"Me Gustas Tú" is the second single from Manu Chao's second solo album, Próxima Estación: Esperanza. One of the artist's most popular songs worldwide, Its lyrics have a simple but rhythmic structure and are mostly in Spanish with parts the chorus in French. The song, as well as two other tracks from the same album, "La primavera" and "Infinita tristeza", feature the same background music. In fact, on the album, "La primavera" fades and leads into "Me Gustas Tú".
Music video A music video was produced for the song in Urrao, Colombia, featuring Manu Chao dancing and singing the lyrics while some spare words from it appear on the screen, always surrounded by a frame of colourful patterns. A blonde woman (Spanish actress Paz Gómez) dances beside him and sings at the end of the song.
Lyrics "" means "I like you" in Spanish (literally, "You are pleasing to me"). The text "" is to the radio station Radio Reloj.
Commercial performance The song reached number one in several European and Latin American countries, becoming Chao's most commercially successful single. , it had accumulated more than 300 million plays on YouTube.
Legacy In 2025, Italian singer Alfa released "A me mi piace", featuring Chao, whose chorus reprises the melody and part of the lyrics of "Me Gustas Tú"; the song topped the Italian FIMI singles chart.
Track listing CD single "Me Gustas Tú" – 3:58 "La primavera" – 1:52 "Infinita tristeza" – 3:56
Charts
Weekly charts + 2001 weekly chart performance for "Me Gustas Tú" Chart (2001) Peakposition Chile (IFPI) 6 Colombia (ASINCOL) 3 Portugal (AFP) 3 Romania (Romanian Top 100) 2 US Billboard Latin Pop Airplay 27 Venezuela (APFV) 1 + 2025 weekly chart performance for "Me Gustas Tú" Chart (2025) Peakposition Israel International Airplay (Media Forest) 20
Year-end charts + 2001 year-end chart performance for "Me Gustas Tú" Chart (2001) Position Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 66 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) 47 Brazil (Crowley) 69 Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) 43 France (SNEP) 22 Romania (Romanian Top 100) 44 Spain (PROMUSICAE) 4 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 41 + 2023 year-end chart performance for "Me Gustas Tú" Chart (2023) Position Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 75
Certifications
See also List of number-one hits of 2001 (Italy) List of number-one singles of 2001 (Spain)
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