"Adán y Eva" is a song by Argentine rapper

Paulo Londra Paulo Ezequiel Londra (born 12 April 1998) is an Argentine rapper and singer. His music has topped Argentine charts and been highly successful across Argentina and Latin America. Early life Londra was inspired to become a rap artist by watch ...

. Released by Warner Latina and Big Ligas on 5 November 2018, it was written by Londra, Cristian Salazar and Ovy on the Drums, who also produced the song. The song title makes reference to the

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. With "Adán y Eva", Londra became the first and only artist to top the ''

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chart on two occasions, the first time with "

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" in October, 2018. The song also reached number one in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.

Background

In a podcast interview with Argentine journalist Juan Pablo Varsky, Londra revealed that he had originally planned to release another song after "

", his collaboration with

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, however, after showing "Adán y Eva" to his grandmother, who liked it very much, he decided to contact his producer to tell her that they should move up the release of the single. Finally, the song was released on November 5, 2018.

Commercial performance

"Adán y Eva" became a commercial success. In Argentina, the song debuted at number thirteen on the ''Billboard'' Argentina Hot 100 on the week dated November 17, 2018. On week dated November 30, 2018, the song moved to number one, becoming Londra's second single to peak on the top. The song reached number 1 on the

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music charts during its third week. The single also reached the top of the charts in countries such as

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. On

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, "Adán y Eva" reached the number 10 spot in the global top enshrining Londra as the most listened Argentine artist of 2018. In May 2021, the French company S-Money published a financial report, where it revealed that "Adán y Eva" was the tenth highest grossing song worldwide generating a figure of more than three million dollars because of its plays on the Spotify platform.

Accolades

Music video

The music video was directed by Jackalope, produced by Viral Films and shot in

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. The plot centers on Londra, who tries to conquer a girl through a dinner party that in the course of it goes wrong. At the same time, it shows a shadow and puppet theater play that narrates a love story. In November 2021, the video reached one billion views on

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, as did his song " Nena Maldición", making Londra the first Argentine artist to have two videos with this number of views.

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from

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. *Paulo Londra – songwriter, vocals *Daniel Echavarría Oviedo – songwriter, recording engineer, musical production *Cristian Salazar – songwriter *Colin Leonard – mastering engineer *Jaycen Joshua – mix engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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