The complete discography of Jean-Jacques Goldman is available since Friday on music platforms like Deezer or Spotify, AFP learned from these platforms.
Copyright defense
"It's official since this night at midnight (...) Jean-Jacques Goldman is available in streaming," said a spokesman for Spotify. The composer and performer, named eight times "favorite personality of the French", is very committed to the defense of copyright. He was one of the irreducible people who refused to appear on streaming music platforms.
The music is good ... It is even more with the arrival of all the discography of Jean-Jacques Goldman on @spotifyfrance! https://t.co/zhvhgWHdPspic.twitter.com/laGxNWJ8oS
- Spotify France (@spotifyfrance) August 23, 2019A lucrative market
Streaming continues to carry the music market in France. According to Snep, the main producer union, digital, and especially streaming, has brought music consumption in France, which rose by 12.7% in the first half of the year, with 277 million euros generated. Streaming, for its part, saw sales increase by 28.3% compared to the first half of 2018, to reach € 175.3 million, or 93% of revenues from digital, compared to 89% over the same period. a year ago.
In terms of volumes, 33.3 billion shares were streamed in France in the first six months of the year, up 23% year-on-year.