With a 57th week atop the list, the song sets the new standard for longevity.

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"Despacito," the hit song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has officially become the most streamed song in music history just six months after its release — nothing despacito (slow) about that record.

The two tracks share the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart in its nearly 40-year-old history.

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee can be proud knowing the music video for “Despacito” has reached over 8 billion views on Youtube. Released in 2017, the song will go down in history as one of the most ...

Despite several minutes of pro-Immigrant, pro-DREAMer posturing during the televised ceremony, the Grammy Awards snubbed the best-selling Spanish-language song of all time. Not once, not twice, but ...

"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 ...

"Despacito" may be the most-streamed song in the world, but at least one country is not a fan: Malaysia. The Muslim-majority country has pulled the Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber track off ...

"Despacito," by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, dominated the summer of 2017. We've heard it in bodegas, at the beach, in the park, at professional baseball games, on TV talk shows, ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” is now the most-viewed YouTube video of all time. It has more than 2,997,026,945 views, and, as Vulture points out, it’s only been out since January. That ...

It was a cultural moment in a year of swift changes. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Much like the #MeToo movement brought ...