Toto - "Africa"

[Deleted]

this song may be straight aor but fuck it

[♛ The Manticore ☯]

I still like this classic.

[areyoureadytojump]

RIAA.com:

TOTO
Title: AFRICA
Certification Date: October 20, 2020
Label: COLUMBIA
Format: SINGLE
6xP

[disman00911]

This song is overplayed on adult contemporary & 80s-based classic hits stations.   Plus, this song has become an overused internet meme.  My favorite track from Toto is the 1979 hit "Hold the Line".

[areyoureadytojump]

Released 40 years ago on June 25, 1982 in the UK. It went to #3:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Toto_song)

Africa was released in Oct. 1982 in the USA. It peaked at #1 in the spring of 1983.

[areyoureadytojump]

RIAA.com:

TOTO
Title: AFRICA
Certification Date: July 19, 2022
Label: COLUMBIA
Format: SINGLE
7x, 8x Platinum

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Heavily overplayed...but the melodies on this are gorgeous.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#105 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: Though somewhat inscrutable lyrically, Toto’s catchy, rousing 1983 yacht rock classic is as much a homage to the to the Yamaha synthesizer that David Paich wrote the instantly recognizable opening riff on as it is to the titular continent.

Coming Around Again: In addition to Weezer’s meme-spawned, Hot 100-charting 2018 cover, “Africa” has been sampled in countless songs — with the intro section especially finding favor with rappers, including Nas (“New World”), Ja Rule (“Murder Reigns”) and Xzibit (“Heart of Man”).

Living on Video: While Toto’s original clip has some regrettably stereotypical images, Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell’s 2016 video, made while the couple was on a Serengeti safari, is a clever (if obviously touristic) lip-synced homage that includes the couple literally “blessing the rains” in Africa during a downpour and cavorting a little too closely to wildebeests — resulting in a $50 fine, according to Shepard.

[jenglisbe]

True story about this song, and Toto, from several years ago. Some friends and I had traveled for tennis and were at a restaurant in Charleston, SC. "Africa" came on, and I said something about Toto and our server had no clue. I said they sing the song that's on, and he said "Oh, isn't this Africa something?" I was like, "You have to know Toto!" We got back to our home city, and I went and bought Toto's greatest hits on CD and mailed it to that server at the restaurant. He sent me the thank you note below:



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