"En la Obscuridad" (English: "In the Darkness") is the second single from the Spanish born-Mexican singer

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's fourth studio album ''

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''; it was released on iTunes in Mexico on January 8, 2013 by Capitol Latin.

Background and composition

Due to the success of the single " Egoísta" featuring Pitbull from Belinda's third studio album,''

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'', Belinda announced in an interview for a Mexican local radio station, that she would be collaborating with Pitbull again for the second single from her album Catarsis, on a song entitled "I Love You, Te Quiero". However, for unknown reasons, the single release was cancelled, and her record label opted to release "En La Oscuridad" instead, which was released to Latin radio stations on November 12, 2012.Segundo sencillo

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I Love You... Te Quiero was later released as the album's fourth and final single from the album. The single was released on iTunes on January 8, 2013.Portada oficial de ELO – a la venta en iTunes este 8 de Enero!
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Music video

The video was shot on the 18th and 20 December 2012 and was directed by Daniel Shain. It is inspired by the movie,

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, directed by

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. According to magazine TVNotas, the music video was shot in various locations around the

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, as well as at

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. This is the most expensive music video in Belinda's career to date, at a cost of US$2 million.FOTOS: Imágenes exclusivas del nuevo clip de Belinda :: TVNotas !Irresistible!
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ian model Pedro Arnon. On February 21, her official video for "En La Obscuridad" was released and featured on the ''

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'' site's homepage, which boosted the video past 8 million total views in just one week. With just 2 days, the video broke the

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record on VEVO, with more than 3 million views. The exposure caused a 153% growth in weekly fan acquisition with the addition of 5,000 new

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fans (up 17%) and 211,000 new

followers. The video's popularity contributed to over 12 million plays to her channel for the week of the release (up 32%) and the overall exposure contributed to 16% rise in weekly visits to her Wikipedia page. Belinda debuted at 45 on the Social 50 chart. The music video has over 226 million views on

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, but the video has been removed because it violated YouTube's Terms of Service although the video is still available on VEVO only in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and the Netherlands.

Promotion

She performed "En La Obscuridad" at the ''Premios Telehit 2012'', ''Tour Positivo'' and ''Mexico Sueña''. She has made many interviews around

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to promote the single, she also has been on a promo tour across United States,

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Track listing

Digital download #"En La Obscuridad" (Belinda, Nacho Peregrín, Joan M. Ortíz Espada, Víctor "El Nasi" Martínez) — 3:30

Charts

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Year-end charts

References

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