The single also peaked at number one in Spain, France, Italy and Netherlands and charted in the top five in Switzerland and Belgium. The Spanish version of the 'El Perdón' music video has over 1.3 billion views, and the lyric video counts over 450 million views. On 1 September 2015, the video for 'Forgiveness', directed by Jessy Terrero, debuted on Jam's channel on YouTube, and has more than 45 million views. The English version, 'Forgiveness', made an impact on Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic Top 40 stations in the US, peaking at number 29 in total audience for Mainstream Top 40 according to Mediabase. 'El Perdón' ranked number 96 on the Billboard year-end top 100, becoming the lowest-peaking song to make the year-end chart (a record which would later be broken by ' Talk You Out of It' by Florida Georgia Line which peaked at 57 in 2019). The single had staying power, logging 30 weeks on the Hot 100, becoming the longest-charting song not to make the top 50. The release, with strong first week digital sales, brought the single to reach number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nicky Jam and Iglesias released an English version of the track titled 'Forgiveness'. The song reached the summit on multiple Billboard Latin charts, including Latin Airplay, Latin Digital Sales, Latin Streaming Songs, and Latin Pop Songs. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs within five weeks, and spent 30 weeks at the top spot, bypassing Shakira's ' La Tortura' (25 weeks), and behind Iglesias' own song 'Bailando' (41 weeks). '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.

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