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Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark Dance” has officially surpassed Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” as Most viewed music video on YouTube and the most viewed video on YouTube usually.
The nursery rhyme, created by Pinkfong (Republic of Korea) and initially uploaded to YouTube on June 17, 2016, has garnered an incredible 7,042,967,886 views as of November 2, 2020.
Baby Shark swims to the top of YouTube, officially becoming the number one most viewed YouTube video in history, with 7.04 billion views on YouTube!
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– pinkfong_usa (@pinkfong_usa) November 2, 2020
The video has also broken the record title of the Most viewed children’s music video on YouTube.
The catchy Baby Shark tune was sung by 10-year-old Korean-American singer Hope Segoine.
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He became a viral sensation when it was released, but it took him four years to slowly and steadily reach the top of the list for him. most viewed video on YouTube.
Before the album was acquired by Baby Shark, it was in the music video for “Despacito,” a collaboration between the Puerto Rican duo Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee.
However, this music video still holds records for him. most liked video online and the first YouTube video to receive 5 billion views.
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The precise origins of the song Baby Shark are unknown, but it could be traced back to the 1970s in US summer camps.
The dance then became a craze in South Korea initially, with other BlackPink record holders incorporating it into their sets.
The record of most viewed video on YouTube It hadn’t changed hands since 2017 before Baby Shark, with “Despacito” beating out Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa’s single “See You Again.”
South Korean singer PSY held the record from 2012 to 2017 with his worldwide hit “Gangnam Style.”
The first record holder was Justin Bieber with his debut single, “Baby,” setting the initial record in 2010 with 425 million views.
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Baby Shark has been viewed 16 times more than that and, played back to back, has a cumulative run time of over 30,000 years.
It also has over 22 million likes and 10 million dislikes on YouTube, making it one of the most liked and disliked videos on YouTube.
Baby Shark actually appears in the the most “dislike” video on YouTube, with a colorful recreation of the song’s video featured on “YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind | #YouTubeRewind.” This video achieved 10,360,124 dislikes as of December 13, 2018 when it was verified, and it now has approximately 18 million.
Header Image Credit: Pinkfong / YouTube
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