"Toca-Toca" is a song performed by Romanian band

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. It was recorded in late 2012, at the Fly Records production studio owned by Tudor Ionescu, Tudor Parghel, Daniel Deneș and Silviu Cristian Tudor. The lead female voice singing the song's chorus is that of Romanian jazz singer, Irina Sârbu. The song was released on 18 September 2013, on Roton Records. It is a bilingual

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song, sung in

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and

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, and contains some similarities to

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and

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. The song became popular in early 2014 with ''Kontor - House of House'' 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

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, the song became a top 10 hit and stayed in the charts for 24 weeks. It also became a top-50 hit in

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and a top-80 hit in

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. Although it didn't reach the

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charts, it was certified gold by the

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, denoting downloads exceeding 15,000 units in Italy. "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.

Music video

The official music video was released on 28 October 2013, and was filmed by

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n director Alex Ceaușu of 'Ador Media' on Rin Grand Hotel's roof in Bucharest,

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

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

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account as of 3 January 2017. In 2023, a population video were used on the

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version from the Anime Music Video, the video exceeds on 59 million views.

Track listings

*Digital download # "Toca-Toca" (Radio Edit) - # "Toca-Toca" (Extended Version) - *Italian remix EP
(''Released: February 13, 2014'') # "Toca-Toca" (Extended Version) - 4:47 # "Toca-Toca" (Pee4Tee Remix) - 4:18 # "Toca-Toca" (NRD1 Remix) - 5:27 # "Toca-Toca" (Gil Sanders Remix) - 4:21 # "Toca-Toca" (Radio Edit) - 2:45 *The best of Fly Project EP
(''Released: October 09, 2014'') # "Musica" (Radio Edit) - 3:39 # "Toca-Toca" (Radio Edit) - 2:45 # "Back In My Life" (Radio Edit) - 3:16 # "Musica" (Mollela Remix) - 4:56 # "Musica" (Pee4Tee Remix) - 5:30 # "Toca-Toca" (Joe Bertė Remix) - 5:32 # "Toca-Toca" (Gigi Soriani Remix) - 4:29 # "Back In My Life" (Felipe C. Remix) - 5:36 # "Back In My Life" (Alex Noc Remix) - 5:16 # "Back In My Life" (Daniele P. Remix) - 7:09 *Summer remixes EP
(''Released: July 29, 2014'') # "Toca-Toca" (Joe Bertė Remix) - 5:32 # "Toca-Toca" (Gigi Soriani Remix) - 4:29 # "Toca-Toca" (Daniele Tek Remix) - 6:02 # "Toca-Toca" (Felipe C. Remix) - 5:50 # "Toca-Toca" (Mastro J Remix) - 4:38 # "Toca-Toca" (Venuti & Guat Remix) - 4:44 # "Toca-Toca" (Joe Bertė Remix Edit) - 3:41

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Reflist 2013 songs 2013 singles Macaronic songs Eurodance songs Music videos shot in Romania