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"Despacito," Luis Fonsi's infectious dance track rooted in Puerto Rico's reggaeton music, on Monday marked 16 straight weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The 16-week streak ties for the longest reign at the top of the benchmark US singles chart with "One Sweet Day," the 1995 tear-jerker ballad by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.
The feat is all the more remarkable as non-English music rarely dominates US airwaves nationwide, with the kitschy "Macarena" the last Spanish-language song to hit No.1 back in 1996.
In some markets, such as Miami Cheap Hydro Flask 21 OZ , Los Angeles and New York, however, millions of Spanish-speaking locals do make up a large minority or in Miami's case, a majority of locals.
Fonsi, celebrating on Instagram, hailed the record as "historic for Latin Music."
The moment in cultural tastes comes just months after US President Donald Trump won an election on promises to crack down on immigration, and last week he threatened to let the government shut down if he does not win funding to build a wall on the Mexican border.
While "Despacito" does not come from Mexico Cheap Hydro Flask 20 OZ , its Latin flavor is unmistakable. Hispanics are the US' largest minority group. And most Hispanic Americans - more than 60 percent - are Mexican-American.
Fonsi, a veteran Puerto Rican pop singer, turned to the beats of reggaeton, the often testosterone-heavy dance music of the US territory's historically marginalized Afro-Puerto Rican community, with "Despacito" featuring the reggaeton star Daddy Yankee.
"Despacito" had its break on the mainstream US chart in a remix with pop celebrity Justin Bieber, who added a breathy English