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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. In 2012, "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" by German virtual singer Gummibär became the first French-language music video to reach 100 million views. In 2023, Indila's song "Dernière Danse" became the first music video in French to reach 1 billion views.
The song was the most viewed French-speaking song on YouTube [4] until 2023, when it was passed by Indila's song "Dernière danse" (English: "Last dance"). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It became the second French-language video to pass 1 billion views on 27 August 2023.
The song also charted in the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland and received radio airplay in Canada. "C’est La Vie" sold over one million copies in the European market, 1.8 million copies in the Middle East and North Africa, and over 4 million copies worldwide. [3] [4] The album reached number 5 on SNEP, the official French Albums ...
Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" was released as a CD single in Romania in 2007 by the Romanian Television (TVR), [3] followed by a promotional tour in Belarus. [2] The CD's cover artwork was photographed by Zoltan Lorencz. [3] Also aided by a music video shot in Romania by Dan Manoliu, [5] "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" charted at number 82 on the ...
Some linguists discuss a "second French language" [69] or even an "African French language". [70] Native Speakers in Africa. According to Paul Wald, "The notion of ownership of an imported language begins when – despite its identification as a foreign and/or vernacular language – its use does not imply a relationship with the foreigner."
Very rapid in tempo, the style lost ground in the 1980s due to the strong presence of kadans or compas, the main music of the French Antilles. Today, zouk is the French Antilles compas, [6] also called zouk-love In Africa, Kassav's zouk and the Haitian compas they featured, gained popularity in francophone and lusophone countries. It is also ...
The French managers Olivier Lorsac (aka Olivier Lamotte d'Incamps) and Jean Georgakarakos formed the band Kaoma in France after Lorsac was exposed to lambada in March 1988 during his visit to Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil. Lorsac and Georgakarakos bought the musical rights to over 400 lambada songs from the Brazilian music publisher Continental.
French is the official language taught and spoken by Ivorians but many Ivorians have their own ethnic tribal language. There are many music genres in Ivory Coast, music from different tribes Couper Decaler, Zouglou, Pop, Arabic musics etc. Ivory Coast have different varieties of music based on the population race living there.