Correction ....

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

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!

LOL!!

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.

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.

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.)

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

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.

Ah, ok.

That would be February 1971

Only saw them once at Docklands 1989.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

I missed the s

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!

48 MILLION TO GO

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 .