Five years ago this Friday (May 27), “Despacito” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made global history. The instant-classic single (Universal Music Latino), already a runaway smash in its ...

Apart from its nearly unprecedented success, the most remarkable thing about Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s 2017 global smash hit “Despacito” may be how quickly it came together. Today (Tuesday, March ...

The creators say the smash hit song was created in a few hours. — -- “Despacito,” the inescapable song of the summer, dominated the charts and infected our brains with its undeniably catchy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrea Bossi is a New York-based contributing reporter covering music. This article is more than 5 years old. Luis Fonsi and Daddy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. After a tense week when nobody knew what was going to happen on the ...

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," 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, ...

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 ...

The last time a non-English-language composition won the Grammy for song of the year, Dwight D. Eisenhower was President. The song was “Volare,” a jaunty Italian crooner from singer Domenico Modugno ...

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 ...