This article is from about a year ago. It was posted in FB by a gentleman I met in Europe. It speaks of how Shy'm cancelled shows from her previous tour to work on her next album and you have to assume that tour wasn't doing well. Then her new album wasn't doing well either.
I've heard it's tough for French female singers in the French market. Most young people look for the music of International artists like Beyonce, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry to name a few. On one of my trips to Paris, I had asked a young man who his favorite singers were and rattled off several names, not one of them French. Not enough for a scientific study, but like I said, I've heard on a few occasions it's tough for French singers because they are competing against the top artists in the world.
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