Duele el Corazón

Background

In an interview with Miami's Romance 107.5 Monday, Enrique said of this song,"This song was born from an idea of one of my friends, I then worked in the studio and developed it in the studio for about eight months... which is not that much time." Adding that, "What I look for in a song is something that animates people, something that I like, If I don't like the song, I don't want to release it, because then I have to promote it and talk about it millions of times."

Track listing

1. "Duele el Corazón" (featuring Wisin) – 3:21

1. "Duele el Corazón" (Remix) [featuring Arcangel & Javada] – 3:30

1. "Duele el Corazón" (Dave Aude Club Mix) – 4:44

1. "Duele el Corazón" (Remix) [featuring Gente De Zona & Wisin] - 3:20

1. "Duele el Corazón" (English Version) [featuring Tinashe and Javada] - 3:20

Video

The release of the song was accompanied with an official lyric video which was uploaded to Enrique's account on YouTube, which got 50 million views in 3 weeks. On the same day, Enrique posted a short clip of himself shooting official music video of the song. The official video is being shot in Panama. The video was produced by London-based production company Artist Preserve with executive producers and Enrique's long time creative collaborators Yasha Malekzad and Kasra Pezeshki. Cuban director Alejandro Pérez directed the video. The video features Swedish born model Kelly Gale. It was released on YouTube on 13 May 2016.

The lyrics fit well to form a storyline combined with the depicted scenes in the music video. It is about an old love of Enrique's character with a woman that used to be an happy relationship, but since the woman has left him for her current, abusive husband it went downhill for her. In the video, Enrique's character comes together with her but the powerful, rich abusive husband manipulates this by shooting at and kidnapping Enrique in order to prevent her leaving him for Enrique as the meeting was intended for - but as he finishes up on the kidnapping the woman arrives just on time to witness the ordeal and her wounded love, strongly disapproving the abusive husband's actions. He orders Enrique out of the abduction vehicle (helicopter) and lets him go, as the master plan failed (he ultimately wanted to prevent the meeting to keep the girl for himself instead, but ends up with her witnessing the kidnapping and his crime). It is visible that the abusive husband hestitates to let him go, but the video knows an happy end as Enrique is released to the girl to re-unite. However, the video ends with a scene of Enrique leaving on his own without his true love and the helicopter passing over, implying she still went off with them, therefore sketching the scenario that the girl arriving to the ordeal only saved him from malicious intent or worse faith that would result from the kidnapping, as it was interrupted in progress, and additionally gave them room for meeting each other instead of coming back together.

Commercial performance

"Duele el Corazón" debuted at No. 1 at Latin Pop songs and No. 2 at Hot Latin Songs, where it climbed at 1 in its second week and No.1 at airplay.

The single in Europe reached Top 10 in countries such as Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia, peaking at No. 1 in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Slovenia and Switzerland. It was also a top 40 hit in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

"Duele el Corazón" became Enrique’s 27th #1 on Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs Chart – the most by any artist. Plus he holds the record for “Most #1 Debuts on Billboard‘s Latin Airplay Chart,” marking his fourth #1 entry. The song debuted at #1 on the Latin Airplay Chart and earned the “highest single week audience for a song since 2008 with 18.6 million listeners” according to Billboard.com.

"Duele el Corazón" has sold over 2 million track equivalent sales worldwide, reached #1 in 25 digital stores around the world, and was 61th most streamed track On Spotify with over 229 millions streams on Spotify.