Escape is an Enrique Iglesias album recorded in English in 2001.

Making of Escape

Enrique Iglesias wrote or co-wrote and co-produced every track on the album, which is a followup to his first English album. Enrique has said that for many of the tracks on the album he started out simply with titles that he later based the songs on. The first song to use this method was "Don't Turn Off The Lights" which was originally going to be the album title and the first single to be released on. Enrique also claims to have written several songs for this album and picked what he considered to be his ten best.

Later in the year a special edition of he album was released with two extra songs. "Maybe (Mark Taylor Mix)" and "To Love A Woman" featuring Lionel Richie and its co-writer is monu

Chart success

Escape debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, his highest debut on the chart. As well as the single "Hero" the album topped the UK and Ireland album charts, making Enrique the first Latin artist to have a number 1 album on the UK charts as well as having a number one single and album simulatneously on the charts. The album also performed well throughout the world becoming triple platinum in the U.S., 4 times platinum in the U.K., 5 times Platinum in Ireland, 6 times Platinum in Canada and 4 times Platinum in Australia, 3 times Platinum in India, 2 times platinum in Germany and Platinum and Gold (or their equivalents) in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and more than 10 other countries. Escape has now sold more than 9 million copies worldwide.

For most of the year Escape was in the UK album chart's top 10. For most of the year it was the best selling album in the UK until the release of Robbie Williams's Escapology and was also the best selling album that year in Australia and one of the best selling albums in Europe in 2002.

Track listing

1. "Escape"
2. "Don't Turn Off the Light"
3. "Love to See You Cry"
4. "Hero"
5. "I Will Survive"
6. "Love 4 Fun"
7. "Maybe"
8. "One Night Stand"
9. "She Be the One"
10. "If the World Crashes Down"
11. "Escapar"
12. "No Apagues La Luz"
13. "Heroe"

Enrique Iglesias albums | 2001 albums