Despacito Thesis

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“Despacito”, it would be surprising if someone in today’s society did not recognize the chart-topping song. Before Justin Bieber featured on the track, which sent it to Billboard Music Hot 100 Chart number one position, it originally was “… fronted by two of Latin music’s biggest stars … [and] was performing very well on the Hot 100 on its own” (McIntyre). In addition to the song being in the Hot 100, twice, its YouTube music video exploded in popularity. It has been actually more successful in countries where Spanish is not the first or even second official language; part of the videos 2.5 billion views on YouTube come from countries like “Italy (146 million) [views], … Indonesia (41 million), … [and] Israel (18 million). ‘Despacito’ is