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French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the other francophone areas of the world. The target audience is the francophone market (primarily France), which is considerably smaller than and largely independent from the mainstream anglophone ...
French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. It stands in contrast to French classical music , which historically was the music of elites or the upper strata of society.
MP3 Disques is a French pop music record label founded in 2004 in Montreal. The independent label was established by singer Mario Pelchat and is operated by Lionel Lavault. The first album released by the label was Pelchat's own Noël avec Jireh Gospel Choir. The second release, in 2006, was again Pelchat's titled Le monde où je vais.
Yé-yé (French: ⓘ) or yeyé [1] (Spanish:) was a style of pop music that emerged in Western and Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The French term yé-yé was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles. [2]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... French popular music; List of artists who reached number one on the French Singles Chart
Jean-Michel Jarre pioneered electronic music, notably with Oxygène, pushing French music onto the world stage. In the 1980s, French pop fused international genres with artists like Vanessa Paradis and Mylène Farmer, alongside the rise of chanson nouvelle, led by Etienne Daho and Alain Bashung. This era was marked by new wave, synth-pop, and ...
"Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") is a French pop song written by Serge Gainsbourg and first recorded by France Gall in 1966. One of Gall's biggest hits, it was an unusually risqué song for its time, containing numerous sexually-charged double-entendres, although she had said that she was unaware of this at the time.
"Angelina" is a 1990 song recorded by French band PSY. Written by members Pierre Perez-Vergara, Stéphane Planchon and Yassine Dahbi, this pop song was released in 1991 as the first single from the band's album Être ange, mon ange, produced by Robert Levy-Provençal and which provided the singles "Mahler de malheur" and "Animal moi" too.