Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. While Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s massive ...

It’s been less than a year and a half since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee uploaded the official video that accompanies their soon-to-be smash “Despacito” on YouTube, but already, it has risen higher and ...

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 ...

Making history, that is how they do it down in Puerto Rico... The official music video for Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito broke YouTube records back in August when it came the most viewed ...

Luis Fonsi’s global hit “Despacito” has broken a new digital record. The official video of the catchy Spanish-language track, featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, on Wednesday surpassed 5 ...

Latin artists were behind six of the ten most-streamed music videos on YouTube By Lars Brandle The “Latin revolution”. The “Despacito” effect. It’s no secret Latin music blew up in a big way in 2017, ...

"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 ...

Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber are set to reclaim the top spot on the Official Singles Chart this week for a third stint at the top. Despacito leads today's Official Chart Update and is ...

In January, Victor Martinez, president of Hispanic Broadcasting Radio and programmer for multiple Latin pop stations in the Northeast, opened an email announcing that the Puerto Rican singer Luis ...