Baby Shark is the first video with 10 billion views on YouTube

By: Maksim Panasovskyi | 14.01.2022, 09:47
Baby Shark is the first video with 10 billion views on YouTube

The video for the children's song Baby Shark became the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views. But at the time of writing, the clip was viewed 10,006,874,517 times.

Baby Shark currently has a movie, an animated series, and a non-fungible token. At the end of the year before last, the video overtook Despacito, which now has 7.7 billion views and ranks second in the list of most viewed videos.

In addition to Baby Shark and Despacito, the top 5 included the children's song Johny Johny Yes Papa (LooLoo Kids), as well as the Shape of You (Ed Sheeran) and See You Again (Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth) videos. They scored 6.1 billion, 5.58 billion and 5.38 billion views respectively.

Source: The Verge