Kiddie tune “Baby Shark” has become the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views. This was announced by company behind the song, Pinkfong via a Tweet below.
In 2020, the same song was celebrated as the most viewed YouTube video ever.
The song was recorded by Korean-American singer Hope Segoine and produced by South Korean educational company Pinkfong. It was originally uploaded to YouTube on June 17, 2016
Though it might sound irritating to some adults because of the repetitive words, it is well loved and appreciated by children because of its repetitive and simplicity.
The song portrays two real children demonstrating the “Baby Shark dance” while the animated shark and his family swim serenely and later attempt to hunt the kids. They fail, though, and the kids celebrate their safety while the sharks watch from afar, forks in fin.
Here is the video below:
In 2019, Pinkfong’s US CEO Bin Jeong told CNN the company hadn’t expected the clip to take off the way it did, saying, “the ones that make it, make it on their own.”
To celebrate the most recent “special milestone,” Pinkfong invited kids all over the world to share their “Baby Shark Dance moments” with the company.
