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And thirdly, the set's final single, "Loaded" (which was actually released commercially, indicating a base level of intelligence on the label's part), bore more than a striking resemblance to his breakthrough hit "Livin' la Vida Loca," but, by the time of its release, the magic had petered off.

In other words, most of Ricky's fans, who had already bought the album, would have had to purchase it all over again in order to have the hit version of the song.

Instead, the album was re-released with a single of the song clumsily attached to it (with a rubber band, no less). Unbelievably, the version with Christina Aguilera wasn't released as a commercial single. Second, the album's follow-up, "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely," was remixed and refashioned into a duet with red-hot Anglo-Latina vixen Christina Aguilera - the album version is solo Ricky, and features largely acoustic accompaniment, as opposed to the remix's more bombastic instrumentation.

Top Ten, wasn't even released as a commercial single. First, the album's lead-off single, the electrifying (and terribly titled) "She Bangs" (arguably one of the best songs of 2000), which failed to make the U.S. Several reasons could be given for this, but the most obvious is lousy marketing. Ricky Martin's second English-language album Sound Loaded did not fare nearly as well as its earth-shattering predecessor, even though the quality of the material is probably one notch higher.