Here We Are (Gloria Estefan song)

"Here We Are"
Single by Gloria Estefan
from the album Cuts Both Ways
B-side "1, 2, 3," "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On me"
Released December 16, 1989 (USA), December 1989 (Europe), February 1990 (U.K.), March 21, 1990 (Japan)
Format CD maxi single, Cassette Single, 7-inch vinyl Single, 12 inch vinyl Single, 3" single
Recorded 1988
Genre Pop
Length 4:51
Label Epic
Writer(s) Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan singles chronology
"Get on Your Feet"
(1989)		 "Here we Are"
(1989/1990)		 "Oye mi Canto (Hear my Voice)"
(1989/1990)
Cuts Both Ways track listing
"Ay, Ay, I"
(1)		 "Here We Are"
(2)		 "Say"
(3)

"Here We Are" is a single by Gloria Estefan. It was released in 1989 in the United States and in 1990 to the rest of the world as the third single of the album, Cuts Both Ways. It has become one of Estefan's most recognized hit singles.

Song history

This was the third single of the album Cuts Both Ways and was one of many successful ballads performed by Gloria Estefan. The single was released with a B-side song: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," that was included on the European version, later to appear on the Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me album.

A Portuguese version of the song, "Toda Pra Você," is included on the compilation Exitos De Gloria Estefan as well as the Brazilian Version of "Cuts Both Ways."

As a duet for her special television concert All The Way Concert, Celine Dion performed this song, while Estefan sang Dion's song, "Because You Loved Me."

Chart performance

"Here We Are" continued Estefan's success on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was Estefan's ninth Top 10 single, peaking at number 6 in 1990. "Here We Are" went to number 1 on the American adult contemporary chart and remained in the top spot for five weeks.[1] Overseas, he song peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart.

Country Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 6
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (Year-End 1990) 74
Australia[2] 20
Belgium (Flanders) 19
Belgium (Wallonie) 17
Brazil 88
Germany 64
Netherlands 13
Ireland 7
Japan (Tokyo) 13
Poland 17
Sweden 20
United Kingdom 23

In popular culture

"Here We Are" was used for the Cruz and Eden characters on the American soap opera Santa Barbara.[3] The song also appeared in an episode of the NBC daytime soap opera Another World in early 1990.

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 87.
  2. ↑ "australian-charts.com > Gloria Estefan discography". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  3. ↑ http://www.cybercom.net/~jima/misc/songs.html

External links

Preceded by
"Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart		 Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
January 27, 1990 (5 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"All My Life" by Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville
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