It is an understatement to say that the return of Dua Lipa was hectic. In November 2023, when his tube “Dance The Night” for the film “Barbie” still carded, the Popstar opened the third chapter of its career with “Houdini”, a disco-pop song Signed Kevin Parker of Tame Impala. In order to get ahead of the summer season, it was May 3, 2024 that the public was able to discover “Radical Optimism”, the third album of the Superstar that she describes as a cure for the ambient gloom. “” My album is very solar. It is an album made to dance and have fun in summer. (…) The place where I prefer to listen to it is in my room »She claims at the microphone of Fun Radio. However, the fans were taken to decontencated between clips with radically different artistic direction and an album finally far from the starting inspirations, the artist who mentioned the British Rave or Trip-Hop scene with groups like Massive Attack or Primal Scream.
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“Radical Optimism” plus fort que “Future Nostalgia” !
However, the success was there and in particular in France where the album started directly number one of the charts with 19,500 sales on the clock. And Dua Lipa was able to count on the enormous support of radios since the singles “Houdini” and “Training Season” remained respectively 10 and 8 weeks at the top of the Airplay! If many believe that “Radical Optimism” knows a less flamboyant career start than “future nostalgia”, the figures tend to prove the opposite. Indeed, the album has just exceeded the course of 100,000 sales in France, allowing it to obtain a platinum record in eight and half. It had taken a little more than 10 months at “future nostalgia” to reach this CAP, even if this disc had undergone the vagaries of the pandemic linked to the covid.
However, it will be difficult for “radical optimism” to catch up with the “future nostalgia” tube machine, sold for 480,000 copies in France thanks to the hits “Love Again”, “Levitating” or “Fever” with Angèle. Indeed, if “illusion” did not spark in the charts last summer, Dua Lipa has bet since November on the hovering “These Walls” as a fourth single. All embellished with a duet with Pierre de Maere for French -speaking countries, but again without being tutorialing the first places of rankings around the world. The English star will soon resume his “Radical Optimism Tour” world tour. In France, the interpreter of “Do’t Start Now” will give four concerts to the LDLC Arena in Lyon and Paris La Défense Arena between May 15 and 24.
