40 Fun Facts About Baby Shark

Which South Korean children's brand released the Baby Shark video that became YouTube's most-viewed?

Pinkfong uploaded Baby Shark Dance in June 2016, and its parent firm SmartStudy later renamed itself after the brand.

Which song's video did Baby Shark Dance overtake in November 2020 to become the most viewed on YouTube?

Despacito had held the record for more than three years before the children's video swam past it.

Which MLB team adopted Baby Shark as a rallying anthem on the way to its first World Series title in 2019?

Washington Nationals fans did a shark clap whenever the team got a hit, and many turned up at the ballpark in shark costumes.

Away from the Baby Shark song, what is the proper name for the young of a real shark?

Pup is the word for a young shark, and pups get no parental care, arriving as smaller versions of the adults.

Before it was a viral video, Baby Shark spent decades as a sing-along in which setting?

Summer camps kept the song alive for decades, which is why the underlying tune is believed to be in the public domain.

Which rapper voiced a shark superstar in a 2022 episode of Baby Shark's Big Show!?

Cardi B played Sharki B, a rap icon with a dance craze called the Seaweed Sway, while husband Offset and daughter Kulture voiced a fan and his daughter.

In which TV comedy is the Baby Shark tune reworked into a chant for fictional footballer Jamie Tartt?

Ted Lasso gave striker Jamie Tartt the tune as his goal celebration anthem, with his own name swapped in for the title words.

Baby Shark was performed on The X Factor in 2018 at the request of which judge's four-year-old son?

Simon Cowell's son Eric asked for the song, which landed a toddler favorite on a prime-time talent show in early December.

In Baby Shark's Big Show!, what job does the loud, blue Daddy Shark do?

Dentist is Daddy Shark's job in the series, while Mommy Shark loves solving puzzles and Grandpa Shark loves watching TV.

A March 2020 version of Baby Shark taught children which habit during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Washing hands was the lesson: the interactive remake encouraged children to scrub properly as the virus spread.

Which US children's network premiered the animated series Baby Shark's Big Show! in December 2020?

Nickelodeon launched the series with a holiday special, and its animation studio co-produced the show with the song's South Korean makers.

Which Canadian superstar sang a dramatic Baby Shark during her 2019 Carpool Karaoke with James Corden?

Celine Dion belted it out at the host's request, a year after his show staged a version with Sophie Turner and Josh Groban.

What color is Baby Shark in Baby Shark's Big Show!, where Grandpa Shark is green?

Yellow is Baby Shark's color, while Mommy Shark is pink and Grandma Shark is orange.

Baby Shark Dance became the first YouTube video ever to pass how many views in January 2022?

10 billion views arrived less than six years after the upload, a mark no other video had reached.

Which daytime talk show host released her own version of Baby Shark on her show in September 2018?

Ellen DeGeneres joined in only weeks after the song began to go viral in the Western world, a wave that started in August 2018.

Which children's band teamed up with Baby Shark for a four-episode YouTube series in December 2023?

The Wiggles, the Australian children's group, performed alongside the shark family in a series released only on YouTube.

Baby Shark was a playable track in the 2020 edition of which long-running video game series?

Just Dance 2020 let players copy the routine at home, and the song also turned up in the film The Angry Birds Movie 2.

A 2007 version of Baby Shark went viral on YouTube under the title Kleiner Hai, sung in which language?

German singer Alemuel took the song, whose title means Little Shark, to number 25 at home; in her telling the grown shark eats a swimmer.

Which Kellogg's cereal got a berry-flavored Baby Shark edition with marshmallows in 2019?

Froot Loops was the base for the Baby Shark cereal, which went on sale first at Sam's Club before reaching Walmart.

Who sang the lead vocal on the hit 2016 Baby Shark recording, uploaded as Baby Shark Dance?

A ten-year-old girl, Korean-American singer Hope Segoine, recorded the vocal, while two child actors danced in the video.

In Baby Shark's Big Show!, what is the name of the underwater town where Baby Shark lives?

Carnivore Cove is home to the shark family and to a recurring villain, a vampire squid who keeps trying to take the town over.

Which K-pop boy band broke into Baby Shark during their own Carpool Karaoke, mixing it with LMFAO's Shots?

BTS offered it as their example of a song to sing in rounds when bored, then launched into it on the spot.

In which Southeast Asian country did the Baby Shark video go viral in 2017 before spreading across Asia?

Indonesia caught the craze first, a full year before the song began to go viral in the Western world in August 2018.

Baby Shark peaked at number six on the singles chart of which country, far above its US peak of 32?

Britain sent it to number six at the start of 2019, when Christmas songs dropped out of the chart and the shark tune leapt into the Top 10.

A 2013 rule counting YouTube views helped Baby Shark enter which US chart at number 32 in January 2019?

Billboard Hot 100 rankings count online video plays, which let a toddler tune debut inside the Top 40 beside the week's pop hits.

The company behind the hit Baby Shark video was founded in Seoul in 2010 by three former what?

Game developers Kim Min-seok, Lee Seung-kyu and Park Hyun-woo turned to education because, as one of them put it, they were tired of making games.

The children's brand behind the hit Baby Shark video is represented by a mascot of which animal?

A fox is the mascot, a character who also stars in the web series Wonderstar beside a hedgehog called Hogi.

In Baby Shark's Big Show!, Baby Shark's best friend William is what kind of sea creature?

Pilot fish really do keep company with sharks, gaining protection from predators while clearing the sharks of parasites.

Which outfielder started a 2019 baseball craze by making Baby Shark his walk-up song for his young daughter?

Gerardo Parra homered on his first day walking up to the tune, so he kept it, and crowds were soon clapping along like snapping jaws.

Which military ensemble played Baby Shark at the White House during the 2019 World Series champions' visit?

The Marine Band, known as The President's Own, played the toddler tune as the title-winning team was honored.

Baby Shark's Big Movie! premiered in December 2023 on a US kids' channel and which streaming service?

Paramount+ carried the film, in which Baby Shark's family leaves home for Chomp City, the big city of sharks.

In Baby Shark's Big Movie!, the villain out to steal Baby Shark's singing gift is what sea creature?

A starfish named Stariana is the villain, a rising pop idol who plans to dominate all underwater music by taking his gift of song.

Which High School Musical actress voices the scheming villain in Baby Shark's Big Movie!?

Ashley Tisdale leads a guest cast that also includes Lance Bass and Saturday Night Live's Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman.

Which Family Guy voice actor plays Grandpa Shark in Baby Shark's Big Show!?

Patrick Warburton, Family Guy's Joe Swanson and the voice of Kronk, plays the green grandfather who loves watching TV.

The hit Baby Shark recording opens with Jaws-like bars from the Ninth Symphony of which composer?

Dvořák composed that symphony, known as the New World Symphony, in 1893 while he was running a music conservatory in the United States.

Which children's entertainer released a toddler-friendly Baby Shark in 2011, then sued over the hit version?

Johnny Only, real name Jonathan Wright, lost: a Seoul court ruled in 2021 that his version had only added an instrument to an existing folk song.

Which Florida city looped Baby Shark overnight in 2019 to drive homeless people from a waterfront pavilion?

West Palm Beach played it on a continuous loop with another children's earworm, Raining Tacos, and drew criticism for the tactic.

In 2020, jail officers in which US state were charged for forcing inmates to hear Baby Shark on a loop?

Oklahoma prosecutors charged them with cruelty to a prisoner: handcuffed inmates had to stand through the song at loud volume.

Protesters in which Middle Eastern country took up Baby Shark during anti-government demonstrations in 2019?

Lebanon's demonstrators sang it during the nationwide movement that began on 17 October 2019, set off by planned taxes on fuel, tobacco and WhatsApp calls.

Which Orange Is the New Black actress provides the voice of Baby Shark in Baby Shark's Big Show!?

Kimiko Glenn, who played inmate Brook Soso in the prison drama, also voices Peni Parker in the Spider-Verse films.