Shakira Looks Back At Her Career, Talks No. 1 Songs, Collaborations & More | My Chart History | Billboard Cover - video Dailymotion

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Global superstar Shakira takes a look back at her chart history and talks through some of her most iconic musical moments, from No. 1 songs to her most memorable collaborations in her Billboard cover video.

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00:00 Hey everyone, I'm Shakira and this is my Billboard Chart History.

00:02 "Donde Estas Corazon" was my international hit.

00:17 It broke many different countries other than my own country.

00:22 And I was only 18.

00:23 So that was a very exciting moment of my life.

00:25 "Donde Estas Corazon"

00:28 "Y No Te Encontro"

00:32 "Ciegas Por El Mundo" I think was my homage to Mexican music.

00:44 I came up with a horn line and the lyrics and I co-wrote the music with Stefano.

00:49 "Donde Solamente Tu Tienes Ánimo"

00:51 "Y No Me Escuchas Lo Que Te Digo"

00:53 "Mira Que Lo Que Va A Pasar Contigo"

00:55 It was super exciting at the time because not too long after the song was published

01:01 we did the MTV Unplugged and we brought in a mariachi group.

01:05 So I got to sing that song in its purest form, Mexican style.

01:09 "Y Es Un Verde Para No Sentirme Nuevamente"

01:13 "Los Casiegas Saldamos Del Toro Y Me Traste"

01:17 "Ciegas Por El Mundo"

01:19 "Whenever, Wherever" is definitely one of my most beloved songs

01:31 and personally represents a big deal because it was the first single of Laundry Service.

01:37 "Ciegas Por El Mundo"

01:44 The album that allowed me to cross over to the general market, to the US.

01:49 It was like my biggest hit until that date in the US

01:53 and still to this day it's one of the highlights of my shows when I'm on tour.

01:58 It was my first ballad in English.

02:09 It was a very personal song that I wrote when I was very much in love.

02:12 "Underneath your gloves, there's an endless story"

02:18 Yeah, it's one of those very iconic songs that when I perform in life

02:22 people sing along from beginning to end.

02:24 "Never Get Old" and "Never Fails" is one of those songs that puts a big smile on my face when I perform.

02:30 La Tortura was one of the first Spanish videos that aired on MTV.

02:41 It also somehow crossed over to the general market

02:44 and a lot of people knew about that song internationally.

02:47 This song was a really interesting experiment to me

02:58 because I took reggaeton, which was this really hot music style that was coming from Puerto Rico

03:05 but not a lot of people knew about.

03:07 And I took it and I sort of like mixed it with my own sounds

03:11 and added a little bit of Spanish ingredients.

03:15 And the most important Spanish ingredient in the song, Alejandro Sanz

03:20 who became my dear friend, he's like a brother to me.

03:24 It all started with that song. I owe a lot of good memories to La Tortura.

03:36 "Hips Don't Lie" was number one in like 55 countries

03:39 and it was number one in Hot 100s for a few weeks.

03:42 It was just a song that just broke all paradigms.

03:45 Changed the paradigm, I think, for me and for many Latin artists in the US.

03:49 Latin music wasn't really at its peak like it is right now in the US.

04:03 And many radios at first really didn't want to play "Hips Don't Lie"

04:08 because it sounded too Latin for them.

04:12 And it's understandable because it had a Colombian cumbia in the middle of the song.

04:17 There was nothing pop about it. The rest of the song was.

04:20 I had so much faith in this song.

04:22 My album, "Aura of Succession" was already out.

04:25 It had already been published.

04:27 But I really believed that the song was going to make it big.

04:33 And against all odds, I called the head of the label.

04:36 I remember Donnie Iyner, I think, was in charge back in the day.

04:39 And I convinced him to recall the physical copies and collect them all

04:45 and include the song in the album.

04:48 And still, like, I don't know, 17 years later,

04:50 I still get the references about "Hips Don't Lie."

04:53 Shakira, your hips don't lie.

04:56 It never gets old.

04:57 "Loba, She Wolf" was me flirting with EDM.

05:11 It did a lot of things for me in the UK and the US.

05:15 It was my first single of my eighth studio album.

05:18 And I recorded it in the Bahamas.

05:21 [Singing in Spanish]

05:27 I remember that actually I wasn't too sure about me writing the lyrics in English.

05:32 [Singing in Spanish]

05:39 And I reached out to Sia.

05:41 And I asked her to write the lyrics in English for me.

05:44 And I also reached out to Seth MacFarlane.

05:47 So I called him and said, "Seth, can you write some lyrics for 'She Wolf'?"

05:50 I wasn't very sure that I was able to write lyrics for the song.

05:53 And they tried. They took a crack at him.

05:57 But I ended up writing the entire lyrics for "She Wolf."

06:01 At the end of the day, it was all me.

06:13 "Waka Waka" was definitely one of my most relevant songs.

06:17 It was the official song to the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

06:21 It was my second World Cup.

06:28 I had already attended to the finale of the 2006 World Cup.

06:32 But this was my second World Cup in South Africa.

06:35 It's such an important song because I think that because of this song, I had my kids.

06:39 I met the father of my kids during the World Cup.

06:42 And I blame it on the song.

06:44 It's definitely one of the highlights of my shows.

06:48 It's so fun to see people dancing and singing to the song.

06:52 Everywhere I go, everywhere I play, "Waka Waka" is one of those songs that really makes you understand, as an artist,

07:04 how important it is when people come together and celebrate something.

07:07 It just becomes a huge party.

07:10 "La Bicicleta" is technically the first single of my album "El Dorado."

07:14 It's one of the songs that has brought me so many joys.

07:18 Being able to collaborate with my dear friend Carlos Díez,

07:28 who is one of my favorite people in the whole world,

07:31 and being able to collaborate with him,

07:33 and we were able to go to Colombia and shoot the video there in my hometown.

07:39 We even went to my old school and surprised everybody.

07:43 We were surrounded by compatriotas, barranquilleros,

07:46 people who were just happy to be there celebrating and sharing this moment with us, Carlos and me.

07:54 "Chantaje" hit number one for eleven weeks.

07:57 Eleven weeks in the Latin songs.

07:59 That song was just incredible.

08:01 It's one of my favorite ones.

08:02 I have no idea what to say.

08:10 I'm just so happy to be there.

08:12 I'm so happy to be there.

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08:19 I'm so happy to be there.

08:20 I'm so happy to be there.

08:21 I'm so happy to be there.

08:22 I remember that Maluma was an up-and-coming artist.

08:26 Afro Verde from my label told me about it.

08:29 He was like, "Hey, Shakira, you gotta learn about this guy who's super talented, this artist, Maluma.

08:35 You should probably do something with him."

08:37 And we were introduced and we hit it off.

08:40 We had so much chemistry in the studio.

08:42 We wrote the song and produced it and sang it, recorded everything, mixed it in like three days.

08:48 It was one of those things that was so immediate, so painless, and so fantastic.

08:54 I think at the end of the day, the results speak for themselves.

08:57 Bizarrap Session 53, a very controversial song.

09:10 It was the first song I released this year.

09:13 This is for you to get emotional, to chew, swallow, swallow, chew.

09:16 I'm with you, I'm not coming back, don't make me cry.

09:19 Actually, this one I owe it to my son, because my son, Milan, he's only 10, but back in the day he was 9.

09:26 And he was like, "Mom, you gotta do something with Bizarrap. This guy is unbelievable."

09:31 I was like, "Who's Bizarrap? What are you talking about?"

09:34 He used to play me his music.

09:36 One time, Bizarrap DMed me and he approached me and said that he wanted to do something with me.

09:42 He showed it to me and I'm like, "Milan, look! Look who's writing to me!"

09:45 He's like, "Oh my God! The king! The god! The Argentinian god!"

09:49 That song was just very important to me because it was therapeutic.

09:57 It was the best way I had to vent some stuff out and to elaborate my feelings and my thoughts about personal situations.

10:05 It became an anthem to so many women out there who are feeling the same way, who have been through similar situations.

10:13 I was happy to share that with a lot of women around the world who felt identified and created a sisterhood out there.

10:32 "Recujé" was another amazing song. It was my second single of this year.

10:37 I think it was a really special experience to be able to share something with another fellow female Colombian artist.

10:53 To write and produce and make something that also represented the way we were feeling at the time.

11:02 This was a very personal song, I think. We had this common denominator that brought us together.

11:08 So, yeah, the rest is history.

11:12 [Music]

11:18 [MUSIC]

Shakira Looks Back At Her Career, Talks No. 1 Songs, Collaborations & More | My Chart History | Billboard Cover

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