Life (Ricky Martin album)
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Ricky Martin returned to the music business with Life, his tenth album and his first English language CD in five years, his last being 2000 Sound Loaded. He also co-wrote most of the songs on Life. Martin feels that this album is one of his most personal releases to date, explaining, "I was really in touch with my emotions. I think this album is very multi-layered, just like life is. It's about feeling anger. It's about feeling joy. It's about feeling uncertainty. It's about feeling. And all my emotions are part of this production." Life was released by Sony Music on October 11, 2005 (see 2005 in music) and debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200 chart. The first single of the album, "I Don't Care", which features Fat Joe and Amerie, and its Spanish version "Que Mas Da", which features Fat Joe and Debbie Nova, was Ricky's first English single since 2000 "Loaded". While "Que Mas Da" went Top 10 on the Hot Latin Tracks, "I Don't Care" failed to attract the same popularity in the U.S. But the song did well on the charts in the rest of the world, in countries such as the UK, Italy, France, and Greece.
Sales
The album did horrible in the United States compared with "Ricky Martin" and "Sound Loaded". The album debuted at #6 on the charts with 71,000 copies sold. It dipped to #33 the next week with 31,000 copies sold. The next week it dropped to #55 (with 20,000 copies sold), the next week it dropped to #78 with 14,000 copies and the next week it took #81 with 16,000 copies sold. It didn't make the Top 100 the next week.
To date, the album has only sold about 200,000 copies in the US.
Track listing
- "Til I Get to You"
- "I Won't Desert You"
- "I Don't Care" featuring Fat Joe & Amerie
- "Stop Time Tonight"
- "Life" (mixed by Gustavo Celis) [link]
- "I Am" (featuring Voltio)
- "It's Alright"
- "Drop It on Me" featuring Daddy Yankee
- "This Is Good"
- "Save the Dance"
- "Que Mas Da (I Don't Care)" (Luny Tunes reggaeton mix)
- "Déjate Llevar" (It's Alright - Spanish)
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