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Jean-Michel Jarre pioneered electronic music, notably with Oxygène, pushing French music onto the world stage. In the 1980s, French pop fused international genres with artists like Vanessa Paradis and Mylène Farmer, alongside the rise of chanson nouvelle, led by Etienne Daho and Alain Bashung. This era was marked by new wave, synth-pop, and ...
The first distinct French pop music styles that emerged were the French rock and the yé-yé, which originated in France during the 1960s. They were influenced by the American rock & roll of the 1950s. In the early days, this style of French pop music was easily distinguishable from the earlier category of French music called chanson in English ...
Yé-yé (French: ⓘ) or yeyé [1] (Spanish:) was a style of pop music that emerged in Western and Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The French term yé-yé was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles. [2]
Music portal; France portal; 1980s portal; Topics specifically related to the decade 1980s in the music of France, i.e. in the years 1980 to 1989. 1930s; 1940s; 1950s ...
French rock is a form of rock music produced in France, primarily with lyrics in the French language. French rock was born as early as mid-1950s, when writer, songwriter and jazz player Boris Vian wrote parody rock songs for Magali Noël or Henri Salvador. Although Vian despised rock and wrote these songs as attacks, they are highly acclaimed ...
Week Issue date Artist(s) Song Ref. 1 4 January Les Compagnons de la chanson "Le marchand de bonheur" [1]2 11 January 3 18 January 4 25 January 5
This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1980. [1] Summary ... 1980 in music; List of number-one hits (France) ... List of number ...
This is a list of singles that have peaked at number-one in France from the Top 100 Singles chart compiled weekly by Institut français d'opinion publique (1955 - 1983) and Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (since 1984).