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Toto Coelo

Band United Kingdom Active 1982–1985

Toto Coelo formed in 1982 in the United Kingdom and was active until 1985. Toto Coelo has 12 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Eat Cannibals”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #55. The station that charted Toto Coelo most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1982.

12appearances

12countdowns

2songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

1982–2006years

Toto Coelo were a British pop confection put together by producer Barry Blue in 1982: five singers, Anita Mahadevan, Lacey Bond, Lindsey Danvers, Sheen Doran and Ros Holness (daughter of TV presenter Bob Holness), pitched somewhere between new wave and a playground chant.

They are remembered for one record, and what a record. "I Eat Cannibals" is a gleeful piece of jungle-drum silliness, all chanted hooks and thumping toms, the sort of novelty that sticks in your head for a week whether you like it or not. In America they had to go out as Total Coelo. The group was finished by 1985, but "I Eat Cannibals" has kept turning up on retro countdowns ever since.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Toto Coelo on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	I Eat Cannibals	380	11	#55	–	1982
2	I Eat Cannibas ( Part 1)	7	1	#1866	–	–

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2006	488	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2003	1914	I Eat Cannibals	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	1866	I Eat Cannibas ( Part 1)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
1999	89	I Eat Cannibals	Channel 104.9 Top 101 Songs of the '80s (February 1999)
1998	286	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998)
1996	210	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)
1996	373	I Eat Cannibals	Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)
1995	156	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1992	143	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)
1988	339	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988)
1988	472	I Eat Cannibals	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1982	55	I Eat Cannibals	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1982

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