By Hope Segoine’s Baby Shark Song Becomes YouTube’s Most-Watched Video
One of them is the South Korean 9-year old kid who has become an internet sensation for her dance moves and a song that stormed the world. That adorable girl is none other than Hope Segoine.
Although Hope is famous, our focus today isn’t about her but her Baby Shark song that left the world talking for days. Yes. You’ve read that right. According to YouTube, the song is on the platform’s top charts for garnering around seven billion streaming and counting. The song is also rated as one of the catchiest kids’ songs in history.
According to news, the song has defeated others, which seemed to have topped chats for years without showing a sign of coming down. Such famous songs include the renowned Despacito, which was done by Singer Luis, and others you probably know, which took the world by storm when released.
What’s more surprising is that the song has been played back to back since it was uploaded and has continuously been streamed for an estimation of one hundred and eight years if we could count in years. According to net worth, the song still offers a magical gain of around five billion dollars from YouTube alone!
While this is excellent and surprising at the same time for a single video, especially from a kid, what most people don’t know is that this song has a long history. It is said to have its roots in the 1970s. Moreover, even before it became a sensation, it had stayed on YouTube for four years. One of the song’s theories is that it started from a camp in 1975 and is attached to a story about a famous man named Steven Spielberg.
Another thing people need to know is that the song has several variations in its making that also boosted its fame. For example, one scene has a breathtaking moment where a surfer loses an arm and another where a leading character dies.
Still, it has international versions that have helped it to be liked by different people who understand it better from their native language. A good example is the Bebe Requin and the German version played by Kleiner Hai, who is famed for singing the Little Shark Song, which also became a sensation in 2007.
While other versions of the song did well, the world has never seen a version that has tremendously succeeded than that of Hope’s creation. In fact, due to its fame, already big brands have started using it for their concerts, making it hard to be forgotten by people as they always see and get reminded of it on company campaigns.
You will find famous companies such as Red Velvet, Girl’s Generation, and BlackPink enjoying it for their marketing. In June, the same year, when Hope become famous, she went ahead and posted a new creation of other kids and her dancing, which created another wave that boosted the song to the top. This time, Hope made the world agree with her and create a dance challenge for the moves.
The challenge was named after the song “Baby Shark Dance Challenge” and became more famous when top-singers and rappers were seen participating and enjoying. Among them were Cardi B and Josh Groban. Another reason the song made it that far is because of its repetitive stanzas and style that makes it easy for kids to grab everything and sing it effortlessly.
Claims Linked to Hope’s Famous Song
While it is such a famous creation, the song has been linked to controversies you’re going to love to hear about.
First, it was linked with prison bullying and torture, where inmates from an Oklahoma prison tied others against a wall and made them listen to it for two hours. Additionally, famous people have taken the Company supporting Hope to court claiming copyrights on it. One of them is the famous children songwriter Jonathan Wright who did a version similar to the song and said his idea was stolen.
In response to Jonathan’s claims, Hope’s support company said their singer’s version was a pure creation for traditional chants and believed it did well because of their creativity and not copying anyone’s ideas. Reports still say the case is under consideration by the Korean Copyright authorities to date.
Another incidence that brought the song to headlines and ignited its fame again is where a lady named Eliane Jabbour and her young son, who was barely five months, were caught in a public demonstration.
While Eliane was frightened about how she would calm her son due to the noise and destruction, people took the opportunity and surrounded her. She didn’t know what was happening until they started chanting and singing Baby Shark, Hope’s version, which is said to have helped the baby calm down.
The incident was recorded and went viral; this time, Hope’s fame was ignited, and her song’s fame on YouTube skyrocketed afresh. While Hope is young, she has proven to the world that fame is not limited to age, religion, or ethnicity.
It is such an exciting thing to see the world enjoying and celebrating a toddler’s creation that has moved big companies to feature her on their marketing and more. To Hope, most people wish she continues giving us super-surprising songs in the future.
