Selena - "Ven Conmigo" (1990)
Mar 10, 2020 0:41:54 GMT -5
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Selena's second studio album that was released on October 6, 1990. In October 1991, Ven Conmigo went gold for sales exceeding 50,000 units, making Selena the first female Tejano singer to receive the honor. The event dissolved the male hierarchy in the Tejano music industry, which saw women as commercially inferior. It also ended the long-standing view that a female performer could not draw comparable audiences to a man. Selena later said in an interview: "[T]he more doors they shut on us, the more determined we became. We've just started seeing a change." She credited the gold certification to EMI Latin's marketing team, and felt it inspired other women in the field to believe they were capable of producing gold records. Following the album's certification, Selena performed at a 2,000-seat McAllen, Texas venue owned by Nano Ramírez who had denied her the opportunity to play there earlier in her career Ven Conmigo received a nomination for the Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Orchestra at the 1992 annual event. The album peaked at #22 on the US Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums chart after it was ineligible to chart on the Billboard 200. In October 2017, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album triple platinum, denoting 180,000 album-equivalent units sold in the United States.
Ven Conmigo contains half cumbias and half rancheras. It includes musical influences from: salsa, rock and roll, rap and soul music, traditional Mexican music, Mexican folk, polka, country, and Colombian music. Abraham Quintanilla, Jr.—the group's manager and Selena's father—suggested the idea of having a variety of genres on the album: "I always felt that the buyer, the listener, would enjoy this and would not get bored hearing just one particular style of music." The compositions for the album were musically varied— more "broader-based and more adventurous than any mainstream Tejano act" according to biographer Joe Nick Patoski. Selena and her band were "evolving a rhythmic style that demonstrated its prowess for catchy cumbias".
Three singles were released from the album including "Ya Ves", "Baila Esta Cumbia", and "La Tracalera". "Baila Esta Cumbia" was the most played song on local Tejano music radio stations for a month and a half, leading to the band touring Mexico for the first time. It was later certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 360,000 digital sales. Promotional single, "Ya Ves" was the most played song on KTXZ-AM for five consecutive weeks, beginning on October 25, 1990. While promotional singles "Yo Te Amo" reached number six, and "Yo Me Voy" reached number eight.
Ya Ves
Baila Esta Cumbia
La Tracalera
Ven Conmigo contains half cumbias and half rancheras. It includes musical influences from: salsa, rock and roll, rap and soul music, traditional Mexican music, Mexican folk, polka, country, and Colombian music. Abraham Quintanilla, Jr.—the group's manager and Selena's father—suggested the idea of having a variety of genres on the album: "I always felt that the buyer, the listener, would enjoy this and would not get bored hearing just one particular style of music." The compositions for the album were musically varied— more "broader-based and more adventurous than any mainstream Tejano act" according to biographer Joe Nick Patoski. Selena and her band were "evolving a rhythmic style that demonstrated its prowess for catchy cumbias".
Three singles were released from the album including "Ya Ves", "Baila Esta Cumbia", and "La Tracalera". "Baila Esta Cumbia" was the most played song on local Tejano music radio stations for a month and a half, leading to the band touring Mexico for the first time. It was later certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 360,000 digital sales. Promotional single, "Ya Ves" was the most played song on KTXZ-AM for five consecutive weeks, beginning on October 25, 1990. While promotional singles "Yo Te Amo" reached number six, and "Yo Me Voy" reached number eight.
Ya Ves
Baila Esta Cumbia
La Tracalera
