Lucero is the tenth album

Album

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 from Mexican

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 pop music

Pop music

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 singer and actress Lucero. It was released on 1993 and is often cited as Veleta.

This album was the first Lucero album released only in CD and cassette

Compact Cassette

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, without being printed on LP

LP album

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. Had two formats: a digipack special edition & and the normal case with the bonus tracks, selling 350,000 copies on the former and reaching half-million status with the later.

The first single (and most successful) was "Veleta" (Vane), and the singer once again face the challenge to remove 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"...

's "America, America" from the #1 spot in México. She accomplished that feat. "Veleta" is also her highest peak (along with Cuentame

Cuéntame

Cuéntame is the sixth album from Mexican pop music singer and actress Lucerito. It was released on 1989. Most of the songs of this album were part of the soundtrack from the motion picture Deliciosa Sinvergüenza; it also includes a cover of The Pet Shop Boys' It's a Sin for the song Hojas Secas...

 back in 1989) at the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks charts, hitting #2 on May 1, 1993. It was held off from #1 by La Mafia's Me Estoy Enamorando.

The second single "Sobreviviré" (I Will Survive) also hit #1 in Mexico (and #8 in US) and was dethroned from pole position by the single "Ayer" by Luis Miguel.

The album was nominated for an Eres award in the Best Album category, which (ironically) was awarded to "Aries

Aries (album)

-Singles released:The first single released was "Ayer", with a very big promotional campaign behind it. The singer shot three different versions for the video and they were premiered on "Siempre en Domingo" for three consecutive weekends...

" by Luis Miguel.

All track were written and produced by Rafael Pérez Botija, including the bonus tracks written specifically for the soap opera

Soap opera

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 Los Parientes Pobres.

On her second live album

Live album

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 Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional is the second live album by Mexican singer Lucero, released on 26 September 2007 by EMI. It was recorded in Mexico City in the Auditorio Nacional during the promotion of her album Quiéreme Tal Como Soy on March 25 of 2007. It was released in two different formats,...

the singles "Sobreviviré", "Veleta" and "El Número Uno" are included on the set-list.

Track listing

The album is composed by ten songs, all of them were arranged and produced by Rafael Pérez Botija, including the bonus tracks.

Singles

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1.	"Veleta"	#1	#2	#1	#1	#1	#1	#1	#2	#1
2.	"Sobreviviré"	#1	#8	#1	#1	#1	#1	#1	#1	#1
3.	"El número uno"	#5	#22	#3	#8	#7	#9	#1	#10	#2
4.	"Los parientes pobres"	#15	n/a	#10	#17	#20	#10	#3	#10	#6
5.	"Si no podemos amarnos"	#9	n/a	#14	#30	#25	#19	#11	#n/a	#16
6.	"Cerca de ti""	#10	#23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Chart performance

This was the 4th album of Lucero that entered to the list of Billboard

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. The album stayed in the chart of the Latin Pop Albums for 7 weeks, 1 of them was in the top ten; peaking #10; and it stayed in the Top Latin Albums for 13 weeks, peaking at #19.

Chart	Peak
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...	10
Billboard Top Latin Albums	19

Personnel

• Producer, arranger and guitars: Rafael Perez Botija
• Recording engineers: J.A. Alvarez Lebrija “Boli”, Jose Antonio Alvarez Alija and Luis Carlos Esteban
• Mixing: Oscar Clavel
• Guitars: Javier Catala
• Backing vocals: Lucero and Doris Cale
• Music coordination: “Rubato”, Mary Jamieson and Ingrid Prysbyl
• Photography: Adolfo Pérez Butrón
• Wardrobe: Alan Simancas
• Styling: Mike Salas