Selena albums discography

Selena albums discography
Selena in January 1995
Studio albums12
Soundtrack albums2
Live albums3
Compilation albums20
Box sets3
Remix albums3

American singer Selena released eleven studio albums, three live albums, three boxsets, three remix albums, two soundtrack albums, and twenty compilation albums. Credited for elevating a music genre into the mainstream market,[1] Selena remains the best-selling Tejano recording artist in history, and one of the best-selling female artists in Latin music, with over 60 million records sold worldwide.[2][3][4][5][6] She was named the top-selling Latin artist of the 1990s decade in the US by Billboard magazine, with 18 million copies sold.[7][8]

Selena's career began as lead vocalist of Los Dinos in 1980. Her albums with Los Dinos on the indie labels failed to gain any chart success.[9] She signed with EMI Latin nine years later as a solo artist though her band continued to tour with her.[10] She released her self-titled debut album that same year, which peaked at number seven on the U.S. Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart. With Selena, the singer outsold other competing female Tejano artists.[11] Her second album, Ven Conmigo, was released a year later and was billed as the first Tejano recording by a female musician to achieve gold status in the United States.[nb 1] In 1992, Selena released her "breakthrough album",[17][18][19] Entre a Mi Mundo, which helped launch the singer's career in Mexico along with its single "Como la Flor".[20][21] Entre a Mi Mundo became the first Tejano recording by a female artist to sell over 300,000 copies,[nb 2] and was the best-selling Regional Mexican Album of 1993,[24] it also ranks second on the Regional Mexican Albums All-time chart.[25]

In 1993, Selena released Live, which contained three studio tracks. Live won Selena a Grammy and peaked at number two on the newly formed U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies. Selena released Amor Prohibido in March 1994; it was certified double Diamond by the RIAA, denoting shipments of two million copies in the United States. Additionally, the album spawned four consecutive US Latin number-one singles. By December 1994, Amor Prohibido became the second Tejano recording to achieve year-end sales of 500,000 copies.[26] It was considered her "biggest album" and was credited with popularizing Tejano music among a younger and wider audience than any time in the genre's history.[27][28] With Amor Prohibido, Selena was considered "bigger than Tejano itself", and broke barriers in the Latin music world.[29] This prompted EMI to begin marketing Selena as an American pop artist, believing she had reached her peak in the Latin music market.[30] The singer recorded four tracks slated for what would have been her English-language crossover album by March 1995. On March 31, 1995, Selena was shot dead by Yolanda Saldívar, her friend and a former employee of her Selena Etc. boutiques over disputed embezzlement claims.[31]

EMI Records and EMI Latin jointly released Dreaming of You in July 1995. It sold 175,000 copies its first day of release, a then-record for a female vocalist.[32][33] Dreaming of You debuted on top the Billboard 200 chart with 331,000 units sold its first week, the second largest first-week sales for a female musician.[34][35][36] Dreaming of You became the first and to date the only predominantly Spanish-language album to debut and peak at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.[37] Dreaming of You was among the top ten best-selling debuts for a musician, best-selling debut by a female act, and was the fastest-selling U.S. album in 1995.[38] Dreaming of You went on to become the best-selling Latin and Latin pop album for two consecutive years.[39][40] At the time, Dreaming of You helped Selena to become the fastest-selling female act in recorded music history,[41] and has since been ranked among the best and most important recordings produced during the rock and roll era.[42][43] With Dreaming of You peaking at number one, Tejano music entered the mainstream English market.[44][45][46][47][44] As of January 2015, Dreaming of You has sold five million copies worldwide, and remains the best-selling Latin album of all-time in the United States.[48] Since Selena's death, there have been twenty-three posthumous releases with the most recent, Lo Mejor de...Selena, released on the twentieth anniversary of her death.

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  21. ^ Malone 2003, p. 158.
  22. ^ Stacy 2002, p. 746.
  23. ^ Arrarás 1997, p. 104.
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  25. ^ Bronson, Fred (15 April 1995). "Entre a Mi Mundo Latin Regional Mexican Albums Of All Time". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 15. Prometheus Global Media. p. 96. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  26. ^ Patoski 1996, p. 152.
  27. ^ Miguel 2002, p. 110.
  28. ^ "Born on the Border". Newsweek. 22 October 1995. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  29. ^ Schone, Mark (20 April 1995). "A Postmortem Star In death, Selena is a crossover success". Newsday. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  30. ^ Patoski 1996, p. 115.
  31. ^ Verhovek, Sam Howe (1 April 1995). "Grammy Winning Singer Selena Killed in Shooting at Texas Motel". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
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  37. ^ Jasinski 2012.
  38. ^ Lannert, John (2 September 1995). "The Selena Phenomenon". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 35. pp. 39, 41, 120. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  39. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc (23 December 1995). "1995 Year In Music". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 51. p. 33. Retrieved 12 May 2015. {{cite magazine}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  40. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc (28 December 1996). "1996 The Year in Music". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 52. pp. 3, 38. Retrieved 12 May 2015. {{cite magazine}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  41. ^ World Book 1996, p. 335.
  42. ^ Heatley 2008, p. 200.
  43. ^ Pollock 2014, p. 493.
  44. ^ a b Lomelí & Ikas 2000, p. 58.
  45. ^ Stavans 1998, p. 5.
  46. ^ Arrarás 1997, p. 22.
  47. ^ Sickels 2013, p. 481.
  48. ^ Guerra, Joey (28 January 2015). "Tejano star Selena to be honored at Fiesta de la Flor". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 10 March 2015.


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