Io canto

Not to be confused with Yo Canto (disambiguation).

Here is the music I listen to when I'm at my saddest, or when I feel a moment is special, the songs I used to sing as a young girl when I first started performing, and above all, those which taught me to love music, and how music can move you so deeply, regardless of its genre or style.

Yo canto features "Dispárame, dispara", also known as "Corazón roto"—opening theme of the Mexican telenovela Amar sin límites (2006). ^[8] Chile's Canal 13 employed the album's title track for its television series Cantando por un sueño . ^[9] The album won the Latin Grammy in 2007 for Best Female Pop Vocal Album.

Inception

The decision to present a cover album stemmed from a "pending debt" to Pausini's musical roots and homeland. She first conceptualized the idea approximately ten years prior to Io canto's publication. The idea, however, did not take root until Pausini's golden year in 2006 that culminated in a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for Escucha (2004) at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. At the post–Grammy press conference, journalists remarked how they admired Pausini for never having abandoned her brand of "Italian pop of always" despite her classification as a "Latin music" artist. Alluding to Pausini's "Italian–ness," Randy Cordova for The Arizona Republic concurred, "She doesn't pander to the crowd with Latin guitars, reggaeton remixes or Cuban percussion. [Her music] is all very organic." ^[10] This acknowledgement moved Pausini to honor Italy by recording a cover album of Italian "classics". Pausini also wished to export underappreciated Italian music to the world as a consequence of her multilingualism furthermore the album has sold 2 million copies worldwide. ^[11]

The song "Come il sole all'improvviso" and its Spanish counterpart version have lyrics in French language.

Io canto/Yo canto
Italian-language edition
Studio album by Laura Pausini
Released	November 10, 2006 (Italian-language) November 14, 2006 (Spanish-language)
Recorded	Logic Studio Milan, Italy Larione 10 Florence, Italy Henson Recording Studios Los Angeles, US Studio Impatto Bologna, Italy ORS (Oliveta Recording Studio) Castel Bolognese, Italy Sage Studio Los Angeles, US
Genre	Pop rock
Length	68:07
Language	Italian, French, Spanish
Label	Warner Music
Producer	Laura Pausini (also exec.), Celso Valli, Dado Parisini, Daniel Vuletic
Laura Pausini chronology
Live in Paris 05 (2005) Io canto/Yo canto (2006) San Siro 2007 (2007)
Alternative cover
Spanish-language edition

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Io canto"	Marco Luberti	Riccardo Cocciante	4:16
2.	"Due"	Raf, Cheope	Raf	4:38
3.	"Scrivimi"	Nino Buonocore, Michele de Vitis	Nino Buonocore	3:52
4.	"Mi Libre Canción" (Duet with Juanes)	Mogol	Lucio Battisti	4:33
5.	"Destinazione paradiso"	Gianluca Grignani, Massimo Luca	Grignani	3:39
6.	"Stella gemella"	Eros Ramazzotti, Adelio Cogliati	Ramazzotti, Giuseppe Tosetto, Mario Lavezzi	4:37
7.	"Come il sole all'improvviso" (Duet with Johnny Hallyday)	Gino Paoli	Zucchero	3:19
8.	"Cinque giorni"	Vincenzo Incenzo	Michele Zarrillo	4:04
9.	"La mia banda suona il rock"	Ivano Fossati	Fossati	3:45
10.	"Spaccacuore"	Samuele Bersani, Lucio Dalla	Bersani, Giuseppe d'Onghia	4:08
11.	"Anima fragile"	Vasco Rossi	Rossi	3:26
12.	"Non me lo so spiegare" (Duet with Tiziano Ferro)	Tiziano Ferro	Ferro	4:32
13.	"Nei giardini che nessuno sa""	Renato Zero, Danilo Riccardi	Zero, Riccardi	5:13
14.	"In una stanza quasi rosa"	Biagio Antonacci	Antonacci	4:33
15.	"Quando"	Pino Daniele	Daniele	3:41
16.	"Strada facendo"	Claudio Baglioni	Baglioni	5:40

French edition bonus track

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	French adaptation	Length
17.	"Je chante (Io canto)" (Franco-Italian Version)	Marco Luberti	Riccardo Cocciante	Jean-Pierre Lemaire	4:22

iTunes pre-order edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
17.	"È, non è"	Niccolò Fabi	Niccolò Fabi	3:38
18.	"Non me lo so spiegare" (solo version)	Ferro	Ferro	4:35
19.	"Il mio canto libero" (solo version)	Mogol	Lucio Battisti	4:40
20.	"Come il sole all'improvviso" (solo version)	Gino Paoli	Zucchero	3:22

Yo canto

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Spanish adaptation	Length
1.	"Yo Canto"	Marco Luberti	Riccardo Cocciante	Frank Andrada	04:17
2.	"Dos"	Raf, Cheope	Raf	Ortiz, Laura Pausini	04:39
3.	"Escríbeme"	Nino Buonocore, Michele de Vitis	Nino Buonocore	Ortiz, Pausini	03:53
4.	"Mi Libre Canción" (Duet With Juanes)	Mogol	Lucio Battisti	Carlos Ramón	04:34
5.	"Destino Paraíso"	Gianluca Grignani, Massimo Luca	Grignani	Ignacio Ballesteros Díaz	03:40
6.	"Estrella Gemela"	Eros Ramazzotti, Adelio Cogliati	Eros Ramazzotti, Giuseppe Tosetto, Mario Lavezzi	Ignacio De Loyola Mano Guillén, Javier Salvador Sánchez Bori, José Javier Mano Guillén	04:38
7.	"Cómo El Sol Inesperado"	Gino Paoli	Zucchero	Ortiz, Pausini	03:20
8.	"Cinco Días"	Vincenzo Incenzo	Michele Zarrillo	Ballesteros Díaz	04:05
9.	"Y Mi Banda Toca El Rock"	Ivano Fossati	Fossati	Hidalgo	03:46
10.	"Dispárame, Dispara"	Samuele Bersani, Lucio Dalla	Bersani, Giuseppe d'Onghia	Ortiz, Pausini	04:09
11.	"Corazón Frágil"	Vasco Rossi	Rossi	Ortiz, Pausini	03:27
12.	"No Me Lo Puedo Explicar" (Duet With Tiziano Ferro)	Tiziano Ferro	Ferro	Ferro	04:33
13.	"En Los Jardines Donde Nadie Va"	Renato Zero, Danilo Riccardi	Zero, Riccardi	Ortiz, Pausini	05:14
14.	"En Un Cuarto Casi Rosa"	Biagio Antonacci	Antonacci	Ortiz, Pausini	04:34
15.	"Cuando"	Pino Daniele	Daniele	Ortiz, Pausini	03:42
16.	"Por El Camino"	Claudio Baglioni	Baglioni	Ortiz	05:41

iTunes pre-order edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Spanish adaptation	Length
17.	"Es, No Es"	Niccolò Fabi	Niccolò Fabi	Carmen Fernández	03:39
18.	"No Me Lo Puedo Explicar" (Sólo Version)	Ferro	Ferro	Ferro	04:33
19.	"Mi Libre Canción" (Sólo Version)	Mogol	Battisti	Ramón	04:41

Personnel

• Vinnie Colaiuta: drums on tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 15, 16
• Michael Landau, Tim Pierce: guitars
• Max Costa: programming

Chart performance

The first single "Io canto" debuted at No. 3 on the Italian chart at the beginning of November, and it peaked at No. 1 in the week before Christmas. It has spent a total of 4 weeks at the top spot. The album debuted at No. 1 in the Italian chart with 270,000 copies shipped in the first week. At the end of 2006 it became the Italian's best-selling album of the year, selling over 500,000 copies. ^[12] It has spent a total of 8 weeks at No. 1. As of October 2008 the album sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

Charts

Charts Chart (2006–2007) Peak position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] 93 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] 8 Croatian Albums (HDU) [15] 14 Croatian Foreign Albums (HDU) [16] 5 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] 66 European Top 100 Albums ( Billboard ) [18] 10 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [19] 33 French Albums (SNEP) [20] 15 Greek Albums (IFPI) [21] 4 Italian Albums (FIMI) [22] 1 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [23] 15 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [24] 1 US Latin Pop Albums ( Billboard ) [25] 9 US Top Latin Albums ( Billboard ) [25] 22 US Top Heatseekers ( Billboard ) [25] 12

Year-end charts Chart (2006) Position Italian Albums (FIMI) [26] 1 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [27] 20 Chart (2007) Position European Top 100 Albums (Billboard) [28] 41 Italian Albums (FIMI) [29] 5 Swiss Music (Schweizer Hitparade) [30] 33 Chart (2008) Position Italian Albums (FIMI) [31] 78

Sales and certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [32]	Gold	75,000*
Italy (FIMI) [33]	6× Platinum	700,000 [34]
Mexico (AMPROFON) [35]	Gold	50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [36]	Platinum	30,000^
Summaries
Worldwide	—	2,000,000 [11]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Tour

Pausini chose not to do a tour to promote Io canto. Instead, she opted for a single concert in Milan, in the Stadio San Siro, making history as the first female artist to play a gig in this venue. The sold-out concert happened on 2 June 2007. Approximately 70,000 fans attended in the incessant rain. Tiziano Ferro appeared for a duet. The two and a half-hour concert has been released on DVD in December 2007. ^[37]

Notes

1. "Arriva "Io canto", il nuovo CD di Laura Pausini" (in Italian). Videoitalia.tv. 12 October 2006. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
2. "Oggi i nuovi brani. Laura Pausini sexy per "Spaccacuore". A Vasco "Basta poco"" (in Italian). La Stampa. 19 January 2007. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
3. "Non Me Lo So Spiegare – Da domani in radio il duetto Laura Pausini & Tiziano Ferro" (in Italian). MTV. 22 March 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
4. "Yo Canto – Laura Pausini". AllMusic . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
5. Mario De Luigi (November 2006). "Laura Pausini – Io canto ****" (in Italian). Musica e dischi. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
6. "Laura Pausini editará su nuevo álbum, 'Yo canto', en español e italiano". los40.com. 10 November 2006.
7. "Laura Pausini canta a los clásicos de la canción italiana". Terra.com. 23 November 2006.
8. "Laura Pausini dice que canta". Terra.com.mx. 17 October 2006. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
9. "Laura Pausini espera que en "Cantando por un sueño" no se compita por la fama". Cooperativa.cl. 10 May 2007.
10. "Bellissima: Italian singer a favorite of Latinos". The Arizona Republic. 16 July 2006.
11. "Alla Pausini il terzo World music awards" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
12. Mark Worden (10 January 2007). "Homegrown Acts Dominate 2006 Italy Record Sales". Billboard.
13. "Ultratop.be – Laura Pausini – Io canto" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
14. "Ultratop.be – Laura Pausini – Io canto" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
15. "Kombiniranih Lista – Tjedan 2. 2007" (in Croatian). HDU-Toplista.com. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
16. "Stranih Lista – Tjedan 6. 2007" (in Croatian). HDU-Toplista.com. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
17. "Dutchcharts.nl – Laura Pausini – Io canto" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
18. "European Albums – Week of December 02, 2006". Billboard . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
19. "Laura Pausini: Io canto" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
20. "Lescharts.com – Laura Pausini – Io canto". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
21. "Top 50 Ξένων Αλμπουμ – Εβδομάδα 08/2007" (in Greek). IFPI Greece. Archived from the original on 7 March 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
22. "Italiancharts.com – Laura Pausini – Io canto". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
23. "Spanishcharts.com – Laura Pausini – Yo canto". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
24. "Swisscharts.com – Laura Pausini – Io canto". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
25. "Yo Canto – Laura Pausini". Billboard . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
26. "Classifiche: Charts Annunali 2006 FIMI-AC Nielsen" (in Italian). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. 9 January 2007. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
27. "SCHWEIZER JAHRESHITPARADE 2006" (in German). HitParade.ch. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
28. "European Top 100 Albums – 2007". Billboard . Retrieved 30 July 2011.
29. "Classifiche Annuali 2007 FIMI-AC Nielsen: al primo posto Eros Ramazzotti con "E2"" (in Italian). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. 10 January 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
30. "SCHWEIZER JAHRESHITPARADE 2007" (in German). HitParade.ch. Archived from the original on 18 March 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
31. "Classifiche ufficiali degli Album e dei DVD musicali più venduti e dei singoli più scaricati dalla rete nel 2008" (in Italian). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
32. "French album certifications – Pausini, Laura – Io canto" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
33. Antonio Ranalli (18 December 2006). "Laura Pausini: Io canto supera le 500 mila copie vendute" (in Italian). MusicalNews.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
34. Massimiliano Leva (31 May 2007). "Sul palco di San Siro vorrei essere Vasco" (in Italian). La Repubblica . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
35. "Certificaciones – Laura Pausini" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
36. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards ('Io Canto')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
37. Laura Pausini's official site

References

• Blanco, Patricia R. "Laura Pausini editará su nuevo álbum, 'Io canto,' en español e italiano", los40.com (Spain), 10 November 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
• Cordova, Randy. "Bellissima: Italian singer a favorite of Latinos", The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
• Galicia, Arístides. "Laura Pausini es igual que su padre", los40.com (México), 13 October 2006. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
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• "Laura Pausini dice que canta Archived 16 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine ", Terra (México), 17 October 2006. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
• "Laura Pausini espera que en 'Cantando por un sueño' no se compita por la fama", Radio Cooperativa, 10 May 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
• "Laura Pausini Track by Track Interview". CONNECT Music. Retrieved 22 September 2007.