In May 1995, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold, for shipments of 500,000 units. Within three weeks, it was certified platinum for increments of one million units. "Amor Prohibido" became the first Tejano record to receive a platinum certification. The "Sydney Morning Herald" called the event "an achievement" for a Spanish-language album which was not "the music industry's language of choice." By June 1995, it had sold 1.5 million units in the US, of which 100,000 were sold in Puerto Rico alone. , the album has been certified 36× platinum (Latin), denoting 2.14 million album-equivalent units sold. "Amor Prohibido" is the second-highest certified Latin album in the United States trailing only her posthumous album "Dreaming of You" (1995). "Amor Prohibido" is the fourth best-selling Latin album of all-time in the US with over 1.246 million copies sold . The album has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. The recording has been ranked as the best-selling Tejano album of the 1990s, and the best-selling Tejano album of all-time.