Selena Live! The Last Concert

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Selena Live! The Last Concert is a live album by American singer Selena. It was recorded on February 26, 1995, at the Houston Astrodome and was televised live on Univision.Template:Sfn The album was posthumously released by EMI Latin on March 27, 2001. The singer shared the concert with Tejano singer Emilio Navaira and performed to 66,994 people,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn which broke the previous attendance record held by Selena the previous year. The concert was critically acclaimed for outperforming ticket sales by country music singers Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, and George Strait.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Selena's performance at the Astrodome became her final televised concert before she was shot and killed on March 31, 1995.Template:Sfn

At the time of her performance, journalists gave the singer rave reviews, citing the range of material performed, as well as Selena's "sultry, and sensual" choreography.Template:Sfn Critics have since regarded the concert as one of her best performancesTemplate:Sfn—it was dramatized by Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 biopic film.Template:Sfn The purple jumpsuit worn during the performance—on display in a museum the singer's family operates in Corpus Christi, TexasTemplate:Sfn—continues to be a popular halloween costumeTemplate:Sfn for children and adults.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The set list mostly included material from her Amor Prohibido (1994) album and a medley mashup of disco music songs "I Will Survive", "Funkytown", "Last Dance", "The Hustle", and "On the Radio", by Gloria Gaynor, Lipps Inc., and Van McCoy respectively, while "Last Dance" and "On the Radio" were originally performed by Donna Summer.Template:Sfn The album peaked atop the US Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart, becoming the singer's second number one on the chart since Dreaming of You (1995). It earned the singer a nomination for Pop Album of the Year, Female at the 2002 Billboard Latin Music Awards.Template:Sfn

DVD release

Live: The Last Concert was released on DVD on September 2, 2003, by Image Entertainment and Q-Productions, Inc.

Among the features contained in the DVD, the viewer is allowed to select from two different main menus, Spanish or English, in order to change the language of the biography and menu. With a running time of 99-minutes, the DVD features a biography of the singer and an additional 44-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of Selena (1997).Template:Sfn The DVD chapter listing is identical to the album track listing with the exception of the spoken liner notes.

Track listing

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Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[1] 176
US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[2] 2
US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[3] 1
Chart (2017) Peak
position
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[4] 74
US Catalog Album Sales (Billboard)[5] 13

Certifications and sales

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