'El Perdón' won a Latin Grammy Award, for it hit number-one in over 40 countries around the world, achieving over four million sales and 300 million streams worldwide. 'When I wrote the beginning of the song-'Did he take you to the moon, and I couldn't do that'-that part hit me really hard,' Nicky Jam told Billboard. Not to mention those plaintive lyrics of lost love that can make girls (and guys) cry. But too little has been said about the mix of sweet and sad on the danceable tune.
The music video was recorded in Medellin, Colombia.īillboard ranked 'El Perdón' at number 12 on its year-end list: 'So much has been said about records set by 'El Perdón,' the second longest-running number-one song on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. The song quickly rose to the top of the charts and became a huge success. Iglesias told Billboard that even though he usually writes or co-writes the songs he sings on, he didn't provide songwriting on the track. After talking with Jam, Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias decided to collaborate with him to release a single. 'El Perdón' was initially a solo track by Nicky Jam.
