A New Video With France 24 And Huge Hits!

Posted by radiogetswild on 2008-04-06 00:26:46 (1947 views)

The French Music Export Office presented the highlights of a successful year and a new video during their annual press conference at the MIDEM conference in January. During the 42nd edition of MIDEM, the French Music Export Office unveiled a video co-produced by channel France24 which presents successful French produced acts of 2007. To see the video click on the link to the left or go to this address:

Along with 1,900 new record releases, and a heavy presence at the biggest festivals across the globe, it was a record year for concerts by French artists with over 7,000 concerts! Germany was the principle territory with over 1,800 concerts, closely followed by the United States with nearly 1,600 dates in 2007. Europe represented more than 70% of the concerts reported in 2007. It should come as no surprise that the artists with the highest figures in export sales also did a lot of touring this past year, some of them include: Feist (Universal France), Manu Chao (Because Music), Air (EMI France), Daft Punk (EMI France), Justice (Ed Banger/Because Music), Pink Martini (NaÃ¯ve), Digitalism (EMI Music France), David Guetta (EMI France).

After a year of unprecedented media exposure in 2006 for French artists, 2007 looks even better: dozens of magazine covers, numerous articles in the daily press (more than 15 articles in the largest American magazines), more than 4,000 articles inventoried in Germany and the Unites States alone, numerous radio and television broadcasts... There is a particular interest in the trendy Parisian electro and rock scenes.

In Asia, Channel V, Exa TV in Mexico, and the magazines BPM and XLR8R in America pushed Parisian cool in their broadcasts and on their covers.

For classical music, the phenomenon is the same: 113 international prizes were awarded to 14 French producers for 88 CDs and DVDs. Among the most recognized were: Harmonia Mundi, Classical Naive, Emi/Virgin Classics and Zig Zag Territories. More than half of these prizes originated from the English-speaking media.

Each year the presence of French music in advertisements, television programmes and films abroad increases. This year, successful television series such as Nip Tuck, CSI and Entourage, and worldwide publicity campaigns for brands like Apple, L'Oreal and Sony, all featured French music on their soundtracks.

There were two notable worldwide advertising campaigns came from Apple and featured music from artists produced in France: '1,2,3,4' by Feist (Polydor/Universal France) for the iPod nano and 'New Sould' by Yael Naim (Tot ou Tard/Warner France) for the new Mac Book Air.

Last year was rich in international successes for a number of artists products in France, including Feist, Manu Chao, Air, Carla Bruni and Daft Punk. Feist, the Canadian singer signed to and produced by Polydor/Universal France, is without contest the best export seller for 2007 with more than 900,000 albums distributed. Her second album, the triple platinum 'The Reminder,' saw global success with over 170,000 albums sold online throughout the world.

Manu Chao has sold 4 million albums sales worldwide since the beginning of his career. His last album, 'La Radiolina', (Because Music), did not disappoint fans and reached double platinum with more than 400,000 sales.

Air sold more than 30,000 copies of 'Pocket Symphony' (Virgin/EMI France), it is certified platinum with more than 200,000 in export sales. The group also completed an immense worldwide tour in 2007.

Carla Bruni confirmed her talent as a singer and composer with her second album which reached the top of the European Billboard 100 charts the first week of its release and reached the top in digital sales in a large part of Europe.

Daft Punk released their album 'Alive 2007' in November, and it sold more than 175,000 copies outside of France in only a few weeks. The duo still ranks as THE electronic reference on the international scene with 6.5 million album sales and 3.5 million singles sales in the world to date.

Overall, it looks like it was a great year for French acts!

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