We're very pleased to report that Loba (the Spanish version of She Wolf) has hit Number One in the Billboard Latin Songs chart. This is actually Shakira's eighth Latin Number One in the US. Amazing.
\r\nThis Thanksgiving, Nov 26th, CNN will announce the 2009 ìCNN Hero of the Yearî and honor the Top Ten CNN Heroes in a star-studded gala celebration from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. We're pleased to report that Shakira has been named as one of the Blue Ribbon Panel who will judge the awards. Other panelists include Colin Powell, Sir Elton John, Ted Turner and Mariane Pearl. The broadcast will air globally on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Espanol.
As She Wolf mania continues to ripple around the globe, we've got a bit of a treat for you this week - a full documentary filmed on the set of the She Wolf video. We've divided it into three parts. Here's the first one...
As there are loads of great Shakira-related fan videos out there on the web, we thought we'd start posting some of them here on Shakira.com. This one made Shakira laugh. It's not too hard to see why:
A whopping 2,000 of you emailed in hoping to win the amazing, heat-sensitive She Wolf mug. We've just picked a winner at random from all the entries and we're pleased to announce that the proud owner of the mug is...
Rocio A from Barcelona in Spain
Congratulations Rocio! The UK label will be sending your mug out to you very soon. Big thanks to everyone who entered - you clearly like contests, so we'll have another soon...
The videos for Loba and She Wolf (which are slightly different) are now both available in most iTunes stores across the planet - in fact, She Wolf is already the Number One music video at the US store. Click the links below if you'd like to download them from your local store:
Earlier today, the terrific UK pop website popjustice.com posted this video of an impressive promotional She Wolf mug:
Shakira just watched the video in her Paris studio and is now trying to get hold of one of the mugs for herself. And you folks can join in the fun too, because we've managed to persuade the UK label to give Shakira.com one mug to offer as a contest prize, which they'll send anywhere in the world. If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning it, just email your name and address to shakiracontests@gmail.com before midnight (NYC time) on Wednesday August 5th. First one picked from the e-hat gets the mug that the whole world's talking about.
Gabriela Diaz has kindly sent over a couple more pictures from the Paris studio where Shakira is currently finishing off her new album. Click the thumbnails to see them full-size:
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