Amarte Es un Placer is the thirteenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. It was released by WEA Latina on 13 September 1999. It debuted at number one in Spain and on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart in the United States. The album has sold more than three million copies worldwide as of 2007.
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Amarte Es un Placer is the thirteenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. It was released by WEA Latina on 13 September 1999. It is a pop album with R&B and jazz influences. Miguel was more involved with the songwriting on this record than on earlier albums and was assisted by composers including Arturo Pérez, Armando Manzanero, and Juan Carlos Calderón. It debuted at number one in Spain and on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart in the United States. The album has sold more than three million copies worldwide as of 2007. It received mixed reviews from music critics; several praised the production as well as Miguel’s vocals and the compositions, but others felt it did not differ from his earlier recordings and found the music outdated. Miguel received several accolades, including the Latin Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album and a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Pop Performance. In 1997, Luis Miguel released his twelfth studio album Romances. It is the third record in his Romance series where he performed covers of classic Latin American boleros. To promote Romances, he embarked on a tour of the U.S., Latin America, and Spain which lasted more than a year. He indicated the forthcoming album would be a return to pop recordings as opposed to the bolero cover versions he had recorded on the Romance series. By 1998, Miguel was among the most successful Latin artists internationally with album sales of more than 35 million copies.
He was also asked about the lack of a duet with his then-girlfriend, American singer Mariah Carey, to which he responded he does not like to mix his personal life with his career. He added that the music he performs is based on his feelings at the time, and hinted that the album’s title was influenced by his relationship with Carey. The opening track, Tu Mirada, is a rock ballad composed with a guitar solo. Unlike his earlier pop record Nada Igual, which featured dance music and hip-hop influences, Amarte Esun Placer’s emphasis is on adult contemporary music and is composed of twelve love songs. It became the highest-grossing tour by a Spanish-speaking recording artist. The album’s release date was announced on 17 August 1999. Miguel held a press conference at the Casino de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, on the album’s launch date of 13 September1999. He confirmed it was the first album where he was moreinvolved in the tracks’ composition. He said: “Here something special was done, probably because I had more time to write a few things,” he added. The record’s production took place at the A&M Recording Recording Studios, Ocean Way Recording Plant in Hollywood, California; Miguel handled the productions himself; and the record was recorded at the C&W Record Plant in Crespo, California, and the Ocean Way Record Recording Recording Recording Studio in Los Angeles, California.
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