Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's fans can't get enough of infectious tune Despacito - their music video has just surpassed a record six billion views on YouTube. The Latin hitmakers released the track back in January, 2017, and more than two years on, it's still proving to be a top pick. On Sunday (24Feb19), Despacito officially became the first promo in YouTube history to smash the huge milestone, leading its closest competitor - Ed Sheeran's Shape of You - by 1.9 billion views. According to officials at the video-streaming site, during the height of the Grammy-nominated tune's popularity, its promo was being streamed an average of 25.7 million times per day. That figure has since dropped significantly, but it's still at an impressive 2.8 million average views a day so far in 2019, reports Billboard. Despacito has continued to break boundaries ever since its debut - it became the first video to break three billion views on YouTube, before going on to make history as it crossed four and five billion, too. Meanwhile, the remixed single, featuring Justin Bieber, is still flying high in the charts - it earned its 100th week on the U.S. Hot Latin Songs Chart just before Christmas (18), and remains in third place in its 109th week on the Billboard countdown. Only to Romeo Santos has spent more time on the rundown - his 2013 song Propuesta Indecente currently holds the title as the longest-charting track on the Hot Latin Songs list with 125 weeks.
Green Book beat Alfonso Cuaron's Roma to be named Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars on Sunday
February 25, 2019Green Book beat Alfonso Cuaron's Roma to be named Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars on Sunday (24Feb19). The full list of winners at the 91st Academy Awards is:
Best Picture: Green Book
Best Actor: Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Actress: Olivia Colman - The Favourite
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali - Green Book
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
Best Original Screenplay: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly - Green Book
Best Adapted Screenplay: Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee - BlackKklansman
Original Score: Black Panther - Ludwig Goransson
Original Song: Shallow, A Star is Born - Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt
Foreign Language Film: Roma (Mexico)
Cinematography: Roma - Alfonso Cuaron
Visual Effects: First Man - Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J.D. Schwalm
Costume Design: Black Panther - Ruth E. Carter
Production Design: Black Panther - Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart
Make-up and Hairstyling: Vice - Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, and Patricia Dehaney
Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody - John Ottman
Sound Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody - John Warhurst, and Nina Hartstone
Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody - Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali
Animated Feature: Spider-Man - Into the Spider-Verse
Animated Short Film: Bao
Documentary Feature: Free Solo
Live-action Short Film: Skin
Documentary Short Subject: Period. End of Sentence.