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Life
Studio album by Ricky Martin
Released	October 10, 2005 (2005-10-10)
Genre	Crunk hip hop pop
Length	46:44
Language	English Spanish
Label	Columbia
Producer	George Noriega Danny López Ricky Martin Randy Cantor Scott Storch Jon Secada Sean Garrett will.i.am George Pajon Luny Tunes The Matrix
Ricky Martin chronology
Almas del Silencio (2003) Life (2005) MTV Unplugged (2006)
Singles from Life
"I Don't Care" Released: September 13, 2005 "Drop It on Me" Released: November 22, 2005 "It's Alright" Released: March 7, 2006

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com
AllMusic
The Denver Post
Newsday	B+
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine

Life is the eighth studio album and the third English album recorded by Puerto Rican performer Ricky Martin. It was released by Columbia Records on October 10, 2005, in Europe, October 11, 2005, in the US and October 19, 2005, in Japan.

Commercial performance

The album has sold 694,000 copies worldwide.

Life debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 with nearly 73,000 copies sold. In total, the album has sold 274,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Life also reached the top ten in Argentina and Spain. In the United Kingdom it peaked at number forty. The album was later certified Gold in Argentina and Mexico.

The first single, "I Don't Care" peaked at number sixty-five on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached number three on the Hot Dance Club Songs. The Spanish-language version, called "Qué Más Da" peaked at number seven on the Hot Latin Songs. "I Don't Care" reached also top ten in Italy and Finland. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number eleven.

The second international single, "It's Alright" became a hit in France, after it was re-recorded as duet with M. Pokora. It peaked at number four and was certified Silver.

Copy protection controversy

In the fall of 2005, the album appeared on a list of the 52 CD releases from Sony BMG that were identified as having been shipped with the controversial Extended Copy Protection (XCP) computer software, which, in addition to preventing a copy of the disc from being made, was identified by many security software vendors as having also reported the users' listening habits back to Sony and also exposed any Microsoft Windows computer known to have the CD inserted to malicious attacks that exploited insecure features of the rootkit software. Sony discontinued use of the technology on November 11, 2005, and recalled this and other titles affected by XCP, and asked customers to submit copies affected by the software to the company so that it could replace them with copies that did not contain the software.

Track listing

Notes

• signifies a co-producer
• signifies a vocal producer
• signifies a background vocal producer
• signifies a remix producer

Charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

References

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