Amore (Andrea Bocelli album)
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Released | 31 January 2006 | |||
Recorded | Record Plant Studios, Hollywood, CA; Chartmaker Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Andrea Bocelli Studio Pierpaolo Guerrini, Tuscany, Italy; Sony Studios, Culver City, CA; Westlake Audio, Hollywood, CA | |||
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Length | 57:32 | |||
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Released | 28 February 2006 | |||
Genre | Ballad, Pop, Latin | |||
Length | 57:32 | |||
Label | Universal Latino | |||
Producer | David Foster, Humberto Gatica | |||
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Amore is the eleventh studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released on 31 January 2006, for the Valentine's Day season. This album features a remake of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love"; "Because We Believe", the closing song of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which Bocelli wrote and performed; "Somos Novios (It's Impossible), a duet with American pop singer Christina Aguilera; and his first recording of Bésame Mucho, which eventually became one of his signature songs.
Releases
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Amore was released internationally beginning on 28 February 2006.
A Spanish version of the album was also released in the same year, called Amor.
In Japan it was released on 18 October 2006 as Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (
Track listing
[edit]For Amore
[edit]- "Amapola" – 3:43
- "Besame Mucho" – 4:01
- "Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)" – 4:49
- "Mi Manchi" (feat. Kenny G) – 3:35
- "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (feat. Christina Aguilera) – 4:22
- "Solamente Una Vez" – 3:29
- "Jurame" – 3:22
- "Pero te Extraño" – 4:06
- "Canzoni Stonate" (feat. Stevie Wonder) – 5:17
- "L'Appuntamento (Sentado à Beira do Caminho)" – 4:08
- "Cuando Me Enamoro (Quando m'innamoro)" – 3:56
- "Can't Help Falling in Love" – 3:25
- "Because We Believe" – 4:37
- "Ama Credi e Vai (Because We Believe)" – 4:41
- Japan bonus track[1]
- "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (feat. Rimi Natsukawa)
For Amor, the Spanish version of the album
[edit]- "Besame Mucho"
- "Cancion Desafinada" (Spanish version of Canzoni Stonate with Stevie Wonder)
- "Solamente Una Vez" (Original version in Spanish of You Belong To My Heart)
- "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (with Christina Aguilera)
- "Jurame" (with Mario Reyes) – 3:22
- "Pero te Extraño"
- "Las Hojas Muertas" (Spanish version of Autumn Leaves)
- "Momentos"
- "Me Faltas "Mi Manchi" (with Kenny G)
- "Cuando Me Enamoro" (Spanish version of Quando m'innamoro)
- "Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste"
- "Amapola"
- Verano Estate (with Chris Botti)
- "Nuestro Encuentro" (Spanish version of L'Appuntamento)
Commercial Performance
[edit]With 113,000 units sold in its first week of release, Amore debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, which at the time was Bocelli's highest chart position in America yet, only to be surpassed by his 2009 release My Christmas, which reached No. 2.[2] It went on to sell 1.66 million copies in the United States[3] and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.[4] Bocelli was the seventh best-selling artist of 2006, in the United States, with 2,524,681 copies of his albums sold that year.[5] The Spanish version, Amor, was also certified Album Multi-Platino (Double Platinum) by the RIAA.[6] Both versions were also certified Gold and Platinum in several other counties.
Charts
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Year-end charts[edit]
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Certifications and sales
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Argentina (CAPIF)[44] Spanish edition |
Platinum | 40,000^ |
Austria (IFPI Austria)[45] | Gold | 15,000* |
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[46] | Platinum | 60,000* |
Canada (Music Canada)[47] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Ecuador | — | 9,000[48] |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[49] | Platinum | 49,369[49] |
Hungary (MAHASZ)[50] | Platinum | 10,000^ |
Ireland (IRMA)[51] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
Mexico (AMPROFON)[52] for Amor |
Platinum | 100,000^ |
Netherlands (NVPI)[53] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[54] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Norway (IFPI Norway)[55] | Platinum | 40,000* |
Poland (ZPAV)[56] | Platinum | 20,000* |
Portugal (AFP)[57] | Gold | 10,000^ |
Russia (NFPF)[58] | Platinum | 20,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[59] | Gold | 40,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[60] | Gold | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[61] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[4] | Platinum | 1,660,000[3] |
United States (RIAA)[6] for Amor |
2× Platinum (Latin) | 200,000^ |
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Europe (IFPI)[62] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Personnel
[edit]- Veronica Berti: Vocals on "Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)"
- Kenny G: Saxophone on "Mi Manchi"
- Christina Aguilera: Vocals on "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)"
- Marco Borsato: Vocals on "Because We Believe"
- Mario Reyes: Flamenco guitar on "Jurame"
- Stevie Wonder: Harmonica and additional vocals on "Canzoni Stonate"
- David Foster and Randy Waldman: Acoustic piano and keyboards
- Nathan East: Bass
- Vinnie Colaiuta: Drums
- Dean Parks, Ramon Stagnaro, Michael Thompson, Corrado Sgandurra, Michael Landau: Guitars
- Paulinho Da Costa and Rafael Padilla: Percussion
- Dan Higgins: Flute
- David Foster: Arrangement
- Jorge Calandrelli and David Foster: Arrangement on " Amapola"
- Humberto Gatica, Chartmaker Studios: Mixing
- Hernan Gatica, Pierpaolo Guerinni, Valerio Calisse, Jochem van der Saag, and Alejando Rodriguez: Recording
- Neil Devor and Chris Brooke: Additional engineering
- Oscar Ramirez: Additional Pro-Tools engineering on "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)"
- Jochem van der Saag: Programming and sound design
See also
[edit]- Under the Desert Sky the CD/DVD package of a pop concert for the album
References
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