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Éxitos de Gloria Estefan

compilation album by Gloria Estefan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3280562 ↗
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Éxitos de Gloria Estefan is the first compilation album released by American recording artist Gloria Estefan, but is the second solo release and the 13th overall, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music). In 1999, the CD was re-released in the US as 20th Anniversary.

Content

In 1990, following the release of her debut solo album Cuts Both Ways, Estefan released her first compilation album Éxitos de Gloria Estefan. The album consists of previous Spanish hits recorded with Miami Sound Machine. "Conga" and "Dr. Beat" are the only English songs on the album. The compilation also includes "Toda pra você", the Portuguese version of the song "Here We Are."

Track listing

Some LP Releases did include the Bonus Track

Chart positions

The compilation reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Pop Albums chart in 1990. It later reached No. 32 on the comprehensive Top Latin Albums chart introduced three years after its release.

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The public source identifies “Éxitos de Gloria Estefan” as compilation album by Gloria Estefan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Éxitos, Gloria and Estefan.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Éxitos, Gloria and Estefan providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3280562. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Éxitos de Gloria Estefan” 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.