(Paris) The iconic pieces of Françoise Hardy, who died Tuesday at the age of 80, are in the top trending tracks on Spotify around the world, from Sweden to the United States, the market-leading music platform said on Friday.
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All the boys and girls, How to say goodbye to you And The time of love appear in the top 3 “Trendy listening titles” in Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and the top 5 in Spain, England, Canada and the United States.
In “a handful of non-French-speaking countries”, Françoise Hardy’s songs “even reach more than 1000% listening growth”, for example, in Germany, the United States, Belgium, England and Spain, Spotify indicates in a statement.
The international aura of Françoise Hardy is not a surprise: in the ranking of the 200 best singers of all time by the American magazine Rolling Stone in 2023, she was the sole French representative.
In 1994, the group Blur invited her on their title To the end (The comedy). “Françoise Hardy was our introduction to French culture and had a huge importance for us,” wrote Damon Albarn, leader of this flagship Britpop group on his group’s X account.
“It was a real privilege to spend time with her and visit her surprising house, where everything was in black […] She was the definition of chic and understated charisma. »
Françoise Hardy was the ambassador of French and pop elegance internationally, a “feminine ideal” for Mick Jagger, a fantasy figure for Bob Dylan or David Bowie.
In France, 15 tracks by the singer have seen “growth of more than 2000% in listening in recent days”, specifies the platform. And these pieces are not the best known in his repertoire: I am me (+2475%), Tomorrow is yesterday (+2546%) or My youth leaves (+2464%).
