Amore (Andrea Bocelli album)
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| Studio album by Andrea Bocelli | ||||
| Released | 31 January 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Record Plant Studios, Hollywood, CA; Chartmaker Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Andrea Bocelli Studio, Tuscany, Italy; Sony Studios, Culver City, CA; Westlake Audio, Hollywood, CA | |||
| Genre | Classical, Pop | |||
| Length | 57:32 | |||
| Label | Sugar Records, Opera & Blues Records, Decca Records | |||
| Producer | David Foster and Humberto Gatica | |||
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| Released | 28 February 2006 | |||
| Genre | Pop, Latin | |||
| Length | 57:32 | |||
| Label | Universal Latino | |||
| Producer | David Foster, Humberto Gatica | |||
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Amore is the eleventh studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released on 31 January 2006, for the Valentine's Day season. This album features a remake of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love"; "Because We Believe", the closing song of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which Bocelli wrote and performed; "Somos Novios (It's Impossible), a duet with American pop singer Christina Aguilera; and his first recording of Bésame Mucho, which eventually became one of his signature songs.
Amore was released internationally beginning on 28 February 2006.
A Spanish version of the album was also released in the same year, called Amor.
In Japan it was released on 18 October 2006 as Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (貴方に贈る愛の歌?, A Love Song I Send to You) and featured a bonus track.
With 113,000 units sold in its first week of release, Amore debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, which at the time was Bocelli's highest chart position in America yet, only to be surpassed by his 2009 release My Christmas, which reached No. 2. It went on to sell 1.66 million copies in the United States and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Bocelli was the seventh best-selling artist of 2006, in the United States, with 2,524,681 copies of his albums sold that year. The Spanish version, Amor, was also certified Album Multi-Platino (Double Platinum) by the RIAA. Both versions were also certified Gold and Platinum in several other counties.
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