2018 single by DJ Snake featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B
"Taki Taki" is a song by French-Algerian DJ and record producer DJ Snake, featuring American singer Selena Gomez, Puerto Rican singer Ozuna, and Dominican-American rapper Cardi B. The song was released on 28 September 2018 as the second single from DJ Snake's second studio album Carte Blanche (2019).[2] It was written and arranged by Bava (aka Ava Brignol), Belcalis Almanzar, Jorden Thorpe, Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado, Juan G. Rivera, Max Borghetti, Selena Gomez, Vicente Saavedra, William Grigahcine. Ozuna opens the moombahton and reggaetón song in Spanish, while Cardi B and Gomez follow in both English and Spanish.
The song's music video, directed by Colin Tilley, was released on 9 October 2018 and features the four artists and several dancers inside of an ancient temple ruin within a volcano. The single reached number one in sixteen countries (including Argentina, Portugal and Spain), several of which were outside the Hispanophone market. It received a Diamond certification in France, went quadruple Platinum in the US, and won nine music awards. "Taki Taki" made Cardi B the first female rapper to top the Spotify Global chart,[3] extended her record as the first female rapper with multiple billion-streamers on the platform,[4] and made Ozuna the artist with the most one billion-view videos on YouTube.[5] It has amassed over two billion views on the platform as well as 1.5 billion streams on Spotify.[6]