El Sexto Sentido is the ninth studio album by Mexican singer Thalía. It was released on 19 July 2005 by EMI Latin. Its music spans several modern genres, such as Latin pop, dance-pop and R&B. The album, which also has a DVD version, reveals a lot about the personality and life of its performer. It brings more mature, demanding, rhythmic and catchy music. The most successful singles of the album were "Amar sin ser amada", "Un alma sentenciada" and "Seducción". On this album, Thalía collaborated again with the Colombian songwriter and producer Estéfano. El Sexto Sentido is an album sung in Spanish, except for three songs translated into English at the end of it. The album overall was well planned, well done and played with emotion. Lyrically, it talks about the loss of a loved one as in "Olvídame", optimism as in "No Me Voy a Quebrar", fun as in "Seducción" and even to an extremely sensual point in "Sabe Bien". Four singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Amar sin ser amada", is a song that instantly impressed the female audience, thus peaking at the first positions on the charts of Latin America and some European countries. The next three singles, "Un alma sentenciada", "Seducción" and "Olvídame" became moderate hits on the charts. On 14 February 2006, the album was reissued as El Sexto Sentido Re+Loaded in Mexico. It includes three new songs that did not appear on the original album. Two of the three new songs were released as singles: "Cantando por un sueño" and "No, no, no", the latter is a duet with American bachata singer Anthony "Romeo" Santos. The reissue was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Content
El Sexto Sentido is a primarily Latin pop and dance-pop album with slight influences of R&B. It contains some ballads, pop songs, a pop rock/tango song, and Latin dance songs. She also covered "Amor Prohibido", which belongs to the fellow Latina Selena, Thalía performed the song Live on Selena ¡VIVE! concert in 2005 and "24,000 Besos", a 1960s Italian hit by Adriano Celentano. On the other hand, El Sexto Sentido Re+Loaded included the bachata-ballad styled song "No, no, no" featuring American singer Anthony "Romeo" Santos. El Sexto Sentido brings the songwriting and production of the well-known composer Estéfano. The album has also been nominated in both 2005 and 2006 Latin Billboard Awards and Latin Grammy. This album was a financial success internationally according to Leila Cobo from Billboard and became the first Spanish-language release in the United States to have a preorder campaign through iTunes.
Commercial performance
El Sexto Sentido debuted at number 3 on the U.S. BillboardTop Latin Albums and at number 63 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with sales of 25,000 copies. The album was held off from being number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart by Shakira'sFijación Oral Vol. 1, which sold 60,000 copies that week. The album also debuted at number 2 on the U.S. BillboardLatin Pop Albums chart. On July 28, 2005, only two weeks after the album's release, El Sexto Sentido was certified gold in Mexico by AMPROFON for sales/shipments of 50,000 copies within the country. The album was certified Gold in Argentina. Even though the song 24,000 Besos was not released as a single it peak at #83 in Romania.
