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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. 2017 single by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee "Despacito" Single by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee from the album Vida Language Spanish Released January 13, 2017 Recorded 2016 Studio Noisematch (Miami, US) Genre Reggaeton Latin pop Length 3: 47 Label Universal Latin Songwriter(s ...
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Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis ˈfonsi]), is a Puerto Rican singer.He is known for his soulful and dance oriented songs, most notably 2017's "Despacito".
Luis Fonsi: It [ended up being] one of the first songs on the album.I did a demo with my guitar. Then Erika came in, we wrote the song, I wrote the choruses, did the demo top to bottom, and kept ...
Vida is Fonsi's first album in five years, [2] and features the singles "Despacito" (both the original version and remix), "Échame la Culpa", "Calypso" (both the original version and remix), "Imposible" and "Sola". [3] Commercially the album sold over one million copies in the United States, topping the Billboard Top Latin Albums.
As of 2025, 368 Latin songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, 1 in the 1950s, 1 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 5 in the 1990s, 36 in the 2000s, 80 in the 2010s and 242 in the 2020s. A total of 25 singles managed to reach the top 10 and 4 have peaked at number 1. Only 5 Latin songs reached the top 10 between 1958 and 2016.
The song later saw a resurgence in 2024 where a version of the song covered in the TV show Glee saw usage on the social media platform TikTok. [309] [310] "Shooting Stars" – A 2009 song by Australian band Bag Raiders that went viral in 2017. The song is usually accompanied with people falling with surreal, spacey backgrounds. [311]
The song received positive reviews from music critics. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called the song "a jaunty, celebratory number", and felt Lovato singing in clipped Spanish is "only marginally less comfortable than the bumpy-edged English-language semi-soul she employs elsewhere on the song". [18]