It’s been less than a year and a half since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee uploaded the official video that accompanies their soon-to-be smash “Despacito” on YouTube, but already, it has risen higher and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. While Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s massive ...

It’s official: “Despacito” is now the most streamed song of all time, and it got there in just six months. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit original song and its remix featuring Justin Bieber have ...

I didn’t expect that, amidst chants of “build the wall,” the song of the summer would be predominantly Spanish — only the third Spanish-language song to reach number one on the Hot 100. At the time of ...

"Despacito" is a lot of things: it's the song you can't get stuck out of your head, the one playing from every car or set of headphones, and thanks to it's new global streaming record of 4.6 billion ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee can be proud knowing the music video for “Despacito” has reached over 8 billion views on Youtube. Released in 2017, the song will go down in history as one of the most ...

"Despacito," by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, dominated the summer of 2017. We've heard it in bodegas, at the beach, in the park, at professional baseball games, on TV talk shows, ...

The fusion of a ballad/pop singer with the king of reggaeton and a little "Beliebing" has lead to the biggest song of the summer and possibly one of the biggest songs in a long time. Luis Fonsi and ...

How did Despacito become the song of the summer? Slowly. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's original version of the track debuted in January, becoming a global hit that beckoned a remix with Justin Bieber ...

YouTube has been hacked to delete Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” music video, the most-viewed clip on the platform. The Spanish-language hit, which has been viewed over 5 billion times, ...