Ven Conmigo is the second studio album by American singer Selena. It was released on October 6, 1990, by EMI Latin. Selena’s Los Dinos band composed and arranged seven of the album’s ten tracks. It contains half cumbias and half rancheras, though the album includes other genres. In October 1991, it went gold for sales exceeding 50,000 units, making Selena the first female Tejano singer to receive the honor.
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Ven Conmigo is the second studio album by American singer Selena. It was released on October 6, 1990, by EMI Latin. Selena’s Los Dinos band composed and arranged seven of the album’s ten tracks. It contains half cumbias and half rancheras, though the album includes other genres. In October 1991, it went gold for sales exceeding 50,000 units, making Selena the first female Tejano singer to receive the honor. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album triple platinum, denoting 180,000 album-equivalent units sold in the United States. In 2020, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” It includes musical influences from rock and roll music, traditional Mexican folk, polka music, country, Colombian music, salsa, rap and soul music. The songs are mostly love songs or songs following a woman’s struggles after many failed relationships. The album’s single, \”Baila Esta Cumbia\” was the most played song on local TeJano music radio stations for over a month and helped Selena to tour in Mexico. It received critical acclaim, bringing Selena recognition as a Tejiano singer and establishing her as a commercial threat. It peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums chart after it was ineligible to chart on the Billboard 200 following her shooting death in 1995.
It has been listed as one of the most influential albums of all time by Rolling Stone, which has also published a book about Selena, “Selena: The Life and Times of a Latin Pop Star” (1998). The book also includes a biography of Selena by Joe Patoski, a biographer and biographer of her father Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. The book is published by Simon & Schuster, which also published the first edition of the book, “The Selena Diaries” (1989). The second edition of The Selena diaries, published in 2000, is a collection of the singer’s songs from the first two albums, “Ven Con migo” (1990) and “Ven con migo: The Second Album” (1991). The third and final volume of the Diaries, released in 2002, is called “The Third Album” and features songs by Selena and her brother, A. B. Quintanillas, as well as songs by local songwriter Johnny Herrera. The fourth and fifth volumes of the diaries were released in 2003 and 2004, and include songs by her brother and other songwriters, such as Ricky Vela. The sixth and seventh volumes were published in 2006 and 2007, and were released by E MI Latin, which had opened a Latin music division with José Behar as president. The albums were recorded at record producer Joey Lopez’ Zaz Studios in San Antonio, Texas. The band entered the studio “with more musical firepower than ever before” before recording the album.
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