Latina crossover queen Shakira conquers the charts with hit single ?Hips Don?t Lie?, featuring Wyclef Jean, amassing a record-setting 266,500 downloads, accounting for its upsurge on Hot Digital Songs and Billboard Hot 100.

Shakira ?Hips Don?t Lie?, went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June, becoming one of the summer's biggest hits and reviving sales of Oral Fixation as well as Shakira's entire back catalog. The track also crowns the Hot Latin Songs chart.

Shakira hips mp3 is Billboard Hot 100?s greatest digital sales gainer. Shakira "Hips Don?t Lie" had been held back by Epic from the digital spectrum in a bid to increase sales of Shakira's re-issued "Oral Fixation Vol. 2" album. It however shatters the one-week download mark of 175,500 set by D4L's "Laffy Taffy" in the post-Christmas week last year.

Meanwhile, the Colombian superstar nabs six Grammy nominations, including two for "La Tortura," her duet with Alejandro Sanz.

Shakira leads the fray of the pop dominated list of nominees for the seventh annual Latin Grammys, with six nods.

Shakira 2006 mp3 sweep comes on the intensity of her Spanish-language album Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1, which is up for album of the year. The single "La Tortura," is nominated for song and record of the year, as well.

With emotional vocals that transcend language, pinup girl looks, and the sensual moves of a belly dancer, Shakira indeed got all it takes to be the most successful Latina crossover artist. The petite dynamo possesses the most influential pop music hip shake since Elvis Presley?s shook the world on The Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago.

It's the combination of talent that has made Shakira a huge star around the world. Shakira my Hips Don't Lie collaboration with Wyclef Jean remains the No. 1 single in the UK for three consecutive weeks. A few weeks earlier, she tied Red Hot Chili Peppers with the most nominations for MTV's Video Music Awards, garnering seven.

Despite her broad-based success, Shakira managed to retain her Latino following by remaining true to her roots.

In a recent sold out show at LA's Staples Center, the Latina crossover queen showed off her assets. More than half her set consisted of songs sung in Spanish, yet they were performed with such flair that even the English-only fans were entertained.

After achieving superstardom throughout Latin America, Colombian-born Shakira became Latin pop's biggest female crossover artist since Jennifer Lopez broke down the doors to English-language success.

Famed for her aggressive, rock-influenced approach, Shakira maintained an extraordinary degree of creative control over her music, especially for a female artist; she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her own material, and in the process gained a reputation as one of Latin music's most ambitiously poetic lyricists.

When she released her first English material in late 2001, she became an instant pop sensation, thanks to her quirky poetic sense and a sexy video image built on her hip-shaking belly dance moves.

Born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, into a poor family. Her mother was a native Colombian and her father was of Lebanese descent, and so as a child Shakira soaked up music from both cultures; she also listened heavily to English-language rock & roll, listing Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Police, the Cure, and Nirvana as her favorite bands.