Detrás de Mi Ventana
{{Short description|Song by Yuri}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Detrás de Mi Ventana
| cover =
| alt =
| border = yes
| type = single
| artist = Yuri
| album = Nueva Era
| released = 1993
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Latin pop
| length = 4:39
| label = Sony
| writer = Ricardo Arjona
| producer = Alex Zepeda
| prev_title = Poligamia
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Amiga Mía
| next_year = 1994
}}
"Detrás de Mi Ventana" (Behind My Window) is a Latin pop song by Mexican recording artist Yuri from her studio album Nueva Era (1993). The track was written by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona. It was released as the lead single in Latin America and the United States, peaking atop the Billboard{{'}}s Latin Songs chart, becoming the third number-one song in the chart for the singer and the first for Arjona as a songwriter.
The track has been widely covered by several performers including a merengue version by Puerto-Rican American Melina León in 2001, and a banda version American singer Jenni Rivera on her album Joyas Prestadas, which became a top twenty hit in the Latin charts in the United States and received the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year.
Background
Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona received a proposal to join Sony Music in 1991,{{cite web |title=Biografía de Ricardo Arjona |language=es |work=Terra |publisher=Terra Networks |date=October 12, 2010 |url=http://www.terra.com.mx/articulo.aspx?articuloid=975400 |access-date=October 12, 2012 |archive-date=May 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507070155/http://www.terra.com.mx/articulo.aspx?articuloid=975400 |url-status=dead }} and before the release of his first studio album with the label, Del Otro Lado del Sol, Arjona wrote several songs to be recorded by other artists, such as the performers of the soundtrack for the Mexican telenovela Alcanzar una estrella: "La Mujer Que No Soñé" ("The Woman I Never Dreamed Of") by Eduardo Capetillo and the title track sung by Mariana Garza. Arjona was asked to write a song for Mexican singer Yuri to be included on her new album, produced by Alex Zepeda, and Arjona submitted "Detrás de Mi Ventana", a song about a failed love relationship between a bored housewife and an absent husband,{{Citation
| last=Estrella | first=Juan
| date=December 6, 1993
| title=Notitas Musicales
| publisher=Editorial Televisa
}} which was later named a "riveting ballad" by John Lannert of Billboard magazine.
{{cite magazine
| last = Lannert
| first = John
| date = January 29, 1994
| title = Latin Notes
| magazine = Billboard
| publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
| volume = 106
| issue = 5
| page = 36
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HQgEAAAAMBAJ&q=detras+de+mi+ventana+yuri&pg=PA36
| access-date = October 20, 2012}}
Chart performance
The track debuted in the Billboard Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks) chart at number 32 in the week of December 4, 1993 climbing to the top ten three weeks later.{{cite magazine |title=Detrás de Mi Ventana – Week of December 4, 1993 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Rovi Corporation |date=December 4, 1993 |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1993-12-04/latin-songs?order=gainer|access-date=October 19, 2012}}{{cite magazine |title=Detrás de Mi Ventana – Week of December 25, 1993 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Rovi Corporation |date=December 25, 1993 |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1993-12-25/latin-songs|access-date=October 19, 2012}} The song peaked at number-one on January 29, 1994,{{cite magazine |title=Detrás de Mi Ventana – Week of January 29, 1994 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Rovi Corporation |date=January 29, 1994 |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1994-01-29/latin-songs|access-date=October 19, 2012}} replacing "Cerca de Ti" by American band Barrio Boyzz and being succeeded by "Luna" by Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel, three weeks later.{{cite magazine |title=Luna – Week of February 19, 1994 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Rovi Corporation |date=February 19, 1994 |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1994-02-19/latin-songs|access-date=October 19, 2012}} "Detrás de Mi Ventana" was Yuri's first number-one single in the chart since "Hombres al Borde de un Ataque de Celos" in 1989. The song ended 1994 as the ninth best performing Latin single of the year in the United States.
{{cite magazine
| date = November 28, 1998
| title = Topping The Charts Year By Year
| magazine = Billboard
| publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
| volume = 110
| issue = 48
| page = LMQ3
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MAoEAAAAMBAJ&q=todo+todo+todo+daniela+romo&pg=RA1-PA38
| access-date = November 23, 2011}} Ricardo Arjona earned the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for Pop/Contemporary Song in 1995 for "Detrás de Mi Ventana".{{cite magazine
|title=The Third Annual El Premio ASCAP
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9A0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16
|magazine=Billboard
|publisher=Nielsen Business Media
|access-date=15 January 2013
|location=United States
|issue=38
|page=16
|volume=107
|issn=0006-2510
|date=23 September 1995
}} In November 1999, the song was labeled as one of the "hottest tracks" for Sony Discos in a list including the most successful releases by the label since the launching of the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1986.
{{cite magazine
| last = Mayfield
| first = Geoff
| date = November 20, 1999
| title = Charting Sony Discos' Success
| magazine = Billboard
| publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
| volume = 111
| issue = 47
| page = 74
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fwgEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+cosas+del+amor&pg=PA74
| access-date = November 23, 2011}}
=Charts=
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Cover versions
In 1997, Yuri recorded a mariachi version of the track for her album Más Fuerte que la Vida.{{cite web|url=http://www.laopinion.com/yuri-festejara-49-anos-espera-lanzar-proximo-disco-video#.UO3KreSzKSo|title=Yuri festejará sus 49 años a la espera de lanzar próximo disco (Video)|work=La Opinión|publisher=Corporación La Prensa|date=January 5, 2013 |access-date=January 8, 2013 |language=es}} Puerto-Rican American singer Melina León recorded a merengue version of the song for her album Corazón de Mujer, produced by Omar Alfanno in 2001. According to Manuel Vega, of the Panamanian newspaper La Prensa, listening the track "you would never guess that it was written for another musical genre."{{cite web|url=http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2002/02/28/hoy/revista/465253.html|title=De la mano con Alfanno y Ender |work=La Prensa|publisher=Corporación La Prensa|date=February 8, 2002 |access-date=January 8, 2013|first=Manuel|last=Vega Loo|language=es}} Mexican singer Yuridia released in 2005 La Voz de un Ángel, an album that included a selection of tracks performed by her in the reality talent competition show La Academia;{{cite web|url=http://www.sacm.org.mx/archivos/biografias.asp?txtSocio=30240|title=SACM – Biografía de Yuridia |publisher=Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Música |year=2009 |access-date=January 10, 2013|language=es}} the album featured her version of "Detrás de Mi Ventana".{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=yuridia|chart=all}} |title=La Voz de un Ángel – Jenni Rivera |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Rovi Corporation |year=2005 |access-date=January 10, 2013}} The song was later included in the musical Mentiras (Lies) in 2009, along several popular songs in the decade of the 1980s in Mexico originally performed by María Conchita Alonso, Oscar Athié, Dulce, Lupita D'Alessio, Emmanuel, Franco, Marisela, Mijares, Prisma, and Daniela Romo.{{cite web|url=http://www.publimetro.com.mx/entretenimiento/sale-a-la-venta-el-disco-del-musical-mentiras-con-45-canciones-incluye-temas-de-yuri-lupita-dalessio-daniela-romo-emmanuel-ydulce-interpretados-por-el-elenco/nihA!ay2O9Arx75zaJnTnDz8Q/ |title=Sale a la venta el disco del musical "Mentiras" con 45 canciones Incluye temas de Yuri, Lupita D"Alessio, Daniela Romo, Emmanuel yDulce interpretados por el elenco |language=es |publisher=Publimetro |date=August 27, 2009 |access-date=January 11, 2013}}
In 2015, soda drink company Pepsi released a commercial inspired on the song but relating the boredom of an office worker about his daily life, with the lyrics changed to fit with his day-to-day drama. The music then stops when someone offers him a can of soda of the company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFMExb7_ATc|title=????? |website=www.youtube.com |url-access=limited}}
=Jenni Rivera version=
{{Infobox song
| name = Detrás de Mi Ventana
| cover =
| alt =
| border = yes
| type = single
| artist = Jenni Rivera
| album = Joyas Prestadas
| released = 2012
| recorded = Twin Recording Studio, Burbank, California, USA
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Latin pop ballad, Banda ballad
| length = {{Plainlist|
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- {{duration|m=4|s=37}} (banda version)}}
| label = Fonovisa
| writer = Ricardo Arjona
| producer = Enrique Martínez
| prev_title = A Cambio de Qué
| prev_year = 2012
| next_title = La Misma Gran Señora
| next_year = 2013
}}
Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera released in 2011 Joyas Prestadas, a double album consisting of a collection of eleven tracks originally performed by other singers, whom made them notable back in their original release. Rivera recorded these songs in two versions: pop and banda.{{cite web|title=Jenni Rivera's 'Joyas Prestadas' a new sound for La Gran Señora|url=http://blog.chron.com/juanofwords/2011/10/jenni-rivera%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98joyas-prestadas%E2%80%99-a-new-sound-for-la-gran-senora/|publisher=Chron|access-date=January 4, 2013|date=October 6, 2011|archive-date=December 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216045952/http://blog.chron.com/juanofwords/2011/10/jenni-rivera%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98joyas-prestadas%E2%80%99-a-new-sound-for-la-gran-senora/|url-status=dead}} According to her, the songs she chose were recordings she listened to while working as a record store cashier.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/joyas-prestadas-mw0002239508|title=Joyas Prestadas – Jenni Rivera: Overview|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|access-date=2012-12-16}} The albums were produced by Enrique Martinez and were recorded at the Twin Recording Studio in Burbank, California.{{cite web|url=http://www.teleguia.us/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2045:jenni-rivera-joyas-prestadas-ya-a-la-venta&Itemid=59&lang=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422012916/http://www.teleguia.us/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2045:jenni-rivera-joyas-prestadas-ya-a-la-venta&Itemid=59&lang=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-22|title=Jenni Rivera joyas prestadas ya a la venta|language=es|last=Torres|first=William|publisher=TeleGuía|date=2012-08-31|access-date=2012-12-16}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8621424&style=music|title=Jenni Rivera – Joyas Prestadas CD Album|publisher=CD Universe}} "Detrás de Mi Ventana" was chosen as the third and final single released from the album on July 3, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://musica.univision.com/bandamax/noticias/article/2012-07-03/jenni-rivera-lanzo-tercer-sencillo-detras-de-mi-ventana|title='Detrás de mi ventana' es su tercer sencillo|language=es|work=Univision|publisher=Univision Communications|date=July 3, 2012 |access-date=January 4, 2012}} The song peaked at sixteen on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart and number six on the Regional Mexican Songs chart, respectively. This version earned the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year at the 26th Lo Nuestro Awards in 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/premio-lo-nuestro-2014-lista-completa-de-ganadores|title=Premio Lo Nuestro 2014: Lista completa de ganadores|work=People|publisher=Time Inc.|date=February 20, 2014|access-date=February 21, 2014|language=es}}
==Charts==
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!Chart (2013) !Peak |
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| {{singlechart|Billboardlatinairplay|9|artist=Jenni Rivera}} |
See also
References
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Category:Yuri (Mexican singer) songs