La Solitudine
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"La solitudine" is an Italian
ballad recorded by pop
singer Laura Pausini
and released as her debut single by CGD in February 1993.
The song is included in Pausini's self-titled first album
, released on 18 March 1993.
Pausini sang it for the first time on 23 February 1993, during the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival. On 27 February 1993, the song was announced the winner of the competition in the newcomers' section, receiving 7464 votes.
The single reached the first position on the Italian Singles Chart, and later became an Italian standard. Following the success obtained in Italy, in late 1993 the single was released in the rest of Europe, reaching the top 5 in France and topping the Dutch Top 40 Singles Chart
and the Belgian Singles Chart.
In 1994 Pausini released a Spanish language
version of the song, titled "La soledad" and included in her first Spanish language album, Laura Pausini. An English language
version of the song, adapted by Tim Rice
and title "La solitudine (Loneliness)" was recorded by Laura Pausini and released as a single on 19 June 1995 to promote her self-titled
compilation album.
The song was re-recorded as a slower, more dramatic ballad with live instrumentation for her 2001 compilation album
The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te
. The same arrangement was used for the new version of the Spanish counterpart of the song, included in Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti.
Interviewed by Italian journalist Gianni Minà, Pausini declared that the song is strongly autobiographical:
According to Univision
's Fabiana Steinmander, Laura Pausini's "La solitudine" is a song "with a high degree of difficulty because of the number of vocal transitions and the modulation
it demands of its singer".
' s Gino Castaldo, "La solitudine" is not a great song, but singing it Pausini "seduced with her voice and her authentic determination". La Stampa
s Marinella Venegoni wrote that, due to "La solitudine"'s "whimpering sadness", Pausini can be compared to Italian singer Marco Masini
. Venegoni later described it as an immature teen-song.
Mario Luzzatto Fegiz and Gloria Pozzi wrote on the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera
that "La solitudine" initially looked to be a typical song built for the Sanremo Music Festival, but it is "a song without make-up, perfectly in tune with its interpret".
's single chart on 13 March 1993, and holding the first position for a total number of three consecutive weeks. "La solitudine" also became the 15th best-selling single of 1993 in Italy.
The song was later released in the rest of Europe, reaching the top of the Belgian Singles Chart and of the Dutch Top 40
. It also charted at number 5 in the French Singles Chart, scoring 44 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 50, and at number 2 in the Dutch Mega Single Top 100
.
During 1994, the Spanish-language version of the song charted in the United States at number 22 on the Billboard
Hot Latin Songs
and at number 5 on the Billboard Latin Pop Songs, while the English-language version, "La solitudine (Loneliness)", released in the United Kingdom only, failed to chart on the UK Singles Chart
.
.
A live performance of the song was included in Pausini's first DVD
, Live 2001–2002 World Tour
, recorded at Mediolanum Forum in Milan
on 2 December 2001, as well as in 2005's Live in Paris
, recorded at the Zénith de Paris
, and in San Siro 2007
, recorded on 2 June 2007, when Pausini was the first woman to sing in the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
.
In 2002 Pausini dueted with Lara Fabian
, singing "La solitudine" during a French TV show recorded in Rome
.
On 21 June 2009, Pausini performed the song live with Italian rock singer Gianna Nannini
, during the mega-concert Amiche per l'Abruzzo, involving the most important Italian female singers and organized to raise money to support the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
. The performance was also included in the DVD Amiche per l'Abruzzo, released on 22 June 2010.
In 2009 Pausini released her third live album, Laura Live World Tour 09
, including a performance of "La solitudine" recorded in Naples
. The Spanish version of the album, Laura Live Gira Mundial 09, features a recording of the song performed in Barcelona
.
recorded a Greek
version of the song, titled "Το Νου σου κύριε Οδηγέ". In the same year Paul de Leeuw
recorded a Dutch language
version of "La solitudine", with the title Ik Wil Niet Dat Je Liegt (I don't want you to lie).
Filipino
singer Ivy Violan also recorded a Filipino language
version of the song, adapted by Alvina Sy with the title "Hanggang Ngayon" for her 1998's album with the same title.
In 1994, Brazilian singer Renato Russo
recorded a cover of the Italian-language version of the song for his album Equilibrio distante. After his death, a posthumous duet with Leila Pinheiro
was included in his album Duetos. The English version of the song was covered by German
pop singer Jamie Stevens and included in his 2002 album Unbreakable. The Spanish singer Abraham Mateo
included a cover of "La soledad" in his self-titled debut album
.
Cuba
n timba
group Bamboleo recorded a salsa
version of "La soledad" for their 1996 album Te gusto o te caigo bien. A year later, DLG followed suit, recording a salsa version of "La soledad" for their 1997 album Swing On. Lead singer Huey Dunbar
removed the reference to "Marco" and replaced it with "ella" (she). DLG's version also adds a spoken reggae
bridge to the song, in which the woman Dunbar is singing to responds to his plea and vows to return.
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
ballad recorded by pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...
and released as her debut single by CGD in February 1993.
The song is included in Pausini's self-titled first album
Laura Pausini (1993 album)
Laura Pausini is the debut album album by Italian singer Laura Pausini. It was released in Italy on 18 May 1993 by CGD Records .Following the success obtained in Italy, where it sold 400,000 copies, the album was later released in Europe, Australia and Japan...
, released on 18 March 1993.
Pausini sang it for the first time on 23 February 1993, during the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival. On 27 February 1993, the song was announced the winner of the competition in the newcomers' section, receiving 7464 votes.
The single reached the first position on the Italian Singles Chart, and later became an Italian standard. Following the success obtained in Italy, in late 1993 the single was released in the rest of Europe, reaching the top 5 in France and topping the Dutch Top 40 Singles Chart
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
and the Belgian Singles Chart.
In 1994 Pausini released a Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
version of the song, titled "La soledad" and included in her first Spanish language album, Laura Pausini. An English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
version of the song, adapted by Tim Rice
Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
and title "La solitudine (Loneliness)" was recorded by Laura Pausini and released as a single on 19 June 1995 to promote her self-titled
Laura Pausini (1995 album)
Laura Pausini is a compilation album of Italian singer Laura Pausini’s greatest hits and selected tracks, issued by CGD Records for the anglophone market in 1995...
compilation album.
The song was re-recorded as a slower, more dramatic ballad with live instrumentation for her 2001 compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te
The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te
The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te is a compilation album of Italian singer-songwriter Laura Pausini's greatest hits, issued by CGD East West Records in 2001...
. The same arrangement was used for the new version of the Spanish counterpart of the song, included in Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti.
Background and composition
The lyrics to the Italian version of the tender song are about a boy named Marco, who is separated from his girlfriend at the urging of his family and sent to live far away from her. The (now former) girlfriend makes an emotional and heartfelt plea, singing to him about the loneliness and pain they would feel without each other.Interviewed by Italian journalist Gianni Minà, Pausini declared that the song is strongly autobiographical:
"In the beginning the song started with the words 'Anna se n'è andata' [Anna went away] instead of 'Marco se n'è andato'. But the rest of the story was exactly the photograph of my life until that moment [...]. I had never met those two authors before and, even if Valsiglio and the other composers continued to give me new songs, I told my father that I wanted to sing that one only, just changing the name to Marco, because the development of the song looked to be a copy of what was happening to me. Marco was my boyfriend in the same period, and this is why, when I was singing that song, I was feeling moved."
According to Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
's Fabiana Steinmander, Laura Pausini's "La solitudine" is a song "with a high degree of difficulty because of the number of vocal transitions and the modulation
Modulation (music)
In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key signature. Modulations articulate or create the structure or form of many pieces, as well as add interest...
it demands of its singer".
Critical reception
The song received mixed to negative reviews by Italian music critics. According to la RepubblicaLa Repubblica
la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...
La Stampa
La Stampa is one of the best-known, most influential and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations. The current owner is the Fiat Group.-History:...
s Marinella Venegoni wrote that, due to "La solitudine"'s "whimpering sadness", Pausini can be compared to Italian singer Marco Masini
Marco Masini
Marco Masini is an Italian singer-songwriter- Career :Marco Masini was born on September 18, 1964, the Italian city of Florence. His mother, Anna Maria, sang and played piano, and was an elementary school teacher before she quit the profession to have a life at home with the family...
. Venegoni later described it as an immature teen-song.
Mario Luzzatto Fegiz and Gloria Pozzi wrote on the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
The Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper, published in Milan.It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers. Its main rivals are Rome's La Repubblica and Turin's La Stampa.- History :...
that "La solitudine" initially looked to be a typical song built for the Sanremo Music Festival, but it is "a song without make-up, perfectly in tune with its interpret".
Chart performance
The song became a big hit in Italy, reaching the top spot on Musica e dischiMusica e Dischi
Musica e Dischi is the oldest and most important music industry publication in Italy. It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former senior record of VCM...
's single chart on 13 March 1993, and holding the first position for a total number of three consecutive weeks. "La solitudine" also became the 15th best-selling single of 1993 in Italy.
The song was later released in the rest of Europe, reaching the top of the Belgian Singles Chart and of the Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
. It also charted at number 5 in the French Singles Chart, scoring 44 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 50, and at number 2 in the Dutch Mega Single Top 100
Mega Single Top 100
The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is...
.
During 1994, the Spanish-language version of the song charted in the United States at number 22 on the 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...
Hot Latin Songs
Hot Latin Songs
Hot Latin Songs is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. It is often recognized as the most important music chart for Spanish language Latin music in the American music market. It was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986 with La Guirnalda by Rocío Dúrcal being the first song...
and at number 5 on the Billboard Latin Pop Songs, while the English-language version, "La solitudine (Loneliness)", released in the United Kingdom only, failed to chart on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
.
Live performances
Laura Pausini performed the song live for the first time on 23 February 1993, competing in the newcomers' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival, broadcasted by Italian TV station Rai 1. The song was also performed during Pausini's Italian tour in 1993, to promote her debut self-titled albumLaura Pausini (1993 album)
Laura Pausini is the debut album album by Italian singer Laura Pausini. It was released in Italy on 18 May 1993 by CGD Records .Following the success obtained in Italy, where it sold 400,000 copies, the album was later released in Europe, Australia and Japan...
.
A live performance of the song was included in Pausini's first DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, Live 2001–2002 World Tour
Live 2001–2002 World Tour
Live 2001–2002 World Tour is Italian singer this is Laura Pausini's first dvd video debut. It contains footage recorded at the Mediolanum Forum di Milano on December 2, 2001. The album supports Pausini's third world tour.-Track listing:LiveBonus tracks...
, recorded at Mediolanum Forum in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
on 2 December 2001, as well as in 2005's Live in Paris
Live in Paris 05
Live in Paris 05 is a live album and video album highlighting Italian singer-songwriter Laura Pausini’s 2005 World Tour performance at Paris’ Le Zénith in March 2005. The album was issued by Warner Music in November 2005 in CD, DVD, CD+DVD and two-disc DVD editions.-Track listing:...
, recorded at the Zénith de Paris
Zénith de Paris
The Zénith de Paris is a concert hall in Paris, located in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement on the edge of the Canal de l'Ourcq. Its ability to seat approximately 6,300 people makes it one of the largest venues in Paris...
, and in San Siro 2007
San Siro 2007
- Disc 2 :-Peak positions:-Year-end charts:...
, recorded on 2 June 2007, when Pausini was the first woman to sing in the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
San Siro
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, originally and commonly referred to as the San Siro because of its location, officially given its current name on 3 March 1980, is a football stadium located in the San Siro district in Milan, Italy. It is the home of both A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano...
.
In 2002 Pausini dueted with Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....
, singing "La solitudine" during a French TV show recorded in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
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On 21 June 2009, Pausini performed the song live with Italian rock singer Gianna Nannini
Gianna Nannini
Gianna Nannini is an Italian female singer-songwriter and pop musician. She may be best known for her 1986 song "Bello e Impossibile".-Personal life:...
, during the mega-concert Amiche per l'Abruzzo, involving the most important Italian female singers and organized to raise money to support the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
2009 L'Aquila earthquake
The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The main shock occurred at 3:32 local time on 6 April 2009, and was rated 5.8 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together...
. The performance was also included in the DVD Amiche per l'Abruzzo, released on 22 June 2010.
In 2009 Pausini released her third live album, Laura Live World Tour 09
Laura Live World Tour 09
-Disc 2 :- Disc 1 :-Disc 2 :-Charts:-Year-end charts:-Certifications and sales:...
, including a performance of "La solitudine" recorded in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
. The Spanish version of the album, Laura Live Gira Mundial 09, features a recording of the song performed in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
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Covers
In 1994, Thanos KallirisThanos Kalliris
Thanos Kalliris is a Greek singer who was born in Athens. His father is a guitarist and composer, Titos Kalliris. In the 1980s, he was a part of the pop music band Bang alongside Vassilis Dertilis. In the 1990s he wrote and sung pop songs and ballads, making a successful solo career for himself....
recorded a Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
version of the song, titled "Το Νου σου κύριε Οδηγέ". In the same year Paul de Leeuw
Paul de Leeuw
Paul Henri de Leeuw is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor.De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA...
recorded a Dutch language
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
version of "La solitudine", with the title Ik Wil Niet Dat Je Liegt (I don't want you to lie).
Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
singer Ivy Violan also recorded a Filipino language
Filipino language
This move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...
version of the song, adapted by Alvina Sy with the title "Hanggang Ngayon" for her 1998's album with the same title.
In 1994, Brazilian singer Renato Russo
Renato Russo
Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His first band was a punk rock band called "Aborto Elétrico" . The band then broke up and split in two different ones: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana"...
recorded a cover of the Italian-language version of the song for his album Equilibrio distante. After his death, a posthumous duet with Leila Pinheiro
Leila Pinheiro
Leila Pinheiro is a Brazilian Bossa Nova singer, pianist and composer. Her self-titled debut album had the guest performances of Tom Jobim, João Donato, Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, and Toninho Horta, and she later went on to perform with great names such as Zimbo Trio, Pat Metheny, Baden Powell,...
was included in his album Duetos. The English version of the song was covered by German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
pop singer Jamie Stevens and included in his 2002 album Unbreakable. The Spanish singer Abraham Mateo
Abraham Mateo
Abraham Mateo is a Spanish teen actor and pop singer. Abraham was discovered in 2009, when he was ten, by executives of EMI Music Spain, who happened across Abraham's performances in the television show Menuda Noche on the Canal Sur TV of Andalucia, Spain. His self-titled debut album, Abraham...
included a cover of "La soledad" in his self-titled debut album
Abraham Mateo (album)
Abraham Mateo, the debut album of the spanish teen singer Abraham Mateo , was put out by Emi Music Spain on December 4, 2009. Since his first appearances in the television show Menuda Noche on the Canal Sur TV of Andalucia, a friend of Abraham's family posted in Youtube videos of his performances,...
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Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n timba
Timba
Timba is a Cuban genre of music sometimes referred as salsa cubana . However, the historical development of timba has been quite independent of the development of salsa in the United States and Puerto Rico and the music has its own trademark aspects due to the Cuban embargo and strong Afro-Cuban...
group Bamboleo recorded a salsa
Salsa music
Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...
version of "La soledad" for their 1996 album Te gusto o te caigo bien. A year later, DLG followed suit, recording a salsa version of "La soledad" for their 1997 album Swing On. Lead singer Huey Dunbar
Huey Dunbar
Huey Dunbar, , is the former singer of Dark Latin Groove. Born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Jamaican father, he was exposed to music since his earliest years due to his parents' musical careers...
removed the reference to "Marco" and replaced it with "ella" (she). DLG's version also adds a spoken reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
bridge to the song, in which the woman Dunbar is singing to responds to his plea and vows to return.
Track listings
Peak positions
| Chart (1993–1994) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgium (IFPI Belgium IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... ) |
1 |
| France (SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... ) |
5 |
| Italy (Musica e dischi Musica e Dischi Musica e Dischi is the oldest and most important music industry publication in Italy. It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former senior record of VCM... ) |
1 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... ) |
1 |
| Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100 Mega Single Top 100 The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is... ) |
2 |
| U.S 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... Hot Latin Songs Hot Latin Songs Hot Latin Songs is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. It is often recognized as the most important music chart for Spanish language Latin music in the American music market. It was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986 with La Guirnalda by Rocío Dúrcal being the first song... |
22 |
| U.S 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 |
5 |
| U.S 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... Tropical Songs |
11 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1994) | Position |
|---|---|
| France (SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... ) |
13 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... ) |
20 |
| Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100 Mega Single Top 100 The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is... ) |
14 |