In November 2021, “Africa” reached one billion Spotify streams. The band’s only No. 1 song, it’s also been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 8 million.

Toto’s “Africa” has been undergoing a resurgence of popularity lately, with last year’s Weezer cover giving the band its biggest hit in a decade, and Pitbull covering the song for the ...

When Weezer – best known for their straight-ahead rock and power-pop sound – cut Toto’s “Africa” in 2018, a lot of people took it as a joke, until they really listened to how well the ...

Africa to play the classic 1982 hit on an MP3 player through six speakers on raised pedestals. Thanks to solar-powered batteries, the Toto jam will echo throughout the unforgiving 55 million-year ...

Everybody likes “Africa” by Toto. It’s one of those ubiquitous songs that you catch on the radio every now and then - almost as if the DJ turns to you as if to say “hurry boy, it’s ...

We never saw it as hit song. “Rosanna” was the hit, but “Africa” resonated with everyone who heard it. The fact it has endured and gotten bigger the last 35-plus years is insane to us.

The ode to the beauty of Africa by someone who only has seen it on television was the last song recorded for “Toto IV,” and barely made the cut when it was time to finalize the album. But it ...

Toto’s 1983 hit “Africa” is a prime example of glorious period-specific soft-rock cheese, a song that can fuck up your whole afternoon if you hear it in a Walgreen’s. It is not, however ...

Toto's classic 1992 song “Africa” has been subjected to a seemingly insignificant piece of studio tweaking – but the result is so appallingly irritating that you probably won't manage to ...

They covered a different Toto song, the 1982 #2 hit “ Rosanna.” That seemed like it might be the end of it. But no: Today: Weezer have given the people what they want.

Smith: Nope. I imagine maybe 12 percent of the people still buying Weezer songs would know of or have any interest in Toto. That number might jump to 15 percent, post-”Africa.” ...

Indeed, Toto has already unleashed its version of “Hash Pipe” on its audience, performing the song as the final number in the set. “We just go out there and f—ing kick ass,” says Lukather.