Amor Prohibido (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Amor Prohibido


Artist = Selena
from Album = Amor Prohibido
Released = April, 1994
Format = CD Promo single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Latin
Length = 2:50
Label = EMI
Writer = A.B. Quintanilla and Pete Estudillo
Producer = A.B. Quintanilla III
Last single = "La Llamada"
(1993)
This single = "Amor Prohibido"
(1994)
Next single = "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom"
(1994)

"Amor Prohibido" (Eng.: "Forbidden Love") is the title of the first single released by Selena from her album of the same title.

ong Information

The track was written by A.B. Quintanilla III and Pete Astudillo for Selena's album "Amor Prohibido" and was chosen to be the first single from that album. The song is widely known as her signature song. The single debuted at number 13 on the "Billboard" Hot Latin Tracks in the week of April 23, 1994 [cite web |title="Hot Latin Tracks" on Billboard.com |url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=363&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Latin+Songs&ci=3016886&cdi=6814855&cid=04%2F23%2F1994|accessdate=1994-04-23] and peaked at number one seven weeks later (June 11, 1994), spending 9 weeks in pole position [cite web |title="Hot Latin Tracks" on Billboard.com |url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=363&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Latin+Songs&ci=3017926&cdi=6855711&cid=08%2F06%2F1994|accessdate=1994-08-06] . The single spent seventeen weeks in the Top Ten.

Chart Performance

ee also

*Number-one hits of 1994 (U.S. Hot Latin Tracks)

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