Electricidad is the second studio album

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 by Mexican

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 duo Jesse & Joy

Jesse & Joy

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. The album was released 15 September 2009 and reached number twenty-one on the Mexican Albums Chart.

Background

In an interview with Univision

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, Jesse commented "We're happy with how the album turned out, we're very satisfied with it, we've been experimenting for about eighteen months with sounds and everything and now here in the last five months we managed to assemble those parts in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 and from that came the single 'Adiós'".

Track listing

All songs were written by Jesse & Joy.

Electricidad Tour

To promote the album, Jesse & Joy began the tour with a concert in the city of Houston, Texas

Texas

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 on September 25 also New York City's

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 Webster Hall

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, along with Kinky

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 on September 30. Along with this dates, the tour have dates on Mexico

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, United States

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, Spain

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, Central America

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 and South America

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.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Electicidad liner notes.

• Stevie Blacke – recording, string instrument
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• Jon Button – bass guitar
• Randy Cooke
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   – drums
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  , percussion
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• Matt Duane Griffin – production coordinator
• Jesse Huerta
  Jesse & Joy
  Jesse & Joy are a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican pop duo formed in 2005 by siblings Jesse and Joy .-History:...
  
   – composer, background vocals, guitar
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  , bass guitar
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  , piano
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• Joy Huerta
  Jesse & Joy
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   – composer, lead vocals
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• Gavin Lurssen
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   – mastering engineer
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• Albert Mata – mastering engineer assistant
• Fernando Roldán – recording
• Thom Russo – arranger
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  , hammond B3, keyboards
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  , mix engineer
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  , percussion, piano, producer
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  , programming, recording, music director
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• Maggie Wheeler – music director

Charts

The album debuted on the Mexican Albums Chart at number fifty-five, and reached number twenty-one as its peak position.

Chart	Peak position
Mexican Album Charts	21
US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Latin Albums	14
US Billboard Latin Pop Albums Latin Pop Albums Latin Pop Albums is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information of the Pop music genre. Established in June 1985, this chart features only full length albums and like all album charts on Billboard, is based on sales. The information is compiled by Nielsen...	3
US Billboard Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	22

Singles

Single	Chart 2009	Peak position
Chocolate	US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Latin Pop Songs	29

Year-End Charts

Single	Chart 2009	Peak Position
Adiós	US Billboard Hot Latin Songs	74

Certifications

Country (provider)	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Mexico AMPROFON	Gold (+30,000)