In an exclusive excerpt below, Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun and others involved in the creation of the global hit — both its original version and the Bieber-featuring remix ...

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 ...

Imagine a world without “Despacito,” the global phenomenon that shattered the boundaries of the Latin market. Co-written by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Erica Ender, Bieber, Poo Bear and Marty James, the ...

Justin Bieber is on one of the hottest songs of the year, but he doesn’t know the words. The Biebs appears on Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi and reggaetón star Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito.” The song is ...

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 ...