Singles
EMI Latin released the lead single, "Dreaming of You" on 14 August 1995. It peaked at number one on the French Singles Chart and the Spanish Singles Chart. In 2008, the song peaked at number one on the Latin Rhythm Airplay Chart. It then peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents, Latin Pop Airplay and the UK Singles Chart in 1995. Within weeks of the song's release, a double single version of "Dreaming of You", which included "Techno Cumbia" and additional remixes, was released on 28 August 1995. The song was also featured in the book Greatest Love Songs of the 90's. "Dreaming of You" won a BMI Millionaire Awards for selling two million copies in the United States. Known as one of Selena's signature songs, it received extensive airplay on English-language radio stations after its release in the US. To date, "Dreaming of You" and "I Could Fall in Love" receive extensive airplay throughout the United States, especially on Oldies stations. As of 2005, "Dreaming of You" has sold over 254,000 digital copies.
"I Could Fall in Love" was ineligible for the US Billboard Hot 100 at the time, but reached number eight on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary Chart. It became a promotional single on 17 October 1995. "I Could Fall in Love" peaked at number ten for eight weeks on the New Zealand Singles Chart, starting on 22 October 1995. The song was the highest ranking English-language single on the Hot Latin Tracks chart at the time. "I Could Fall in Love" entered "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits". In 1997, Thomas was awarded "Among most played song" at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers pop awards for "I Could Fall in Love", and the single posthumously won the Tejano Crossover of The Year at the 16th Tejano Music Awards.
EMI Latin released "I Could Fall in Love" as a double single, coupled with "Tú sólo tú", on the same day. "Tú sólo tú" peaked at number one on the Hot Latin Tracks and the Latin Regional Mexican Airplay charts. The song won the "Song of the Year" award posthumously in 1996 at the 17th Tejano Music Awards. It had also won the "Regional Mexican Hot Latin Track of The Year" and "Regional Mexican Hot Latin Video of The Year" posthumously at the International Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Selena's three top-five singles made her runner-up to Shania Twain on UU-BRU Radio Playlist's "Top Female Act of the Year" in 1995. "Dreaming of You" and "I Could Fall in Love" were EMI Records' top selling downloads for the first quarter 2005, and the year-to-date top seller in 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005. For the week ending 9 April, the two songs continued to chart on the list.
"I'm Getting Used To You" was released as the album's second promotional single on 26 November 1995. The single included four dance mixes by David Morales. The song peaked at number seven on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, number twenty-seven on the Rhythmic Top 40, and number twenty-three on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. The song also peaked at number one on Billboard Hot Dance Breakouts (Maxi-Single Sales) in 1996. "I'm Getting Used To You" entered the BPM List 2006: Main Edition in the top 100. "El toro relajo" became the lead single released from Dreaming of You in Mexico, and became a promotional single in the US on 24 December 1995. The song peaked at number fourteen on the Latin Regional Mexican Airplay chart.
"Sukiyaki" was released as a maxi single in Japan on 8 January 1996, and included radio edits of "I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You". "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" was released as a promotional single in the UK and Canada in January 1996. "Captive Heart" was released as a promotional single in Canada and the UK. It peaked at number ninety-six on the Canadian Hot 100 and number thirty on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart in the United States.
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