Funky, previously known by its placeholder title Dance For Hours A Day, is a 2005 indie rock song by the British band Royal Treatment Plant. The unidentified song file, initially labeled as 5.mp3 with no metadata, was downloaded by OP Presveva via P2P file-sharing in 2007. He later uploaded a 30 second sample of the file on WatZatSong. Although the post did not gain initial attention, the search experienced a major resurgence in 2023. On 09 January 2024, the song was identified on Discord by Sveta (corpsebride.1) and OP Presveva (presveva).

HISTORY

In 2007, a user known as Presveva downloaded a file named "5.mp3" via peer-to-peer file sharing. When attempting to manually scrobble the song on Last.fm, Presveva discovered that there was no available information about the artist or title of the track. To identify the mysterious song, Presveva uploaded samples of the file to WatZatSong and Google Groups in July 2007.

Presveva's first 30-second submission on WatZatSong, which contained mostly cheering, was immediately deleted. Shortly after, Presveva uploaded another snippet from a different portion of the song. Despite these efforts, the post remained largely unnoticed for 15 years.

The sample gained newfound attention and virality after a 2022 YouTube upload by the user Mike Worst, which eventually garnered over 300,000 views. In early 2023, community efforts began to contact OP, who had not been active on WatZatSong since 2007. Later that year, a subreddit and Discord server, also given the moniker Dance For Hours A Day, were created as hubs for the growing search.

In December, Presveva joined the Discord server and actively participated in the search, including attempting file recovery on his old computer. In January 2024, FMM server users discovered his first now-deleted WatZatSong post, which contained a slightly longer cheering sample. 

On 9 January 2024, Presveva uploaded another song file to the DFHAD server, recovered from an SD card. The song in this file, which users noted sounded similar to Dance For Hours A Day, had artist metadata labeled as RTP. Several searchers quickly identified this acronym as Royal Treatment Plant.

Discord user Sveta discovered that Royal Treatment Plant had a self-released EP listed on Discogs. Track number 5, titled Funky, was suspected to be the unidentified song, as the track number matched the file name "5.mp3" and "funky" appeared in the lyrics. This user then found a promotional video of the band that featured the same cheering heard at the beginning of the unidentified track. The nearly-full version of the song was later located on the Royal Treatment Plant drummer's website by Sveta. 

In February 2024, Discord user Octavia (c.law) obtained the remaining missing outro of the song from last.fm user artstorm.

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