Te Voy A Perder

Te Voy A Perder (Eng.: I Am Going To Lose You) is a song written by Aureo Baqueiro and Leonel García, recorded by mexican singer Alejandro Fernández.

1 Song Information
- 1.1 Music video
2 Chart performance
3 References

[edit] Song Information

According to the singer official website http://www.alejandrofernandez.com the single would be released world-wide on April 30, 2007 and about the sing it says that is "a love declaration about the imminent break-up from the person you love" ^[1]. The track was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the "Oye Awards" in Mexico, which was awarded to "Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No" by Alejandro Sanz and Shakira^[2].

[edit] Music video

The music video for this single was directed by Simon Brand, who directed another two videos for the artist ("Me Dediqué a Perderte" and "Que Lástima"). The shooting took place in Mexico City and Tampico, Tamaulipas on May 12 to May 14, 2007. The plot is about a love story (starred by Jaidy Michel) and also includes Fernández making a performance on a boat.

Fernández performing the song on the boat's deck.

The main performance of the song (with Alejandro and his band) is on the boat's flight deck. This ship was built in Russia on 1998 and originally was intended to be drillship and starting in 2005 was reconstructed to be a crane vessel. The aerial shot captures the size of the ship. For this video a crew of 200 people was needed.

Fernández performance

Along with the performance, a couple is shown with romantic attitudes, but as the history develops is also shown that he does not trust her and tries to find evidende of infidelity, only to find out that she wasn't cheating on him and loses her^[3].

The video received a nomination for the "Oye Award" for Video of the Year, losing to "Me Muero" by Spanish band La Quinta Estacion^[4].

[edit] Chart performance

In United States, on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks the single debuted at number 49 in the week of June 09, 2007^[5], climbing to number 24 the following week and eight weeks later (August 11) peaked at number 9^[6]. The track spent 20 weeks on this chart, and ranked at number 38 in the year-end chart of 2007^[7]. This track is his Top Ten hit #14 on this chart. The single peaked at number 1 in Mexico and Spain. In the charts published by http://www.americatop100.com the single ranked at number 12 at the year-end charts in Mexico ^[8] and ranked at number 9 in the year-end survey in Chile^[9]