![]() ![]() After her Grammy Award nomination for Live (1993) was announced, Selena signed with SBK Records to begin recording her crossover album, which was front-page news in Billboard magazine. It won Album of the Year at the 1996 Tejano Music Awards and Female Pop Album of the Year at the 3rd annual Billboard Latin Music Awards.Īfter signing a recording contract with EMI Latin in 1989, the label denied Selena a requested crossover after she made three demonstration recordings. Billboard magazine declared it a "historic" event, while Time said the recording elevated Selena's music to a wider audience. With first week sales of 331,000 units, it became the second-highest first-week sales for a female musician since Nielsen Soundscan began monitoring album sales in 1991. It sold 175,000 copies on its first day of release in the U.S.-a then-record for a female vocalist. Released posthumously on July 18, 1995, by EMI Latin and EMI Records, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, debuting atop the United States Billboard 200-the first predominately Spanish-language album to do so. Dreaming of You is the fifth studio album by American singer Selena.
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