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You've heard "Despacito," the summer's most unignorable song, right? The English-language remix of Luis Fonsi's Latin crossover hit, featuring Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber, just scored its eighth ...

The song won five trophies during Sunday's ceremony. By Leila Cobo, Billboard.com Capping an extraordinary year, on Sunday night, “Despacito” became the Latin song with the most wins ever in the ...

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 ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" has officially surpassed Justin Bieber’s 2015 hit 'Sorry' as the most streamed track of all time. The song has been played over 4.6 billion times across ...

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It's almost impossible to pinpoint an exact moment in music history when the plates shift. But looking back at the last decade in Latin music, it's easy, now to see that the release of "Despacito" by ...

"Despacito," the hit song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has officially become the most streamed song in music history just six months after its release — nothing despacito (slow) about that record.

"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, ...

“Despacito” is breaking records as one of the summer’s hottest songs, but for the singer-songwriter behind the track, it’s also a love letter to his home island of Puerto Rico. “I wanted to pay homage ...