Released 26 April 2010 Recorded 2010 Length 3:21 | Format Digital download Genre Bachata, Latin Label Universal | |
"Cuando Me Enamoro" (English: "When I Fall in Love") is a Latin pop song written and performed by Spanish pop singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias and featuring Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra released on 26 April 2010, as the first single from his ninth studio album. The song is the main-theme of the Mexican telenovela of the same title starring Silvia Navarro and Juan Soler. This is the second time since "Nunca Te Olvidaré" that a song of Enrique Iglesias was chosen as the main-theme of a telenovela. "Cuando Me Enamoro" became a contender for Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The single has sold around a million digital downloads Worldwide to the date. This song was dedicated for K,O,M.
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Development
The music video was filmed along with Guerra in an elementary school, St. Patrick & Assumption/All Saints, in Jersey City, New Jersey, it was directed by Jessy Terrero.
Synopsis
In the story of the video, Iglesias and Guerra are guest stars invited to sing at a school. The music video simply starts when the school principal presents them to the students and they begin to sing. The video alternates between the stage performance and three vignettes that exemplify falling in love: a student in class contrives to get his friend in trouble so he can move into friend's seat, which is next to his crush and allows him to pass her a "Do you like me," note; an un-athletic student is pummeled at dodgeball and then rescued by a girl who likes him and has a killer throw; and a straight-A student who contrives to get sent to the principal's office because he has a crush on her. The video has the participation of Ugly Betty actress Ana Ortiz as principal Michelle Gomez. The full music video was premiered at Vevo.com on 21 May 2010. As of February 2017, the video has been viewed more than 440 million times on YouTube.
Chart performance
The song debuted on number #22 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs, on the Tropical Songs the song debuted at number #19 and number #8 on the Latin Pop Songs. On Spain the song is charted at number #35. It is the twenty-first time that a song by Iglesias topped on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs since Gracias a TÃ (Remix) featuring Wisin & Yandel in 2009 as well as Juan Luis Guerra's seventh time to reach #1 on Hot Latin Tracks. This is also the third time a self-replacement happened in the history of the Hot Latin Tracks. The track spent 17 non-consecutive weeks at No # 1 at Hot Latin Track.
On the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at number #89 and was Iglesias' highest charting Spanish single of his career at the time, surpassing "Lloro Por Ti", which reached #91.