"Impacto" is the first single by Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 reggaeton

Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...

 performer Daddy Yankee

Daddy Yankee

Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...

 from his fifth studio album El Cartel: The Big Boss

El Cartel: The Big Boss

El Cartel: The Big Boss is the fourth studio album and eighth overall by Puerto Rican recording artist Daddy Yankee. It was released on June 5, 2007 by El Cartel Records through Interscope Records. The album features contributions from Scott Storch, will.i.am, Luny Tunes, Tainy, Akon, and Mr...

. It was released on April 12, 2007 by El Cartel Records

El Cartel Records

El Cartel Records is Daddy Yankee's record company. The release of Barrio Fino, Daddy Yankee's first commercially successful album, is notable for being the label's first distributed album.-Studio albums:Daddy Yankee* 2004: Barrio Fino* 2005: Barrio Fino en Directo* 2007: El Cartel: The Big...

. "Impacto" was nominated for Song of the Year at the Premios Lo Nuestro 2008.

Song information

The song was produced by Scott Storch

Scott Storch

Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...

 and reggaeton

Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...

 producer Tainy

Tainy

Marco Masís, artistically known as Tainy, is a reggaeton producer. At 20 years old, he is one of the youngest and most successful producers in the reggaeton genre today. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he entered the world of reggaeton with his work on Mas Flow 2.-Musical career:After...

. There is also a remix

Remix

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 featuring Fergie, which is also featured in the same album and features more spanglish

Spanglish

.Spanglish refers to the blend of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The Hispanic population of the United States and the British population in Argentina use varieties of...

 lyrics than the original version. Additionally, the song is featured in the EA Sports

EA Sports

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 game Madden 08., and it is also featured in the Rockstar

Rockstar Games

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 game Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV

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. Daddy Yankee made another remix of "Impacto" featuring the reggaeton group Casa de Leones

Casa de Leones

Casa de Leones , also known as Los Leones, were a Puerto Rican reggaeton group.-Professional career:The members of the group are Miguel A. De Jesús , Jaime Borges and Héctor Padilla , Randy Ortiz and Joel Muñoz...

.

Music video

According to an interview by Primer Impacto

Primer Impacto

Primer Impacto is a Spanish language television news program broadcast by Univision in the USA weekdays at 5pm ET. A later program at 11pm ET/PT airs on Univision affiliates without a local news department , leading into the network's 11:30pm newscast, Noticiero Univision Edicion Nocturna.The...

 news, who were on the set of the remix version video, Daddy Yankee says there will be two videos, one for the remix featuring pop

Pop music

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/R&B

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

 singer Fergie and a second for the original. The original video features many cities including London, Tokyo, New York, San Juan and Mexico City. The remix video includes bits and pieces from the original video, adding Fergie and her parts.

The video premiered on Total Request Live

Total Request Live

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 on May 8, 2007, and reached number 1. The remix has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube

YouTube

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 with the original being viewed more than 3 million times, adding up to more than 16 million views.

Track listing and formats

US CD promo

1. "Impacto" (Album Version)
2. "Impacto" (Instrumental Version)
3. "Impacto" (Clean Remix) (featuring Fergie)
4. "Impacto" (Dirty Remix) (featuring Fergie)

US CD single

1. "Impacto" (Album Version)
2. "Impacto" (Remix) (featuring Fergie)
3. (B-side)
4. "Impacto" (music video)

Chart performance

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|Honduras

Honduras

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

100 Singles Chart
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