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Updated: November 4, 2020 7:19:16 pm
Baby Shark now has more than seven billion views on YouTube.
A song with a catchy melody and eye-catching visuals that wowed children around the world and made several parents and teachers roll their eyes, Baby Shark set a new record on Monday and became the most viewed video. on YouTube with more than seven billion views. Released four years ago, Baby Shark has beaten the Puerto Rican pop song Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee.
What is the song about?
Lasting one minute every 21 seconds, the repeating chorus “doo-doo-doo-du-du-du-du-du” invites endless repetitions. Along with simple, easy-to-follow dance steps, it has become extremely popular with children, especially those under the age of five. Although it is unclear who the original author of the song is, it is said to be a popular American campfire song that has been sung and recreated a couple of times.
However, Baby Shark became a worldwide sensation after it was remixed and recreated by Seoul-based production company Pinkfong. Sung by 10-year-old Korean-American singer Hope Segoine, the video for the English version of the song, released in June 2016, broke the record for being the most viewed.
Although the song is in the public domain and not owned by Pinkfong, the company was sued in 2019 by children’s songwriter Jonathan Wright, who had recorded a similar version in 2011 and argued that he owned the copyright to his own version of the material. .
Exactly how popular is the song?
Baby Shark became an international hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2019, and also hit the UK Top 40 chart. Pinkfong may have made around $ 5.2 million (Rs 38.66 crore) from the YouTube broadcasts. The song first went viral in Southeast Asia, and then the United States and Europe.
He powered a spin-off live tour, merchandise, books, and more, in addition to reworkings of the song, including one featuring Luis Fonsi and another promoting hand washing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Internet viral trend
The song became a viral trend on the internet in 2017, when dozens of families and communities in Indonesia uploaded videos doing their versions of the dance.
In 2018, #BabySharkChallenge became a viral trend on TikTok. When it entered the UK’s top music charts, actor and comedian James Corden featured it on The Late Late Show and sang the hit song alongside Sophie Turner and Josh Groban. “Once in a lifetime, a song appears that defines a generation,” that’s how he presented the song.
Last year, the Washington Nationals baseball team in the US also took it as an anthem and won the World Series, prompting the White House to play the tune during the celebrations.
It has been used by law enforcement agencies and has therefore also been withdrawn. In West Palm Beach, Florida, authorities repeated the song to discourage homeless people from congregating in a public area.
Three prison workers in Oklahoma were charged with cruelty to prisoners after it came to light that they had allegedly handcuffed inmates and forced them to stand and listen to Baby Shark for more than two hours.
District Attorney David Prater had said at the time that playing the song over and over could have added “undue emotional stress to the inmates who were likely already suffering.” 📣 Click to follow Express Explained on Telegram
What are the other most viewed videos on YouTube?
In addition to Baby shark, the top five most viewed videos on YouTube currently include Despacito, which had become the first YouTube video to reach the seven billion view milestones; Shape of you by English singer-songwriters Ed Sheeran, See you again by American rapper Wiz Khalifa and Masha and the Bear – Recipe for Disaster, an episode of a Russian animated television series, loosely based on the popular oral history of children.
The other record-breaking South Korean song was Psy’s Gangnam Style, when it became the first video to have 1 billion views on YouTube and held the title of most viewed video until it was dethroned by Justin Beiber’s Baby.
© The Indian Express (P) Ltd
