Impacto
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"Impacto" is the first single by Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 reggaeton
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...

 performer Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...

 from his fifth studio album El Cartel: The Big Boss
El Cartel: The Big Boss
El Cartel: The Big Boss is the fourth studio album and eighth overall by Puerto Rican recording artist Daddy Yankee. It was released on June 5, 2007 by El Cartel Records through Interscope Records. The album features contributions from Scott Storch, will.i.am, Luny Tunes, Tainy, Akon, and Mr...

. It was released on April 12, 2007 by El Cartel Records
El Cartel Records
El Cartel Records is Daddy Yankee's record company. The release of Barrio Fino, Daddy Yankee's first commercially successful album, is notable for being the label's first distributed album.-Studio albums:Daddy Yankee* 2004: Barrio Fino* 2005: Barrio Fino en Directo* 2007: El Cartel: The Big...

. "Impacto" was nominated for Song of the Year at the Premios Lo Nuestro 2008.

Song information

The song was produced by Scott Storch
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...

 and reggaeton
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...

 producer Tainy
Tainy
Marco Masís, artistically known as Tainy, is a reggaeton producer. At 20 years old, he is one of the youngest and most successful producers in the reggaeton genre today. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he entered the world of reggaeton with his work on Mas Flow 2.-Musical career:After...

. There is also a remix
Remix
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 featuring Fergie, which is also featured in the same album and features more spanglish
Spanglish
.Spanglish refers to the blend of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The Hispanic population of the United States and the British population in Argentina use varieties of...

 lyrics than the original version. Additionally, the song is featured in the EA Sports
EA Sports
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 game Madden 08., and it is also featured in the Rockstar
Rockstar Games
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 game Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV
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. Daddy Yankee made another remix of "Impacto" featuring the reggaeton group Casa de Leones
Casa de Leones
Casa de Leones , also known as Los Leones, were a Puerto Rican reggaeton group.-Professional career:The members of the group are Miguel A. De Jesús , Jaime Borges and Héctor Padilla , Randy Ortiz and Joel Muñoz...

.

Music video

According to an interview by Primer Impacto
Primer Impacto
Primer Impacto is a Spanish language television news program broadcast by Univision in the USA weekdays at 5pm ET. A later program at 11pm ET/PT airs on Univision affiliates without a local news department , leading into the network's 11:30pm newscast, Noticiero Univision Edicion Nocturna.The...

 news, who were on the set of the remix version video, Daddy Yankee says there will be two videos, one for the remix featuring 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...

/R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

 singer Fergie and a second for the original. The original video features many cities including London, Tokyo, New York, San Juan and Mexico City. The remix video includes bits and pieces from the original video, adding Fergie and her parts.

The video premiered on Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...

 on May 8, 2007, and reached number 1. The remix has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube
YouTube
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 with the original being viewed more than 3 million times, adding up to more than 16 million views.

Track listing and formats

US CD promo
  1. "Impacto" (Album Version)
  2. "Impacto" (Instrumental Version)
  3. "Impacto" (Clean Remix) (featuring Fergie)
  4. "Impacto" (Dirty Remix) (featuring Fergie)


US CD single
  1. "Impacto" (Album Version)
  2. "Impacto" (Remix) (featuring Fergie)
  3. (B-side)
  4. "Impacto" (music video)

Chart performance

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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...


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|U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks
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|Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

100 Singles Chart
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