Anything_for_You_(Gloria_Estefan_and_Miami_Sound_Machine_song)

"Anything for You"
"Anything for You"
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Single by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
from the album Let It Loose / Anything for You
B-side	"No Te Olvidaré" (Anything for You – Spanish version)
Released	March 1988
Recorded	1987
Genre	Pop
Length	4:02 (single/video version); 3:41 (album version); 4:02 (Spanish version); 4:03 (English/Spanish version);
Label	Epic; CBS Discos International;
Songwriter(s)	Gloria M. Estefan
Producer(s)	Emilio Estefan Jr.
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine singles chronology
Music video
	"Anything For You" on YouTube

Anything for You (Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine song)

1988 single by Gloria Estefan

"Anything for You" is a 1988 ballad written by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan and sung by Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. The song appeared on their 1987 album Let It Loose. After years of fluctuating success in the United States, "Anything for You" marked a breakthrough for the group when it topped the Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart on May 14, 1988, and remained there for two weeks. It was the first of three number-ones for Estefan. Due to the success of the single, the album Let It Loose was re-released with the title Anything For You outside North America .^[4] The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at #3 on the Hot Latin Tracks on June 25, 1988.

Quick Facts from the album Let It Loose / Anything for You, B-side ...

In the UK, "Anything for You" was released in July 1988 and entered at #87, beginning a steady twelve-week climb which peaked at #10 by September 1988.

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Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[20]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Anything for You"	Gloria M. Estefan	4:02
2.	"Words Get in the Way"	Gloria M. Estefan	3:28
3.	"The Megamix" (Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Conga, Dr. Beat, Betcha Say That, Bad Boy)	Gloria M. Estefan, Enrique E. Garcia, Lawrence Dermer, Joe Galdo, Rafael Vigil	9:59

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Anything for You"	Gloria M. Estefan	4:02
2.	"Hot Summer Nights"	Alan Roy Scott, Michael Jay, Roy Freeland	3:34

Region	Date
U.S.	March 1988 (1988-03)
Japan	May 21, 1988 (1988-05-21)
U.K.	June 1988 (1988-06)
Europe	June 1988 (1988-06)
Europe (Reissue)	February 1989 (1989-02)

Anything_for_You_(Gloria_Estefan_and_Miami_Sound_Machine_song)

Anything for You (Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine song)

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"No Te Olvidaré" (Anything for You - Spanish Version)	Gloria M. Estefan	4:02
2.	"Anything for You"	Gloria M. Estefan	4:02
3.	"The Megamix" (Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Conga, Dr. Beat, Betcha Say That, Bad Boy)	Gloria M. Estefan, Enrique E. Garcia, Lawrence Dermer, Joe Galdo, Rafael Vigil	9:59