Due to the tremendous success of the double album in any of its editions, the standard, the clear translucent, the smoke gray translucent, and the red translucent, with high sales exceeding 500,000 copies, earning it a platinum record in Mexico, decided to release the two albums separately, each in its original format, produced by in late 1988 paired with a green translucent edition to match the album cover, and IX, this one, produced by and in early 1989 paired with a blue translucent edition to match the album cover. However, the rearrangement of the songs ended up adjusting to the order in which they were promoted on radio and television, so and IX each separately continued with the format already established by.
In the end, due to the pressure being exerted by to leave and launch a solo career, both individual albums,, which was already intended to be released individually in late 1988, and IX, this one, were released in late 1988 at the same time as the green translucent edition. At this point, the blue translucent edition was canceled and all efforts were focused on releasing (1988), so the two-LP edition of the album was released by randomly combining two records from any of the previously released editions: the standard, the clear translucent, the smoke gray translucent, the red translucent, and the green translucent. This made the green translucent edition the most difficult for collectors to obtain because it was the one that had only one print run pressed, thus becoming the crown jewel.