Pop Music in France

Are you focusing about Pop or just music in France?
It's quite heavily influenced by the UK/US for the Pop/R'n'B/Rap stuff, but we do have a lot of French artists for every kind of music, be it Rap, Rock, Pop or Electro. I think it also depends on the social background (a bit sad but well… ), like middle-class people will stick to stuff like old French pop (mainly 70's-80's, like Emile et Images, Début de Soirée, Claude François), Rock (M, Camille, BB Brunes), Electro (Justice, Daft Punk, Vitalic), whereas others will listen to Rap (Diam's, Sinik, IAM), R'n'B (Shy'm, Melissa, Sheryfa Luna), and Pop is a bit shared, like both will listen to David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Martin Solveig. But of course you'll find like Adele, Kate Perry, Rihanna, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Calvin Harris as well.

If you have questions, I'd be happy to help!

Thanks, I'm really looking at the culture as a whole. We were allowed to choose whatever topic we wanted for this research project - others are doing immigration etc., but being "lazy" I thought I'd do globalisation, since it gives me a wider range of aspects of culture to talk about. I was going to mention music in passing, but just wondered if it was mainly music from the UK/US that you listen to (aside from the French artists you gave), or if Asian music's popular too. I picked the music charts as a starting point to get a feel for the current trends, and it'll also give me some evidence to back up any claims I make. I'll look into Algerian music too, but I'm curious to know where I got the idea that Japanese stuff's popular. It's no longer about the music - it's about proving I'm not insane!

Asian music is really nothing to compare to the rest, I mean it's only people interested in Asia that listen to it, I don't, and I've never seen it on TV, nor did I hear it on the radio . You do have channels and radio broadcasting Algerian music, but that's mainly in the south of France, I suppose that's because most Algerians live there. I think these charts (here and here) are quite accurate, I can't really judge now that I'm in the UK, but that's pretty what it was when I left France. We do have a lot of artists singing in English as well (Aaron, Air, Justice, David Guetta).