It's probably not possible to overstate how big a deal Gims is in France. His Le Nord se souvient: l'Odyssée album was the biggest selling album of 2025 in France, in an end-of-the-year chart that saw every one of the top ten sellers in France being by French-associated artists, and rap/urban music dominating.
The double album spawned a barrage of singles and videos, the most recent Parisienne in August, reaching number one in France and over 75 million views on YouTube in just a couple of months. Gims also released the top-selling single of 2025, with Ciel.
Add to this a tour that included five sold-out shows at the Paris La Défense Arena in 2025, He's got a busy live schedule for 2026, with dates at pretty much every major summer festival, and Gims is back at the Paris La Défense Arena in December.
His new track Overton, a stripped-down rap number, is a nimble piece of rhyming and beats that shows that even with the success he's had over recent years, he's still a master of the basics and can still hit as hard as any hungry young artist.
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