“Despechá” is a song by Spanish singer and songwriter Rosalía. It was released on 28 July 2022 by Columbia Records as a single from Motomami +, the deluxe edition of her third studio album Motomami (2022). The song was written by Rosalía, reggaeton veterans Chris Jedi, Gaby Music, and El Kagueto del Guetto, along with Motomami producers David Rodríguez, Noah Goldstein and Dylan Patrice. “Despechá” is a mambo track, with merengue and electropop elements, about “the joys of leaving work and toxic men behind to hit the club.” A remix with American rapper Cardi B was released on 16 December 2022.
The song was met with great commercial success upon release, earning the biggest streaming debut for a Spanish-language song by a female artist in Spotify history. “Despechá” topped the charts in Spain, Panama and Uruguay, while also hitting the top ten in seventeen other countries. It became Rosalía’s first solo entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and her highest charting single on the Billboard Global 200.
