Comedian Pikotaro’s music video “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen,” abbreviated as “PPAP,” that recently went viral on social media has entered the weekly U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at 77th.
It is the first time in 26 years that a Japanese artist has made the U.S. chart. The last was singer Seiko Matsuda, whose song “The Right Combination” reached No. 54 in 1990.
Billboard says the song, which lasts just 45 seconds, is the shortest-ever to make it into the Hot 100.
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