"QALF", a box and a mystery for Damso

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Damso's new album, better known as 

has been available for a week.

Without real promotion in France and in total discretion, it is on September 15 that Fif Tobossi, journalist at Booska-P, drops the most anticipated bomb in the rap world.

The release of Damso

new album 

 on September 18th.

A week after the birth of 

, records and figures keep falling at the feet of the Belgian artist.

With 20,820 sales in

(3 days), Damso made a very promising start, knowing that the album was released in physical version on Friday.

Damso records 20,820 midweek sales (3 days) with "QALF":

-

19,662

Stream

- 1158 Digital

This is the 2nd best midweek start of the year pic.twitter.com/a71osXHvbH

- Skusku.fr (@skuskufr) September 21, 2020

The rapper became the most streamed French-speaking artist in the world on the day of the project's release.

The Belgian then slipped into the top 200 World thirteen of his fourteen titles.

In just 24 hours,

 had the best start of the year on Spotify France with more than 11.3 million streams.

🚨 The track "BXL ZOO" from Damso & Hamza enters the 55th place of the Spotify World chart 🌎

13 songs from the mixtape "QALF" are in the TOP 200 World Spotify!

AMAZING 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0MfvEbfQso

- Midday / Midnight 🕛 (@midiminuit__) September 19, 2020

A different perception

Used to raw lyrics, quite black and dark, Damso shows a whole new musical palette through this album.

Change of concept while keeping his rapped and black bases on

 or

, the Belgian rapper surprised everyone by referring us to different musical styles like pop but with all new rhythms.

For his first album without Booba's 92I label, the rapper of Congolese origin discovers himself as a producer and leaves himself a lot of freedom in his texts and choice of production.

He does not hesitate to indulge himself as in

 or to take risks on the style as demonstrated by 

.

More than two years after the release of his album

 and a long silence from the artist, Damso fans strongly awaited this new album.

Between disappointment and enthusiasm, the opinions of listeners are diverse.

In an interview with Tarmac, Damso does not hesitate to respond to criticism: “Stop judging, just appreciate, In the sense that, when you love, you love.

Don't give yourself an excuse to love;

an excuse to hate.

Point.

If you like, you like, you follow, you follow what I do.

If you don't like it, don't talk about it ”.

Multitudes of theories

As the physical version of the project comes out, new mysteries are exciting fans: a new bonus sound but above all a date on the cover (04/28).

Damso

second album 

 was released on April 28, 2017. Coincidence?

The possibility of the release of a next album on this date, in 2021, has already been booming in the minds of fans.

Moreover the last sound of the album is called…

and is closed with a shrill cry: “NWAAAAR, battery recharged!

"

Despite all these theories, Damso reveals for Tarmac that after 

 will consist of concerts before buying a motorhome to put a studio in it… The irony was obviously there.

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