Selena Gomez languages spoken, written or signed Spanish
Gomez released her first Spanish-language project, an EP titled Revelación, in March 2021. It debuted at number twenty-two in the U.S., shifting 23,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, marking the biggest sales week for a Latin album by a woman since Shakira's El Dorado in 2017. It also debuted atop the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, becoming the first album by a woman to do so, also since 2017's El Dorado. The EP received universal acclaim according to Metacritic, a website collecting reviews from professional music critics, and was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. It also received Latin Pop Album of the Year nominations from the Billboard Latin Music, Latin American Music and Lo Nuestro award ceremonies. The record blends reggaeton, Latin pop, R&B genres with urbano elements, marking a departure from the dance-pop sound of its predecessor, Rare. Gomez's expansion of her artistry was praised; AllMusic's Matt Collar found her remaining "artistically fearless". Entertainment Weekly's Marcus Jones called her "a far more versatile musician than she's been given credit for". It spawned three singles: "De Una Vez", "Baila Conmigo" with Rauw Alejandro, and "Selfish Love" with DJ Snake. With this EP and the single "Baila Conmigo", she became the first female act to top the US Latin Albums and Latin Airplay charts simultaneously in over a decade. The music video for "De Una Vez" was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards. Gomez performed at the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final opening ceremony in May. She later collaborated with Colombian singer Camilo in a song titled "999".Gomez starred in and executive produced the Hulu mystery-comedy series Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short, which premiered on Hulu in August 2021, and set the record for the most-watched comedy premiere in Hulu history. Ahead of the official premiere of the series, Gomez revealed that she was happy to have played a character that matched her current actual age, saying that she "signed [her] life away" to The Walt Disney Company at the start of her career and that she "did not know what she was doing." The series has received critical acclaim, and numerous accolades. The performances and chemistry among the main trio were praised by critics; Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "Gomez is a true co-star in the series and does a superb job of meshing with Martin and Short to form one of the more entertaining albeit unlikely friendship trios in recent memory." Gomez won the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, while was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award, Golden Globe Award, and twice for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She won two times the People's Choice Award for Comedy TV Star of the Year. At the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, she was nominated as a producer for Outstanding Comedy Series, marking only the third time a Latina has ever been among the producing nominees for comedy series in the awards' history. Several journalists expressed disappointment over her failure to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Her co-stars, Steve Martin and Martin Short released a statement saying, "We’re a little dismayed that Selena didn’t get nominated because she’s so crucial to the trio, to the show. She kind of balances us."In 2022, Gomez reprised the voice role of Mavis, and also served as an executive producer, for the fourth and final installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. In response to the rising cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in the United States, Sony Pictures cancelled the film's theatrical plans. The film was released on Amazon Prime Video in January 2022 to mixed reviews. Gomez was nominated as executive producer for a Children's and Family Emmy Award. She collaborated with British band Coldplay on "Let Somebody Go", released as a single in February. For her work as a featured artist on Coldplay's ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres, she was nominated for Album of the Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. In May, Gomez hosted an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live. She later made a cameo appearance on the show in December. In August, Gomez was featured on the remix of Nigerian artist Rema's song, "Calm Down". An international success, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Global 200. The song became Gomez's fourth top-five and ninth top-ten in the U.S., peaking at number five, and reached number one in Canada. It became the longest-running song at the top of the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, with 36 weeks at number one. "Calm Down" reached the top of the Billboard U.S. Pop Airplay chart.Gomez was the focus of the Alek Keshishian-directed "raw and intimate" documentary film, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me. The film premiered at the AFI Fest in November 2022, and was released two days after on Apple TV+ and in select movie theaters. It was met with a positive critical reception upon release; the documentary was praised for mental health transparency. Chris Azzopardi from The New York Times described it as an "honest portrait study of stardom and mental illness". The film received the Seal of Female Empowerment in Entertainment honor by the Critics Choice Association, and also won the iHeartRadio Music Award for Favorite Documentary and the MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Music Documentary. Gomez released the song "My Mind & Me" to coincide with the release of the documentary. The song received the "Film Song of the Year" honor by Variety's Hitmakers listicle, of 2022. "My Mind & Me" was shortlisted for the Best Original Song category at the 95th Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final nominations.Also in November, she teased new music to be released in 2023, followed up by a potential tour. In March 2023, Gomez guest-starred in the Apple TV+ documentary television series Dear.... Gomez will reprise her role as Mabel Mora for the third season of Only Murders in the Building, which will premiere on August 8, 2023.
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