"I Can't Get Enough" is an English-Spanish song by American record producer

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, Puerto Rican record producer

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, American singer

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and Colombian singer

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. It was released as a single on February 28, 2019. It was sent to radio on March 12, 2019. It was written by Tainy, Blanco, Gomez, Balvin, Cristina Chiluiza,

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and Mike Sabath. Its music video, directed by

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, was released on March 12, 2019.

Background

The collaboration was teased on Gomez's Instagram after she posted pictures of her wearing Benny Blanco's merch and what appeared to be the set of a music video. Gomez later revealed the title. J Balvin told '' Entertainment Tonight'' that Gomez sings in English on the track, while he sings in Spanish. Balvin also spoke positively of working with Gomez, calling her "humble" and "amazing". In another interview, Balvin said Tainy invited him to participate on the song and that he thought it would be a "worldwide hit".

Writing and composition

"I Can't Get Enough" was written by Mike Sabath, Cris Chiluiza, Jesús M. Nieves Cortes along with producers Benny Blanco and Tainy as well as performers

and

. It runs for 2 minutes and 38 seconds. Selena opens the track with humming, while J Balvin follow rapping in Spanish. Sonically, the song has been described as "a chill

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track" as well as "a sultry electronic-meets-

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fusion" while lyrically is about "a couple's hot and steamy relationship".

Music video

The music video for "I Can't Get Enough" premiered on 12 March 2019 on

's YouTube channel. The video was directed by

. The video featured the four artists dancing on a gigantic bed. Selena Gomez, J Balvin and Tainy are wearing

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. Benny Blanco is dressed in a large teddy bear suit. The video features Gomez walking and dancing, later with Balvin, Tainy and Blanco, then all four dancing together in the last part of the video. The video gained almost 5 million online views in the first 24 hours of release. As of June 2021, the video has received over 224 million views on

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. The music video also received a nomination at the

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for "Best Latin".

Commercial performance

In the United States, "I Can't Get Enough" debuted at number 93 on ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and peaked at number 66 in its third week. It also entered and peaked at number 31 on the Mainstream Top 40. Additionally, the song debuted at 46 in Australia, later peaking at number 43. It debuted at number 43 in the

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, falling off the chart the following week. It re-entered the chart and peaked at number 42 in the next week. The song also debuted and peaked at number 41 in

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Credit and personnel

Credits are adapted from

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. *

–

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, producer, programming, keyboard * Marco Masis – writer, producer, programming, keyboard *

– lead vocals, background vocals, writer *

– writer, lead vocals, background vocals, featured artist *Mike Sabath – writer *Cris Chiluiza – writer *

– writer *Serban Ghenea –

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

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