Cuts Both Ways (song)

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"Cuts Both Ways"

Single by Gloria Estefan
from the album Cuts Both Ways
Released	May 17, 1990 (UK) (Europe) June 30, 1990 (U.S.) July 21, 1990 (Japan)
Format	CD maxi single Cassette Single 7-inch Vinyl Single 12 inch Vinyl Single
Recorded	1988
Genre	Pop
Label	Epic Records
Writer(s)	Gloria Estefan
Chart positions
#1 (Australia) #15 (UK) #22 (Ireland) #44 (The Billboard Hot 100)
Gloria Estefan singles chronology
"Oye mi Canto (Hear my Voice)" (1989/1990)	"Cuts Both Ways" (1990) >	"Renacer" (1990)

"Cuts Both Ways" is a single by Gloria Estefan. It was released in 1990 worldwide as the fifth and final single of the album Cuts Both Ways. The song showed a powerful adult performance, but not a lot such as "Here We Are".

1 Song History
2 Formats and track listings
3 Chart performance
4 Charts

[edit] Song History

This was the final and last single from the smash hit album "Cuts Both Ways". The song is a ballad and is focused more to an Adult path than the youth, because the last single was more for that audience, like every last single, it was supossed to don't have a great success, but the single have a lot of success after all it's became in Gloria first number one to top at Australia, meanwhile at U.S. became in another number one for the Adult Contemporany chart since "Here we Are".

"Cuts Both Ways" even being a great song and with all the success it wasn't included at Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits package.

[edit] Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Cuts Both Ways".

UK Maxi-Single CD (The Ballads Vol. II 655982 2)

"Cuts Both Ways" (Album Version)
"Here we Are"
"You've Made a Fool of Me"
"I Want to You So Bad"

[edit] Chart performance

The Single was given not what was expect it, in Australia the single became of Gloria's first number one, something amazing because was the last single, at U.S. topped the AC Charts but doesn't reach the Top 40 at the Billboard Hot 100, in UK, Gloria kept on the Top 20 and in Ireland she get down from the Top Ten to the Top 20.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Australia Singles Chart	1 (for a week)
Iris Singles Chart	22
UK Singles Chart	15
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	44
U.S. Adult Contemporary Chart	1 (for a week)
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	37