As for Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" singer Hope Segoine, in 2019, she appeared on KTVB and admitted the song she sang even gets stuck in her own head. As of 2023, Seqoine seemed to live in Dallas, Texas, and continued to design and make art, according to her Instagram. In 2019, the song Segoine sang broke the Billboard Top 100. Three years later, in 2022, Pinkfong announced their "Baby Shark" video became the first YouTube video ever to break 10 billion views. As of 2023, that number had reached 13 billion, so it's not just you and your family belting out the song on road trips.
Speaking with KTVB in 2019, Seqoine said she didn't make any money off the smash hit beyond her one-time fee. In 2022, Forbes reported "Baby Shark" made around $9,400 a day based on YouTube views alone — that's $280,000 a month, or about $22 million all time and growing, according to data from Bonus Insider. In 2019, Segoine said, "My parents are working on getting residuals, cause the system in Korea is a little bit different."
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