Just after Michael Jackson immensely improved the profile of music videos and MTV, a group of female singers came from obscurity to the spotlight. The World had Madonna and Whitney Houston leading the pack. France on its side had Mylène Farmer, Patricia Kaas …
France best selling albums ever: Femmes D’Aujourd’hui by Jeanne Mas (1986) Read more »
If the media love to create controversies around everything – and nothing -, Michel Sardou offered them a gold mine for their furious debates. No matter how doubtful his lyrics were, the fact is his new 1976 album La Vieille was
Their utter dominancy from day 1 led to myths arising around them… let’s find out the Spice Girls’ real album sales!
Going through multiple ups and downs, Christina Aguilera’s name has remained famous ever since she started. Understand why!
Many things have been said about Ed Sheeran destroying UK charts. Mostly wrong things though. This is what happens when a pretty technical subject like Charts & Sales suddenly appears on news impacting a larger public, which is necessarily way …
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Green Day’s success hasn’t been all linear. Still, they total over 80 million equivalent albums sales to date. Let’s break down the numbers!
Until the early 90s, it wasn’t the norm to debut big. During the last 20 years it has become more and more frequent. Starting as incredibly well as Louane did is still a feat as rare as it is
Jean-Jacques Goldman was all over the place while studying the all-time best selling albums in France with 9 million sellers on his own plus 14 others on which he was involved as composer and songwriter. Checking who’s bubbling under the list, …
France best selling albums ever: En Public by Jean-Jacques Goldman (1986) Read more »
1996 was the year of teen Pop bands. A few years earlier, the movement got started by heavily hyped boys band New Kids On The Block. During the following years the likes Take That, East 17 or Boyzone arrived too. …
France best selling albums ever: Partir Un Jour by 2Be3 (1997) Read more »
Her trio of consistent albums plus various successful singles allow Aaliyah to reach ~18 million equivalent album sales. Let’s review that!
