On Saturday 14 September, at the top of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, between 8,000 and 10,000 people representing volunteers, Paris 2024 employees and the sporting movement will march in a final parade, requested by President Emmanuel Macron, organised around the Arc de Triomphe in front of 70,000 spectators, and no doubt a few million more behind their television screens. More than 180 athletes, including 82 adorned with gold, silver or bronze, will also take part in the celebrations.
As in the four previous ceremonies, music and artists will be at the heart of this final act of the celebrations for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (OG), the first of a “nostalgic Games” which, since the extinguishing of the flame in the Tuileries Garden and the last notes of the flute One more timeDaft Punk’s performance at the Stade de France (Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) on the evening of Sunday 8 September seems to want to keep alive the emotions experienced during this Olympic summer.
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A great organiser of the music that marked the events and festivities, the composer and arranger Victor Le Masne will once again be at the helm of the soundtrack of this day. “The idea is to celebrate what we feel, but I can’t tell you more about the soundtrack. We’re working on it right now.” However, certain artists who were present at one of the four previous ceremonies will have to be invited back for this event, which will end with a concert and a DJ set. It must be said that for many of them, the Olympic Games not only brought their works to the fore, but also provoked rare emotions.
The Shazam app, which allows you to recognise a song, announced that records had been broken during the various ceremonies, starting with the opening, on Friday 26 July, during the broadcast of the long remix of the title. supernatureby Cerrone, hosted by Victor Le Masne, set a new world record for the most “shazamed” minute in the history of the app. The following weekend, listening to the song skyrocketed across all platforms, with +1200% plays on Apple Music, +900% on Deezer and Spotify. The audio version of this song, released on 45 rpm by Cerrone in 1977, was viewed more than 1 million times, that same weekend, on the artist’s YouTube channel.
For Tahar Chender, the artist’s manager, who also noted a 400% increase in the song’s usage on TikTok and Instagram, “This exhibition highlighted the timeless side of the work and recalled the stature of Cerrone and his catalogue in the history of French disco and electronic music”. A reminder that he intends for it to bear fruit in the coming months.
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