Laundry Service ( Shakira )

Laundry Service is a Latin Grammy-winning album by Shakira, released in 2001. It debuted at number-three on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3,3 million copies in the U.S. alone, and around 15 million copies worldwide.

The album was Shakira's breakthrough English-language effort and established her as a major pop singer-songwriter in the U.S. market. Initially, those around Shakira wanted her to simply translate the songs from her previous album, the hugely successful Donde Estan Los Ladrones? but she was determined to learn English herself in order to write all-new songs. Thus, Objection (Tango) was born, a song that documents Shakira's anger at a relationship in which her lover is unfaithful. It was Shakira's first song composed in English. The rest of the track listing is composed of songs co-written by Shakira with the help of more fluent English speakers. All the songs are original, with the exception of Eyes Like Yours, which is a translation of Shakira's Arabic-tinged 1999 worldwide hit "Ojos Así". Although it is an English album, it did contain four Spanish tracks.