Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra y 440
1995 greatest hits album by Juan Luis Guerra / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grandes Éxitos de Juan Luis Guerra y 440 or simply Grandes Éxitos is a compilation album of Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, and his band 440 released in July 1995 by Karem Records. It contained Guerra's fifteen biggest hits from 1988 to 1994 on the original version and from the albums Mudanza y Acarreo (1985) to Fogarate! (1994) on the international versions.[1][2] The compilation receive positive reviews by the critics.[3]
Grande Éxitos de Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1988-1994 | |||
Genre | Merengue, Bachata | |||
Length | 62:24 | |||
Label | Karem Records | |||
Juan Luis Guerra chronology | ||||
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Among the tracks are two songs from the controversial album Áreito that was said to have anti-capitalist tendencies. Although Guerra decieded to quit recording protest songs, he included these two tracks, of which El costo de la vida was his first number-one hit in the Hot Latin Tracks.[4] On September 17, 1996, the album was re-released to include the two tracks "Si tu te vas" (Guerra first merengue song) and "Señorita", a track that he composed for the movie "My Family".[5][6][7]
The album was commercial success and reached the Top 10 in Argentina, Chile, Spain and US Billboard Latin Charts. It also, peaked at the Top 20 of Netherlands and Portugal and was certified platinum on Spain and Argentina. In the United States, it was the 7th best selling tropical albums of 1996.[8] According to some sources, it sold 7 million of copies worldwide.[9]