Baby Shark become first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views

Baby Shark has become the first video on YouTube to cross 10 billion views. The Pinkfong Company, creators of the “Baby Shark” video, confirmed the milestone in a post on Twitter.

Today we mark history with our special milestone! ? ‘Baby Shark Dance’ became the first video in history to hit ?? ??????? ????? on YouTube!??

Share your Baby Shark Dance moments with us!? #BabySharkDance #BabyShark #TheMostViewedVideo #YouTube #10billionviews pic.twitter.com/tbuCDeWdSh

— Pinkfong & Baby Shark (@Pinkfong) January 13, 2022

For context, the world population currently sits at around 7.8 billion, which means that everyone alive could’ve watched “Baby Shark Dance” once and there would only be about 2 billion people left.

“Baby Shark Dance” is an infectious, upbeat remix of an old kid’s song, made popular by Korean company Pinkfong. The original video was uploaded in 2016, though Pinkfong has since created many remixes. In 2018, Baby Shark swam to popularity, generating a #BabySharkChallenge that only fueled the fishy flames. It’s since been meme’d, and various remixes of the original have been made by others aside from Pinkfong.

In early 2019, the song hit the Billboard 100, where it remained for 20 weeks, and in Nov. 2020, the original video became the most viewed YouTube video of all time.