Baby Shark Dance — Pinkfong

Baby Shark Dance is the reason "most-watched YouTube video" now means something absurd: over 13 billion views as of 2025, more than 4.5 billion ahead of Despacito, the previous record holder. Pinkfong uploaded it in 2016, and it took over the top spot in November 2020 — not through a single flash of virality but through sheer toddler replay volume, the same three minutes autoplayed by devices in living rooms worldwide for the better part of a decade. There's no artistic case to make for it. There doesn't need to be.