Despacito is the UK's biggest song of the summer

The remix of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Spanish
language hit Despacito featuring Justin Bieber has
been named the UK's biggest-selling track of the
summer.
The inescapable collaboration racked up 1.2 million
combined sales across 347,000 downloads between
early June and the end of August.
Number one in the UK for 11 weeks, and with a total
of 1.8 million in sales to date, it far outstripped the
sales of the summer's other big hits.
The second-biggest song was French Montana
featuring Swae Lee with Unforgettable, which racked
up 693,000 combined sales.
In third place was DJ Khaled's Wild Thoughts, which
features Rihanna and Bryson Tiller and samples the
1999 Carlos Santana hit Maria Maria.
Bieber caused offence by forgetting the Spanish
lyrics in a New York nightclub
The highest-ranking British artist on the list was
Jonas Blue, whose track Mama featuring William
Singe ranked fourth in the list with 578,000 combined
sales. Liam Payne's hit Strip That Down followed
with 541,000 sales.
Despacito had already made history with its
infectious appeal, however. It became the most
streamed track ever in July, reaching 4.6 billion
streams on platforms such as YouTube and Spotify.
The previous holder of that position had been another
Bieber track - the 2015 hit Sorry - suggesting that the
involvement of the Canadian heartthrob may have
had something to do with its runaway success.
Despacito was already popular in Spain when the 23-
year-old reportedly heard it in a club and approached
its creators with the idea of a remix.
The tune combines the romantic singing of Puerto
Rica's Luis Fonsi with a reggaeton beat from Daddy
Yankee, who became a global household name with
the 2004 smash hit Gasolina.
The track is only the third Spanish language song to
reach the top 40 in the US, after La Bamba and
Macarena.
Many critics speculated that the song's success was
down to it having something for everyone,but the
variety caused problems for Bieber when he forgot
his lines in a New York nightclub.
He was filmed shouting "I don't know the words so I
say Dorito" and "I just want a burrito" in place of the
Spanish lyrics.
In reality, Despacito means slowly in English - and the
lyrics were deemed so raunchy that they were
banned in Malaysia.
Despacito was knocked off the top of the UK charts
in August by the Calvin Harris track Feels.

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