In 2018 , the song was the best-selling and most-streamed Latin song of the first half of the year , with 246,000 downloads sold and 308,980,000 audio and video streams from December 29 , 2017 to June 28 , 2018.In the United States , `` Despacito '' sold 2,692,000 downloads as of December 28 , 2017 and received a diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) on January 27 , 2018 , for units of over 10 million sales plus track-equivalent streams .
In 2018 , Despacito was the best selling and most-streamed Latin song of the first half of the year , with 246,000 downloads sold and 308,980,000 audio and video streams from December 29 , 2017 to June 28 , 2017 .