"999" is a song recorded by American singer

Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez ( ; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress and producer. Gomez began her acting career on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004). As a teenager, she rose to prominence for starring a ...

and Colombian singer Camilo. It was released through

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on August 27, 2021. The song was written by Gomez, Camilo, and

Edgar Barrera Édgar Barrera aka Edge is a Mexican songwriter, producer, and musician based in Miami, Florida. He has won a total of 20 Latin Grammys and 1 Grammy Award including "Producer of The Year" in 2021. He has written and produced songs for artists s ...

and is produced by Camilo and Barrera.

Release

The song was first teased on

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with Gomez teasing the song tweeting "1000 yo sé que piensas en mí y el corazón se te mueve…si tú quieres ir a 1000...". Camilo quote tweeted her tweet saying "999... yo estoy en 999!", further confirming the collaboration. They tweeted a pre-save link shortly after. The song was released on August 27, 2021.

Composition

The song described as a dreamy and rhythmic-pop song with ballad at its arrangement. Where it composed in the key of C# Major, with a fast tempo of 150 beats per minute and runs for three minutes and 44 seconds. Lyrically, its "about the beauty of true love."

Music video

The official music video for "999" was released on the same day as the song on August 27, 2021. It was directed by

Sophie Muller Sophie Luise Elisabeth Muller (born 31 January 1962) is a British music video director who has directed more than 300 music videos. She won a Grammy Award for Annie Lennox's 1992 ''Diva'' video album, and an MTV Video Music Award for Lennox's son ...

Credits and personnel

Credits adopted from Tidal. *

— vocals,

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, composer * Camilo — vocals, lyricist, composer, producer *

— vocal, lyricist, composer, producer * A.C. — producer,

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, programmer * Vnsa —

mix engineer A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...

* Mick Raskin — mix engineer * Kat Dahlia —

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

* John Hanes — engineer, mix engineer * Nicholas Ramirez —

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* Natalia Ramirez — engineer, vocal producer * Bart Schoudel — engineer, vocal producer *

Chris Gehringer Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered recordings such as Gwen Stefani's '' Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' (2004), Rihanna's '' Loud'' (2010), Lady Gaga's '' Born This Way'' (2011) and Drake' ...

—

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Serban Ghenea Șerban Ghenea (born October 13, 1969) is a Grammy award-winning Romanian-Canadian audio engineer and mixer. Early life and education Ghenea was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1969. In 1976 he moved to Montreal with his family. He later attende ...

— mixer * Sam Riback —

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* Aleen Keshishian — production coordinator *

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— production coordinator * Nir Seroussi — production coordinator * Zack Morgenroth — production coordinator * Benjamin Tischker — production coordinator * Vanessa Angiuli — production coordinator

Charts

Release history

References

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