TOTO — Africa

The rare Reagan-era soft-rock single that never really leaves the cultural bloodstream is broadly charting again, tracked across 103 country and platform charts today after a six-week dip. Written by David Paich and the late Jeff Porcaro, the Toto IV closer topped the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983 and has since become the band's defining statement — a lush, misheard-lyric singalong that outlived the AOR era that produced it. Its afterlife as a meme and sync staple is well documented: Nerdist counted more than 50 film and TV appearances, and covers by Weezer and Pitbull kept it circulating through the late 2010s. It surfaced memorably on Stranger Things, cementing its status as generational shorthand. Few catalog tracks stay this durable this long.