We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The track album includes the wildly popular, wildly catchy shark song and a few of its most popular variants Halloween Sharks, Christmas Baby Shark. But how did we wind up here? How did this little ditty-that-could make the jump swim from toddler YouTube to the Billboard charts? Are you ready to see how a meme becomes a quiet cultural phenomenon? For one thing, the titular shark dance is appealingly simple, something even the youngest toddler and surliest adult can do. The video currently stands at nearly 2. Bright, moving colors; cute little kids; catchy, repetitive lyrics.

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Popular as a campfire song, it has taken off since , when Pinkfong , a South Korean education company, turned it into a viral video which spread through social media, online video, and radio. Some sources have mentioned traditional myths as a basis, others camping origins in the 20th century, [1] and some see it as possibly developed by camp counselors inspired by the movie Jaws. Different versions of the song have the sharks hunting fish, eating a sailor, or killing people, who then go to heaven. 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. The single peaked at 25th on of the German charts [10] and at 21 in the Austrian charts.
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