Japanese artist Piko Taro’s song Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen has broken the Guinness World record for being the shortest song ever to make it into the Billboard Hot 100. The official YouTube video of the 45-second song has received a total of 400 million views. 43-year old Taro said, “to be honest I haven’t even received my first paycheck yet”.
Listen to the song here:
We all listened to this song when people were making memes about this on Facebook. We laughed harder on this than we should have. But, we never wondered it would become a hit.