"Gli ostacoli del cuore" (en: The Obstacles of Heart) is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 single by Italian

Italy

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 singer Elisa, featuring pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 singer Ligabue

Luciano Ligabue

Luciano Ligabue , more commonly known as Ligabue or Liga, is an Italian rock singer-songwriter, film director and writer.-Biography:...

, from her first greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 album, Soundtrack '96-'06

Soundtrack '96-'06

Soundtrack '96-'06 is the first official Best of by Italian singer Elisa, the album has sold over 710,000 copies and was certified Diamond in Italy....

. Released as the album's lead single, the song was written by Ligabue, and produced by Corrado Rustici.

The song also appears on the album Caterpillar

Caterpillar (Elisa album)

Caterpillar is a best-of compilation by pop rock singer Elisa, mainly aimed at the international market. It's an international, revisited edition of Soundtrack '96-'06 and it has been published in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Luxembourg....

, released in September 2007. In the Caterpillars version, the song is sung without Ligabue.

Single's popularity

"Gli ostacoli del cuore", remained on the Italian digital download top-ten for about a month, and was a #1 album onn the Italian chart.