Turn the Night Up is a song recorded by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, released as the lead single off Iglesias' tenth studio album Sex and Love. It was written by Iglesias, Niles Hollowell-Dhar, Marty James and Rome Ramirez, and produced by The Cataracs. On 18 July 2013 Enrique uploaded the single's cover art on his official website, while the song was released to US Top 40 radio on 22 July 2013.

"Turn the Night Up" is a dance-pop and electropop song, following in the footsteps of his previous singles, "Finally Found You", "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" and others, and it was built from a phrase that he always uses with his girlfriend Anna Kournikova. The song received mixed reviews from critics, who noted that the song is not groundbreaking or innovative, while it achieved minor success on the charts.

After releasing "Finally Found You" in September 2012, as the lead single from his upcoming tenth studio album. The song was a moderate success, reaching the top-forty in most countries, however, the singer announced that the song "Turn the Night Up" would be the lead single of the album, during its premiere on Elvis Duran show on New York City's Z100, on 22 July 2013. During the interview with Duran, Iglesias said, "You know how people are going to react to I and you put so much love into it, so much work into it and it all comes down to that second. The ultimate test for me is once I write a song… I’ll go to sleep, wake-up in the morning and I’ll play it. If it feels good, if it puts me in a good mood, that’s when I know there is something special." The song became available for purchase on iTunes, on 13 August 2013.

"Turn the Night Up" was written by Enrique Iglesias, Niles Hollowell-Dhar, Marty James and Rome Ramirez, while production was handled by The Cataracs. Similar to his previous singles, "Turn the Night Up" is a dance-pop, electropop and EDM song, and according to himself, it's "one of those powerful, fun energetic songs and when we wrote it, I was just focusing at making sure if I could pull off the vocals in the studio, I was like, ‘This is it, this could be one of those fun songs." "You know my intentions, I know you can go all night,I just wanna touch you, girl just let me touch I know it’s been on your mind," Enrique sings.

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