In a race that it dominated from beginning to end, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, is Billboard's No. 1 song of the summer of 2017.
The collab crowns Billboard's annual Songs of the Summer chart, which tracks the most popular hits based on cumulative performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
"Despacito" led Songs of the Summer for all 14 of the survey's weeks this year. It's the fourth song this decade to run the table, following last year's champ, Drake's "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla; Iggy Azalea's "Fancy," featuring Charli XCX, in 2014; and Katy Perry's "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg, in 2010.
"Despacito" is the first Songs of the Summer season-ending No. 1 for Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Bieber (none of whom had previously ranked in the top 10 on any annual Songs of the Summer survey). It's also the first predominantly Spanish-language Songs of the Summer winner since Los Del Rio's "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)," which took top honors for 1996. The only other No. 1 summer song not sung (primarily or at all) in English: the very first, Domenico Modugno's Italian-language "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volaré)," the leading title of summer 1958, the year that the Hot 100 began (that Aug. 4).
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