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Tokooos is the fourth studio album by Congolese singer Fally Ipupa. It was released on July 7, 2017, by Elektra France, Warner Music France. After having established himself as a continental superstar singer in Africa with his first three albums solos, all produced by David Monsoh, Fally now wanted to open up to the French and more generally Western record market.[1] Ipupa will be signed in 2013 by Julien Creuzard on the AZ label (subsidiary of Universal).[2][3][4] But in 2016, Julien Creuzard left AZ to found the new label Elektra France, Fally is now under the label Elektra France.[5][6]
Recording sessions took place from 2015 to 2017, with Fally himself and a lot of French music producers. Featured guest appearances include Booba, MHD, Aya Nakamura, KeBlack, Naza, Wizkid, R. Kelly, and Shay.[1][7]
Tokooos is oriented towards R&B, trap and Afropop while keeping a touch of Congolese music with traditional Congolese guitar, the master instrument of Congolese rumba.[8][9] After its release and in its first months of marketing, Tokooos was well received by the European public but a little less well by its African base public who saw this album as an album "made for European peoples".[1][10][11]
The album debuted at number twenty eight on SNEP Top Albums in July 2017, number twenty one on Ultratop. It spent a total of 23 weeks on the French Top albums 200.[12] Three years after its release, Tokooos achieved over 130 million streams on digital platforms.
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- ^ "Fally Ipupa : son album "Power Kosa Leka" fête ses 10 ans" [Fally Ipupa: his album "Power Kosa Leka" celebrates its 10th anniversary]. Mbote (in French). April 5, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
- ^ Iranzi, Fabrice (August 23, 2019). "Fally Ipupa to perform for the first time in Kigali, Rwanda". RegionWeek. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ Lavaine, Bertrand (June 3, 2013). "Fally Ipupa, sur la piste internationale". RFI Musique (in French). Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ "Fally Ipupa: Taking a Congolese musical icon to the global stage" (PDF). Ifpi.org. London, England, United Kingdom. 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ^ Seck, Jean-Pierre (November 25, 2023). "Fally Ipupa : de roi de la rumba à emblème d'une génération" [Fally Ipupa: from king of rumba to emblem of a generation]. Le Point (in French). Retrieved November 26, 2023.
- ^ "Fally Ipupa confirme qu'il y a un album rumba en préparation" [Fally Ipupa confirms there is a rumba album in the works]. Mbote.cd (in French). Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. July 11, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ^ Tilouine, Joan (July 7, 2017). "Fally Ipupa, l'élégant de Kinshasa à la voix suave". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved October 8, 2023.
- ^ Gerard, Abigail (July 20, 2017). "Fally Ipupa de retour avec "Tokooos", bien plus qu'un nouvel album". Parismatch.com (in French). Retrieved October 8, 2023.
- ^ Gerard, Abigail (July 20, 2017). "Fally Ipupa de retour avec "Tokooos", bien plus qu'un nouvel album". parismatch.com (in French). Retrieved October 8, 2023.
- ^ "Fally Ipupa regle ses comptes avec Heritier Watanabe, Ferre Gola et Fabregas le Metis Noir lors d'une conference de Presse" [Fally Ipupa settles scores with Heritier Watanabe, Ferre Gola and Fabregas le Metis Noir during a Press conference]. Mbote.cd (in French). Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. September 25, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ^ Hsu, Hua. "lescharts.com Fally Ipupa - Tokooos". Les Charts. Retrieved February 3, 2021.