LaLaLa (Black Coffee and Usher song)

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"LaLaLa"
Single by Usher & Black Coffee
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2019 (2019-09-10)
Recorded2018
Genre Afro house
Length3:39
Label Verve
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Black Coffee
Black Coffee singles chronology
"Get it Together"
(2018)
"LaLaLa"
(2019)
Usher singles chronology
"Party"
(2016)
"LaLaLa"
(2019)
"Come Thru"
(2019)

"LaLaLa" is an afro house song by South African DJ Black Coffee and American singer Usher. [1] It is the first collaboration between the two. In 2018, they appeared together for the first time at the Global Citizen Festival. [2]

Contents

Black Coffee had briefly published segments of the song in December 2018 on his Instagram page. [3]

Commercial performance

The song was released on September 10, 2019, [4] [5] and peaked at number one on the South Africa Airplay Charts Radio Monitor chart. It is Usher's first number one in South Africa. [6]

Chart performance

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop Dance) [7] 25
South Africa (Radio Monitor) [8] 1

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