Bailando (Enrique Iglesias song)

"Bailando"
"Bailando"
Single by Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul, Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona
from the album Sex and Love
Released	11 April 2014
Recorded	2012–13
Genre	Latin pop; flamenco; dance;
Length	4:03
Label	Republic
Songwriter(s)	Enrique Iglesias; Descemer Bueno; Alexander Delgado; Randy Malcom Martinez; Sean Paul;
Producer(s)	Carlos Paucar;
Enrique Iglesias singles chronology
Sean Paul singles chronology
Gente de Zona singles chronology
Luan Santana singles chronology
Mickael Carreira singles chronology
Bailando (Spanish edition)
	Cover of the Spanish version by Enrique Iglesias featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona
Music videos
	"Bailando" (Spanish Ver.) on YouTube
	"Bailando" (English Ver.) on YouTube
	"Bailando" (Brazilian Portuguese Ver.) on YouTube
	"Bailando" (Portugal Portuguese Ver.) on YouTube

"Bailando" (transl. "Dancing") is a song by Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias for his tenth studio album Sex and Love (2014). Written by Iglesias with long-time collaborator Bueno, the first and Spanish version was released with Cuban artists Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona. Shortly afterward, the official version of the song was released by Universal Republic Records as the sixth single from the album. The song spent 41 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. "Bailando" was produced by Carlos Paucar.^[2]

As of 24 August 2014, there are three other versions of the song that have been released to the music market besides the original Spanish version. The Spanglish version features Jamaican singer Sean Paul. Iglesias also released two Portuguese versions of the song: one version of the song in Portuguese destined for Brazilian market with additional vocals by Brazilian singer Luan Santana,^[3] and the other Portuguese version destined for the Portuguese market featured the additional vocals of the Portuguese singer Mickael Carreira.

The original Spanish version of "Bailando" served as the theme song of the soap opera Reina de Corazones which aired on Telemundo.^[4] According to the IFPI, Bailando was the tenth best-selling song of 2014 with 8 million units (sales plus track-equivalent streams) worldwide.^[5]

^ "Billboard Year in Music 2014: Enrique Iglesias 'Always Knew There Was Something Magical' About No. 1 Hit 'Bailando'". Billboard. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
^ Cobo, Leila (12 October 2016). "How Enrique Iglesias' 'Bailando' Became a Hit... And How It Almost Didn't". Billboard. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
^ Piunti, André (15 May 2014). "universosertanejo.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2014/05/15/luan-santana-participa-de-cd-de-enrique-iglesias/". Universo Sertanejo (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ "Enrique Iglesias' 'Bailando' Picked as New Telemundo Soap Theme". Billboard.
^ "IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2015". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. 14 April 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

[1] "Billboard Year in Music 2014: Enrique Iglesias 'Always Knew There Was Something Magical' About No. 1 Hit 'Bailando'". Billboard. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

[BB-2] Cobo, Leila (12 October 2016). "How Enrique Iglesias' 'Bailando' Became a Hit... And How It Almost Didn't". Billboard. Retrieved 28 September 2020.

[3] Piunti, André (15 May 2014). "universosertanejo.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2014/05/15/luan-santana-participa-de-cd-de-enrique-iglesias/". Universo Sertanejo (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

[4] "Enrique Iglesias' 'Bailando' Picked as New Telemundo Soap Theme". Billboard.

[Ifpi2015-5] "IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2015". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. 14 April 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

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