'Baby Shark' is the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views

No, you still can't escape "Baby Shark." Billboardreports Pinkfong's so-catchy-it-hurts children's song has become the first video to reach 10 billion views on YouTube. And no one is likely to catch it any time soon -- Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" video, which "Baby Shark" overtook as the most popular video in November 2020, has managed 'just' 7.7 billion views as of this writing. The 2016 tune's familiar (if very repetitive) hook is certainly part of its success, but it has also been helped by retu...