“Africa” is on their fourth studio album Toto IV and has been covered by many artists over the years, including Weezer. It was certified gold in 1991 and is now eight times platinum.

Toto had notable hit singles before (1978’s three-million-selling Top 5 song “Hold the Line”) and after Toto IV (1986’s gold-certified No. 11 song “I’ll Be Over You”), while also ...

Apparently, “Africa” wasn’t really supposed to be this big. Being “the last thing” the band cut for the album Toto IV, they considered it a “throwaway.” “We made the whole record ...

For a good part of the 1980s, the songs of American band Toto were in the soundtrack of the lives of many Filipino youth.

Toto's fourth studio album Toto IV was released in 1982. In 1982, Africa was released as the third single from the album through Columbia Records. It reached number one in America in 1983 and also ...