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5to Piso is the eleventh studio album released by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona on November 18, 2008. Produced by Arjona himself, as well as Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage name Los Gringos, and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tommy Torres, the album was recorded between the United States and Mexico. The album is the first released by the artist under Warner Music.

Arjona commented that with this album, he "tried to recoup some of the freshness" of his past releases, stating that "it makes so good to the songs". Some critics noted the level of sadness on his songs, which the singer answered saying that it does not necessarily reflect his life. Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic named it "an eagerly awaited album with a phenomenal lead single." 5to Piso marks the third album in which the singer collaborates with Tommy Torres, after Adentro and Quién Dijo Ayer.

Commercially and critically successful, 5to Piso became Arjona's second number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums. The album followed the success of Arjona's past releases, selling approximately 200,000 copies in its first month at retail, and receiving gold and platinum certifications in Mexico, United States, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, and many others countries. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Album and a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Singer-Songwriter Album.[1]

Six singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Como Duele", was a critical and commercial hit, attaining success on Latin charts and being named "the singer's biggest hit in years". "Sin Ti... Sin Mi" and "Tocando Fondo", the second and fourth singles, respectively, also became commercial hits. "Ni Tú Ni Yo" featuring Paquita la del Barrio, "Suavecito" and "Por Si Regresas" were also released as singles. To promote the album, the singer embarked on another major world tour, which he named the Quinto Piso Tour.

Background and composition

"I constanly change and i would be worried if i wouldn't, [...]. I try to be a composer with the doors open for albums of different nature"

—Ricardo Arjona.[2]

After spending the majority of his career signed to Sony, and later, Sony BMG, Arjona signed a long-term recording deal with Warner Music Latina.[3] The deal was closed in September 2008.[3] Iñigo Zabala, chairman of Warner Music Latin America commented that "He's an artist that fits perfectly with our company," and that "We are a label that has a major catalog of songwriters and quality pop and rock from the likes of Maná, Alejandro Sanz, Laura Pausini, and now, Arjona."[3]

On an interview, the singer commented that while composing 5to Piso he "tried to recoup some of the freshness" of his past releases, stating that "it makes so good to the songs".[4] He further stated that he believes "all albums are result of an evolution, and contradictions either", also stating the he celebrated contradictions as part of life.[4] Arjona begun working on the album as early as 2005.[5] Talking about the process of recording the album, he stated that "We must work to make the albums comfortable to us", further commenting that "The rest is a matter of how good or bad the albums defend themselves."[4]

Lyrics and themes

"Quinto Piso" is an analytic song which theme is life and its defects.[5] It has been considered a prologue with autobiographical tendencies.[6] "Sin Ti... Sin Mi" relates to the feelings to someone who is away. Its lyrics are an analogism between the absence and that beloved person.[5] "El Del Espejo" is a rhythmic song which lyrics are related to the theme of "the self-criticism which makes confront ourselves, step in front of that object [a looking glass] which reflects us more than what we are."[6]

Paquita la del Barrio sang with Arjona on ranchera "Ni Tu Ni Yo".

Lead single "Como Duele" was highly praised. Jason Birchmeier fro Allmusic considered it to be Arjona's "biggest hit in years". He also named it, alongside "Sin Ti.. Sin Mi" and "El Del Espejo", to be a standout track from the album.[7] El Mercurio Online commented that "Como Duele" is "a ballad of merciless chords and lyrics plagued of contradictions made metaphors."[8] It was also compared to his past song "Olvidarte", from Sin Daños a Terceros.[8]

"Que Nadie Vea"
A sample of "Que Nadie Vea", displaying the third verse sang before the chorus.
"Ni Tu Ni Yo"
A sample of "Ni Tu Ni Yo", displaying the chorus as sang by Arjona and Paquita.
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In "Que Nadie Vea", the singer touches for the first time the theme of homosexuality.[9] In the song, Arjona "became the witness of this character, from his childhood until his adulthood, always hiding his true identity with the goal of being socially accepted".[5] On an interview, Arjona commented that "Que Nadie Vea" wasn't "judgemental". Further stating that it was "just a chronicle" and that he wrote it noe because he "hasn't touched the subject before and i found it fascinating."[10] "Tocando Fondo" relates to "those feelings which can make a person fall off a precipice."[5]

"La Vailarina Vecina" relates a true story that happened to Arjona while he lived in Madrid.[11] The singer commented that "She was to do her trials and 'tickled', as the song says, all my roof, and those tickles didn't let me sleep." He further commented that when he planned to meet her, he discovered that she was "very beautiful".[11] "Vuelo" is a piano ballad, which talks about the tenderness, poetry and romanticism of love.[5][6]

"Nadie Sabe A Donde Va" is a song that is inspired by the events occurred on 11 March 2004 in Madrid in the train station of Atocha.[6] "El Demonio En Casa" has been considered the "most witty and funny" of the album. The song is about a man who relates how his woman changes his life.[5] "La Vida Está De Luto" is inspired in the actual situation of the world.[12] "Ni Tu Ni Yo" is the only duet on the album, as it features Mexican ranchera singer Paquita la del Barrio. The song was composed as to when heard, it "gives and immediate desire of drinking tequila".[11] On an interview with newspaper Reforma, Arjona talked about his collaboration with Paquita la del Barrio, stating that "it was very special, because she does not make duets with someone she doesn't like", further agreeing that he neither.[13] "Niña Buena" is dedicated to all the free girls who cannot stay too much on the same place and does not like the routinary life.[12]

Release and promotion

5to Piso was released in most music stores on the United States, Latin America and Europe on 18 November 2008.[14][15] The album's iTunes edition included a bonus track called "Si Dios Me Pasa Factura". Also, the sixth single "Por Si Regresas" is not included on any digital and physical version of the album. It was only made available worldwide as a stand-alone single, but belonging to the album.[16][17]

Singles

A white man sits as one of the judges of a boxing match while staring at the ring. Behind, the audience screams vaguely illuminated by white lights coming from the wall.
Ricardo Arjona in the music video for "Sin Ti... Sin Mi".

The lead single off the album was "Como Duele", a Latin pop and ballad song with soft rock and orchestral arrangements, which main sound is a piano. It was released on 4 November 2008, and became the first single Arjona released under his new label, Warner Music. The song became a critical and commercial hit for the singer, reaching No.2 on the Billboard Latin Songs chart, and topping the Latin Pop Songs component chart. Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic named the song Arjona's "biggest hit in years".[7] The music video for "Como Duele" was shot in Mexico City.[18] It was released on October 20 and was directed by the Mexican filmmaker Ricardo Calderón.[19]

"Sin Ti... Sin Mi" was chosen as the second single of the album, and was released on January 2009. The song reached No.4 on both the Latin Songs and Latin Pop Songs chart. The music video for "Sin Ti... Sin Mi" was filmed on the Argentinian Boxing Federation on Buenos Aires.[20] It was directed by Joaquín Cambre.[21] "Ni Tú Ni Yo" was released as the third single in some regions. The song features Mexican singer Paquita la del Barrio. It failed to appear on the US and other national charts. The music video for "Ni Tú Ni Yo" was filmed in black-and-white and features both artists singing around a buffet.[22]

The fourth single of the album was the pop ballad "Tocando Fondo". The song managed to reach No.20 on the Latin Songs chart, the became the third top 10 hit of 5to Piso on the Latin Pop Songs chart reaching No.6. The music video for "Tocando Fondo" was filmed in Mexico City.[23] "Suavecito" was released as the fifth single off the album, and like "Ni Tú Ni Yo", failed to appear on charts. "Por Si Regresas", one of the bonus tracks on the album, was released as a single in Mexico, Spain and Australia.[16][17][24] The single was later available worldwide.

Tour

Main article: Quinto Piso Tour
A man standing in front of the audience while in the middle of a concert, surrounded by the apartment-styled scenography and the rest of the musicians.
Ricardo Arjona in Laredo, Texas.

To promote the album, the singer embarked on his second major world tour, the Quinto Piso Tour. Starting in 24 April 2009, the tour included 123 shows between the United States,[25] Spain,[26][27] Argentina,[28][29] Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, among many other countries in Latin America. It ended on 18 June 2010.

During the first North American leg of the tour, Arjona expressed interest in singing in Cuba, showing no political commitments for the matter, a clear reference of the event Colombian singer Juanes was planning on that country in 2009.[30] Later that year, Arjona cancelled the planning of a concert in the country, and spoke heavily about Juanes' charity concert influence on the decision.[31]

The Quinto Piso Tour has been one of the most successful tours made by a Latin artist, with an attendance of more than one million people from 19 countries.[32] Also, Arjona received in 2010 a Billboard Latin Music Award for "Latin Tour of the Year".[32] The tour grossed more than $15 million.[33]

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[7]

Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic gave a positive review of the album, commenting that "fans of Arjona's straight-ahead rock style are sure to be disappointed with much of 5to Piso, as piano and strings drive much of the music rather than the electric guitar and drums of years past."[7] Billboard's Leila Cobo, on her review of the album, commented that thr singer had "an uncanny knack for marrying sophisticated lyrics with catchy hooks and mass-appeal messages", stating that songs like "Ni Tu Ni Yo", a duet with Paquita la del Barrio, "underscores how universal" his songs and themes are, "even in the most regional arrangements."[34]

Commercial performance

5to Piso debuted atop the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart the week ending 6 December 2008, going ahead of Wisin & Yandel's La Mente Maestra.[35] The following week, it stayed at No.1.[36] On its third week, it fell to No.2, being replaced at the top by Vicente Fernández' Primera Fila.[36] On the Latin Pop Albums component chart, the album debuted at No.1 the same week it did on the Latin Albums chart.[37] The album stayed at the top of that chart for four consecutive weeks.[38][39][40] On its fifth week, it fell to No.2, being replaced at the top by Luis Fonsi's Palabras del Silencio.[41] Almost one year later, on the week ending 12 September 2009, 5to Piso reached No.1 again, totalizing six weeks at that position. It was the most weeks at No.1 by any of Arjona's albums until Independiente stayed 11 weeks at the top between 2011 and 2012.

On the week it debuted atop both Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, 5to Piso also appeared at No.55 on the Billboard 200.[42] It is his third consecutive album to chart on that list, after Adentro (2005) and Quién Dijo Ayer (2007), and it was his highest entry until Poquita Ropa reached No.43 in 2010.[43] On the Mexican Albums Chart, 5to Piso debuted at No.40 the week ending 8 November 2008.[44] The following week it jumped to No.4, and on its third week, the album reached No.1 position on the country. It stayed at that position for one week, falling to No.4 again on its fourth week.[44] It also reached No.21 on the Spanish Albums Chart.[44]

The album followed the success of his past releases, moved approximately 200,000 copies in its first month at retail and received Gold an Platinum certifications in Mexico,[45][46][47] United States,[48][49] Spain, Argentina,[50][51] Venezuela,[52] Colombia, Guatemala, and many other countries.[53] It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, becoming his second chart-topper con that list, and has sold more than one million copies worldwide.[54]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ricardo Arjona

No.TitleLength
1."Quinto Piso"5:01
2."Sin Ti... Sin Mi"4:20
3."El del Espejo"4:16
4."Como Duele"3:30
5."Que Nadie Vea"5:44
6."Tocando Fondo"4:28
7."La Bailarina Vecina"3:47
8."Vuelo"3:42
9."Nadie Sabe a Donde Va"4:53
10."El Demonio en Casa"3:56
11."La Vida Está de Luto"4:06
12."Suavecito"4:05
13."Ni Tú Ni Yo (duet with Paquita la del Barrio)"5:40
14."Niña Buena"5:20
iTunes Bonus Track
No.TitleLength
15."Si Dios Me Pasa Factura"5:04
European/Australian Bonus Track
No.TitleLength
15."Por Si Regresas"3:52

Personnel

The credits are taken from the iTunes exclusive digital booklet.[55]

Chart performance

Release history

Country Date Format(s) Label
United States[14][15] November 18, 2008 CD, Digital download Warner Music Group
Spain[70]
Mexico[71]
Argentina[72]
Brazil[73]
Canada[74]
Guatemala[75]
Chile[76]
Venezuela[77]
Colombia[78]
United Kingdom[79] CD

See also

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