Several songs performed on Friday night are enjoying a resurgence in popularity on streaming platforms. The event’s setlist has even been reconstituted.
Listening to the metal band Gojira and those of The Hymn to Lovetwo musical highlights of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, have jumped on the Spotify platform, the latter indicated to AFP on Saturday. Listening to Gojira, a French metal band with an international aura, has increased by +106% in France and +80% in total worldwide on Spotify, the world leader in music platforms. The Hymn to Lovea standard by Edith Piaf, climbed to +426% for France and +497% in total worldwide.
Who is Gojira, the metal band that sang at the Olympics ceremony?
Gojira benefited from a big surprise effect: the French metal band was teamed up with the Franco-Swiss opera singer Marina Viotti to perform Ah! It will be finea French revolutionary song, at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday night in Paris. This sequence dynamited the beginning of this ceremony of nearly 4 hours along six kilometers of the Seine, among the monuments of Paris, the first show of this kind outside a stadium.
The quartet, originally from Landes, is very well-known internationally. Gojira is even one of the most important metal groups in the world and is very well-established in the United States.
The entire playlist on Spotify
“The Hymn to Love”sung by megastar Celine Dion, on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, was the grand finale of the ceremony. The 56-year-old Quebec diva had not performed live for four years, between the health crisis and, above all, stiff person syndrome (SPR), a neurological pathology with no known cure.
Edith Piaf, Claude François, Charles Aznavour, Rita Mitsouko, David Guetta, Cerrone… Since the ceremony, many Internet users have praised the list of songs played during the event. A Spotify and Deezer playlist containing all the songs played was even created and shared online by a journalist, Ervan Couderc. It had been recorded more than 12,500 times on the Swedish platform, Saturday afternoon.