Global superstar Shakira takes a look back at her chart history and talks through some of her most iconic musical moments, from No. 1 songs to her most memorable collaborations in her Billboard cover video.
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00:00 Hey everyone, I'm Shakira and this is my Billboard Chart History.
00:02 "Donde Estas Corazon" was my international hit.
00:17 It broke many different countries other than my own country.
00:22 And I was only 18.
00:23 So that was a very exciting moment of my life.
00:25 "Donde Estas Corazon"
00:28 "Y No Te Encontro"
00:32 "Ciegas Por El Mundo" I think was my homage to Mexican music.
00:44 I came up with a horn line and the lyrics and I co-wrote the music with Stefano.
00:49 "Donde Solamente Tu Tienes Ănimo"
00:51 "Y No Me Escuchas Lo Que Te Digo"
00:53 "Mira Que Lo Que Va A Pasar Contigo"
00:55 It was super exciting at the time because not too long after the song was published
01:01 we did the MTV Unplugged and we brought in a mariachi group.
01:05 So I got to sing that song in its purest form, Mexican style.
01:09 "Y Es Un Verde Para No Sentirme Nuevamente"
01:13 "Los Casiegas Saldamos Del Toro Y Me Traste"
01:17 "Ciegas Por El Mundo"
01:19 "Whenever, Wherever" is definitely one of my most beloved songs
01:31 and personally represents a big deal because it was the first single of Laundry Service.
01:37 "Ciegas Por El Mundo"
01:44 The album that allowed me to cross over to the general market, to the US.
01:49 It was like my biggest hit until that date in the US
01:53 and still to this day it's one of the highlights of my shows when I'm on tour.
01:58 It was my first ballad in English.
02:09 It was a very personal song that I wrote when I was very much in love.
02:12 "Underneath your gloves, there's an endless story"
02:18 Yeah, it's one of those very iconic songs that when I perform in life
02:22 people sing along from beginning to end.
02:24 "Never Get Old" and "Never Fails" is one of those songs that puts a big smile on my face when I perform.
02:30 La Tortura was one of the first Spanish videos that aired on MTV.
02:41 It also somehow crossed over to the general market
02:44 and a lot of people knew about that song internationally.
02:47 This song was a really interesting experiment to me
02:58 because I took reggaeton, which was this really hot music style that was coming from Puerto Rico
03:05 but not a lot of people knew about.
03:07 And I took it and I sort of like mixed it with my own sounds
03:11 and added a little bit of Spanish ingredients.
03:15 And the most important Spanish ingredient in the song, Alejandro Sanz
03:20 who became my dear friend, he's like a brother to me.
03:24 It all started with that song. I owe a lot of good memories to La Tortura.
03:36 "Hips Don't Lie" was number one in like 55 countries
03:39 and it was number one in Hot 100s for a few weeks.
03:42 It was just a song that just broke all paradigms.
03:45 Changed the paradigm, I think, for me and for many Latin artists in the US.
03:49 Latin music wasn't really at its peak like it is right now in the US.
04:03 And many radios at first really didn't want to play "Hips Don't Lie"
04:08 because it sounded too Latin for them.
04:12 And it's understandable because it had a Colombian cumbia in the middle of the song.
04:17 There was nothing pop about it. The rest of the song was.
04:20 I had so much faith in this song.
04:22 My album, "Aura of Succession" was already out.
04:25 It had already been published.
04:27 But I really believed that the song was going to make it big.
04:33 And against all odds, I called the head of the label.
04:36 I remember Donnie Iyner, I think, was in charge back in the day.
04:39 And I convinced him to recall the physical copies and collect them all
04:45 and include the song in the album.
04:48 And still, like, I don't know, 17 years later,
04:50 I still get the references about "Hips Don't Lie."
04:53 Shakira, your hips don't lie.
04:56 It never gets old.
04:57 "Loba, She Wolf" was me flirting with EDM.
05:11 It did a lot of things for me in the UK and the US.
05:15 It was my first single of my eighth studio album.
05:18 And I recorded it in the Bahamas.
05:21 [Singing in Spanish]
05:27 I remember that actually I wasn't too sure about me writing the lyrics in English.
05:32 [Singing in Spanish]
05:39 And I reached out to Sia.
05:41 And I asked her to write the lyrics in English for me.
05:44 And I also reached out to Seth MacFarlane.
05:47 So I called him and said, "Seth, can you write some lyrics for 'She Wolf'?"
05:50 I wasn't very sure that I was able to write lyrics for the song.
05:53 And they tried. They took a crack at him.
05:57 But I ended up writing the entire lyrics for "She Wolf."
06:01 At the end of the day, it was all me.
06:13 "Waka Waka" was definitely one of my most relevant songs.
06:17 It was the official song to the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
06:21 It was my second World Cup.
06:28 I had already attended to the finale of the 2006 World Cup.
06:32 But this was my second World Cup in South Africa.
06:35 It's such an important song because I think that because of this song, I had my kids.
06:39 I met the father of my kids during the World Cup.
06:42 And I blame it on the song.
06:44 It's definitely one of the highlights of my shows.
06:48 It's so fun to see people dancing and singing to the song.
06:52 Everywhere I go, everywhere I play, "Waka Waka" is one of those songs that really makes you understand, as an artist,
07:04 how important it is when people come together and celebrate something.
07:07 It just becomes a huge party.
07:10 "La Bicicleta" is technically the first single of my album "El Dorado."
07:14 It's one of the songs that has brought me so many joys.
07:18 Being able to collaborate with my dear friend Carlos DĂez,
07:28 who is one of my favorite people in the whole world,
07:31 and being able to collaborate with him,
07:33 and we were able to go to Colombia and shoot the video there in my hometown.
07:39 We even went to my old school and surprised everybody.
07:43 We were surrounded by compatriotas, barranquilleros,
07:46 people who were just happy to be there celebrating and sharing this moment with us, Carlos and me.
07:54 "Chantaje" hit number one for eleven weeks.
07:57 Eleven weeks in the Latin songs.
07:59 That song was just incredible.
08:01 It's one of my favorite ones.
08:02 I have no idea what to say.
08:10 I'm just so happy to be there.
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08:21 I'm so happy to be there.
08:22 I remember that Maluma was an up-and-coming artist.
08:26 Afro Verde from my label told me about it.
08:29 He was like, "Hey, Shakira, you gotta learn about this guy who's super talented, this artist, Maluma.
08:35 You should probably do something with him."
08:37 And we were introduced and we hit it off.
08:40 We had so much chemistry in the studio.
08:42 We wrote the song and produced it and sang it, recorded everything, mixed it in like three days.
08:48 It was one of those things that was so immediate, so painless, and so fantastic.
08:54 I think at the end of the day, the results speak for themselves.
08:57 Bizarrap Session 53, a very controversial song.
09:10 It was the first song I released this year.
09:13 This is for you to get emotional, to chew, swallow, swallow, chew.
09:16 I'm with you, I'm not coming back, don't make me cry.
09:19 Actually, this one I owe it to my son, because my son, Milan, he's only 10, but back in the day he was 9.
09:26 And he was like, "Mom, you gotta do something with Bizarrap. This guy is unbelievable."
09:31 I was like, "Who's Bizarrap? What are you talking about?"
09:34 He used to play me his music.
09:36 One time, Bizarrap DMed me and he approached me and said that he wanted to do something with me.
09:42 He showed it to me and I'm like, "Milan, look! Look who's writing to me!"
09:45 He's like, "Oh my God! The king! The god! The Argentinian god!"
09:49 That song was just very important to me because it was therapeutic.
09:57 It was the best way I had to vent some stuff out and to elaborate my feelings and my thoughts about personal situations.
10:05 It became an anthem to so many women out there who are feeling the same way, who have been through similar situations.
10:13 I was happy to share that with a lot of women around the world who felt identified and created a sisterhood out there.
10:32 "Recujé" was another amazing song. It was my second single of this year.
10:37 I think it was a really special experience to be able to share something with another fellow female Colombian artist.
10:53 To write and produce and make something that also represented the way we were feeling at the time.
11:02 This was a very personal song, I think. We had this common denominator that brought us together.
11:08 So, yeah, the rest is history.
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