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(CNN) - Step by step the song "Despacito" won the decade.
Almost two years after the song's release, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi and reggaeton star Daddy Yankee continue to climb the charts constantly.
YouTube has published a detailed summary of the most popular music videos of the last four decades, and "Despacito", sung primarily in Spanish, leads the list of hits in 2010.
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With the huge figure of 6,500 million views, the music clip topped the list. And this is not the first time that "Despacito" has made history on YouTube.
In 2018, it became the first video in the world to reach 5 billion views on the video platform, giving artists a Guinness World Records title.
Here is the rest of the most watched YouTube music videos of this decade:
'Shape of You'
Released in 2017, Ed Sheeran's song had more than 4.5 billion views.
'See You Again'
Wiz Khalifa's video with Charlie Puth obtained 4.3 billion views. In 2017, he took first place.
The song was also a tribute to movie star Paul Walker, who died in a car accident before the action movie “Fast and Furious 7” was released in 2015.
'Uptown Funk'
Sitting at number 4 are Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars with 3,700 million views. This song reached the top of the charts in 2015, remained there for 14 weeks and became the most durable Billboard Hot 100 of the decade.
'Gangnam Style'
With 3.4 billion views, PSY's music video not only ranked in the top five, but also broke YouTube in 2014 by exceeding the average number of visits the platform could handle at that time.
'Sorry'
Is it too late to apologize now ... that this video didn't top the list? Justin Bieber's success in 2015 reached our hearts with 3.2 billion views.
'Sugar'
The song was released in 2015 and presented during that year's Super Bowl halftime show. The video of Maroon 5 was seen more than 3,000 million times.
'Roar'
With 2.9 billion views, Katy Perry's "Roar" in 2016 was part of a historic moment in the United States. The song was used as a campaign theme for Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency of the United States.
'Counting Stars'
No more counting stars, they are counting views. OneRepublic Counting Stars ends the decade with more than 2.8 billion views on YouTube.
'Thinking Out Loud'
Sheeran is the only artist who has two singles in this top 10, closing the list with "Thinking Out Loud," which had 2.8 billion views.
Brian Lowry of CNN contributed to this report.
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