Despacito - Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yanee

Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair of daddies.

In related news, Ricky Martin also has a new song with over 1 billion views.

As does Shakira. BYE BEEBAH!

Enrique Iglesias, 2.2 billion views and counting

500 million Spanish speakers worldwide. Song is hot all over Europe, so that's another 500 million. 80 million US Hispanics. Who needs white Americans?

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 accumulated more than 4.6 billion streams across all platforms since its release in January.

The track, which is currently No. 1 in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, surpasses the previous record holder, Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” (and its various remixes), which has clocked up more than 4.38 billion combined plays, Universal Music Group reports.

“Despacito,” which means “slowly” in Spanish, was fast out the gate. Just hours after the Latin collab arrived on Jan. 13, the Puerto Rican singers had a monster on their hands. The upbeat track set a new record on Vevo by becoming the Spanish-language video with the most views in 24 hours (it collected 5.4 million hits). Another Vevo record fell when “Despacito" become the fastest Spanish-language video to reach 200 million views, which it achieved in 22 days. It's also the fastest ever music video to 2 billion views (154 days).

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Commenting on his record-smashing feat, Fonsi said: "Streaming is a connector for audiences worldwide and it has helped my music reach every corner of the planet. It is truly an honor that ‘Despacito’ is now the most streamed song in history.”

Lucian Grainge, chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group, congratulated Fonsi and everyone who helped make the record a hit. “Luis Fonsi already had the undisputed, biggest song of the year – and now he’s setting even bigger records. Streaming has opened up the possibility of a song with a different beat, from a different culture and in a different language to become a juggernaut of success around the world. My congratulations to Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber, as well as everyone at Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Republic Records and Def Jam, on this tremendous accomplishment.”

Streaming has "democratized music consumption, it has made Latin music increasingly relevant on the charts and it has amplified our songs and videos to a world stage,” comments Jesús Lopez, chairman & CEO of Universal Music Latin America & Iberian Peninsula. “‘Despacito’ has broken every record thanks to Luis Fonsi's talent and creativity, which have positioned him as a pillar of Latin music for the past 20 years. I also congratulate Erika Ender, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber for their valuable contributions, as well as the different teams involved in the success of this song.”

"Despacito" (released on Universal Music Latino / Raymond Braun / SchoolBoy / Def Jam / UMLE / Republic Records) is just the 35th single to top the Billboard Hot 100 for at least 10 weeks. The record for the longest stint at No. 1 is owned Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day,” which ruled for 16 weeks in 1995-96.

Who cares. It's shit. It's the Macarena.

NEXT.

My gym near Wall Street plays it over and over. You should see these insanely hot Wall Street guys shaking their hot bubbles to the rhythm. It's like they can't help themselves. More like this, please!

Lord Jesus have mercy on my fluttering heart!

I love Latino music, but this one is truly a big meh

It's success in the US is because of Justin Bieber, who's on the US version. Otherwise, this would only be a niche song among Latinos.

^ Sweetie, go back to your Doris Day LPs and let the young-uns discuss this.

Twinks singing Despacito

R12, Are you trying to deny that Justin is the reason the song is so successful in the US?

R14, YES. The streaming figures and YT views are WORLDWIDE numbers. Do you not get that?

¡Jesus, qué aburrido!

Sublime. Not as good as the original, but definitely better than the Beebhole.

I don't understand the popularity of this song. It has a lot of elements heard 100 million times in other Spanish language pop songs, so I am not sure why it is so particularly popular with Spanish speakers. It does not have a particularly great (or simplistic enough) hook for English speakers -- other than "DES - pa -CI-tO" repeated a few times within a lot of other swirling words.

I haven't heard the Bieber version.

Is Shakira's entire vocal repertoire partially generated on a synthesizer?

2Cellos have been called savvy entrepeneurs; also A#1 pop-classical instrumental bottom feeders recycling the same keys and techniques. I haven't seen any of them releasing their Dvorak Concerto AFAIK.

I'm still trying to figure out the Gangnam Style dance

Imagine spending the precious moments you have on earth learning to do that dance in the R9 clip

They loved it on The Voice.

R11 The original version was on the Spotify chart long before they collaborated with Bieber, and that's here in Norway!

Here's an absolutely amazing Arabic/Spanish mashup. (Warning: The guitarist is *very* cute.)

Lol @ R12 who is 86 years old and hasn't been near a "young' un" in five decades.

Nice pipes, gurl!

Don't know who the boy on the right is, but...OMG

My opinion of jb is neutral but I must agree his remix version has taken this up to a whole new level.

Will not listen to the Bieber version. The song sounds horrible in English anyway.

The couple at R23 have incredibly accurate Spanish pronunciation. That's a beautiful rendition.

Badi Assad is the sort Latin I prefer.

Any gay covers out there?

It sounds like the music you hear in the restroom of a Chi-Chi's.

I'm not going to click on them.

I still don't understand how some songs get 2 billion hits when they are so damn banal. I guess the vast majority of the world loves shit.

What you don't understand is that your taste is shit, R33.

Is it me or does this video have a "bollywood" production quality to it ?

These monster hits come out of nowhere and then the musicians fade away without a second hit. Totally forgotten a few months later if it even takes that long.

Sorry to break it to you, madam, but both Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee have been around for a long time and are both huge in the Latin music industry. With this song, they've established their footprints firmly in the English mainstream music world.

And their music will be around much longer than your hair.

Twinkie music: easy, satisfying fluff. Hits all the nerve receptors with nary a challenge going down.

But that described a lot of popular music.

R37 someone's publicist? I am not saying you are wrong but the proof of the pudding is in the tasting of their N.A. sophomore effort.

If by "N.A." you mean North American, R38, then you are dumb as dirt.

If you have to ask why, then dirt wins.

Ahem

ATTENTION DLers: NO JUSTIN BEEBQUEEF, PLEASE!

Thanks for your cooperation.

I DID mean North American but I should've said US. Apologies. I was assuming they are from South America. Insult away, its easy.

It's Daddy YANKEE, OP.

As in ♫ Yankee Dudehole went to town on his baloney pony... ♫

Whoa. Ricky has the most beautiful guys in the clip @ R2. Too bad they're not all up in each other's Kool-Aid. At least not in the clip.

What's up with that, Ricky?!

Up until a few weeks go I hadn't heard the song, ever.

A coworker of mine was always going "despacito" had no idea what the fuck he was saying or singing.

It annoyed me just because of that. Then a few weeks ago I heard it on a mostly current-with-lots-of-80's-90's-music station.

Eh, it's a'right.

Who needs white Americans, R? You sound like a bigot.

Sounds like one of the intro songs to a telenovela.

Luis Fonsi is HAWT. I have no clue what he's saying, but he can use me as his disposable cumdump any damn day.

That reason is good as any to buy this garbage music, I guess

Why is it garbage, R49? Is it because you don't understand the language? The lyrics are half of the equation, so if you don't understand the words, your opinion is half-formed. The beat itself is very catchy, but then again, maybe you don't like pop/reggaeton. But of course, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

Millions of people disagree with you, though.

Okay, so I'm liking--nay, loving--this song more and more, and there are so many amazing covers out there. This one's a really good bilingual version (by Kurt Hugo Schneider, of course, together with his gang of cuties).

Another awesome cover. The Spanish is in the Castilian accent.

It's a song about sex sung in Spanish. Revolutionary.

Don't you pay attention, R53? It's a Spanish Revolution. Assimilate now, bitch.

𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽!

Ay

Fonsi

DY

Oh

Oh no, oh no

Oh yeah

Diridiri, dirididi Daddy

Go

Sí, sabes que ya llevo un rato mirándote

Tengo que bailar contigo hoy (DY)

Vi que tu mirada ya estaba llamándome

Muéstrame el camino que yo voy (Oh)

Tú, tú eres el imán y yo soy el metal

Me voy acercando y voy armando el plan

Solo con pensarlo se acelera el pulso (Oh yeah)

Ya, ya me está gustando más de lo normal

Todos mis sentidos van pidiendo más

Esto hay que tomarlo sin ningún apuro

Despacito

Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito

Deja que te diga cosas al oído

Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo

Despacito

Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito

Firmo en las paredes de tu laberinto

Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito (sube, sube, sube)

(Sube, sube)

Quiero ver bailar tu pelo

Quiero ser tu ritmo

Que le enseñes a mi boca

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro

Hasta provocar tus gritos

Y que olvides tu apellido (Diridiri, dirididi Daddy)

(DY) Si te pido un beso ven dámelo

Yo sé que estás pensándolo

Llevo tiempo intentándolo

Mami, esto es dando y dándolo

Sabes que tu corazón conmigo te hace bom, bom

Sabes que esa beba está buscando de mi bom, bom

Ven prueba de mi boca para ver cómo te sabe

Quiero, quiero, quiero ver cuánto amor a ti te cabe

Yo no tengo prisa, yo me quiero dar el viaje

Empecemos lento, después salvaje

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando poquito a poquito

Cuando tú me besas con esa destreza

Veo que eres malicia con delicadeza

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito

Y es que esa belleza es un rompecabezas

Pero pa montarlo aquí tengo la pieza

Despacito

Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito

Deja que te diga cosas al oído

Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo

Despacito

Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito

Firmo en las paredes de tu laberinto

Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito (sube, sube, sube)

(Sube, sube)

Quiero ver bailar tu pelo

Quiero ser tu ritmo

Que le enseñes a mi boca

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro

Hasta provocar tus gritos

Y que olvides tu apellido

Despacito

Vamos a hacerlo en una playa en Puerto Rico

Hasta que las olas griten "¡ay, bendito!"

Para que mi sello se quede contigo

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito

Que le enseñes a mi boca

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito

Hasta provocar tus gritos

Y que olvides tu apellido (DY)

Despacito

1) I'm loving this thread!

2) Boo to the haters!!!

3) I've watched/listened to every single vid posted here.

4) I found one of my own and OMG these guys! =DROOOL=

The Kushner kids getting down:

Realness:

Too gay?

Harold, those poor women are going to break a vagina bone dancing to that!

More ER visits on the public's dime!

These women won't break so easily, Kumar.

I AM going to learn this.

I no longer have a blond wig for that one, R63.

Anyone else here a fan of Amália Rodrigues?

Also, one of the greatest singers of all time, Chavela Vargas. I sorta feel bad placing towering icons like Vargas and Rodrigues in a thread with Bieber and Luis Fonsi

Great cover, R62! Here's the link:

This song wouldn't have gotten any notice if it wasn't for Beiber.

Beiber is the current pop kingmaker with the golden touch.

Another clip of the Cuban hotties from R9

Another hottie!

Even more hotties!

Oh, please. Bitches better enjoy it while they can. Won't last long once Janet releases her next single. Queen will SLAY every record it will make this song look as pathetic as MANdonna's face!

I'm still trying to figure out what "Mmm Bop" means

[quote]I'm still trying to figure out what "Mmm Bop" means

The Hansons have cited it was Queen Janet who was the inspiration for them getting into music.

Some of these covers are just as good as the original, although I tend to prefer the acoustic versions.

R23, R52, and this next one...wow.

Gorgeous Model Type singing Despacito! HAF!

R52, I love the Castellano accent. Des-pah-thi-toh!

His name is Andres Ceballos (R76). Muy guapo! I love Spaniards!

Darren Espanto

Bitch is cray cray! Luv her!

When I was a white hipster in 80's Brooklyn we would drink tall boys and blast latin music all night all summer out my living room windows overlooking noisy Flatbush Ave. Latin music isn't especially good but it goes down easy and feels just right at times.

I am surprised that these songs are being so successful, as they are anything but good - just VERY generic pop with touches of reguetón. The only good one is Enrique Iglesias' "Bailando" - the rest are incredibly bland and mediocre.

R65, Amália Rodrigues has nothing to do with Spanish culture. She was Portuguese. By the way, given the incredibly low standards shown by so many people. I am surprised that Portuguese Pimba music hasn't become somewhat popular.

R66, Chavela Vargas couldn't sing to save her life, and what encumbered was the constant support he received from Pedro Almodóvar, who is well known for sabotaging the careers of talented people and promoting the incompetent who kiss his bloated behind and don't overshadow him. She was awful by any standards.

By the way, if you like this kind of music, this song by the insufferable Daddy Yankee is much better than the saccharine, dullified thing that he has done with Luis Fonsi.

Take it easy with the accents, r82.

Meh... hyped up song straight from the echo chamber of social media. Video is so generic. Men treating women like objects. So sexy... not.

I want R78 in me all the way to the silky pubes.

"Gays, people who like gay things, human beings, mean dogs, not-so-nice cats, ghosts that aren’t too scary, people who like to protest, and witches with good, workable spells: WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF NATIONAL CRISIS"

Hater here. God, this song is so bland and generic, I've tried streaming it on YouTube but have not been able to finish listening to it yet. I'm listening to Trio Los Panchos instead, much better.

[quote]I'm sure you've wore out your Victrola with your original-issue 78s, gramps.

^ meant for the Ancient of Gays @ R87.

LOLOL R31

It's not catchy.

^ Unlike your HPV.

There are only two languages in the world that sound really good in music and they are english and spanish,italian could be third, but it lends itself better for opera.

r33 It's not just the song, it's the zeitgeist. The lyrics to this one were spread on social media a lot (the chorus), and that lead people to the YT video. It's at 1.03 billion views in around 2+ years.

There's also a lot of nostalgia in that video for us olds.

I love Latin music and Despacito is a decent song. My issue is that Despacito is, without challenge, THE most over-played song in the entire history of radio. With "Call Me Maybe" a close second. Despacito is played literally at least twice an hour on every single radio station. It's annoying as hell. And it's true that if Bieber had not collabo'd on it, it wouldn't have been nearly as successful in US/UK/AUS - the English-dominant countries.

Didn't Enrique have a song that was popular in the US, I think it was Ballamous or something like that? Help me out...maybe I'm thinking of someone else...I tried to find the song on YOubute but couldn't find i

Enrique had Bailamos, yes. That was in 1999 or so.

Bailamos, yes, thanks R96, that was a good song

So cute! (I'm the gay one with the "pito" in my mouth)

Sexy sexy sexy goof

This truly has become an international hit.

Very cool mashup, but you have to skip the first minute of silly banter though.

R85, I also love Alvaro Soler. These Spaniards are HAF!

Enrique also had Bailando recently. These are all nice Zumba songs, fraus love them.

El Patito! (Ironically, "patito" is a disparaging term in Spanish equivalent to "little fag. I wonder if that was intentional on Sesame Street's part to use Ernie as the focus of the vid.)

It's official!

Crying

The song is one year old today.

I hate this song

He's fat now.

Most of the artists here mentioned are white and Americans. In case you don't know, America is a continent and the first to discover America were Spaniards and Portuguese. R5

R5 hails from a crackhead infested childhood! I repeat: Beverly Leslie is a homosexual.

Its an awful song. Who knew that everyone but me liked it?!