Bim bam toi

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"Bim bam toi"
Carla - Bim bam toi.png
Single by Carla
from the album L'autre moi
Released11 October 2019 (2019-10-11)
Genre Electropop [1]
Length2:55
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Igit, Barbara Pravi
Music video
"Bim bam toi" on YouTube
Flag of France.svg "Bim bam toi"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Carla Lazzari
As
Carla
Languages
Composer(s)
Igit
Lyricist(s)
Finals performance
Final result
5th
Final points
169
Entry chronology
◄ "Jamais sans toi" (2018)
"J'imagine" (2020) ►

"Bim bam toi" (English: Bim bam you) is a song by French singer Carla Lazzari that served as France's entry to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, held in Gliwice, Poland, on 24 November 2019. [2] It was released on the MCA label as a single on 11 October. [3]

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In December 2019, the song went viral on TikTok [4] and climbed to number one on the Spotify Top 50 Viral chart for France. [5] [6]

It was written by Barbara Pravi (who would later represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the song "Voilà", in addition to writing the following year's winning French Junior Eurovision entry "J'imagine") and Igit, [1] [7] [2] and produced by Julien Comblat. [1]

Background

"Bim bam toi" is an electropop [1] song performed in French, the national language, with a few words in English. [8] It tells the story of love at first sight. [1] Carla sings:

With the chorus:

During the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, it was the second song performed, after "We Will Rise" by Jordan Anthony (Australia) and just before "A Time for Us" by Tatiana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorjak (Russia). [9] Having obtained 85 points from the juries (sixth place) and 84 from the televoting (third place), Carla finished fifth with a total of 169 points. [2]

External video
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Juju Fitcats' TikTok video

As early as November, TikTok users were participating in the "Bim bam toi" challenge by uploading videos of themselves lip-syncing to the song. This went viral in France when Juju Fitcats, a YouTube fitness vlogger with more than a million followers, participated in the challenge in early December. [4] [10] In her video, Fitcats cheerfully sings the song while dancing in an airplane just before takeoff. [10] It has garnered millions of views and has been parodied many times. [10]

The song spent a couple of weeks at number one on the Spotify Top 50 Viral chart for France [5] and continued to trend in the top three well into January. [6]

Since February 2020, the official music video for "Bim bam toi" is the most-watched Junior Eurovision-related video on YouTube. [11] The track also appeared as a Fortnite emote in October 2021.

Track listing

Digital single [3]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bim bam toi" (Junior Eurovision 2019 / France)Igit, Barbara Pravi2:55

Charts

Chart (2019–2020)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [12] 13
France (SNEP) [13] 111

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [14] Gold100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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