"Para Qué La Vida" is the third 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, Lester Mendez

Lester Mendez

Lester Mendez is an American record producer and songwriter. His production/writing credits include a multitude of successful hits including Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" and "La Tortura", Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair", and Nelly Furtado's "Te Busqué".Mendez worked with Carlos Santana...

 and Enrique Iglesias. It became his 16th number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks. At the time, Enrique would get past Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...

 who had 15 number-ones at the time. However, Miguel would tie Iglesias in November 2003 with his 16th (and final) number-one hit, "Te Necesito

33 (Luis Miguel album)

- Sales and certifications :- References :...

". "Para Qué La Vida" is the only Spanish-language song that has been played over 1,000,000 times in the United States

United States

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Chart performance

The track debuted on the United States

United States

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 Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart at number 39 on March 29, 2003, and rose to number 1 nine weeks later, spending one week at the summit. The single spent eighteen weeks in the chart.

Chart (2003)	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 Latin Pop Airplay Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information from pop music usually in Spanish. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 with Mañana by Cristian Castro being the first song to reach number-one...	2
U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay	1
U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay Latin Tropical Airplay The Tropical Songs is a record chart published on Billboard magazine established in 1994 with the first number-one song to be published was "En Las Nubes" by Edgar Joel. It features Latin music information from tropical music such as salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato...	1
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...	1
U.S. Billboard Latin Regional Mexican Airplay	1