In mid-2022 a 20-year-old from Gran Canaria recorded a session with the Argentine producer Bizarrap, and within weeks it was the most-played song in the world on Spotify. The hook is a single word, quédate — stay — and the song is a night he doesn't want to end: he asks her not to go.
The first half is mellow; then the beat drops into a dance section. It spent months at number one in Spain.
Quevedo's accent is Canarian: like Latin Americans, Canary Islanders say “ustedes” rather than “vosotros” and pronounce “z” like “s”, so learners of Latin American Spanish feel at home. “Quédate” is a lovely lesson in commands with a pronoun attached.