Amore (Andrea Bocelli album)

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Amore
Amore - Andrea Bocelli FRONT.jpg
Studio album by
Andrea Bocelli
Released31 January 2006
Recorded Record Plant Studios, Hollywood, CA; Chartmaker Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Andrea Bocelli Studio Pierpaolo Guerrini, Tuscany, Italy; Sony Studios, Culver City, CA; Westlake Audio, Hollywood, CA
Genre
Length57:32
Label
Producer
Andrea Bocelli chronology
Andrea
(2004)		Amore
(2006)		 The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere
(2007)
Amor
Amor - Andrea Bocelli FRONT.jpg
Studio album by
Andrea Bocelli
Released28 February 2006
Genre Ballad, Pop, Latin
Length57:32
Label Universal Latino
Producer David Foster, Humberto Gatica
Andrea Bocelli chronology
Andrea (the spanish version)
(2004)		Amor
(2006)		 Lo Mejor de Andrea Bocelli: Vivire
(2007)

Amore is the eleventh studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released on 31 January 2006, for the Valentine's Day season. This album features a remake of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love"; "Because We Believe", the closing song of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which Bocelli wrote and performed; "Somos Novios (It's Impossible), a duet with American pop singer Christina Aguilera; and his first recording of Bésame Mucho, which eventually became one of his signature songs.

Contents

Releases

Aguilera performing "Somos Novios" with Bocelli during the Sanremo Music Festival, 2006 Christina Aguilera Sanremo.jpg
Aguilera performing "Somos Novios" with Bocelli during the Sanremo Music Festival, 2006

Amore was released internationally beginning on 28 February 2006.

A Spanish version of the album was also released in the same year, called Amor.

In Japan it was released on 18 October 2006 as Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (貴方に贈る愛の歌, A Love Song I Send to You) and featured a bonus track. [1]

Track listing

For Amore

  1. "Amapola" – 3:43
  2. "Besame Mucho" – 4:01
  3. "Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)" – 4:49
  4. "Mi Manchi" (feat. Kenny G) – 3:35
  5. "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (feat. Christina Aguilera) – 4:22
  6. "Solamente Una Vez" – 3:29
  7. "Jurame" – 3:22
  8. "Pero te Extraño" – 4:06
  9. "Canzoni Stonate" (feat. Stevie Wonder) – 5:17
  10. "L'Appuntamento (Sentado à Beira do Caminho)" – 4:08
  11. "Cuando Me Enamoro (Quando m'innamoro)" – 3:56
  12. "Can't Help Falling in Love" – 3:25
  13. "Because We Believe" – 4:37
  14. "Ama Credi e Vai (Because We Believe)" – 4:41
Japan bonus track [1]
  2. "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (feat. Rimi Natsukawa)

For Amor, the Spanish version of the album

  1. "Besame Mucho"
  2. "Cancion Desafinada" (Spanish version of Canzoni Stonate with Stevie Wonder)
  3. "Solamente Una Vez" (Original version in Spanish of You Belong To My Heart)
  4. "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" (with Christina Aguilera)
  5. "Jurame" (with Mario Reyes) – 3:22
  6. "Pero te Extraño"
  7. "Las Hojas Muertas" (Spanish version of Autumn Leaves)
  8. "Momentos"
  9. "Me Faltas "Mi Manchi" (with Kenny G)
  10. "Cuando Me Enamoro" (Spanish version of Quando m'innamoro)
  11. "Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste"
  12. "Amapola"
  13. Verano Estate (with Chris Botti)
  14. "Nuestro Encuentro" (Spanish version of L'Appuntamento)

Commercial Performance

With 113,000 units sold in its first week of release, Amore debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, which at the time was Bocelli's highest chart position in America yet, only to be surpassed by his 2009 release My Christmas , which reached No. 2. [2] It went on to sell 1.66 million copies in the United States [3] and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. [4] Bocelli was the seventh best-selling artist of 2006, in the United States, with 2,524,681 copies of his albums sold that year. [5] The Spanish version, Amor, was also certified Album Multi-Platino (Double Platinum) by the RIAA. [6] Both versions were also certified Gold and Platinum in several other countries.

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF) [44]
Spanish edition 		Platinum40,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [45] Gold15,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [46] Platinum60,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [47] Platinum100,000^
Ecuador—9,000 [48]
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [49] Platinum49,369 [49]
Hungary (MAHASZ) [50] Platinum10,000^
Ireland (IRMA) [51] Platinum15,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [52]
for Amor 		Platinum100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [53] Platinum70,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [54] Gold7,500^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [55] Platinum40,000*
Poland (ZPAV) [56] Platinum20,000*
Portugal (AFP) [57] Gold10,000^
Russia (NFPF) [58] Platinum20,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [59] Gold40,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [60] Gold15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [61] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [4] Platinum1,660,000 [3]
United States (RIAA) [6]
for Amor 		2× Platinum (Latin)200,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [62] Platinum1,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

See also

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