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Ricky Martin... Live Black & White Tour

2007 live album

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1171111 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ricky Martin Live Black and White Tour is the second live album by Ricky Martin, released by Sony BMG Norte. It was recorded during his performances at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico on August 10 and 11, 2007 as a part of his worldwide Black and White Tour.

Like his previous album, MTV Unplugged this album was released in a CD/DVD format, DVD and CD. It's also Martin's first ever Blu-ray Disc release.

The song "Somos la Semilla", first included on A Medio Vivir, promoted the album.

Commercial performance

Ricky Martin Live: Black and White Tour peaked inside top ten on the Spanish DVD chart and Argentine Albums chart and was certified Gold in both countries. In the United States, it reached number twelve on the Billboard Top Latin Album chart. In Mexico, the album peaked at number twenty-four and was certified Gold.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ricky Martin... Live Black & White Tour” as 2007 live album. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-11-05. The account is most persuasive where Ricky, Martin and Live can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2007 live album. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1171111. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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