| K.O. | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Danna Paola |
| Cover: | File:Danna Paola KO Cover.jpg |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 33:45 |
| Label: | Universal Music Mexico |
| Prev Title: | Sie7e + |
| Prev Year: | 2020 |
| Next Title: | Childstar |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
K.O. is the sixth studio album by Mexican singer Danna Paola, released on January 13, 2021, by Universal Music Mexico. The album has spawned eight singles: "Contigo", "Sola", "TQ Y YA", "No Bailes Sola" with Sebastián Yatra, "Me, Myself" with Mika, "Friend de Semana" with Luísa Sonza and Aitana, "Calla Tú" and "Amor Ordinario". K.O. received a nomination for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
As Paola told Billboard, work on K.O. began as early as 2018, even before she released her previous album Sie7e + (2020). The singer confessed that the first song she wrote for the album was "Friend de Semana" while she was still living in Madrid and shooting Elite.[1] Paola described the album as "personal" and highlighted "Amor Ordinario" as the "most personal" of the album: "[the song] defines my emotional process and everyone that heard it felt my pain and what I went through from beginning to end. I wrote this song in January 2020 and I had to understand what ordinary love meant and that I deserved better".
K.O. is the abbreviated form for "knockout", which is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, as well as fighting-based video games. Paola explained the meaning of the title to Billboard: "With this album, I knocked out all of the bad stuff that was killing me, emotionally. I used it to drain everything I had in my heart. That's why I named it K.O. — because it was like the last punch to the heart during this whole process".[2]
On Monday, January 11, 2021, Paola posted a series of photos to Instagram with the caption "Welcome to my break-up party" and announced that she would finally be releasing her sixth studio album, K.O., on Thursday, January 14.[3] However, on Wednesday, January 13, the entire album leaked online and the release was brought forward by a day.
| Chart (2020) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[4] | 81 | |
| US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[5] | 9 |