Ahora Te Puedes Marchar | |
Cover: | Ahoratepuedesmarchar.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Luis Miguel |
Album: | Soy Como Quiero Ser |
Language: | Spanish |
B-Side: | "Sunny" |
Released: | 1987 |
Label: | Warner Music Latina |
Producer: | Juan Carlos Calderón |
Prev Title: | Todo el Amor del Mundo |
Prev Year: | 1986 |
Next Title: | No Me Puedo Escapar de Ti |
Next Year: | 1987 |
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" (in English: "Now You Can Leave") is a song by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, released as the debut single from his fifth studio album, Soy Como Quiero Ser (1987). Written by Ivor Raymonde, Luis Gomez Escolar and Mike Hawker, it is a Spanish-language adaptation of the 1964 song "I Only Want to Be With You" by Dusty Springfield, though the song differs lyrically.
In 1987, Luis Miguel released his fifth studio album an first via WEA Latina, Soy Como Quiero Ser. The track "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" was released as the album's lead single. The song is a Spanish-language adaptation of Dusty Springfield's 1964 single I Only Want to Be with You, with the translated lyrics being written by Luis Gomez Escolar.[1]
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" was featured as the first track on Miguel's greatest hits album, Grandes Exitos (2005). The song was additionally released as "Agora Você Pode Ir" on the 1988 Portuguese-language release of Soy Como Quiero Ser.
The song entered several Latin American record charts, published by El Informador. It topped charts in Mexico and Santiago, and peaked at number 9 in Panama. In the US, it went on to be Miguel's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart,[2] making Miguel at the time the youngest artist to top the chart at 17 years old.
Panama (UPI)[3] | 9 |
Santiago (UPI) | 1 |
Mexico (AMPROFON) | 1 |