Section 02
The artists carrying the chart right now
The artists carrying French music at the moment it stopped being a conversation about Paris — what they released, where the numbers came from, and which institutions caught up late.
Everything in now
The artists carrying it now.
- Aya Nakamura streams more than any French-language artist aliveNOWAya Nakamura sings in a register the Académie does not recognise, has the streaming figures to make that argument academic, and opened the 2024 Olympics in front of the Garde Républicaine.
- Stromae’s Multitude arrived as argument, not comebackNOWMultitude arrived after years away and treated the gap as material rather than something to apologise for.
- Zaho de Sagazan swept three Victoires with chanson phrasingNOWZaho de Sagazan took the Victoires in 2024 with a record built on French chanson phrasing over electronic arrangement.
- Angèle, Luciani and Armanet still write words firstNOWAngèle, Clara Luciani and Juliette Armanet write in a tradition where the words lead and the arrangement follows, which is the oldest French pop instinct there is.
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Every piece in every section is listed on the archive. The four sections are geography, now, labels, awards.