"Dreaming of You" is the name of a Selena

Selena

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits...

 love song written by Franne Golde

Franne Golde

Franne Golde is a songwriter, musician, singer and writer. Her songs have appeared on more than 100 million records worldwideFranne has received BMI awards for singles with The Pussycat Dolls , Randy Travis’s "A Man Ain't Made of Stone", The Kinleys' "Somebody's Out There Watching" from the Touched...

 and Tom Snow. It was Selena's biggest single, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100

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The song was released at the end of the first quarter of 1995, after Selena's murder. It appeared on the album of the same name, which was also released posthumously.

Critical reception

Robert Johnson of Planet Music, a record chain in Houston, told New York Times

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that people in Houston were buying copies of the album Dreaming of You because of the single "Dreaming of You". Fifteen years after her death, Teresa Jusino of Popmatters

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 wrote: "Even the most sheltered English-speaking music fan might not know Selena's name, but if you mention her hit singles, "Dreaming of You", or "I Could Fall in Love," they'll likely respond with 'I remember that song!', or 'I love that one!'." Peter Watrous of The New York Times wrote: "It's not that she didn't sing well in English; she spoke English substantially better than she did Spanish. It's that the English song writers didn't step up to the bar with their best material. The music is faceless commerce. That she sings it so well on the album suggests that she had a good chance of success, working lush ballads in an anonymous pop style that Disney has mastered."

Chart performance

Chart (1995)/(1996)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	21
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents	9
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	17
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts...	33
U.S. Billboard Latin Pop Airplay	9

Music Video

A music video was made in 1995 for Dreaming Of You. It features a young woman who escapes from her home to run off with the man she loves and wants to marry. The video ends with her leaving with him in a red car. Selena is only seen in this video on the wall (poster), a TV in the background, and on the small radio in the young woman's room. The video was shot in Los Angeles, California.

Covers

• Rachelle Ann Go
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   (2004)
• Janay Castine (2005)
• Lovi Poe
  Lovi Poe
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   (2007)
• Nyoy Volante (2008)
• Kenya Acosta (2006-2011)

Personnel

• Produced by: Guy Roche
• Vocals: Selena
• Mixed by: Nathaniel "Mick" Guzuaski
• Assistant engineer: Moana Suchard
• Recorded at: Bananaboat Studio, Burbank
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  , CA
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  , Track Record, North Hollywood, CA
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  , Westlake Studio, Hollywood, CA
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• Mixed at: Conway Studio, Hollywood, CA.