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Baby Shark

"Baby Shark" is a children's song associated with a dance involving hand movements dating back to the 20th century. In 2016, "Baby Shark" became very popular when Pinkfong, a South Korean entertainment company, released a version of the song with a YouTube music video that went viral across social media, online video, and radio. In January 2022, it became the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views.[1][2] In November 2020, Pinkfong's version became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, with over 13 billion views as of August 2023.[3][4]

Origins and early history edit

 
2018 photo of a four-year-old boy doing the "Baby Shark" dance

The original song dates back to the 20th century. Various entities have copyrighted original videos and sound recordings of the song, and some have trademarked merchandise based on their versions. However, according to The New York Times, the underlying song and characters are believed to be in the public domain.[5]

A dance version of "Baby Shark" was popularized in the 2007 YouTube video "Kleiner Hai" (German for Little Shark) published by Alexandra Müller, also known by her stage name Alemuel.[6] This version is set to the theme of Jaws and tells the story of a baby shark who grows up and eats a swimmer.[7] The video quickly gained popularity[8] and led to EMI offering Alemuel a record deal.[citation needed] The single peaked at 25th in the German charts[9] and at 21st in the Austrian charts.[10] The German version of the song remains popular among German youth groups, and multiple variations, also in different dialects of German,[11] have been published.

Jonathan Wright, an Endwell, New York-based children's entertainer known professionally as Johnny Only, was a DJ at a kids camp where the counselors would regularly perform the song with their campers. He saw how engaged and animated the campers were when "Baby Shark" was performed, so when he became a full-time children's entertainer, he released his own version.[12] This version was released in 2011, five years before the Pinkfong version of "Baby Shark" became a global phenomenon.[13]

Pinkfong version edit

"Baby Shark" was greatly popularized by a version of the song produced by Pinkfong, an education brand owned by South Korean entertainment company SmartStudy. The original music video for "Baby Shark" (Korean상어 가족; RRSang-eo Gajok; lit. shark family) without the child actors was uploaded on November 26, 2015.[14] All videos related to Pinkfong's song had garnered around 5 billion views by January 2020.[15] The most popular of these videos, "Baby Shark Dance", was uploaded on June 17, 2016, and went viral starting in 2017. On November 2, 2020, over four years after it was uploaded, it became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time after surpassing Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" with 7.04 billion views.[3] On December 21, 2020, it became the first YouTube video to surpass 7.5 billion views, the approximate population of the world.[citation needed] It is the first most-viewed video to mention its status as such in the title.

This version of the song was performed by then-10-year-old Korean-American singer Hope Segoine.[16] The music video featured two child actors, Korean Park Geon Roung and New Zealander Elaine Kim Johnston.[17]

The song starts with bars from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, which sounds similar to music from the film Jaws. "Baby Shark" features a family of sharks which hunt a school of fish which escape to safety.[18] It became a viral video in Indonesia in 2017, and throughout the year it spread to many other Asian countries, particularly those in Southeast Asia. The related mobile app was among the top 10 most downloaded in the family apps category in South Korea, Bangladesh, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia in 2017.[citation needed]

 
A speaker during the 10th Bikol Wikipedia anniversary in 2017 doing the "Baby Shark" dance
 
Participants do the "Baby Shark" dance at the 10th Bikol Wikipedia Anniversary AdNU, Philippines, November 2017

"Baby Shark Dance" has received over 12 billion views worldwide (12.38 billion), over 38 million likes (39.43 million), and around 6.08M daily views and 182M monthly views making it the most-viewed video on YouTube.[19][3] Due to a 2013 change that the Billboard Hot 100 music charts made to account for online viewership of YouTube videos, "Baby Shark" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 at number 32 during the week of January 7, 2019.

Due to its popularity, this version of the song has spurred an online dance craze which is sometimes referred to as the Baby Shark Challenge. It has been cited as "the next big thing after the domination of Gangnam Style".[20] K-pop groups including Blackpink and Red Velvet have been credited with further spreading the viral song through their coverage of the song and dance, specifically on their featured TV shows and concerts.[21] The song began to go viral in the Western world in August 2018.[22]

In 2019, it was announced that Baby Shark would be adapted into Baby Shark's Big Show!, an animated television series aimed at preschoolers.[23][24] SmartStudy (the company that owns the Pinkfong brand) partnered with US cable network Nickelodeon, which premiered the show in the United States in December 2020. In South Korea, the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) airs the cartoon.[25]

While the English version simply lists the members of the shark family, the Korean version says Mommy Shark is "pretty", Daddy Shark is "strong", Grandma Shark is "kind", and Grandpa Shark is "cool". In January 2018, the South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun published a front-page editorial condemning these lyrics as sexist.[7][26]

In May 2018, the Liberty Korea Party started using "Baby Shark" to promote its candidates, prompting SmartStudy to threaten legal action over copyright infringement.[7][26] Prior to this, the Liberty Korea Party had contacted American children's entertainer Johnny Wright, also known as Johnny Only, to inquire about permission, as he had published a similar version in 2011.[27][28] He had heard a version of "Baby Shark" 20 years earlier, and decided to make a children's version by removing any violent imagery from the song, instead focusing on the family.[29] As matters stand in late 2022, neither SmartStudy nor Johnny Only have succeeded in enforcing copyright on either version; SmartStudy prevailed in Johnny Only's lawsuit attempting to enforce his copyright, after a South Korean court ruling held that children's songs handed down via the oral tradition are not copyrightable.[30]

In July 2019, Kellogg's announced that it had entered a partnership with Pinkfong to introduce a new Baby Shark cereal, a berry-flavored variant of Froot Loops with marshmallows added. It was first available at Sam's Club stores on August 17, and at Walmart in late September.[31]

In March 2020, Pinkfong released a new interactive version of the song that encourages children to properly wash their hands during the COVID-19 pandemic.[32]

Cultural impact edit

In July 2019, officials in West Palm Beach, Florida, were criticized for playing a continuous loop of "Baby Shark", alongside "Raining Tacos" throughout the night outside the Waterfront Lake Pavilion as a way of deterring vagrants.[33]

In October 2020, two former detention officers and a supervisor at an Oklahoma County jail were charged with counts of misdemeanor cruelty to a prisoner and conspiracy for forcing inmates to listen to the song on a loop at loud volumes while standing and handcuffed for an extended period of time.[34]

In October 2019, a 75-minute stage musical based on the Pinkfong song and characters, titled Baby Shark Live, made its debut at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. By this time, Pinkfong was also marketing a wide variety of merchandise based on their song and video, including clothing, bedding, toys and fishing tackle.[5]

"Baby Shark" has appeared in media like films and video games. In 2019 and 2020, the song was featured in The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Rubber and was playable in Just Dance 2020.[35][36] The following year, Pinkfong partnered with Bushiroad to include "Baby Shark" as a playable track in the English server of BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! from March 27 to April 17.[37]

In April 2022 and May 2022, Shopee used the melody of Baby Shark with modified lyrics in its advertisements in Poland.[38] However, many Poles consider the advertisements as annoying, due to a high incidence of broadcasting across the television and radio.[38][39]

On 23 May 2022, it was reported that a promotional video for Singapore's tourism sector in the form of a collaboration between Pinkfong and the Singapore Tourism Board was made and uploaded on YouTube. The video featured characters from Baby Shark and the Merli, a Singaporean mascot.[40]

In November 2019, an officially licensed children's book based on the Pinkfong characters was being marketed by HarperCollins, while five unlicensed children's books offered by Scholastic Corporation had sold over one million copies.[5]

In June 2020, Pinkfong announced the television series Baby Shark's Big Show!, which premiered on Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) in South Korea[41] and Nickelodeon in the United States in December 2020. On July 20, 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, and a feature film based on the series will be released on December 8th.[42]

In September 2018, Ellen DeGeneres released her own version of the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and James Corden performed a version on The Late Late Show with James Corden.[43] The song was performed on The X Factor in early December 2018 because it was requested by Simon Cowell's four-year-old son Eric.[citation needed]

Yvie Oddly, a Drag queen and contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race, adapted the song for live lip-syncing performances, including a choreography that draws inspiration from voguing.[44]

Professional baseball player Gerardo Parra of the Washington Nationals, having discovered the song through his young daughter, adopted it as his walk-up music to energize the flagging team on June 19, 2019.[45] The theme became popular among both teammates and fans, who used the shark clap whenever the Nationals got a hit, and eventually, at every Parra at-bat; fans also began wearing shark costumes to the stadium.[46] A stuffed baby shark was seen attached to the dugout railing during the 2019 National League Championship Series, which the Nationals won over the St. Louis Cardinals.[47] The craze culminated with the Nationals defeating the Houston Astros in seven games to win the 2019 World Series; the connection was such that the Marine Band performed the song during the team's celebratory visit to the White House.[48]

Darts player Mikuru Suzuki has used the song as her entrance music.[49]

The song has also been performed by anti-government protesters in Lebanon during the 2019–20 Lebanese protests.[50][51]

Popular Australian children's music band The Wiggles released a version of the song in March 2020.

In the American comedy-drama television series Ted Lasso, fictional soccer player Jamie Tartt (played by English actor Phil Dunster) uses the tune of the song as his goal celebration anthem, in which the words "Baby Shark" are replaced with his name.[52]

Pomplamoose released an electro funk version on April 1, 2021.[53]

In Southeast Asia, the song was used in an online shopping platform called Shopee, with different versions and renditions. It was first spotted in 2018 with Filipina actress Anne Curtis as endorser. More recently, the jingle to the tune of "Baby Shark" was used when Jackie Chan became international brand ambassador.[54][55][56][57]

Charts edit

Weekly charts edit

Weekly chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2018–2022) Peak
position
Australia Streaming Audio Visual Tracks (ARIA)[58] 40
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[59] 39
France (SNEP)[60] 162
Global 200 (Billboard)[61] 38
Ireland (IRMA)[62] 22
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[63] 39
Scotland (OCC)[64] 12
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[65] 9
UK Singles (OCC)[66] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[67] 32
US Kid Digital Songs (Billboard)[68] 1
US Rolling Stone Top 100[69] 58
Vietnam (Vietnam Hot 100)[70] 10
Chart performance for "Baby Shark" duet version
Chart (2019–2020) Peak
position
US Rolling Stone Top 100[71] 73

Year-end charts edit

2019 year-end chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2019) Position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[72] 85
UK Singles (OCC)[73] 48
US Billboard Hot 100[74] 75
2020 year-end chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2020) Position
UK Singles (OCC)[75] 72
2021 year-end chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2021) Position
Global 200 (Billboard)[76] 48
UK Singles (OCC)[77] 73
2022 year-end chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2022) Position
Global 200 (Billboard)[78] 52
2023 year-end chart performance for "Baby Shark"
Chart (2023) Position
Global 200 (Billboard)[79] 89

Certifications edit

Certifications for "Baby Shark"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)[80] Platinum 70,000
Poland (ZPAV)[81] 2× Platinum 100,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[82] 4× Platinum 2,400,000
United States (RIAA)[83] 11× Platinum 11,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also edit

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External links edit

  • "Baby Shark Dance". Pink Fong. YouTube. June 17, 2016.
  • Baby Shark episode of the Slate podcast Decoder Ring

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This article is about the popular children s song For the juvenile life stage of a shark see Shark Life history Baby Shark is a children s song associated with a dance involving hand movements dating back to the 20th century In 2016 Baby Shark became very popular when Pinkfong a South Korean entertainment company released a version of the song with a YouTube music video that went viral across social media online video and radio In January 2022 it became the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views 1 2 In November 2020 Pinkfong s version became the most viewed YouTube video of all time with over 13 billion views as of August 2023 3 4 Contents 1 Origins and early history 2 Pinkfong version 3 Cultural impact 4 Charts 4 1 Weekly charts 4 2 Year end charts 5 Certifications 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksOrigins and early history edit nbsp 2018 photo of a four year old boy doing the Baby Shark danceThe original song dates back to the 20th century Various entities have copyrighted original videos and sound recordings of the song and some have trademarked merchandise based on their versions However according to The New York Times the underlying song and characters are believed to be in the public domain 5 A dance version of Baby Shark was popularized in the 2007 YouTube video Kleiner Hai German for Little Shark published by Alexandra Muller also known by her stage name Alemuel 6 This version is set to the theme of Jaws and tells the story of a baby shark who grows up and eats a swimmer 7 The video quickly gained popularity 8 and led to EMI offering Alemuel a record deal citation needed The single peaked at 25th in the German charts 9 and at 21st in the Austrian charts 10 The German version of the song remains popular among German youth groups and multiple variations also in different dialects of German 11 have been published Jonathan Wright an Endwell New York based children s entertainer known professionally as Johnny Only was a DJ at a kids camp where the counselors would regularly perform the song with their campers He saw how engaged and animated the campers were when Baby Shark was performed so when he became a full time children s entertainer he released his own version 12 This version was released in 2011 five years before the Pinkfong version of Baby Shark became a global phenomenon 13 Pinkfong version edit Baby Shark was greatly popularized by a version of the song produced by Pinkfong an education brand owned by South Korean entertainment company SmartStudy The original music video for Baby Shark Korean 상어 가족 RR Sang eo Gajok lit shark family without the child actors was uploaded on November 26 2015 14 All videos related to Pinkfong s song had garnered around 5 billion views by January 2020 15 The most popular of these videos Baby Shark Dance was uploaded on June 17 2016 and went viral starting in 2017 On November 2 2020 over four years after it was uploaded it became the most viewed YouTube video of all time after surpassing Luis Fonsi s Despacito with 7 04 billion views 3 On December 21 2020 it became the first YouTube video to surpass 7 5 billion views the approximate population of the world citation needed It is the first most viewed video to mention its status as such in the title This version of the song was performed by then 10 year old Korean American singer Hope Segoine 16 The music video featured two child actors Korean Park Geon Roung and New Zealander Elaine Kim Johnston 17 The song starts with bars from Antonin Dvorak s Symphony No 9 which sounds similar to music from the film Jaws Baby Shark features a family of sharks which hunt a school of fish which escape to safety 18 It became a viral video in Indonesia in 2017 and throughout the year it spread to many other Asian countries particularly those in Southeast Asia The related mobile app was among the top 10 most downloaded in the family apps category in South Korea Bangladesh Singapore Hong Kong and Indonesia in 2017 citation needed nbsp A speaker during the 10th Bikol Wikipedia anniversary in 2017 doing the Baby Shark dance nbsp Participants do the Baby Shark dance at the 10th Bikol Wikipedia Anniversary AdNU Philippines November 2017 Baby Shark Dance has received over 12 billion views worldwide 12 38 billion over 38 million likes 39 43 million and around 6 08M daily views and 182M monthly views making it the most viewed video on YouTube 19 3 Due to a 2013 change that the Billboard Hot 100 music charts made to account for online viewership of YouTube videos Baby Shark broke into the Billboard Hot 100 at number 32 during the week of January 7 2019 Due to its popularity this version of the song has spurred an online dance craze which is sometimes referred to as the Baby Shark Challenge It has been cited as the next big thing after the domination of Gangnam Style 20 K pop groups including Blackpink and Red Velvet have been credited with further spreading the viral song through their coverage of the song and dance specifically on their featured TV shows and concerts 21 The song began to go viral in the Western world in August 2018 22 In 2019 it was announced that Baby Shark would be adapted into Baby Shark s Big Show an animated television series aimed at preschoolers 23 24 SmartStudy the company that owns the Pinkfong brand partnered with US cable network Nickelodeon which premiered the show in the United States in December 2020 In South Korea the Educational Broadcasting System EBS airs the cartoon 25 While the English version simply lists the members of the shark family the Korean version says Mommy Shark is pretty Daddy Shark is strong Grandma Shark is kind and Grandpa Shark is cool In January 2018 the South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun published a front page editorial condemning these lyrics as sexist 7 26 In May 2018 the Liberty Korea Party started using Baby Shark to promote its candidates prompting SmartStudy to threaten legal action over copyright infringement 7 26 Prior to this the Liberty Korea Party had contacted American children s entertainer Johnny Wright also known as Johnny Only to inquire about permission as he had published a similar version in 2011 27 28 He had heard a version of Baby Shark 20 years earlier and decided to make a children s version by removing any violent imagery from the song instead focusing on the family 29 As matters stand in late 2022 neither SmartStudy nor Johnny Only have succeeded in enforcing copyright on either version SmartStudy prevailed in Johnny Only s lawsuit attempting to enforce his copyright after a South Korean court ruling held that children s songs handed down via the oral tradition are not copyrightable 30 In July 2019 Kellogg s announced that it had entered a partnership with Pinkfong to introduce a new Baby Shark cereal a berry flavored variant of Froot Loops with marshmallows added It was first available at Sam s Club stores on August 17 and at Walmart in late September 31 In March 2020 Pinkfong released a new interactive version of the song that encourages children to properly wash their hands during the COVID 19 pandemic 32 Cultural impact editThis section may contain irrelevant references to popular culture Please remove the content or add citations to reliable and independent sources September 2023 In July 2019 officials in West Palm Beach Florida were criticized for playing a continuous loop of Baby Shark alongside Raining Tacos throughout the night outside the Waterfront Lake Pavilion as a way of deterring vagrants 33 In October 2020 two former detention officers and a supervisor at an Oklahoma County jail were charged with counts of misdemeanor cruelty to a prisoner and conspiracy for forcing inmates to listen to the song on a loop at loud volumes while standing and handcuffed for an extended period of time 34 In October 2019 a 75 minute stage musical based on the Pinkfong song and characters titled Baby Shark Live made its debut at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in Spartanburg South Carolina By this time Pinkfong was also marketing a wide variety of merchandise based on their song and video including clothing bedding toys and fishing tackle 5 Baby Shark has appeared in media like films and video games In 2019 and 2020 the song was featured in The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Rubber and was playable in Just Dance 2020 35 36 The following year Pinkfong partnered with Bushiroad to include Baby Shark as a playable track in the English server of BanG Dream Girls Band Party from March 27 to April 17 37 In April 2022 and May 2022 Shopee used the melody of Baby Shark with modified lyrics in its advertisements in Poland 38 However many Poles consider the advertisements as annoying due to a high incidence of broadcasting across the television and radio 38 39 On 23 May 2022 it was reported that a promotional video for Singapore s tourism sector in the form of a collaboration between Pinkfong and the Singapore Tourism Board was made and uploaded on YouTube The video featured characters from Baby Shark and the Merli a Singaporean mascot 40 In November 2019 an officially licensed children s book based on the Pinkfong characters was being marketed by HarperCollins while five unlicensed children s books offered by Scholastic Corporation had sold over one million copies 5 In June 2020 Pinkfong announced the television series Baby Shark s Big Show which premiered on Educational Broadcasting System EBS in South Korea 41 and Nickelodeon in the United States in December 2020 On July 20 2021 the series was renewed for a second season and a feature film based on the series will be released on December 8th 42 In September 2018 Ellen DeGeneres released her own version of the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and James Corden performed a version on The Late Late Show with James Corden 43 The song was performed on The X Factor in early December 2018 because it was requested by Simon Cowell s four year old son Eric citation needed Yvie Oddly a Drag queen and contestant on RuPaul s Drag Race adapted the song for live lip syncing performances including a choreography that draws inspiration from voguing 44 Professional baseball player Gerardo Parra of the Washington Nationals having discovered the song through his young daughter adopted it as his walk up music to energize the flagging team on June 19 2019 45 The theme became popular among both teammates and fans who used the shark clap whenever the Nationals got a hit and eventually at every Parra at bat fans also began wearing shark costumes to the stadium 46 A stuffed baby shark was seen attached to the dugout railing during the 2019 National League Championship Series which the Nationals won over the St Louis Cardinals 47 The craze culminated with the Nationals defeating the Houston Astros in seven games to win the 2019 World Series the connection was such that the Marine Band performed the song during the team s celebratory visit to the White House 48 Darts player Mikuru Suzuki has used the song as her entrance music 49 The song has also been performed by anti government protesters in Lebanon during the 2019 20 Lebanese protests 50 51 Popular Australian children s music band The Wiggles released a version of the song in March 2020 In the American comedy drama television series Ted Lasso fictional soccer player Jamie Tartt played by English actor Phil Dunster uses the tune of the song as his goal celebration anthem in which the words Baby Shark are replaced with his name 52 Pomplamoose released an electro funk version on April 1 2021 53 In Southeast Asia the song was used in an online shopping platform called Shopee with different versions and renditions It was first spotted in 2018 with Filipina actress Anne Curtis as endorser More recently the jingle to the tune of Baby Shark was used when Jackie Chan became international brand ambassador 54 55 56 57 Charts editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2018 2022 PeakpositionAustralia Streaming Audio Visual Tracks ARIA 58 40Canada Canadian Hot 100 59 39France SNEP 60 162Global 200 Billboard 61 38Ireland IRMA 62 22New Zealand Hot Singles RMNZ 63 39Scotland OCC 64 12Sweden Heatseeker Sverigetopplistan 65 9UK Singles OCC 66 6US Billboard Hot 100 67 32US Kid Digital Songs Billboard 68 1US Rolling Stone Top 100 69 58Vietnam Vietnam Hot 100 70 10Chart performance for Baby Shark duet version Chart 2019 2020 PeakpositionUS Rolling Stone Top 100 71 73Year end charts edit 2019 year end chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2019 PositionCanada Canadian Hot 100 72 85UK Singles OCC 73 48US Billboard Hot 100 74 752020 year end chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2020 PositionUK Singles OCC 75 722021 year end chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2021 PositionGlobal 200 Billboard 76 48UK Singles OCC 77 732022 year end chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2022 PositionGlobal 200 Billboard 78 522023 year end chart performance for Baby Shark Chart 2023 PositionGlobal 200 Billboard 79 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