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| title = Dutch Attendance}}</ref> and VideoKids began their tour around Europe, doing live shows and concerts, complete with clips of Tico from the video, displayed either manually or through a video projection screen.<ref name="VideoKids News 2"/> The album was released at the [[Midem]] music festival, going on to sell 1.1 million copies,<ref name="Midem"/> and the band won the [[Buma Export Award]] for their international success with the song and album.<ref name="Conamus"/> "Woodpeckers from Space" and their other songs, such as "Do the Rap" and "La Bamba", were played quite often on radio stations at the time, and covered and included on several best-of albums and compilations. The single was never released in [[South Africa]] due to a [[apartheid|political situation]] that was occurring at the time. However, a cover version was made by the South African band [[Café Society (South African band)|Café Society]], holding the No. 1 position on the South African Top 20 for eight weeks from July to August.<ref name="Cafe Society">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2197955-Caf%C3%A9-Society-Woodpeckers-From-Space|title=Café Society – Woodpeckers From Space (1985, Vinyl)|date=1985
During their popularity, VideoKids released "Do the Rap" as a single, which only peaked in 9th place in the Dutch Top 40 on 18 May 1985.<ref name="Dutch Top 2">{{cite web|title=Video Kids – Do the Rap|url=https://www.top40.nl/video-kids/video-kids-do-the-rap-14184|website=[[Dutch Top 40]]|access-date=2 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="Dutch Charts">{{cite web|title=Video Kids – Do The Rap|url=https://www.top40.nl/video-kids/video-kids-do-the-rap-14184|website=Dutch Charts|access-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> The single also included "Happy Birthday" (from "Cartooney Tunes") and “Skyrider", and featured ''Tico Tac: Spacepecker'' on its back cover. A music video for "Do the Rap" was filmed, in which Slaghuis, Bonelli and Tico (who reuses some animations from "Woodpeckers from Space") are at a party, dancing and singing along to a record player playing the song. At one point Tico plays around with a ball in a ''[[Star Trek (1979 pinball)|Star Trek]]'' pinball machine, and accidentally falls on top of the record player, temporarily stopping the song. He then suggests that they do it again. Eventually, Tico falls on the record player again and says, "That's all, folks! Goodbye!", ending the video. Following "Do the Rap" was the release of VideoKids' second album, ''On Satellite'', in which the music sounded somewhat different, becoming generally more strict with the addition of some bass guitar, though still containing its usual twinkly synthesizers. The first song of the album, "Satellite", would later be released individually as the band's third single, with its music video reusing footage from "Do the Rap's" music video. Slaghuis and Bonelli split up after the production of the album and single, with the former leaving to continue remixing. In 1986, Boni Records promoted ''On Satellite'' for release at the Midem music festival.<ref name="Midem"/> Unlike ''The Invasion of the Spacepeckers'', this album was unsuccessful, as were the band's other singles, "Do the Rap" and "Satellite". Boni Records would later release a 12" remix of "Woodpeckers from Space" that year.
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In 1988, Cat Music recorded VideoKids' fourth and last single, "[[Witch Doctor (song)|Witch Doctor]]" (also known as "Witch Doctor/Tico Strikes Again"), a cover of the song of the same name by [[Ross Bagdasarian]], which also included "Tico's Day Off". They released the single under the name "Replay Records" due to Boni Records' closure the previous year, and like "Do the Rap", "La Bamba", ''On Satellite'' and "Satellite", it failed to hit the charts, making VideoKids a [[one-hit wonder]] with "Woodpeckers from Space".
In 2008, Cat Music released the 12" remix of "Woodpeckers from Space" as part of their album ''Cartoon Hits'' and ''On Satellite'' on [[iTunes]] and [[Spotify]], followed by ''The Invasion of the Spacepeckers'' in 2012 and 2013. In January 2013, they closed their studio in Rijnsaterwoude, and Cees Bergman moved some of the equipment to a small studio in his house, where he continued to make music. Despite this, Cat Music still exists as an entertainment production company named Cat Music & More, based in [[Voorburg]], owned by Aart Mool (currently) and Bergman (until his death in 2017), and managing the rights to all their music.<ref name="Interview 2"/><ref name="Cat Music"/><ref name="Aart Mol"/><ref name="Cees Bergman">{{cite web|title=Cees Bergman - Owner - Cat Music & More|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/cees-bergman-1a857713|publisher=LinkedIn|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>
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