"Anything for You"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1988-05-14, 1988-05-21
genre: pop, adult contemporary
artist: Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
album: Let It Loose
writers: Gloria Estefan
producers: Emilio Estefan
label:
formats: Cassette single
lengths: 4:02 (Album Version) 3:43 (7" edit)
"Anything for You" is a popular song and ballad written by
Gloria Estefan and sung by Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. The
song appeared on their 1987 album,
Let It Loose. "Anything for You" became a number-one
song in the United States during the year 1988, the band's (and
Gloria's) first. It topped the magazine Hot 100 chart on
May 14, 1988, and remained there for two weeks. The song
also spent three weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart
that same year. It also peaked at #3 on the Hot Latin Tracks on
June 25, 1988. The B-side of the single was a Spanglish version
of the song, with Estefan alternating the verses and chorus
between English and Spanish.
The song also appeared on the compilation album
Exitos de Gloria Estefan, sung completely in Spanish and
retitled "No Te Olvidare (I Won't Forget You)."