

The video had since gone viral, averaging over 1.5 million hits a day, and being touted as the new " Gangnam Style" by various newspapers and online media. On 27 September 2016, Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber shared the video on Twitter, captioning it as his "favorite video on the Internet". Kosaka remarked it was mostly popular among Japanese students. The video accumulated about 1 million hits in its first month of play. An instrumental version of the song was made available on 12 October 2016. "PPAP", alongside three other works by Pikotaro, was released to digital storefronts through Avex Music Creative on 7 October 2016. Pikotaro has since revisited the compounding-words concept of PPAP in later music videos, such as the musically similar "Beetle Booon But Bean in Bottle (BBBBB)". On 17 November, Pikotaro made an appearance on the Japanese edition of Sesame Street, where he joined Elmo and Cookie Monster in singing their version of the song titled "CBCC (Cookie-Butter-Choco-Cookie)". On 27 October, Pikotaro posted a "long version" of the music video.
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On 26 September, Pikotaro released a video on how to do the dance and the gestures. The video's expense was about 100,000 yen. Uh! Apple pen" while making the gestures of holding the named items and combining them. In the video, Pikotaro, dressed in a yellow snake/leopard animal print costume, dances around, and then sings English lyrics like "I have a pen, I have a apple. The song originated as a music video released on YouTube on 25 August 2016. Pikotaro's vocals span from F♯ 3 to C♯ 5 in the song. The song is written in the key of C♯ minor with a common time tempo of 136 beats per minute.

He thought about his background of being from Japan's biggest apple-producing region ( Aomori Prefecture) as he also realized that he had an open can of pineapple slices on the table. He was listening to the tune when he picked up a pen to start writing. Kosaka, the creator of "PPAP", said in an interview that he came up with the song sitting in his house. At the end of 2016, the song charted at number 6 on Japan Hot 100 Year-end Chart. At the time of its release (with a duration of 0:45), it became the shortest single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, a record that was later broken by Kid Cudi's " Beautiful Trip" (0:37). The single itself reached number 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart. PPAP spawned parodies, and was hailed as the new " Gangnam Style" by various newspapers and online media. As of April 2023, the official video has been viewed more than 154 million times. It was released as a music video on YouTube on 25 August 2016, and has since become a viral video.

" PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)" ( Japanese: ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン, Hepburn: Penpainappōappōpen) is a single by Pikotaro, a fictional singer-songwriter created and portrayed by Japanese comedian Daimaou Kosaka. PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) on YouTube
