| Toca-Toca | |
| Cover: | Toca-Toca-by-Fly-Project.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Fly Project |
| Released: | 18 September 2013 |
| Recorded: | 2013 |
| Length: | 2:45 |
| Label: |
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| Producer: | Fly Project |
| Prev Title: | Musica |
| Prev Year: | 2013 |
| Next Title: | Hello |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
"Toca-Toca" is a song performed by Romanian band Fly Project. It was recorded in late 2012, at the Fly Records production studio owned by Tudor Ionescu, Tudor Parghel, Daniel Denes and Silviu Cristian Tudor. The lead female voice singing the song's chorus is that of Romanian jazz singer, Irina Sarbu. The song was released on 18 September 2013, on Roton Records. It is a bilingual Latin dance song, sung in English and Spanish and contains some similarities to Eurodance and house music.
The song became popular in early 2014 with Kontor - House of House[1] dance series including it in Volume 19 in February 2014.Following this, "Toca-Toca" became a huge hit in Romania, defending the third position for three non-consecutive weeks. In Spain's PROMUSICAE, the single reached number seventeen. In the French SNEP, the song became a top 10 hit and stayed in the charts for 24 weeks. It also became a top-50 hit in Belgium and a top-80 hit in Switzerland. Although it didn't reach the Italian charts, it was certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry, denoting downloads exceeding 15,000 units in Italy.[2] "Toca-Toca" was one of the best-selling singles of 2014 in Eastern Europe and reached, as reported by bestmusic.ro, number 56 in the famous chart Shazam World Top 100.
The official music video was released on 28 October 2013, and was filmed by Romanian director Alex Ceausu of Ador Media on Rin Grand Hotel's roof in Bucharest, Romania over a period of 24 hours. The video focuses on a couple wearing anthropomorphic "bear" heads who meet and fall in love. When they arrive at a roof party, where Fly Project is singing, the bear-headed couple tries to get the duo on the stage to sing for them. The video exceeds 69 million views on the duo's official YouTube account as of 3 January 2017.[3] [4] In 2023, a population video were used on the anime version from the Anime Music Video, the video exceeds on 59 million views.[5]
An official Tooniverse's The Haunted House YouTube channel was uploaded as a YouTube Short on April 5, 2023. The characters Jubi and Shinbi are seen dancing from the popular anime video in the fifth season from the second episode.[6]
| Chart (2013-2015) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Italy (FIMI)[7] | |
| Poland (Polish Airplay TV)[8] | |
| Poland (Dance Top 50)[9] | |
| Romania (Airplay 100)[10] | |
| Russia (NFPP)[11] | |
| Chart (2014) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| France (SNEP)[12] | ||
| Poland (Dance Top 50)[13] | ||
| Shazam World Top 100 |