DESPACITO

There's not much difference between the original and Bieber version ... about a third of the song has Bieber vocal over it, the rest of the song is the same...that said the original is a lot better...the intro especially adds a lot compared to Bieber.

Will be the most viewed video on youtube ever by the end of the summer.

It was the Bieber version i listened to kenbo

Crap.

This song got another 100 million hits in the last 3 days.Its a must listen because we have history in the making.
is it the greatest of the greatest songs ever recorded?,its heading that way!.

A TERRIBEL TUNE! Made popular by drunken reprobates who listen to it to remind them of the fact tat they can't remember anything about their drunken debauched holiday in Magaluf, Torremelinos. Benidorm or some other tatty  Spanish resort. I hope this clarifies the matter Now- if you want a good holiday video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCYHldJi_g

it has now hit number 1 spot in 54 countries and the last count there were 196 countries in the world.Thats some going.
I understand Slicer you are entitled to your opinion but there has to be something wrong somewhere in the corradors of your music mind when 2340000000000 people disagree with you ,but we value your opinion.

And if rumours are correct it could be number 1 for the next 100 years ,I wonder will anybody hear it if they go to Spain on their Summer holidays

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
its now only 50 million plays away from 2.5 billion hits,have YOU listened to this song yet.Are you going to be part of music history .THIS SONG IS CERTAIN TO BE THE MOST POPULAR SONG EVER RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND,dont take my word for it "just play the song and you will agree with the other 2.5 billion people who has listened to it."

McDonalds and Coca Cola are also number 1 everywhere....
It ain't no Living La Vida Loca.....
It is not far off absolute tripe...
Anything else??

ho ho,this song got another 10 million hits yesterday,its screaming to the top of the  music history charts at the speed of light.
Looks like Brass has an ear for music.dont forget it was Brass that told you first about this record breaking song.

Everywon is entitle to his, her, its, himhers or herhims opinion. Just because a million squillion megamillion peeps like it, don't mean its quality. Will be forgotten in  40 years time, unlike the Beatles, Stones etc. But as long as you, Me Neck like it, that is all wot matters, innit.

its now 16 million hits away from 2.5 BILLION views,Surely it must be the greatest song ever,you either love it or hate it but one thing is certain ,its taken the world by storm =number one in 60 countries and every football supporter in latin America sings this song at every game,what has DESPACITO got that no other song ever had.looks like it will go down in music history as the greatest of the greatest songs ever recorded.whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

http://tinyurl.com/y7aczr7e

ONLY 4 million away now from 2.5 BILLION PLAYS .

I'm too deaf now to be able to hear what this sounds like, but the lyrics read like some Paul Whitehouse sketch off the Fast Show ... Et-e-te-te-teth fellathio Chris Waddle despathito.

Can someone please tell me what I am missing, this is a completly bang average tune, I don't get it

WHY does this have 2.5 billion views, yet again I can only assume it's programmed software refreshing the video constantly to get up in the views rankings.

You're not missing anything screaming, your deafness in this instance is a blessing, it's noise pollution, as most modern music is.

only 2 million away now from 2.5 billion.Its the fastest selling record in music history,i think the lyrics have a lot to do with the success.When translated the lyrics take on a mind of their own(if you know what I mean)

And in the latino version an odd miss quotation can be picked up that sounds like something else .
And Fonsi himself said on the video that most of the cast were trying to make babies (this was suppose to be a joke)but it was miss quoted by the media.

Despacito hits the 2.5 billion plays.Whoa ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
its like the Voyager spacecraft it will go on for ever.

This song is about to become more famous than Jesus Christ ,2.6 billion latest count.

2.649,000,000.latest count,wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Most streamed song of all time now too 4.6 billion. Monster song!

Can someone please tell me what I am missing, this is a completly bang average tune, I don't get it


It all stems from a genre called Reggaeton where Daddy Yankee works his stuff. Mixture of Caribbean and latin/spanish music. The genre is huge in latin countries,the top tunes often get over a billion on youtube. Reggaeton can be quite aggressive though and is too an acquired taste , see Gasolina , a previous top 5 hit for DY. Now take the generic Reggaeton beat add some melodic latin pop and you have a hit. People mention Bieber but the song was already silly big before he got involved. What makes it even more astonishing is the speed the song has spread and broke the records. Just over 6 months after its release is very quick to post such numbers. I think people browsing the global charts on Spotify is what has done it. Before it was number 1 the US and UK around April I was browsing the country charts and it was number 1 everywhere i looked...places like Germany?!

I think that of all the 66 countries that it has hit the number 1 spot,22 of the countries have their own version of the words.
even north koria,there is also now a despacito dance.and its going to be the biggest monster song of all time.
it has got 21 million hits or plays on youtube in the last 24 hours.
IT seems that the song has a mind of its own.
I ordered a copy of the single cd in January on amazon and it cost me 10 quid(postage included)but because I ordered so early it was one of the first batch released .I am now told that I have a very valuable piece of music worth a few grand and it is a collectors item.

There is also a Miss WORLD beauty who took part in the video and her earning shot up for appearances from 10 grand a photo shoot or appearance to open shops ,or model clothes,to 250 grand per day to do the same appearances.And anyone who appeared in the video became millionaires before march.even the children,and the old guys sitting round the table have it made.

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
another 15 million plays so far today,its now 315 million away from the 3 billion,and with the last week in july and the first week in August being most popular holiday time I think it will hit the 3 billion in the next 4 weeks.
So anyone going to Spain in the next few weeks on holiday ,listen out for Despacito."You will do well to avoid hearing it,in fact I bet you will end up singing it"enjoy your holiday.

Another 15 million plays during the night its now reached the dizzy heights of 2.7 Billion (repeat=Billion)plays.

There is also a Miss WORLD beauty who took part in the video

Oh she is hot as just back from Spain get the feeling they are sick of Despactio surprisingly didn't hear it that much..plenty of SUBEME LA RADIO! by Enrique though.

Interestingly Despacito lost it's UK number 1 chart status last week due to the silly new charts rules meaning 300:1 streams per sales for songs over 10 weeks old and 3 consecutive weeks of slow down.

The Rihanna tune that went number 1 was still on a ratio of 150:1 streams per sale, even then only just made it.

Despacito was the most stream track by a distance....looks like this week even with the handicap they've introduced to speed up the chart it may well go back to for its third stint at number 1 and 10 non-consecutive week

its 200 million hits away on youtube from the 3 billion,but its doing 30 million a day,and overall including spotify and the rest of the music sites its has already reached over 4.6 billion plays ,its serious stuff and nobody can pin point the real reason why its so popular.

2,819,000,000 WOW.

2821,000,000 faster than the speed of light.
the count down is on another week and it will hit the 3 BILLION.

"hay Fonsi D Y "2835,000,000

It's getting there, slowly, slowly!

2839,000,000.

Best pop song that I've heard in possibly 30 years. The chorus is particularly good. A great tune and I love Latin rhythms. In fact I play quite a few Latin rhythms in the various jazz outfits that I play with.

Played this one about 50 times since I first discovered it only about 3 weeks ago. I know it's been out since January, but I've been on the planet ZOB for 6 months and the radio reception from Earth hasn't been that great!

Correction ....

Listened to this one about 50 times, not played it in any band.

it's completely ordinary and wont be played on any radio station this time next year.

Well, it looks like that your view is very much in the minority - looking at the listening/viewing figures. But it's all very subjective - what turns one person on (musically speaking) leaves other people absolutely cold. I mean huge crowds all over the world rave over Ed Shearan's music, but for me, it does absolutely nothing. Very clever stuff, but doesn't turn me on musically. Also I love some operas, but that's very much a minority music, as is jazz these days but I love listening and playing it.

I did an outdoor gig some years ago at a village fair. It was a great band with a great sound and we had about 30 or 40 people in front of us listening. After our spot, there was a dog display and suddenly about a thousand people rushed over to the arena to watch the dogs performing.

So, there you go, that's life!

walofs

LOL!!

2853,000,000.closing in on the big 3 BILLION.

Some  people are easily pleased, the reason these videos has billions of views in such a short period of time is because the music companies have software refreshing the videos thousands of times a day, the views are artificially inflated and mean nothing, just like being at number 1 for so long, the more copies record companies buy of their own artist song the more promotion and airplay they will get and the more chances of selling more tour dates out, and that's where the real money is made, and remember these days you can be at number 1 selling very few copies. 20 years ago it wouldn't have made the top 20. Also a bit of a novelty record because it's sung in Spanish.

It's a great catchy song imo. I agree it'll be forgotten about fairly soon, but I'm not that bothered about a song lasting the test of time.

I don't know how many people are living on earth but this song is number 1 in one third of the countries in the world ,now that's something in itself,but the song as it stands has more followers than the most famous person to ever live on this earth =namely Jesus Christ.And that is something else.3 BILLION is a big big number,i wonder how long it would take to count up to 3 BILLION.

I got the answer=it would take 100 years to count to 3 billion at one second per number.

Well, I'm certainly not easily pleased. In fact exactly the opposite, I'm very choosey when it comes to music. 99.9% of the stuff that's churned out these days does nothing for me, whereas my personal favourite decade for popular music was the 70's, 1974 particularly. Most of my vinyl albums are from that year.

I like some of the prog rock stuff from that era and I very often go back and listen to the old stuff from around that period (Tull, Yes, The Little River Band plus many more - Pink Floyd being my all time favourite music, but not the early Floyd, only from Gilmore onwards.)

I was at Earls court for Floyd I think 69/70.THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.And their special effects were fantastic.they had an Aeroplane that came from the back over the fans heads and exploded on stage.Truly fantastic for the time.

Despacito=latest count 2860,000,000.slowly slowly getting to the 3 BILLION

brassneck
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I was at Earls court for Floyd I think 69/70.THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.And their special effects were fantastic.they had an Aeroplane that came from the back over the fans heads and exploded on stage.Truly fantastic for the time.


That was 1973.

Yes, it was released in 1973. As far as the 'Pulse' concerts that you maybe referring to, they were late 1980's and early 1990's. The Earls Court concert as you say was spectacular and inspirational. The live version of 'Comfortably Numb' was particularly moving and as far as I'm concerned it's still to this day the greatest rock ballad ever written. When I first came across it after the DSOTM was released, I was in tears listening to it.

1973 DSOTM tour was the first time they used the plane, I think this is when brassneck is refering to.

Ah, ok.

Just as a matter of interest, I saw them at Farnborough Technical College in February 1970, a short time before 'Meddle' was released.

That would be February 1971

Only saw them once at Docklands 1989.

Ah yes, so it was - I sit corrected. I just remember it was incredibly loud at the time and went home with my ears ringing!

yes I got the year wrong,i was living in London ,I also played darts with the GLITTER BAND - GARY (just as well)and captain beefheart were to play the following game,in the pub beside the Rainbow in Finsbury park.OH such great memories and I was at a pary that lasted 3 days with Atomic Rooster ,I smoked dope with Gary Moore and the Brush(Skid Row)I was a good pal of  phil linnet of Thin Lizzy,AND I appear in the video of feed the world .can you pick me out?

Despacito.2872,000,000.

I'm projecting Despactio will get to 3 billion views by next Thursday or Friday. However that shyte "See you again" will probably hit 3 billion first maybe by Tuesday or Wednesday. Obviously when it all levels out Despacito will be the most viewed video of all time.

11 weeks number 1 in the US and still bossing chasing Boyz 2 Men record of 16 weeks over there.

Back at number 1 over here after the silly technicality last week. That's 3 times at number one, 10 weeks in total.

Good to see Sumbe La Radio go in at #16 another Spanish speaking song, will probably be top 10 next week.

2883,000,000

brass, I really don't know why you're wetting yourself over views

It means nothing, it's all f1x3d to get to the top for the record label.

2896,000,000.Its still history in the making,its going to be the most famous song in the history of music,something has to be the most famous song ever recorded and it just happens to be Despacito ,it could have been any song but this one owns the title.

Please accept this spare comma (,) so that you can at least post the correct number of views in your posts...

2.9 BILLION NOW,its impossible to post the exact number because the total is moving at the speed of light,but I hope to download the 3 billion play and win the secret prize.

I hope the prize is a night out with the chick in the purple dress.

I think the singer said in an interview that that is his wife!

Lucky Fonsi, 85 million to go to hit the magical 3 BILLION.

now have you got your Depacito party organized ?Time is running out.

I missed the s

67 MILLION TO GO AND COUNTING DOWN.

brassneck - if you and I watch it 33.5 million times each, then we'll get there! I've almost watched it that many times in any case!

I like it more everytime I play it.58 MILLION TO GO.

48 MILLION TO GO

30 million to go.nearly there.

this song is two days away from being entered in the halls of musical history.have you listened to this song yet?
You will be part of history if you do."Go for it and you will be able to tell your grandchildren that you were one of the 3 billion that created the record for Despacito to be the most famous song ever recorded.Wow ,you could be famous for ever and a day .

24 million to go,just might do it tomorrow.

12 million to go,today could be the day.

7 million to go.

Despacito moves to the top spot and is now 5 million away from the 3 billion.

Yeah, I've switched all my 400 computers on and have been watching it as many times as possible!

omfg I'm so excited at this epic life changing moment I can't contain myself I think I need to change underwear OMFG I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF, where is everyone going to be on this monumental occasion?! OMFG!

33/1 to be best by the end of the year at the beginning now 1/1000 with Paddy.it is now the most famous song in musical history.and in 2 hours time it will be the first in history to hit 3 billion views on you tube.but all you guys were in the know."you guys all know that if OLD BRASS says it,s
good=its good.Once again Old Brass gets it correct.Follow Brass to the bank.
So don't forget when you are asked at a table quiz what is the most popular song ever written the answer is Despacito.
in fact its number 1 for all sales and plays and downloads,and any other question you can think of about music.
BOOOMSHAKALAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

OP has never heard the Ketchup Song which is the greatest ever contribution to the world of music by Spanish language songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5llcBScGuAE

Its a catchy song. And ive heard it several times now, even though didn't find it special the first time. I think they've done a great job getting it as popular as it is. But I feel that's as far as they will get. And sooner or later someone else will come and break this record. I am wondering why Psy and Khalifa didn't hit 3 billion when they were so close to the world record. Probably not such a big deal to the singers as they are bathing in money once they reach a certain exposure.

only just over a half a million more views to go it might get the 3 billion before midnight,all the despacito parties have started all over the world and I would say the biggest of all is in pourto rico.
what a fantastic achievement 3 billion views in 7 months.

there are some great videos on you tube about the song (one in which a guy shows how ,20 different artists (groups and singers) would sing the song(including motorhead and queen).And in another video it shows all the different countries versions.LOADS OF SEND UPS ABOUT THE SONG.In another one fonsi explains the real meaning and says most have it all wrong.He says its a latino love song.

BOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.just after hitting the 3 billion.

very sad proceedings

brassneck is a belieber

Try this one, Brassneck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCIt3dNcaQg

kenbo,i keep getting Kate Perry with that link,dont think that's what you want me to see.

just to let you all know that Fonsi got another 10 milliom views during the night,now last count there was 6 5 billion population in the world and fonsi has a following  of 3.1 billion that nearly half the people in the world and makes him more popular than Jesus Christ AND Budda .So Fonsi is the most famous person that ever lived.

Aug 5, 2017 -- 11:03AM, brassneck wrote:

just to let you all know that Fonsi got another 10 milliom views during the night,now last count there was 6 5 billion population in the world and fonsi has a following  of 3.1 billion that nearly half the people in the world and makes him more popular than Jesus Christ AND Budda .So Fonsi is the most famous person that ever lived.

Up until now I thought you were just a fanboy who was madly in love with the song. Now I know you are mentally challenged.

I'll just extend your logic a bit here. He hs 3.1 billion fans and that is exactly the amount of people in the world with internet access! If the whole world had internet, Fonsi would have easily reached 6-7 billion.

brassneck is not the full ticket

Congratulations to Despacito...most stream of all time and most viewed song of all time....it's still racing up the views too...still number 1 here and US...amazing it'll take a good while before a song comes along to beat it's numbers.

3 Spanish language tracks in the 40 this week....J Balvin "Mi Gente"highest new entry at 21...this is in 100% Spanish and has had no crossover makeover either. Surprised this is doing well.

It's not that many people actually, as it's just a few people watching it a million times each!!

Why is modern pop music so Terrible ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII

3,644,467,539 views

4 billion pretty soon.

This song has now reached 3,875,000,000 views,and still hitting a few million views every day,it is now the most famous piece of music ever in the history of music,it is also the most famous man made item on the planet,and more famous than Jesus Christ .

68 million views away from 4 billion views.Now that's big stuff.Strange thing is that nobody can understand why the song is so popular.
But it has become the most famous song ever recorded in the history of music since records began.it is now also the most famous known man made object or item in the world.
And even stranger still Donald trump and kim jung what ever you call him from north korea both gone on record as saying the song is fantastic.(he he ,how about that")

here is a word I never seen on the forum before,"it is PHENOMENAL ,the song is 32 million downloads away from 4 BILLION.
Now is your chance to be part of history in the making by listening to this song and who knows you just might be that person to download the 4 billionent  play and be super famous.