"Mentiroso" is the first single released internationally by Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

 from his fourth full-Spanish album Quizás

Quizas

Quizás is an Enrique Iglesias album recorded in Spanish in 2002. The singer won a Latin Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Albumfor this recording in 2003.-Making of Quizás:...

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Song information

The track was written by Cheín García-Alonso and Enrique Iglesias. It was released to U.S. radio outlets on July 22, 2002 in two versions, ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

 and mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi is a genre of music that originated in the State of Jalisco, in Mexico. It is an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural impacts of the historical development of Western Mexico. Throughout the history of mariachi, musicians have experimented with brass, wind,...

, making the first time that any Iglesias single is released with mariachi.

Chart performance

The track debuted on the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart at number 6 on August 10, 2002, and rose to number 1 six weeks later, spending one week at the summit. The single spent thirteen weeks in the top ten.

Chart (2002)	Peak position
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 Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Latin Pop Airplay	1
U.S. Billboard Latin Regional Mexican Airplay	6
U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay	4
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	5