mexican-American Album", EMI Latin decided the time was right to propel Selena as an American solo pop artist. They insisted that Selena needed a bigger fan-base. After recording " Only Love", " Is It The Beat?", and " Where Did The Feeling Go?", EMI Records weren't convinced that Selena was ready to record a crossover album. Before Behar made Selena the first artist to ever sign with EMI Latin, he wanted Selena to record three English-language songs that would ensure EMI Records's pop division the crossover album. He believed he witnessed the next " Gloria Estfean". In 1989, Selena was discovered by Jose Behar, the former head of Sony Music Latin. Selena continued to release dominant Spanish-language albums for independent record labels. Quintanilla Jr faced discrimination from White Americans who didn't take kind to Abraham's group singing their type of music. Abraham Quintanilla Jr, father of Selena, raised her to be "true to herself" - with stories of his youth, when his band "Los Dinos" recorded doo-wop music.
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She released her first record in 1984 which only included two English songs. While growing up, Selena had always wanted to record a "big" English-language album. "Tú Sólo Tú", peaked number-one on both Hot Latin Tracks and Regional Mexican Songs charts. "I'm Getting Used To You" peaked at number twenty-three on Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. " Captive Heart", " God's Child (Baila Conmigo)", " El Toro Relajo", " Tú Sólo Tú" and " I'm Getting Used To You" were released as promotional singles. "I Could Fall in Love" peaked at number-one on Billboard Latin Pop Airplay, while "Dreaming of You" peaked number-twenty-two on Billboard Hot 100. The two lead singles from Dreaming of You, " I Could Fall in Love" and the title track, went to chart in over six music categories on Billboard. The album had several singles, while others were for promotional use. Dreaming of You also became the highest ranking Spanish-language album to chart "Billboard Top Latin Albums". In July 1995, Dreaming of You paced itself as one of Selena's studio albums that stood on the top ten of the "Billboard Top 50 Latin Albums". The album entered the "top ten best-selling debuts of all time" along with being the "best-selling debuts for a female artist". Dreaming of You was a commercial success for selling well over 2,000,000 copies in the first year. EMI Records believed the album sold over 700,000 copies, because Billboard didn't include discount stores or the small shops that sell Latin music. On the same day of the album's release, it had sold more than 175,000 copies, a record for a female pop singer.
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Billboard 200 chart, for selling more than 331,000 copies in its first week, making her the first Hispanic singer to do this, and Dreaming of You the second-highest debut after Michael Jackson's HIStory album.
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The first half of the album has slow and mid-tempo R&B ballads and pop songs, while the rest of the album had more of Latin-influences.ĭreaming of You debuted at number one on the U.S. The album was known as a "double album" - for including unreleased English-language songs, while the rest of the album included Spanish-language songs, some of which were previously unreleased. On September 22, 2002, the album was released again for Selena's music collection: "20 Years of Music", which included bonus tracks, music videos and spoken liner notes by her family, friends, and her former band Los Dinos. The album was released worldwide on Jby EMI Records and EMI Latin. Quintanilla III, José Hernàndez, Jose Beharĭreaming of You was the sixth and last studio album and second posthumous album by Mexican American singer Selena. Keith Thomas, Guy Roche, Rhett Lawrence, Arto Lindsay, Susan Rogers, David Byrne, A.B.