Amore (Andrea Bocelli album)


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, a duet with American pop singer Christina Aguilera; and his first recording of Bésame Mucho, which eventually became one of his signature songs.

Releases

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 and featured a bonus track.

Track listing

For ''Amore''

  1. "Amapola" – 3:43
  2. "Besame Mucho" – 4:01
  3. "Les Feuilles Mortes " – 4:49
  4. "Mi Manchi" – 3:35
  5. "Somos Novios " – 4:22
  6. "Solamente Una Vez" – 3:29
  7. "Jurame" – 3:22
  8. "Pero te Extraño" – 4:06
  9. "Canzoni Stonate" – 5:17
  10. "L'Appuntamento " – 4:08
  11. "Cuando Me Enamoro " – 3:56
  12. "Can't Help Falling in Love" – 3:25
  13. "Because We Believe" – 4:37
  14. "Ama Credi e Vai " – 4:41
; Japan bonus track
  2. "Somos Novios "

    For ''Amor'', the Spanish version of the album

  3. "Besame Mucho"
  4. "Cancion Desafinada"
  5. "Solamente Una Vez"
  6. "Somos Novios "
  7. "Jurame" – 3:22
  8. "Pero te Extraño"
  9. "Las Hojas Muertas"
  10. "Momentos"
  11. "Me Faltas "Mi Manchi"
  12. "Cuando Me Enamoro"
  13. "Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste"
  14. "Amapola"
  15. Verano Estate
  16. "Nuestro Encuentro"

    Commercial Performance

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 by the RIAA. Both versions were also certified Gold and Platinum in [|several other counties].

Charts

Chart Position
Dutch Albums Top 1001
Finland Albums Top 401
Hungarian Albums1
Italy Top 501
Belgium Albums Top 502
Ireland Albums Top 752
Japan Oricon Albums Chart39
Portugal Albums Top 302
Sweden Albums Top 602
Norway Top 403
US Albums Top 1003
Austria Albums Top 754
Spain Albums Top 1004
UK Albums Top 754
Australia Albums Top 505
Swiss Albums Top 1008
NZ Albums Top 4013
France Albums Top 15014
Denmark Albums Top 4015
Germany Albums Top 5023

Certifications and sales

Personnel