Resta in ascolto

Resta in ascolto is Italian singer-songwriter Laura Pausini's eighth studio album released by Warner Music on 22 October 2004. Escucha is its Latin Grammy Awards and Grammy Award-winning Spanish language equivalent released for the hispanophone market making her the first and only Italian female to receive such award. The album in its two version (Italian and Spanish).

Resta in ascolto • Escucha
Studio album by Laura Pausini
Released	22 October 2004
Recorded	New Logic Studio (Milan, Italy); Studio Impatto (Bologna, Italy); The Chill Building (Santa Monica, California; Air Studios (Lyndhurst) (London, England); Abbey Road Studios (London, England); Whitfield Street Studios (London, England); Nautilus Mastering (Milan, Italy)
Genre	Pop rock Latin pop
Length	41:46
Language	Italian, Spanish
Label	Atlantic, Warner Music
Producer	Laura Pausini, Dado Parisini, Celso Valli, Rick Nowels, Alfredo Cerruti
Laura Pausini chronology
From the Inside (2002) Resta in ascolto • Escucha (2004) Live in Paris 05 (2005)
Singles from Resta in ascolto
"Resta in ascolto" Released: 10 September 2004 "Vivimi" Released: 26 November 2004 "Come se non fosse stato mai amore" Released: 25 March 2005 "Benedetta passione" Released: 24 June 2005

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Musica e dischi	[2]

Escucha features “Víveme”, theme song of the highly successful Mexican telenovela La madrastra (2005). The song's exposure extended to the United States when Univision acquired the telenovela and began its broadcast of La madrastra in March 2005. In September 2006, following a year of praise and formal recognition—particularly from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences—Warner Music released special edition CD+DVDs of Escucha in Argentina and the United States. The special editions feature previously unreleased bonus tracks presented in music video form. These tracks include "Prendo te" and "De tu amor".

Promoting the album, Pausini embarked on a world tour during the early 6 months of 2005. The tour has yielded a DVD.

Background

The recording is on the subject of a break-up and was written in 2002, during Pausini's separation from her ex-boyfriend and producer Alfredo Cerruti.[3]

The album features the song "Mi abbandono a te" / "Me abandono a ti", co-written by Pausini, Rick Nowels and Madonna. It also includes the ballad "Vivimi" / "Viveme", written by Biagio Antonacci, and the single "Benedetta passione" / "Bendecida pasión", penned by Italian rock-star Vasco Rossi.[4] The album is mainly focused on themes of anger, bitterness,[3] desire for independence[5] and interior peace,[4] but also features a song about the Iraq War, in which Pausini sings about Ali Ismail Abbas, a boy who was severely injured in a nighttime rocket attack near Baghdad in 2003.[6]

Track listing

Resta in ascolto

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"La prospettiva di me"	Laura Pausini, Cheope[7]	Daniel[8]	3:05
2.	"Vivimi"	Biagio Antonacci	Antonacci	3:54
3.	"Resta in ascolto"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	3:30
4.	"Il tuo nome in maiuscolo"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	3:19
5.	"Benedetta passione"	Vasco Rossi	Gaetano Curreri, Saverio Grandi	4:11
6.	"Come se non fosse stato mai amore"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	3:59
7.	"Così importante"	Pausini, Chiodo	Cesare Chiodo	3:28
8.	"Parlami"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	3:43
9.	"Dove l'aria è polvere"	Pausini, Cheope	Antonio Galbiati	3:47
10.	"Amare veramente"	Pausini, Chiodo	Chiodo	4:00
11.	"Mi abbandono a te"	Madonna, Rick Nowels, Pausini	Madonna, Nowels	4:42

Escucha

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Spanish adaptation	Length
1.	"Mi perspectiva"	Laura Pausini, Cheope[7]	Daniel[8]	Pausini, Badia[9]	3:05
2.	"Víveme"	Biagio Antonacci	Antonacci	Pausini, Badia	3:54
3.	"Escucha atento"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	Badia	3:29
4.	"Tu nombre en mayúsculas"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	Badia	3:19
5.	"Bendecida pasión"	Vasco Rossi	Gaetano Curreri, Saverio Grandi	Pausini	4:11
6.	"Como si no nos hubiéramos amado"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	León Tristán[10]	3:59
7.	"Tan importante"	Pausini, Chiodo	Cesare Chiodo	Badia	3:28
8.	"Háblame"	Pausini, Cheope	Daniel	Tristán	3:43
9.	"Donde el aire es ceniza"	Pausini, Cheope	Antonio Galbiati	Badia	3:47
10.	"Amar completamente"	Pausini, Chiodo	Chiodo	Badia	4:00
11.	"Me abandono a ti"	Madonna, Rick Nowels, Pausini	Madonna, Rick Nowels	Pausini	4:42

Limited edition DVD

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Prendo te" (Music video)	Laura Pausini
2.	"Resta in ascolto" (Music video)	Daniel, Pausini, Cheope
3.	"Resta in ascolto" (Making of the video)	—
4.	"Escucha atento" (Music video)	Daniel, Pausini, Cheope, Badia
5.	"Making of the photoshoot"	—
6.	"De tu amor" (Music video)	Kara DioGuardi, Johan Ekhé, Ulf Lindström, Pausini
7.	"On n'oublie jamais rien, on vit avec" (Music video in duet with Hélène Ségara)	Bruno Grimaldi, Gérard Capaldi, Antoine Angelelli, Pausini
8.	"EPK (Electronic Press Kit)"	—

Charts and certifications

Peak positions Chart (2004) Peak Position Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[11] 69 Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[12] 9 Dutch Albums Chart[13] 19 European Albums Chart[14] 6 Finnish Albums Chart[15] 18 French Albums Singles[16] 7 German Albums Chart[17] 84 Italian Albums Chart[18] 1 Mexican Albums Chart[19] 11 Spain Albums Chart[20] 3 Swedish Albums Chart[21] 22 Swiss Albums Chart[22] 2 US Billboard Heatseekers Albums[23] 20 US Billboard Latin Albums[24] 20 US Billboard Latin Pop Albums[25] 10

Year-end charts Chart (2004) Rank Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[26] 54 French Albums Chart[27] 74 Italian Albums Chart[28] 15 Swiss Albums Chart[29] 24 Chart (2005) Rank Italian Albums Chart[30] 14 Mexican Albums Chart[19] 53 Swiss Albums Chart[31] 13

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA)[32] Resta in ascolto	Gold	25,000^*
France (SNEP)[33] Resta in ascolto	Gold	100,000^*
Italy (FIMI)[34] Resta in ascolto	4× Platinum	400,000^*
Mexico (AMPROFON)[35] Escucha	Platinum	100,000^^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[36] Escucha	Gold	50,000^^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[37] Resta in ascolto	2× Platinum	80,000^^
United States (RIAA)[38] Escucha	Platinum (Latin)	100,000^^
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Personnel

Credits adapted from Allmusic.[39]

Production credits

Giulio Antognini – assistant engineer, mixing assistant Emporio Armani – wardrobe Antonio Baglio – mastering Joe Beckett – project coordinator Luca Bignardi – computers, engineer, mixing, programming Matteo Bolzoni – assistant engineer, mixing assistant Marco Borsatti – engineer John Brough – engineer, mixing Cesare Chiodo – producer Peter Cobbin – string engineer Emiliano Fantuzzi – pre-production Daniela Federici – photography Geoff Foster – string engineer Roberta Frau – assistant

Chris Garcia – engineer Gabriele Gigli – assistant engineer, mixing assistant Kieron Menzies – engineer Rick Nowels – producer Cesare Paciotti – wardrobe Sergio Pappalettera – artwork Gabrielle Parisi – executive producer Dado Parisini – producer, programming Laura Pausini – producer Wayne Rodrigues – computer analysis, programming Tara Saremi – project coordinator John Temis – engineer, mixing, producer Luca Turatti – assistant engineer, mixing assistant Celso Valli – producer

Music credits

Rusty Anderson – electric guitar Biagio Antonacci – composer J. Badia – adaptation Eric Buffat – composer Cheope – composer Cesare Chiodo – bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, composer Luis Conte – percussions Paolo Costa – bass Gaetano Curreri – composer Emiliano Fantuzzi – electric guitar Gabriele Fersini – electric guitar Riccardo Galardini – acoustic guitar Antonio Galbiati – composer Paolo Gianolio – acoustic guitar Alfredo Golino – drums Saverio Grandi – composer Charles Judge – effects, keyboards, strings Madonna – composer

Rick Nowels – keyboards, Spanish guitar Dado Parisini – arranger, brass arrangement, director, keyboards, piano Laura Pausini – adaptation, composer, vocals Carlos Alberto Perez – percussion Roberto Rossi – trombone Vasco Rossi – composer Marco Tamburini – flugelhorn John Themis – arranger, bandir, bass, clay drums, conductor, drum programming, effects, string arrangements Ian Thomas – drums León Tristán – adaptation Celso Valli – arranger, conductor, keyboards, piano, string arrangements Michele Vanni – acoustic guitar Massimo Varini – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Vasko Vassiliev – concert master Daniel Vuletic – acoustic guitar, composer Geoff Westley – conductor, string arrangements Gavyn Wright – concert master

Notes

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7. Alfredo Rapetti billed as Cheope
8. Danijel Vuletic billed as Daniel
9. Ignacio Ballesteros Díaz billed as Badia
10. Francisco Gamarra Rodríguez billed as León Tristán
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35. "Éxito de Pausini va en aumento". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 31 August 2005. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
36. "Spanish album certifications" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Retrieved 24 July 2011. Select Albums under "Chart", enter 2005 in the field "Year". Select 09 in the field "Semana". Click on "Search Charts".
37. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Laura Pausini; 'Resta in ascolto')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
38. "American album certifications – Pausini, Laura – Escucha". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 24 July 2011. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click Type, then select Latin, then click SEARCH. 
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