"Despacito" means "slowly" in Spanish, but the song's rise to the top has been anything but slow. In a mere six months after its release date, the hit song made history on Wednesday for being the most ...

NEW YORK (AP) — "Despacito" is easily the song of the summer with the success of the hit stretching beyond Spanish-speaking audiences to make it the year's most recognized song in the U.S. and ...

Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee announced that he is leaving the music industry to devote his life to Jesus. Yankee, whose real name is Ramon Luis Ayala Rodriguez, has produced many popular songs ...

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 ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankees Despacito remix featuring Justin Bieber is number one most played on the Playdatachart for week 29 of 2017. The Playdata radio chart is based on measurements from ...

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

The racy Spanish-language global smash hit throbbing with sexual innuendo racked up another record Friday, supplanting 'See You Again'. As of early Friday afternoon on the US East Coast, “Despacito” ...

Only a handful of No. 1 hits have arrived in the chart's top spot. But holding that position for a second week is even rarer.

Musician Daddy Yankee, who guest stars on the smash international hit "Despacito," is appealing for help for his native Puerto Rico after the island was battered by Hurricane Maria. "A lot of people ...

Salleh Said Keruak, communications and multimedia minister, told AFP that his ministry received numerous complaints... Malaysian officials received complaints over the steamy lyrics of Despacito, the ...