"Bad Boy" was the second single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

 on their second English language

English language

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 album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love

Primitive Love

Primitive Love is the 9th studio album released by the Miami Sound Machine, and their second English language studio album. It was released in 1985 .-Album history:...

. The song enjoyed much success following up on the band's mainstream breakthrough single, "Conga

Conga (song)

"Conga" is the first single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their second English language album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love.-Song history:...

".

Song history

The radio release and single was an edited and remixed version of the original album cut. It was remixed by Shep Pettibone

Shep Pettibone

Robert E. Pettibone, Jr. is a record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s. His earliest work known to the public was for one of New York City's top disco/dance radio stations, WRKS 98.7 "Kiss" FM, and later as remixer/producer for the disco label Salsoul...

. "Bad Boy" became the band's second Top Ten single in the United States

United States

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, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, and reached the Top 20 in many other countries around the world. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA in the U.S. for sales of 500,000 units and by the ARIA

ARIA Charts

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 in Australia

Australia

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 for sales of 35,000 copies. The song landed at #79 on Billboard magazine's

Billboard (magazine)

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 year-end chart

Billboard Year-End

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 of 1986.

The video of the song received high rotation on MTV

MTV

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 and other video music channels. Two videos were made with the second one featuring Estefan with the cast of the musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 Cats

Cats (musical)

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. The song opened the film, Three Men and a Baby

Three Men and a Baby

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Formats and track listings

U.S. Vinyl 12" Single (49 05338)

1. "Bad Boy" (Club Mix)
2. "Bad Boy" (Dub Mix)

U.S. Vinyl 7" Single (34 05805)

1. "Bad Boy" (Single Remix)
2. "Surrender Paradise" (Album Version)

UK Vinyl 7" Single (A 6537)

1. "Bad Boy" (Single Remix)
2. "Movies" (Album Version)

UK Vinyl 12" Single (TA 6537)

1. "Bad Boy" (Single Remix)
2. "Bad Boy" (Dub Mix)
3. "Movies" (Album Version)

Release history

Region	Date
Europe
United States
Japan

Charts

Lista(1985/1986)	Peak position
Austria Singles Chart	8
Dutch Singles Chart	2
France Singles Chart	33
Germany Top Singles Chart	6
Ireland Top Singles Chart	23
Switzerland Singles Chart	9
UK Top Singles Chart	16
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	8
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...	8
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	74
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes...	3

Official versions

Original versions

1. Album Version — 3:58

Remixes

1. Single Remix — 3:42
2. Club Mix — 6:26
3. Dub Mix — 6:43

Versions

1. Extended album version
2. Remix Greatest Hits'92