"I have a pen. I have an apple. Apple pen"
If you read that line with a tune then you are one of the people who helped the song enter the Billboard Hot 100. Pikotaro, a 53-year-old Japanese comedian who is behind the huge viral hit music video entitled 'PPAP' or Pen Pineapple Apple Pen was officially recognized for the song's chart success by the Guinness World Records in a ceremony held in Tokyo as reported by Straits Times.
It all started with a single tweet by the pop star, Justin Bieber saying that is his "favorite video on the Internet". Now the video has been viewed over 67 million times on YouTube since its upload from August and it entered the US chart at No. 77 last week making Pikotaro the first Japanese to enter the US charts in the last 26 years.
Per Guinness World Records: PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen), now holds the title for Shortest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, after the incredibly catchy 45-second track reached the US charts on 29 October 2016.
"I'm surprised by this sudden popularity," said the 53-year-old comedian, Pikotaro, just before receiving the award on Friday at a packed press conference. "Without Justin's impact, I think only four people would have showed up in this room," he joked.
Pikotaro revealed that the cost of the video was just 100,000 yen ($950). The video features Pikotaro, dressed in his trademark garish animal print costume, dancing to nonsensical English lyrics such as "I have a pen. I have an apple. Apple pen." Pikotaro explained that the reason he made the song was because "he wanted to make the world dance".
According to the Japanese singer, his life has not changed one bit since the song became a "worldwide phenomenon" last month. The singer also hopes to do world tours though he does not expect that the global craze would last.
"I just want to quickly release many fun songs," he said.
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