11-02-2020, 05:20 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54783116
Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy children's rhyme recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most-watched video ever on YouTube.
The song has now been played 7.04 billion times, overtaking the previous record holder Despacito, the Latin pop smash by singer Luis Fonsi.
Played back-to-back, that would mean Baby Shark has been streamed continuously for 30,187 years.
Pinkfong stands to have made about $5.2m (£4m) from YouTube streams alone.
It took four years for Baby Shark to ascend to the top of YouTube's most-played chart, but the song is actually much older than that.
Wow, really? This is all anecdotal, but I didn't even know this thing existed a couple of months ago, and I haven't seen nearly as many references to it as I did to Baby and Gangnam Style. Maybe I'm just getting old .
Anyway, congrats to them, I guess. I wonder what will dethrone them?
Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy children's rhyme recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most-watched video ever on YouTube.
The song has now been played 7.04 billion times, overtaking the previous record holder Despacito, the Latin pop smash by singer Luis Fonsi.
Played back-to-back, that would mean Baby Shark has been streamed continuously for 30,187 years.
Pinkfong stands to have made about $5.2m (£4m) from YouTube streams alone.
It took four years for Baby Shark to ascend to the top of YouTube's most-played chart, but the song is actually much older than that.
Wow, really? This is all anecdotal, but I didn't even know this thing existed a couple of months ago, and I haven't seen nearly as many references to it as I did to Baby and Gangnam Style. Maybe I'm just getting old .
Anyway, congrats to them, I guess. I wonder what will dethrone them?
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