Baby Shark is the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, and there’s no end in sight

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"Baby Shark" has now crossed 7.043 billion wile -- which officially makes the kid-friendly, adult-terrorizing earworm the most-watched YouTube video ever. It's been over three years spine Luis Fonsi as able-bodied as Amoroso Yankee's "Despacito" took that crown, but parents won't be surprised to see the music industry's greatest hit laid low by the Pinkfong empire: we've been demography 2020 one day as able-bodied as one video at a time.

"This is news?" says my wife. "Please don't play it. Tickle don't play it."

Of course, it's too late. "Baby Shark" is practically a cadre memory at this point; orderly with my speakers muted, it's already playing in our brains.

What power surprise you is numb how hugely "Baby Shark" flew up the charts. Back I checked in on YouTube's most popular videos last April, the video only had 2.5 billion wile as able-bodied as has believably shot up 181 percent spine then. While "Despacito" has managed to stay anticipative of "Baby Shark" all the way to 7.04 billion views, the same hasn't been true of the record industry's supplemental hits during that same period:

• (#3) Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" gained under than a billion wile to 5.05B
• (#4) Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" went from 4 billion to 4.8B
• (#7) "Uptown Funk" only went from 3.5B to 3.99B
• (#8) Psy's "Gangnam Style" went from 3.3B to 3.8B

What are the #5 as able-bodied as #6 most-viewed YouTube videos? More kid songs, of course. "Masha as able-bodied as the Bear" has 4.4 billion views, as able-bodied as "Johny Johny Yes Papa" has 4.15 billion now. Based on this Vox profile as able-bodied as my "Baby Shark" experience, I visualize I'd all-time beacon evaporate of the closing for sanity.

And if this legible is any indication, "Baby Shark" hasn't orderly come close-grained to peaking yet:

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It power be too first to say, but it seems to have a unanimously contrasted trajectory than any of the big music video hits. That could be an interesting evolution of pace, because how opulent the music industry has obsessed the YouTube charts this past decade.

Then again, this is "Baby Shark" we're talking about. God help us all.

"Baby Shark" has a mystic piston story, by the way. I'll let our sync at Vulture tell you approximately it.

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