No Creo

1999 single by Shakira

"No Creo"

Austrian CD commercial edition

Single by Shakira

from the album Dónde Están los Ladrones?

Released

17 February 1999 (1999-02-17)

Recorded

1998; Crescent Moon Studios
(Miami, Florida)

Genre

Rock en español

Length

3:50

Label

Sony Latin

Composer(s)

Shakira Mebarak
Luis F. Ochoa^[1]

Lyricist(s)

Shakira Mebarak

Producer(s)

Shakira
Luis Fernando Ochoa

Shakira singles chronology

"Inevitable"
(1998)

"No Creo"
(1999)

"Ojos Así"
(1999)

Music video

"No Creo" on YouTube

"No Creo" (I don't believe) is a song written and performed by the Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. The song was released as the fourth single, although initially intended to be the lead, from her multi-platinum album Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998) and later from her acoustic performance of the song on the MTV show Unplugged (2000). In the song, the singer expresses how she believes in nothing and nobody except her lover. The song references popular socially accepted or non-accepted norms such as herself, luck, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mars and Venus, and Brian Weiss.

Music video

The video begins in a room, where Shakira jumps out of a window into a grassland where eccentric people are present. She scratches the ceiling of a room, goes through dark rooms, riots, swims through a washing room. A brief scene of the video is played on a screen in the music video for "Ciega, Sordomuda", which sparked speculation that some scenes were shot back-to-back with "Ciega, Sordomuda". It was later confirmed that although "No Creo" was originally intended to be the first single from the album, Sony decided that "Ciega, Sordomuda" would be a better opener of the album cycle.

Formats and track listings

Spanish Maxi CD^[2]

"No Creo" (G-Vô Club Mix) – 6:20
"No Creo" (Pablo Flores Club 12" Remix) – 9:42
"No Creo" (Pablo Flores Radio Edit) – 4:44
"No Creo" (Pablo Flores Dub Mix) – 7:27
"No Creo" (LP Version) – 3:53

Charts

Chart (1999–2000)	Peak position
Guatemala (Notimex)^[3]	2
Honduras (Notimex) ^[4]	8
Uruguay (Notimex)^[5]	1
US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard)^[6]	9
US Latin Pop Airplay (Billboard)^[7]	2

References

^ "Shakira songs – No Creo". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
^ No Creo (Media notes). Shakira. Brazil: Columbia. 2000. PRCD 899.642/2-492240.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Reny y René conquistan preferencia en Centroamérica". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 15 August 1999.
^ "Los Discos Más Vendicos En Iberoamérica y Estados Unidos". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 29 May 2000. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
^ "Los Discos Más Vendicos En Iberoamérica y Estados Unidos". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 29 May 2000. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
^ "Shakira Chart History (Hot Latin Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
^ "Shakira Chart History (Latin Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 August 2010.