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"Gasolina" (English: Gasoline), is a reggaetón song written by Daddy Yankee and Eddie Dee for Daddy Yankee's 2004 album Barrio Fino. It features Glory, who sings the line "dame más gasolina". The song was released as the album's lead single in late 2004 and became a reggaeton mega-hit, peaking inside the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered. In Australia and the United States, "Gasolina" was certified platinum, and it received various nominations for awards including, Record of the Year at the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards.
Background
Before the release of Barrio Fino, Daddy Yankee was well known to reggaetón fans. "Gasolina," however became a worldwide hit, letting him gain popularity among Latino mainstream music fans as well, becoming a hit in Puerto Rico, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Europe, the Arab World, the Philippines, India, China, Japan, Australia, and Oceania.
Gasolina is one of the songs attributed with opening the door for reggaetón to become such a powerful force in the North American mainstream music scene. The song stayed true to reggaetón’s musical stylings of synthesized beats yet had a catchy enough chorus for a bilingual, multi-racial, and socio-economically diverse following to develop.
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