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Acapulco (song)

2021 single by Jason Derulo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ108781992 ↗
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"Acapulco" is a song by Jason Derulo, released as a single through Atlantic Records on September 3, 2021, accompanied by a music video. The song has charted all across Europe and in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

In February 2024, the song was included on Derulo's fifth studio album Nu King.

Reception

Rolling Stone listed it among the worst songs of 2021, saying that it's proof of Derulo "cranking out harmless music".

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The public source identifies “Acapulco (song)” as 2021 single by Jason Derulo. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Acapulco, song and single.

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This entry incorporates text from “Acapulco (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.