Ricky Martin-Crossover to English

He was one of the major star in Spanish-speaking countries, Martin launched his first English album in 1999. The album contained material by producers such as Desmond Child, Diane Warren, William Orbit, George Noriega and his longtime childhood friend ,Robi Draco Rosa. The album also featured special guests Madonna on the Spanish-English duet Be Careful and Meja (Private Emotion). Turkey was one of the countries at that time ,where Martin was so much popular, he sang the song with Sertab Erener, Turkish winner of the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, instead of Meja in Turkish versions of the album.

The first most prominent single was "Livin' la Vida Loca", which becomes at number one in many countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and South Africa. He followed up with the hit "She's All I Ever Had" which peaked at #2 on The Billboard Hot 100. This album was one of the top-selling albums of 1999, and was certified 7 times platinum and that album was sold over 22 million copies worldwide to date.

In November 2000, After the success of Ricky Martin, a new English-language album, Sound Loaded, was released. Though the album did debut in the top ten (number four) but . Three singles were released from Sound Loaded: the first was "She Bangs", which was followed by a duet with Christina Aguilera called "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely"(that was very much famous song). These album did not reached to top 10 on billboard neither the songs . They reached twelve and thirteen respectively. The third single, "Loaded" reached ninety-seven on Billboard's Hot 100. Sound Loaded sold two million copies in the U.S.

In 2001, Martin released a Spanish Greatest Hits album entitled La Historia, and that was at no 1in the Latin Charts and stayed there for five weeks. The album contained reworkings of two of his early songs Fuego contra fuego and El amor de mi vida. In the same year, he released his English greatest hits album, The Best of Ricky Martin, which went on to sell over one million copies. The album contained no new material save for two remixes of the track Amor. Both remixes were released to radio in some European countries and a single was also released.

In 2003, Martin released a new Spanish album "Almas del Silencio" ("Souls of Silence"). The first single, "Tal Vez", went to number one on the Latin Charts and that album stayed there for twelve weeks. He said of the new album: "I really needed to go back to focus, to my center, to the beginning. I had the need to search within, and really dig deep, and find those emotions that, because of the adrenaline and the euphoria that I lived for a couple of years, were probably sabotaged." Almas del Silencio debuted at number twelve on the Billboard 200, reached number one on the Latin Albums charts and stayed there for six weeks. The next singles, "Jaleo" and "Y Todo Queda en Nada", reached number one on the Latin Charts, and the album sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

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