Comedian Piko-Taro has a pen, he has an apple, .. and uggh, now he has a Billboard Hot 100 record!
At only 45 seconds long, Piko-Taro’s novelty viral hit song, PPAP, recently debuts on the Billboard chart at no. 77. According to Paul Haney of Record Research (which has released more than 150 chart reference books by its founder, historian Joel Whitburn), PPAP becomes a historic feat for the music chart’s long run. It bests the mark held for more than 52 years by The Womenfolk's Little Boxes, which peaked at No. 83 on the Hot 100 in 1964, with a running time of only 1:02 long.
According to Nielsen Music, Piko-Taro (the character of Japanese comedian DJ Daimaou Kosaka) makes his record-setting Hot 100 arrival exclusively thanks to YouTube hits that brought him 5.7 million U.S. streams.
If you missed the song, listen to it below.
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