First YouTube video to receive 5 billion views
- Who
- Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
- What
- First
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 04 April 2018
On 4 April 2018, the video of the original version of "Despacito", starring Luis Fonsi (b. Luis Alfonso López-Cepero) and Daddy Yankee (b. Ramón Rodríguez; both Puerto Rico), reached 5 billion views on YouTube, making it not only the most viewed music video online but also the most viewed video of any description. As of 25 July 2018, “Despacito” had been watched 5,353,299,564 times.
The video in question is the original Spanish-language version of the track, uploaded to YouTube on 12 January 2017. The most popular audio recording of the remix, featuring Justin Bieber and sung in Spanish and English, was uploaded by “Luis Fonsi Oficial” on 16 April 2017 and had amassed 629,172,528 views as of 25 July 2018.
As of 25 July 2018… likes: 28,995,297; dislikes: 3,377,843; shares: 43,923,940; comments: 2,442,880; time watched: 31,356 years.
The "Despacito" (“Slowly”) video features Miss Universe 2006, Puerto Rico’s Zuleyka Rivera.