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 ...

Luis Fonsi hit song "Despacito," featuring Daddy Yankee has set a new YouTube record, becoming the first video on the digital platform to reach 6 billion views. You could say that the song continues ...

When a friend of Luis Fonsi's passed him a film script, the global pop star agreed to look at it as a courtesy. “I wasn’t looking (to act). I wasn’t auditioning. It wasn’t something that was next on ...

After Bruno Mars swept the 60th annual Grammy Awards last month, Luis Fonsi, who failed to nab a single trophy for his megahit "Despacito," sends the "24K Magic" singer a sweet spirited message.

From "Despacito" to "DtMF" to "Telepatía" and more, Billboard ranks all the hits that reached No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs every ...

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 ...

Last summer, one song reigned supreme. "Despacito," the Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit that became a crossover smash once Justin Bieber joined in, first topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in ...

Movements are never the product of a single action. And yet many of the recent developments in Latin music are labeled pre- or post-“Despacito.” In the summer of 2017, this juggernaut of a song ...

Luis Fonsi, co-writer and singer of the massive global hit “Despacito” and many others, has sold his entire publishing catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners, the global alternative asset management ...

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