27, 1994ġ4, "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston, Nov. 3, 1996ġ4, "I'll Make Love to You," Boyz II Men, Aug. 11, 1997ġ4, "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)," Los Del Rio, Aug. 17, 2015ġ4, "I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas, July 11, 2009ġ4, "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey, June 4, 2005ġ4, "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight," Elton John, Oct. 2, 1995ġ4, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017ġ6, "One Sweet Day," Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, Dec. 1ġ6 (to date), "Despacito," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. The Longest-Leading Billboard Hot 100 No. 4, 1958, inception, here's an updated look at the titles with the most time on top:
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1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart's Aug. Streaming has helped us share our happiness.As "Despacito" (released on Universal Music Latino / Raymond Braun / SchoolBoy / Def Jam / UMLE / Republic Records) moves into a first-place tie for the most weeks at No. “There's a really interesting movement within our own culture that's bleeding over, for lack of a better term, into different languages and cultures and countries. “Latin music has already been here and it's not like we are re-discovering the wheel, but I think that music is in constant evolution and I do think that streaming has a lot to do with it,” said Fonsi.
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Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan). In the opening letter of RIAA’s 2018 report, COO Michele Ballantyne stated that Latin Music is experiencing a “renaissance.” While streaming services and social media have become an important discovery tool for Latin music, Fonsi said it’s important to remember that Latin music and bi-lingual collaborations have always been around (etc. “They know about the music and maybe they would be a little bit of afraid because of the language barrier." “ opens that door to sort of introduce to a new audience what Latin Music is all about, what my music is all about,” he said. For example, how the "Despacito (Remix)" reached a whole new generation just because Bieber featured on the track. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images) Getty Imagesįonsi also credits social media as a place where Latin music can expand and reach new audiences. Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Apin Las Vegas, Nevada. LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 26: Luis Fonsi poses with his awards backstage at the 2018 Billboard Latin. Elections and content from the Premios Lo Nuestro and Premos Juventud awards. In late April, Twitter announced a new content partnership with Univision “to better serve the Hispanic community.” The partnership will target Spanish-language entertainment, sports and news content on Twitter, including Univision’s coverage of the 2020 U.S. “Eighty-four percent of Latino users on Twitter say Latin music is extremely important.” That’s where movements start, culture is created and trends are birthed,” Botero said during the #LaNuevaMezcla panel.
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While on the social front, Twitter has been a huge driver of conversations, trends and music discovery-especially for Latin music. In 2018, the Latin music business grew 18% to $413 million, with streaming making up 93% of total Latin music revenues, according to RIAA’s 2018 Year-End Latin Music Industry Revenue Report. Streaming totals include paid subscriptions from platforms like Apple Music and Spotify Premium, which grew 48% year-over-year to $239 million in 2018. Luis Fonsi said in an interview with Forbesįonsi continued: “I think ‘Despacito’ was a huge part of it, but before ‘Despacito’ there had been amazing collaborations and artists doing you know, bilingual songs and collaborating with more American artists.”
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“I definitely think there was a before and after ….but I'm not ever going to take full credit for the Latin movement." In just under one year, the song accumulated 1.3 billion streams, earning the title as the most streamed song in 2017. “It was just that everything lined up correctly and I think that was the true success of the song, the fact that it wasn’t forced.”īieber’s vocals were added to the “Despacito (Remix)" and the track was re-released in April 2017. “Obviously when Justin did that remix, he sings a bit in English.but it’s really a Spanish song,” he said. He was doing what he did every single day: writing a new record. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for NARAS) 2018 Lester Cohenįonsi recalled the making of the “Despacito (Remix)" as “completely organic” and “not forced.” When Fonsi initially wrote the song, he wasn’t trying to cross over into a new market or create the next bi-lingual smash. 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on Januin New York City. NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Recording artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee perform onstage during the.