The song debuted on June 17, 2016 and was a viral hit in Asia, but only since 2019 has it conquered children in the United States and the world.
The sticky children’s theme Baby Shark has become the most viewed YouTube video of all time, surpassing 10 billion views, while Slowly, of Luis Fonsi, ranks second with 7,708 million.
Baby Shark, the most viewed video on the platform since November 2, 2020 (when it surpassed Slowly), was devised by the South Korean educational company Pinkfong and performed by Korean-American singer Hope Segoine. It debuted on June 17, 2016 and was a viral hit in Asia, but only since 2019 has it conquered children in the United States and the world.
Since then, it has become a Nickelodeon TV show, a cereal, a live show, and the rallying cry of the Washington Nationals baseball team throughout their 2019 World Series-winning season. It even made it to the Billboard’s Top 40 at one point and inspired Jamie Tartt’s chant on Ted Lasso of Apple TV +, indicates CNN.
The most viewed video on YouTube shows two Asian children demonstrating the “Baby Shark Dance” (baby shark dance) as an animated shark and his family try to hunt down the little ones. However, they fail and the children celebrate.
Its success was somewhat accidental: In 2019, Pinkfong’s US CEO Bin Jeong told CNN the company didn’t expect the clip to take off the way it did, saying, “the (videos) that do They do it on their own.”
To celebrate the latest “special milestone,” Pinkfong invited children from around the world to share their “Baby Shark Dance moments” with the company.
Pinkfong has posted more videos with the same song on YouTube on the channel titled Pinkfong Baby Shark – Kids’ Songs & Stories, with 55 million subscribers. (I)
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