Ahora Te Puedes Marchar
1987 single by Luis Miguel
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"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" (in English: "Now You Can Leave") is a song by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, Soy Como Quiero Ser (1987). Written by Ivor Raymonde, Luis Gómez-Escolar, and Mike Hawker, it is a Spanish-language adaptation of the 1964 song "I Only Want to Be with You" by Dusty Springfield, though the song differs lyrically.
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| Single by Luis Miguel | ||||
| from the album Soy Como Quiero Ser | ||||
| Language | Spanish | |||
| B-side | "Sunny" | |||
| Released | 1987 | |||
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| Length | 3:15 | |||
| Label | Warner Music Latina | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Juan Carlos Calderón | |||
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Background and promotion
In 1987, Luis Miguel released his fifth studio album Soy Como Quiero Ser, via Warner Music Latina. The track "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" was released as the album's lead single. The song is a Spanish-language adaptation of Dusty Springfield's 1964 single "I Only Want to Be with You", with the translated lyrics being written by Luis Gómez-Escolar.[1] Contrary to the original song, the Spanish lyrics find Miguel telling a former lover "now you can walk away", after not having been a good partner.
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" was featured as the first track on Miguel's greatest hits album, Grandes Exitos (2005).[2] The song was additionally released as "Agora Você Pode Ir" on the 1988 Portuguese-language release of Soy Como Quiero Ser.[3]
Chart performance
The song entered several Latin American record charts, published by El Informador. It topped charts in Mexico and Santiago, and peaked at number 9 in Panama.[4] In the US, it went on to be Miguel's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart,[5] making Miguel at the time the youngest artist to top the chart at 17 years old.[citation needed]
Charts
Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Spain (Promusicae)[7] | Platinum | 60,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
Super Junior version
South Korean boy band Super Junior released the cover of "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" on October 8, 2018, as the fourth track on their Latin pop extended play One More Time.[8] On March 2, 2019, they released a music video for the song as a promotion for their tour Super Show 7S.[9] The video is a tribute to its original iteration and was shot to mimic its cinematography, with the members of the band taking turns acting as Miguel.[10][11] Since its release, the song has become a staple of Super Junior's tour setlist and was performed in the Latin American legs of Super Show 9: Road (2023),[12] and Super Show 10 (2025).[13] In addition, they had also performed the song at the Telehit 25th anniversary concert in Mexico,[14] and at the two-day concert SMTown Special Stage in Santiago.[15]