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MY COUNTRY IS LOVE MAKES A RECORD CARDBOARD

Johnny Hallyday 's posthumous album, "My country is love," sold 780,177 copies in one week, a record, while it was released on October 19, 2018.

The opus of Johnny Hallyday still beats records. It sold 780,177 copies in one week (cumulative physical and digital sales), a historical figure and a record in France for a start, announced Friday, October 26 his record company Warner Music France.

"This is the best start on a week of sales in the history of music in France, the last record being held by Johnny Hallyday himself in 2002 with 305 634 albums sold," says Thierry Chassagne, the boss of Warner in a statement.

"The fans are at the rendezvous of this exceptional album.

I feel a great pride for all the teams who have worked on this very particular and moving production, " he continues.

From its first day of marketing, the album had already become a diamond disc with more than 500,000 copies sold in three days.

"It has been a long time since CD manufacturers were put to the test in response to such public demand , " said Stu Bergen, General Manager of Global Business Services at Warner Music Group.

And if "My country is love", 51st opus of Johnny, became the biggest commercial success of the singer?


Kate White pour DayNewsWorld

 

NIGHT JOHNNY OR MY COUNTRY IS LOVE

My Country it's love is not yet in the bins but Friday night midnight we can find it, his 51st studio album. The president of Warner Music France explained that the posthumous CD would go on sale at 800,000 copies. No single will be broadcast on the radio until the release of the album at the end of the week.

Marketing operation tailored to the: the launch of the CD will coincide, Friday, October 19, the passage of Laeticia Hallyday to the TF1 news. She will promote the posthumous album of Johnny Hallyday on TF1, then RTL and Paris Match.

If the first title of the album will benefit from a clip, there will be no release except single, said Sebastien Farran. Neither concert-tribute. The cinemas of the CGR group and the radio station RTL will organize listening in 20 cities for 51 fans, in reference to the number of albums of the singer.

Ten titles and not one more: Made in Rock'n'roll, Forgive Me, Interlude, 4m2, Back in The, William's America, A child of the century, Falling down again, I'm just a man and I will talk to the devil, who will be on the air Friday night.

" It was complicated to finish this record, he was not there. It was difficult to hear his voice, his lyrics taking a different meaning. We cried a lot. I never thought I could do anything that hard by making music, "said Maxim Nucci, known on stage as Yodelice.

The specialized journalists had the chance to discover the record this Monday afternoon in the premises of Warner. Then: press conference, in the presence of Thierry Chassagne, Maxim Nucci, composer and director of the album, but also Bertrand Lamblot, artistic director of the album, as well as Sébastien Farran, the former manager of Johnny.

And what was the role of Laeticia Hallyday, always very invested in the career of her husband, in the development of this last work?

"Like any man in a family, when (Johnny Hallyday) comes home at night, he listens (his music) with his wife and they discuss it together. I think she has been there constantly since the beginning of the albums I'm working on, in a process of comforting Johnny. " Says Sebastien Farran.

Because the singer "had many doubts," he continued. "He was constantly asking himself questions about the artistic reality of what he was doing, and she was always there to comfort him, to motivate him, to give him back. "

And it is especially on the image of the singer that his widow always invested herself: "She is artistic director (sic) of the image (...) She gives the options of styling, she gives the options of directors video, it gives photographers options (...) »

A Laeticia Halliday also ensure the promotion of the album and return to the conditions of its recording, made in the last weeks of the life of the singer.

A balancing act for Laeticia Hallyday who will also have to improve her personal image.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

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PROCES BOOBA ET KAARIS CONDAMNATION A

NEUF MOIS DE PRISON AVEC SURSIS

Les rappeurs sont condamnés à 18 mois de prison avec sursis et à une amende de 50 000 euros.

Leur rixe ahurissante à l’aéroport d’Orly avait été vue plus de deux millions de fois sur Twitter.

L'épilogue de cette estivale opposant Booba à Kaaris est tombé :

les rappeurs ont été condamnés à 18 mois de prison avec sursis et une amende de 50.000 euros.

Une peine plus lourde que celle demandée en septembre dernier par le procureur.

Ce mardi, le tribunal de Créteil a rendu sa décision dans l'affaire de la bagarre d'Orly.

Les deux rappeurs ont été condamnés à 18 mois de prison avec sursis et ils devront s'acquitter d'une amende de 50.000 euros.

Leurs neuf proches jugés en même temps ont écopé de peines allant jusqu'à 12 mois d'emprisonnement.

Lors de l'audience du 6 août dernier, le procureur avait requis un an de prison avec sursis, contre les « petits bourgeois du clash », comme il les avait qualifiés.

En tout, onze personnes sont jugées pour « violences aggravées » dans cette affaire.

Épilogue d'un clash sur Internet qui durait depuis des années et qui s'est concrétisé par une bagarre générale dans une salle d'embarquement par une après-midi d'août.

Les deux rappeurs s’étaient croisés par hasard à l’aéroport d’Orly cet été. Leurs retrouvailles avaient dégénéré en bagarre générale.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

CHARLES AZNAVOUR WE HAVE LEFT
Charles Aznavour left us on Monday 1st October at the age of 94 years.

It is a legend of the French song that leaves us. The press officers of Charles Aznavour announced Monday, October 1, the death of the singer at the age of 94 years. He died in the night from Sunday to Monday at his home in the Alpilles, in the South of France.

We mourn this great artist and composer who has sung all generations.

We will remain all his repertoire that has marked the French song "la mama", "take me away".

More than seventy years of career, more than forty years of success, more than 1,200 songs, including a hundred anthologies, six languages ​​sung, thousands of concerts given in eighty-two countries and more than 100 million of discs sold around the world.

This great French artist was noticed after the Second World War by Edith Piaf who believed in him and made him sing.

And she was right because after her great success titled on my life, he becomes a star with:
"I already saw myself and then it goes on, Bohemia, that it's sad, take me, my bored."

He was a singer but also a composer, remember that he made the hit for Sylvie Vartan, I will be the most beautiful to go dancing, and Johnny Hallyday's one will keep the night.

Recognized singer, Charles Aznavour will also have a career in cinema playing in 63 films. His best roles include Shooting on Truffaut's Pianist, Cocteau's Orpheus' Testament, A Taxi for Tobruk by La Patellière, Volker Schlöndorff's Le Tambour (1979), which won the Oscar for best foreign film.

He also sang for charities like Armenia for the earthquake quake in 1988.

This earned him the appointment of the President of the Republic of Armenia as ambassador to Switzerland.

World star he had his star on the "Walk of Fame" in Hollywood in 2017.

In 2018, Charles Aznavour went back to the world who wanted to sing until he was 100 years old.


We regret this great man. With the disappearance of Charles Aznavour, all the music is in mourning!
All the writing and the whole of DayNewsWorld join me: all our thoughts are going to his family at this painful moment.
Mia Kennedy for DayNewsWorld

 

THE FRENCH KUNGS DJ

GENTLEMAN ALMOST TOO PERFECT

Do you know Kungs, whose real name is Valentin Brunel?

Born December 17, 1996 in Toulon, he is a DJ, songwriter and French musician.

At 21, Kungs is the French DJ rising.

Always on the plane, here it is happening from Coachella in Ibiza, from Bali to Los Angeles or in Johannesburg

His notoriety took off in 2016, with the remix of a title of the Australian group Cookin 'on 3 Burners, This Girl, which reached for several weeks the top sales in France.

In 2017, he is present in major festivals like Ultra Miami, Coachella, EDC Las Vegas and Tomorrowland.

He had started studies in business management and administration at the IUT of Aix-en-Provence he abandons then it is understood to create his production box.

His first album, "Layers" is a success.

He won a Victoire de la musique, in the electro album category, against Justice and Jean-Michel Jarre.

He shares the life of singer Louane.

In gentleman. Kungs is the translation into Latvian.

Emily Jackson for DayNewsWorld