Indochina is back on top! The group’s new album “Babel Babel” remained number one in sales for two weeks, marking the second best start of the year, and has sold 87,000 copies to date. Not to mention the significant success of the “Arena Tour”, with more than 300,000 tickets sold in a few hours, and which will give rise to 67 concerts throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland in the first half of 2025. “ We are going back to closed rooms and not stadiums, to cities where we have not been able to go for a long time. It’s going to be a very immersive moment. We will be everywhere, throughout the room. The public who will come will be able to see us from very far and very close, up, down… It took a long time to find a system, and we still have some technical problems, but the public will be in a club at the same time and in a room » specifies Nicola Sirkis to make her audience salivate.
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22 years later “I asked the moon”
And while a controversial parody knocked him off his hinges, Indochina is once again in paradise. Indeed, one of the group’s hits has just been certified diamond single by the SNEP, for more than 50 million streaming streams. Which ? “Life is beautiful” ! Released just before the summer of 2017, the piece, the first extract from the album “13”, sealed the group’s reunion with Mickaël Furnon, 15 years after the immense hit “J’ai aske à la lune”. Send this synthetic ballad, lasting more than five minutes and with a shocking clip by Asia Argento, as lead single of the album could seem daring but that’s precisely what pleases Indochina : do not enter the boxes. “ Initially, we really wanted to make an album of 13 short tracks. (…) Finally, we made small operas, with big intros, big endings. Indeed, it’s bloated while people have less and less time to listen, radio stations are getting shorter… But it’s good to be the opposite too » smiled Nicola Sirkis at the Purecharts microphone.
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And it works! Number one in the physical and digital rankings, “La vie est belle” allowed, in the same way as the following single “Un été français”, to carry the album “13” which became the third biggest success of the career of ‘Indochina, with more than 500,000 copies sold. Thus, seven years after its release and probably boosted by the arrival of “Babel Babel”, “Life is Beautiful” receives a diamond certification, the group’s second after “I Asked the Moon” in 2002. Note that at the same time, another extract from the album “13” also received certification this week: “Karma Girls”, obtaining a gold single for more than 15 million streams recorded. “ Thank you all » reacted the band, for whom success never stops!
