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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This week on the Hot 100, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin ...

DESPACITO is Justin Bieber's global hit which topped the charts around the world. So what exactly are the lyrics to Luis Fonsi's Despacito remix, featuring Bieber and Daddy Yankee and what do they ...

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 ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, crowns the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated 5/27), rising 3-1. Among highlights for the new leader, it’s the first mostly ...

After rising the ranking and conquering the Hot 100 in spectacular fashion, “Despacito” is finally on its way down the singles listing in a major way, and it might not be featured on the chart for too ...

The last time Billboard’s Hot 100 had a new No. 1 song, the United States was still in the Paris climate accord. The Senate hadn’t even started Obamacare repeal, let alone botched it. North Korea hadn ...

Could it be that we already know the Song of the Summer? This year, contenders are taking their turns atop Billboard’s Hot 100 exceptionally early and rapidly. Just since late April, the revolving ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams analyzed the hit song "Despacito" in a copyright lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida on Thursday, when she found its writers had not copied an earlier ...