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When Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's runaway hit "Despacito" broke the global streaming record on Wednesday it was an impressive feat for sure. But the record-setting run of more than 4.6 billion… By ...

“Despacito” means “slowly” in Spanish—yet its rise has been anything but. The song, performed by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, reached the milestones of 2 billion and 2.5 billion views faster ...

"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 ...

The last time a song sung primarily in Spanish hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts was in 1996, with Los Del Rio’s “Macarena.” Now, that dance-craze-causer has a successor in Luis Fonsi and Daddy ...

Olympic figure skaters Shiyue Wang and Xinyu Liu of China and Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin of South Korea danced to Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Grammy-nominated hit "Despacito" in back-to-back ...

"Despacito," the Spanish-language summer smash by Puerto Rican stars Luis Fonsi and "king of reggaetón" Daddy Yankee, is now the most-streamed song in history. On Wednesday, Universal Music, which ...

Something is happening. In the interest of full disclosure: I will freely admit that I’m not sure what is happening, but it’s something. Like monkeys at typewriters eventually banging out the complete ...