Children Song Baby Shark Surpasses Latin Pop Despacito on Youtube
Baby shark has now been viewed around 7.04 billion times
WEB DESK: Remixed and re-created by South Korean company Pinkfong children’s rhyme ‘Baby Shark’ reached 7.04 billion viewers surpassing the Latin pop ‘Despacito’.
The song was re-sung by Korean-American singer Hope Segoine and was uploaded on Youtube in June, 2016.
Baby shark became very popular among the kids however the original producer of the song remains a mystery.
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.
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It is thought to have originated in US summer camps in the 1970s. One theory says it was invented in 1975, as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws became an box office smash around the world.
There are a huge number of variations on the basic premise, including one version where a surfer loses an arm to the shark, and another where the protagonist dies.
There are also international versions – including the French Bebe Requin and the German Kleiner Hai (Little Shark), which became a minor hit in Europe in 2007.
