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Baby Shark Boy Debuts as K‑Pop Soloist With 'WAVE'

Pinkfong is repurposing the viral 2016 melody through mainstream K‑pop collaborators to reposition the former child performer as an adult artist.

Overview

  • The single WAVE, which was released Thursday, opens with the original Baby Shark melody before shifting into an electropop dance track and features Monsta X’s JOOHONEY.
  • Park Geonroung, now 17 and performing as Baby Shark Boy, helped write the lyrics and says the release is meant as a new start to connect with audiences beyond his childhood role.
  • Choreography for WAVE was led by TEAM SAME under Young‑jun Choi, who has worked with top K‑pop acts, and the performance adapts familiar Baby Shark moves into an idol-style routine.
  • The Pinkfong Company is backing the project and is preparing a behind‑the‑scenes documentary called WAVE: Becoming Baby Shark Boy while it explores additional collaborations and a possible film tie‑in that has not been formally confirmed.
  • The move recasts Pinkfong’s flagship property as a multi‑platform franchise—the original Baby Shark Dance has more than 17.2 billion YouTube views—and signals a strategy of using nostalgia and K‑pop production values to reach older, cross‑generational audiences.