"Por Amarte" (English: ''To Love You'') is the title of the third single released by Spanish singer-songwriter

Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the ...

from his eponymous debut studio album ''

'' (1995), It was released by Fonovisa on 8 January 1996 (see

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Song information

The track was written by Enrique Iglesias and co-written by Roberto Morales, produced by Rafael Pérez-Botija, and became Iglesias’ third consecutive chart topper in U.S. The song also was featured on the Mexican telenovela '' Marisol'' (1996), produced by

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, starring

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and

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. with a few changes in the

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. Instead of ''Por amarte daría mi vida'' ("To love you, I’d give my life"), the words were: ''Por amarte Marisol, moriría'' ("To love you, Marisol, I’d die"). The singer won an

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award for ''Por Amarte'' in 1996 and at the 9th Lo Nuestro Awards received a nomination for "Pop Song of the Year", losing to Iglesias own "

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Chart performance

The track debuted in the United States ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Tracks chart at number 8 on 18 May 1996, and rise to number 1 in only three weeks (the fastest for the singer) and spent eight weeks at pole position. The single spent twelve weeks in the Top Ten and also peaked at number 1 in Mexico for two weeks. ''Por Amarte'' peaked at number-one one week after the album ''Enrique Iglesias'' climbed to number-one in the Top Latin Albums chart for the first time. According to the newspaper '' El Siglo de Torreón'', the music was well performed in cities of Bolivia.

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