{"id":40250,"date":"2019-02-27T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40250"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:06:27","slug":"despacito-breaks-youtube-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/despacito-breaks-youtube-record\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Despacito\u2019 breaks YouTube record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Google-owned service Mega-hit song\u00a0<em>Despacito<\/em>\u00a0by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee has become the most watched video ever on YouTube with more than six billion views.<\/p>\n<p>The video, first released in January 2017 already holds the record for being the fastest song video to hit two billion, three billion and four billion views (272 days) On You Tube.<\/p>\n<p>Fonsi\u2019s Spanish-language hit, whose English title is\u00a0<em>Slowly<\/em>, has had nearly two billion views more than its nearest challenger,\u00a0<em>Shape of You<\/em>, by the British singer Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean singer PSY was the first to cross the two-billion-views barrier on the platform with his\u00a0<em>Gangnam Style<\/em>\u00a0hit song in 2012, which also set off a dance craze.<br \/>\nPsy is now fifth in the YouTube charts with 3.3 billion views.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Story by AFP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Google-owned service Mega-hit song\u00a0Despacito\u00a0by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee has become the most watched video ever on YouTube with more than six billion views. The video, first released in January 2017 already holds the record for being the fastest song video to hit two billion, three billion and four billion views (272 days) On You Tube. Fonsi\u2019s Spanish-language hit, whose English title is\u00a0Slowly, has had nearly two billion views more than its nearest challenger,\u00a0Shape of You, by the British singer Ed Sheeran. The South Korean singer PSY was the first to cross the two-billion-views barrier on the platform with his\u00a0Gangnam Style\u00a0hit song in 2012, which also set off a dance craze. Psy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}