La Historia (Ricky Martin album)

La Historia
Greatest hits album by Ricky Martin
Released	February 27, 2001
Genre	Dance-pop, Latin pop
Length	72:35
Language	Spanish
Label	Columbia
Ricky Martin albums chronology
Sound Loaded (2000) La Historia (2001) The Best of Ricky Martin (2001)
Ricky Martin video chronology
One Night Only (1999) La Historia (2001) Europa: European Tour (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

La Historia (English: The History) is a 2001 compilation album by singer Ricky Martin. The recordings are in Spanish. The album contains reworkings of two of Martin's early songs: "Fuego Contra Fuego" and "El Amor de Mi Vida".

Chart performance

La Historia wasn't promoted by any single, did not include any new recordings, and contains only Spanish-language songs.

In the United States, La Historia peaked at number one for five weeks on the Billboard's Top Latin Albums and number eighty-three on the Billboard 200. It was certified 4× Platinum Latin award for shipping 400,000 units in the US, and has sold 220,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan (as of January 2011).^[2]

The album also topped the chart in Argentina and Sweden, and was certified Platinum in both countries. Other achievements include peaks at number thirteen in Spain, number sixteen in Italy, number twenty-three in Switzerland, and number thirty-seven in Japan. La Historia was also certified Gold in Spain.

Awards

La Historia was nominated as the Latin Greatest Hits Album of the Year at the 2002 Latin Billboard Music Awards but lost to Vicente Fernández's Historia de un Ídolo, Vol. 1.

Track listing

CD
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"María" (Spanglish Radio Edit)	Ian Blake Luis Gómez Escolar K. C. Porter	Porter Blake Pablo Flores Javier Garza	4:31
2.	"Vuelve"	Franco De Vita	Porter Robi Draco Rosa	5:09
3.	"Bella" (She's All I Ever Had)	Rosa George Noriega Jon Secada Escolar	Secada Noriega Rosa Emilio Estefan, Jr. Walter Afanasieff	4:57
4.	"La Bomba"	Rosa Porter Escolar	Porter Rosa	4:37
5.	"A Medio Vivir"	Vita	Porter Blake	4:43
6.	"Perdido Sin Ti"	Rosa Porter Escolar	Porter Rosa	4:10
7.	"Livin' la Vida Loca" (Spanish Version)	Rosa Desmond Child Escolar	Child Rosa	4:05
8.	"Volverás"	Blake Porter Escolar Ricky Martin	Porter Blake	4:49
9.	"La Copa de la Vida" (Spanish Version)	Rosa Child Escolar	Child Rosa	4:30
10.	"Fuego de Noche, Nieve de Día"	Blake Porter Escolar	Porter Blake	5:36
11.	"She Bangs" (Spanish Version)	Rosa Afanasieff Child Glenn Monroig Julia Sierra Daniel López	Rosa Afanasieff Child	4:37
12.	"Bombón de Azúcar" (Spanglish Radio Edit)	Mark Kilpatrick Gustavo Laureano Carlos Figueroa John Lengel Carlos Rolón	Porter Blake	4:59
13.	"Fuego Contra Fuego" (New Version)	Mariano Pérez Carlos Gómez	Tommy Torres López	4:27
14.	"Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo"	Carlos Lara	Porter Blake	4:39
15.	"Por Arriba, Por Abajo"	Rosa Escolar César Lemos Karla Aponte	Porter Rosa	3:08
16.	"El Amor de Mi Vida" (New Version)	Eddie Sierra	Torres López	3:58

US bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Sólo Quiero Amarte" (Nobody Wants to Be Lonely) (Radio Edit)	Child Victoria Shaw Gary Burr Martin López	Child	3:59

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"María" (Spanglish Radio Edit)
2.	"Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo"
3.	"Fuego de Noche, Nieve de Día"
4.	"Volverás"
5.	"Vuelve"
6.	"La Copa de la Vida"
7.	"La Bomba"
8.	"Por Arriba, Por Abajo"
9.	"Perdido Sin Tí"
10.	"Livin' la Vida loca" (Spanish Version)
11.	"Bella"
12.	"She Bangs" (Spanish Version)
13.	"Sólo Quiero Amarte"

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position Argentinian Albums (CAPIF)[3] 1 European Albums (Top 100)[4] 42 Italian Albums (FIMI)[5] 16 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6] 37 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[7] 13 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[8] 1 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 23 US Billboard 200[10] 83 US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[11] 1 US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[12] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 6 US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[14] 6 US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[14] 4 Certifications and sales Region Certification Sales/shipments Argentina (CAPIF)[15] Platinum 40,000^x Argentina (CAPIF)[16] DVD Platinum 8,000^x^x Spain (PROMUSICAE)[7] Gold 50,000^^ Sweden (GLF)[17] Platinum 80,000^^ United States (RIAA)[18] 4× Platinum (Latin) 400,000^^ ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Ask Billboard - Viva la 'Vida' singer". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
3. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
4. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
5. "Italiancharts.com – Ricky Martin – La Historia". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
6. リッキー・マーティンのアルバム売り上げランキング (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
7. Fernando Salaverri (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
8. "Swedishcharts.com – Ricky Martin – La Historia". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
9. "Swisscharts.com – Ricky Martin – La Historia". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
10. "Ricky Martin – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Ricky Martin. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
11. "Ricky Martin – Chart history" Billboard Top Latin Albums for Ricky Martin. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
12. "Ricky Martin – Chart history" Billboard Latin Pop Albums for Ricky Martin. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
13. "Årslista Album - År 2001" (in Swedish). Grammofon Leverantörernas Förening. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
14. "The Year in Music: 2001" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
15. "Discos de Oro y Platino" (in Spanish). CAPIF. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
16. . Retrieved September 28, 2011.
17. "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2001" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
18. "American album certifications – Ricky Martin – La Historia". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click Type, then select Latin, then click SEARCH