Carlos Baute and Marta Sánchez’s enduring pop ballad “Colgando en Tus Manos” has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Membership, surpassing the milestone on Tuesday (Sept. 1).
The Spanish singer-songwriter marked the achievement with an emotional Instagram publish, reflecting on the music’s life effectively beyind it’s unique launch. “And a day I by no means imagined residing arrived,” Baute wrote in Spanish. “I’ve by no means been somebody who focuses on numbers. For me, music has at all times gone far past that: it’s songs, tales, reminiscences, folks and moments in life.”
“Despite the fact that I’ve by no means measured a music by its numbers, I’ve to confess this one strikes me deeply,” he added.
Baute launched “Colgando en Tus Manos,” that includes Sánchez, in 2008. The music reached No. 4 on Billboard‘s Sizzling Latin Songs and Latin Airplay charts, and topped Latin Pop Airplay. Its official video — filmed in Bulgaria — follows Baute and Sánchez by way of the town, together with scenes in a classic Rolls Royce earlier than the pair dance on a theater stage.
The music’s endurance has prolonged into a brand new era. In his publish, Baute credited listeners who’ve fallen in love, devoted the monitor to somebody particular, embraced whereas listening to it or sung it “on the high of their lungs.” “Behind that billion views, there may be far more than a quantity,” he wrote. “There are tales. There are loves. There are reminiscences.”
“I believe there comes a second when songs cease belonging to you. They grow to be different folks’s reminiscences, a part of their tales and their lives. And ‘Colgando en Tus Manos’ stopped being ours a very long time in the past. It belongs to all of you. One billion thanks,” he continued.
Baute additionally thanked Sánchez for serving to form what turned certainly one of Latin pop’s most enduring collaborations.
Extra just lately, Baute revisited the hit with an AtellaGali remix, giving the beloved ballad a refreshed dance-pop therapy for a brand new period. “Reimagining [the song] was each an honor and a fragile duty,” AtellaGali instructed Billboard Español final 12 months. “We knew we had been working with a music that had already made historical past, so our aim wasn’t to compete with the unique, however to have a good time it in a brand new sonic context.”
Watch the video for “Colgando en Tus Manos” beneath.
And skim Baute’s unique publish beneath.
