Luis Fonsi woke up on an ordinary morning in Puerto Rico with a single word in his head. Not a melody first, not a chord change, just “despacito.” He ran to his studio before it evaporated. That is ...

Geologists may have found one of the world’s greatest treasures. Some say it’s too dangerous to dig up. Missing 1200-pound giraffe Gracie found 2 weeks after wandering away from ranch in viral search ...

In the early '90s grunge took the world by storm. A stream of bands from the US Pacific Northwest, and especially Seattle, arrived on the music scene with their stripped-back, raw sounds, emotive ...

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 ...

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It's been five years since the groundbreaking song hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, where it remained for 16 straight weeks. By Leila Cobo Co-Chief Content Officer Five years ago this Friday (May 27), ...

The great songwriter Leonard Cohen once said: “If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.” Sometimes, it really is as simple as that—for as much time as you spend sharpening ...

In Leila Cobo’s new book Decoding “Despacito”: An Oral History of Latin Music, the author and Billboard’s VP of Latin Music breaks down the genre’s biggest singles of the past 50 years in the words of ...

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 ...

MODEL and actress Zuleyka Rivera is one to watch as she helps make records online. The Puerto Rican, 33, is the dancer in the video for Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s 2017 song Despacito, which has ...