With this song, Santana also achieved a strange historical record. He became the artist who had waited longer than anyone else between his first charting single and his first #1. In 1969, “Tango” had reached #56 in the United States, and thirty years later “Smooth” finally took him to #1. This practice, bringing older rock artists together with younger, commercially hot names in order to reintroduce them to the public, became known in music journalism as “The Carlos Santana Effect,” precisely because of the success of Supernatural.