Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dreaming of You is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Selena, released on July 18, 1995, by EMI Records and EMI Latin. After her 1993 album Selena Live! was released, Selena became the first Tejano singer to win a Grammy Award. It attracted media attention which led Selena to sign a crossover deal with SBK Records—a subsidiary of EMI Records—the same year. Recording sessions for the album began in December 1994 after the release of Amor Prohibido, which spawned four number one singles that dominated Latin charts, prompting EMI to begin Selena's crossover album, believing she had reached her peak in the Spanish-speaking market.By March 1995, Selena had recorded five R&B and pop ballad songs for the album, with additional recording sessions scheduled for late March and early April with Thomas (at his recording studio) and with her father at his recording studio Q-Productions.An R&B and pop album, Dreaming of You has a diverse musical style that incorporates a mixture of latin genres such as Tejano, Latin pop and Mexican music, as well as Dance and ballad elements. Upon release the album received a generally favorable response from music critics; many complemented the mixture of genres while others said it made the album incomprehensible to the listener.On its release date, Dreaming of You sold 175,000 copies in the United States, a then-record for a female pop singer. The album sold 331,000 copies its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200, and remained at the top of the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts for nine consecutive months. As of 2003, it is the largest-selling album to debut at number one on the Latin charts.Through Dreaming of You, Selena became the first solo artist to debut a posthumous album at number one in the United States and becoming one of the best-selling Latin albums in the United States. As of 2010, Dreaming of You has sold four million copies in the United States, and had sold two million copies in Mexico as of 2008.. }
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- Dreaming_of_You_(album) abstract "Dreaming of You is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Selena, released on July 18, 1995, by EMI Records and EMI Latin. After her 1993 album Selena Live! was released, Selena became the first Tejano singer to win a Grammy Award. It attracted media attention which led Selena to sign a crossover deal with SBK Records—a subsidiary of EMI Records—the same year. Recording sessions for the album began in December 1994 after the release of Amor Prohibido, which spawned four number one singles that dominated Latin charts, prompting EMI to begin Selena's crossover album, believing she had reached her peak in the Spanish-speaking market.By March 1995, Selena had recorded five R&B and pop ballad songs for the album, with additional recording sessions scheduled for late March and early April with Thomas (at his recording studio) and with her father at his recording studio Q-Productions.An R&B and pop album, Dreaming of You has a diverse musical style that incorporates a mixture of latin genres such as Tejano, Latin pop and Mexican music, as well as Dance and ballad elements. Upon release the album received a generally favorable response from music critics; many complemented the mixture of genres while others said it made the album incomprehensible to the listener.On its release date, Dreaming of You sold 175,000 copies in the United States, a then-record for a female pop singer. The album sold 331,000 copies its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200, and remained at the top of the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts for nine consecutive months. As of 2003, it is the largest-selling album to debut at number one on the Latin charts.Through Dreaming of You, Selena became the first solo artist to debut a posthumous album at number one in the United States and becoming one of the best-selling Latin albums in the United States. As of 2010, Dreaming of You has sold four million copies in the United States, and had sold two million copies in Mexico as of 2008.".