By the end of the year, “Despacito” had earned a total of 1.322 billion on-demand streams , according to Nielsen Music. But by the end of music’s biggest night, “Despacito” had no more Grammys than it did at the start. It was an overdue acknowledgement of the growing power that Latin music ― particularly Spanish-language urban music ― has around the world. All other things being equal, Spanish-language music dominated worldwide in 2017 in a way that mainstream American music failed to. Because if music is really a universal language and it really knows no borders, then why do the Latin Grammys exist?

Source: Huffington Post January 29, 2018 20:28 UTC