What made this shit so popular? It's so...average

What made this shit so popular? It's so...average.

a large world population of spanish speakers

normies like and buy average music

Youtube algorithm decides what is popular these days. A worldwide trending music video is enough to create a hit song these days.

i vi iii vii

That solves the age-old question: Music is well-regarded because it is popular. It is not popular because it is well-regarded.

juden

1) lackluster summer for pop music
2) positive feedback loop
3) it'd be interesting to see what the average playtime of each view is instead of how many, and/or a map of views

There's like 500m spanish speakers top

right, which is enough to put them as the fourth most spoken language in the world, with the second most native speakers

It's about correct considering L2 speakers and that makes it the 4th most spoken language. It (doesn't) help that most of them are in the Americas.

its the gasolina of the 10's

But Gasolina wasn't THAT popular as far as I remember, although reaguetton was starting at the time

It was pretty popular, that song was everywhere and it lasted more time than despacito... despacito died pretty fast now that I think of it, it was like pokemon go

>why is it popular
>it is average
think you answered your own question

DES

spics fucking love that reggaeton garbage so it blew up.

despacito was number 1 in 47 countries. It's one of the most popular songs of all time. You can compare that success with the beatles or elvis but not with gasolina.

PA

I'm a spanish speaker and I hate reggaeton and popular modern latin music in general.
Plus, this shit was popular with many non-spanish speakers.

Anyway, marketing and money. When you have as much money as Daddy Yankee, you just stuff your shit into radios and TV like no tomorrow.
And normies eat that shit up.

Yes, if you had as much money as Daddy Yankee, you could also force your shit and normies would eat it up too, even if it's not what they're used to listen to, just force it enough and they will eat it up.

Replace Daddy Yankee with Justin Beiber and you'd almost have a factually correct statement.

CITO

Jewish viral marketing. I was literally there and am being gangstalked by production

add to that Latin-descended language speakers who eat this shit up
t. portugalfag

portugal is irrelevant, just say brazil

My manager is normie as fuck and somehow wasn't familiar with this song. I emailed the YouTube link to her and after listening to it all the way through she took her headphones out and said "that was shit".

I felt like scooping out my ears while getting bad flashbacks to Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin from 15 years ago.

>is a "OP asks a question and answer in the same period" episode