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for ''Lovers Are Lunatics'') is the fourth

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by Mexican

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band

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, released on 2 October 2006, through

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and Movic Records. To promote the album, three singles were released. The first, " Narcicista Por Excelencia", including its music video, were premiered on Los 10+ Pedidos on

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. It was notably nominated for the

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in 2008. It is the highest-selling album in their catalog to date, and was later certified gold and double platinum by AMPROFON for shipments of over 250,000 copies in Mexico. It also peaked at number one on the

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. The song is a reference to the so-called Cumbres case that occurred months before its release, where a young man named Diego Santoy Riveroll took the lives of two children, siblings of his ex-partner Erika.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from album liner notes: ;Panda * José Madero – vocals, guitar * Ricardo Treviño – bass, guttural vocals * Jorge Vázquez – drums * Arturo Arredondo – lead guitar ;Production *Adrián "Rojo" Treviño – producer, mixer *Francisco “Kiko” Lobo de la Garza – executive producer *Jaime Cavazos –

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at OVU Studios *Rodrigo Mendoza – recording assistant *Gerardo "El Oso" García – studio tech *Beto Ramos – drum tech *Mario Videgaray – art direction, design *Beto Garza – illustration ;Additional musicians *Marcelo Treviño – keyboards *Alfonso Herrera – choirs

Charts

Certifications

Accolades

The album was nominated for the

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in 2008, but lost to

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References

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