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"Despacito" — Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee

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Sixteen weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017, and for a period the most-watched video in the history of YouTube. Also, per the plaintiffs' filings, a descendant of a Kingston rhythm track from 1989 -- which is the whole argument of the case, compressed into one record.

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Type: Recording / song →
Era: Streaming and the living archive →
Confidence: Well supported
Sources: Billboard chart record; Stereogum and Rolling Stone reporting on the litigation.

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Luis Fonsi — "Despacito" ft. Daddy Yankee

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Rights-holder upload (LuisFonsiVEVO). Sixteen weeks at number one, and for a time the most-watched video on YouTube -- thirty-eight years downstream of a Kingston rhythm track.

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Story · Well supportedWho owns the riddim?

A rhythm built in a Kingston studio in 1989 travelled to Panama, through New York, into San Juan, and became the pulse of the biggest Spanish-language pop music on earth. A Los Angeles court is now preparing to put the question of who owns it to a jury.