Aya Nakamura — Copines

Aya Nakamura is two weeks out from back-to-back Stade de France dates, and Copines is moving accordingly — tracked across 37 country and platform charts today, up from a seven-day average of roughly 15. The Stade de France shows on May 29 and 31 mark one of the largest French pop bookings in recent memory; a third date was added after the first two sold through. Pre-show streaming surges of this shape are familiar for arena-scale acts, but the breadth here reflects something particular about Nakamura's audience: she is the most-streamed French-language artist globally, and Copines is the track that established that reach when it peaked at number one in France and went viral on Instagram Reels in 2021, per Wikipedia. The song's hook — deadpan, conversational, built on Nouchi slang from Côte d'Ivoire — has aged into a kind of shorthand for Nakamura's entire aesthetic. The Stade de France run will be a useful measure of how that aesthetic performs at the largest scale French pop stages can offer.