Pero Dile
"Pero Dile" () is a song written and performed by American singer Víctor Manuelle on his sixth studio album, Inconfundible (1999). It was released as the album's lead single in 1999 by Sony Discos. The song's production was handled by Sergio George while it arrangements was done by Ramón Sanchez. "Pero Dile" is one of the album's salsa songs and narrates the singer telling his ex to tell people that he was a bad lover and admits to being at fault. The track received positive reactions from two music critics who praised the song's arrangement and Manuelle's performance. "Pero Dile" was nominated in the category of Tropical/Salsa Hot Latin Track of the Year at the 2000 Billboard Latin Music Awards and was a recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Latin Award in 2000. Commercially, it reached number three on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and topped the Tropical Airplay chart in the United States, where it spent 11 weeks at number one. Background and composition
In 1999, Víctor Manuelle released his sixth studio album, Inconfundible. Like his previous albums, it is a record of salsa tunes. Ramón Sanchez handled the album's arrangements while American musician Sergio George produced two of the album's tracks including "Pero Dile". "Pero Dile" is the only song in the album that Manuelle wrote by himself. The tells of a "love hangover", in which Manuelle tells his former lover to "go ahead and tell everyone he was a rotten lover and everything was his fault" and admits that "maybe it was my mistake to love you so much". Reception
"Pero Dile" was released as the album's lead single in 1999 by Sony Discos. In spite of giving the album a mixed review, AllMusic critic José A.Estévez, Jr. cited it as one of the songs from the album where Manuelle is a "forceful, dynamic singer". Parry Gettelman of the Orlando Sentinel praised the song as "graceful as it is catchy, and the lyrics are humorously bitter." On his book, Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook (2010), Claudio Iván Remeseira wrote that the song's "manic momentum makes the heart race". At the 7th Annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, "Pero Dile" was nominated in the category of Tropical/Salsa Hot Track of the Year but ultimately lost to "El Niágara en Bicicleta" by Juan Luis Guerra. In 2000, it was recognized as one of the best-performing songs of the year at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards under the salsa field and do so again the following year. Commercially, "Pero Dile" reached number three on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and topped the Tropical Airplay chart in the US, becoming his eighth number one on the latter chart. It spent 11 weeks on top of the chart and was fourth best-performing tropical song of 2000 in the country. Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
List of Billboard Tropical Airplay number ones of 1999
List of Billboard Tropical Airplay number ones of 2000

References

1999 songs
1999 singles
Víctor Manuelle songs
Song recordings produced by Sergio George
Sony Discos singles