Song · Selena
“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” by Selena
From the album Amor Prohibido (1994)
“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” by Selena appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2023. It was first released in 1994 on the album Amor Prohibido. Its best result is #700 on The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s.
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"Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" was the second single from Amor Prohibido, Selena's fourth album, released on EMI Latin in 1994 with A.B. Quintanilla producing. She wrote it with Pete Astudillo, her backing singer and dancer. It began as a song about a cheerful fish swimming free in the ocean, and the title mimics a smitten, pounding heart.
The track mixes Mexican cumbia and pop with shades of rock en español and reggae, and it held number one on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs for four weeks straight. It won Song of the Year at the Tejano Music Awards, and BMI named it the most played Latin song of 1996. After Selena was killed in 1995, fans turned the title into a verb for adoring her, and musicologist Ilan Stavans hears in it the start of Latin pop's takeover.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 700 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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