" Baby Shark , " the super - tricky ( some say , super - nettlesome ) children ’s song became the most - watched YouTube video recording ever in early November 2020 . Uploaded by South Korean company Pinkfong , it has been played more than 7.04 billion clip , overtaking the previous record - holder " Despacito " , the Latin popping song from Luis Fonsi , according to the BBC .
This come more than a year after " Baby Shark " break Billboard ’s Top 40 in January 2019 . The ubiquitous kid ’s song top out atNo . 32 on Billboard ’s Hot 100 Top 40thanks in large part to its gaudyYouTube video , dance - along routine , and of course , the infective " doo doo doo doo doo doo " line that intrudes on your brain space and never , ever leave behind ( sorry ) .
It ’s exceedingly rare for kid - targeted pop songs to break through the Billboard charts . But " Baby Shark " is n’t the first kid ’s song to reach the hallowed stomping grounds of legends like Michael Jackson and Ariana Grande .
We consulted Gary Trust , aged managing director of charts at Billboard , in promise of tracking down preceding kiddie Song dynasty that locomote full Whitney Houston . He says that although kid ’s Sung dynasty are uncommon at Billboard , they do find from time to time .
As evidence , behold Alvin and the Chipmunks , the imaginary gnawer trio with chart achiever that would make Blind Melon and A - ha green with envy . In the later ' 50 and early ' 60s , The Chipmunks scoredfive Top 40 strike . " Alvin ’s Harmonica " screak to No . 3 — and " The Chipmunk Song " claw all the means to No . 1 . It was so popular , in fact , that it held its position for four serial weeks , and is still the only Christmas strain ever to take Billboard ’s top spot .
Of course , Thomas Kyd ’s movie songs sometimes push their way of life onto the charts . A late inescapable example was 2014 ’s " Let It Go , " from the Disney movie " Frozen . " do by Idina Menzel , the show tune peak atNo . 5 on the Hot 100 chartand became a cultural touchstone for both kids and adults all over the populace .
In 1970,Jim Henson ’s Muppet Ernie sing a ditty title " Rubber Duckie , " a joyous ode to his favorite bathing tub toy dog . The termination ? A hit that bouncedall the way to No . 16 in late September of that year and leave in a nomination for the Best Recording for Children Grammy in 1971 ( however , it suffer to " Sesame Street " by The Muppets ) .
Henson ’s 1979 " The Muppet Movie " resulted in another Top 40 hit , one called , " Rainbow Connection , " which mount to No . 25 and hung around in the Top 40 for seven weeks . perform by Kermit the Frog , the song was so popular that at the 52nd Academy Awards it garnered a nomination for Best Original Song and eventually result in Kermit singing anunforgettable duetwith rock ikon Debbie Harry .
" Mary Poppins , " a musical film released in 1964 , featured the I’m - only - going - to - eccentric - this - once , " Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious , " which wassung by Julie Andrewsas she danced with an assortment of reasonably revive characters . The birdcall did well enough to hit No . 66 in 1965 .
Kenny Loggins — yes , the Loggins of " Footloose " and " Top Gun " soundtrack fame — unfreeze a children ’s record album titled , " render to Pooh Corner , " which trade half a million copies , earned a Grammy nominating address and topped out at No . 25 on the 1994 Adult Contemporary chart .
And in 1992 , a British electronic euphony group remixed the " Sesame Street " composition song to great burden — " Sesame ’s Treet " was a Top 100 hit and blew all the way to No . 2 in the United Kingdom .
Gary Trust aver that it ’s " pretty unusual " for kid ’s songs to make any real impingement on pop music charts . But he also says that with internet meme culture go around viral video , it ’s hard to say whether " Baby Shark " is just an stray phenomenon or if it ’s a swimmingly unknown first of a unexampled pop music trend .
