The 11 giant concerts of the summer to book urgently

Every summer, the stadiums fill up for spectacular moonlit concerts… We remember Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z, who, in 2018, had bombarded the Stade de France crowd with their hits, or DJ Snake , last year, literally exploding the Parc des Princes with delirious fireworks and dancing hits.

This year, as the controversies surrounding ticket prices and Ticketmaster’s monopoly in the United States rage on, we’re still going to enjoy it!

After unveiling her seventh album, Renaissance, fueled by the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement (which had already inspired her song “Black Parade”), and winning the record as the most awarded artist of all time at the Grammys Awards this year (32 statuettes in all), Queen B delights us with her first solo tour for more than six years, even if she will only do one date in Paris, a RER problem, they say… But let’s get back to our sheep. A tribute to queer ballroom music, this disc is dedicated to his gay uncle Johnny, now deceased from AIDS, and only inspires strength and self-confidence.

Irresistibly dancing, her new songs are invitations to join the diva on the dance floor. Mother, daughter, wife, singer, businesswoman and supersexy superstar, Beyoncé is a hard worker, known for her perfectionism. Because the former Destiny’s Child frontman controls everything: his hand-picked collaborations, his look, his artistic image, and trains like crazy so that his precise choreographies do not hinder the strength of his voice, whose notes and the rapped or sung flow are perfectly mastered. Even live, she may bounce her buttocks against the ground, she keeps all her chest. Our turn to shake our “bootylicious”.

May 26 at the Stade de France (Paris) and at the Vélodrome de Marseille on June 11.

It seems that she is tempted to slip away from her own concert to go see Beyoncé, who is playing the same evening, at the other end of Paris… Our queen of urban pop, the most streamed French-speaking singer in the world, Aya Nakamura will still ignite the stage of the Accor Arena during three very hot shows. Because if his fourth opus baptized DNK, in reference to his real surname Danioko, disappointed us, we can’t help but nod our bodies on “Djadja”, “La dot”, “Copines” and “Pookie”.

Above all, she remains a model of a black woman, strong, independent, who doesn’t care what people will say, and who invented a genre. His way of dragging vowels interspersed with onomatopoeia in his deep voice over an Afro zouk pop beat is unprecedented. Despite her escapades, we are still touched by the fate of this gow (girl) who is looking for a good djo (guy), fleeing dark bails (shady business) and pookie (gossips) because she is gang or game ( not just anyone), narrated with the words of a youth that makes any 30-something an outdated boomer.

From May 26 to 28 at the Accor Arena.

It was the darling of the Grammy Awards this year, winning in three categories (Best Engineered Album, Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the Year). It must be said that the third solo album by the ex-member of the English boy band One Direction, Harry’s House, is extremely effective. Thanks to the hits “As It Was” or “Late Night Talking”, it was number one in France and the United States when it was released last June (it was the best start of the year). His “Love On Tour” tour will have 83 dates in 22 countries, a first stadium tour after an arena tour in 2021 (43 sold-out dates).

Noted actor (notably in Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan and Don’t Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde), queer icon despite his heterosexuality, fashionista (he is the face of Gucci), Harry Styles is the most fashionable boy of the summer.

June 1 and 2 at the Stade de France.

Seventeen sold-out cities, ten new dates in Europe and twenty-one additional dates in North America… SZA’s 2023 tour is an event. And to think that this girl from a good media family raised in New Jersey almost was a marine biologist! She preferred to be a singer of R

SOS, his second album released in December, earned him the record for the biggest streaming week for an R album.

June 5 at the Accor Arena.

Ill, he canceled his concerts until the end of May. Knowing that, in 2015, he had already had to interrupt his tour because of an antimalarial treatment that he had not tolerated well, we fear the worst. This time, his tour, which passes through Madison Square Garden and the biggest European festivals (1.8 million spectators expected in all), has nevertheless been incredibly prepared, a millimeter scenography with ten robots, videos…

The outline he had given of it had filled us. Stromae broke the house with his Multitude, the third best-selling album in France in 2022, crowned at the Victoires de la Musique this year (he won the album of the year in addition to the prize for the male artist). After seven years of absence, he brilliantly mixed pop, rap, cumbia, afro-beat. So, we… cross our fingers.

June 16 and 17 at La Defense Arena.

From what we’ve seen in 2022, the superstar’s latest tour is definitely not to be missed. By the way, we’ve had our tickets for… 4 years! Continually postponed due to the pandemic, the lucrative Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour marks the end of half a century on the road for one of music’s most prolific artists. “Bennie And The Jets”, “Saturday Night’s Alright”, “Rocket Man”, “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”…

The hits follow one another and are not alike during these 300 concerts across the five continents, passing through North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia… The wrapped body in a sequined jacket, rolled over on his side, his eyes closed behind his pink glasses, with both hands, he will bang the keys of his black piano one last time, for us anyway. “I’m still standing, yeah yeah yeah!” »

From June 21 to 28 at the Accor Arena.

Formed in 1977 by classmates in an industrial town in south London, Depeche Mode symbolized the dawn of a new musical era, erasing chaotic and destructive punk for melodies that reflected the hope of growth and progress. 1980s, but also (especially?) its dark side.

After selling more than 100 million albums worldwide without ceasing to seek or innovate, these pioneers of synthetic pop have just released a disappointing fifteenth album, without Andy Fletcher, who died last year of an aortic dissection. , at age 60. Which won’t prevent us from enjoying their abundant discography of well-executed hits. “Personal Jesus”, “Enjoy the Silence”, “Never Let Me Down Again”, “Master and Servant”… We even ranked them. Which ones will you sing in the pit?

June 24 at the Stade de France.

Is this really his last tour? At 61, she is more cult than ever. Hair of fire, smooth porcelain doll face, high-pitched voice, at 61, Mylène Farmer goes through the ages like an immortal, almost mystical banshee (screaming witch in Irish folklore). Her siren song calls to her more than one artist at the bottom of the waters. Her sexy, ambiguous, liberating, timeless hits (“Disenchanted”, “California”, “Libertine”, “Provided they are sweet”…), accompanied by clips that look like short films, her fine, mysterious and intriguing figure , continue to fascinate the youngest.

Moreover, his last and twelfth album (on the loving influence, read our review here) was produced in part with Woodkid. His NEVERMORE 2023 tour is the biggest stadium tour in French music history, three years after his series of nine (!) sold-out concerts (235,000 spectators in all!) at Paris La Défense Arena. The budget is colossal, and the singer takes care of all the details. For a fiery farewell?

On stadium tour from June 3 to July 29, 2023, including June 30 and July 1 at the Stade de France.

It’s one of rock’s most mysterious stories. That of a group that sold 100 million albums during a dazzling start to its career, only to disappear after six years. Guns N’ Roses were the most toxic band of the late 1980s, unforgettable titles alternating ballads and aggressive songs, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Nightrain”, “November Rain”, pockets with an explosive design, rains of dollars, the invention of cycling shorts worn with high sneakers and a bandana on long hair, a top hat on frizzy hair…

In January 2016, singer Axl Rose announced their reunion, since touring internationally; a touching reunion nets them $563.3 million. This time they make their triumphant return to France. Original members Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan are joined by Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus, Melissa Reese, and Frank Ferrer. The Guns are still smoking…

July 13 at La Defense Arena.

They are four, they are Korean, they are the new flagship of K-pop. With 3 million albums sold and after two sold-out shows at the Accor Arena in 2022, the demand for Blackpink’s return to Paris from their fans, dubbed the Blinks, was phenomenal.

The group with the most subscribers in the world on YouTube (over 87.3 million subscribers) has won two Guinness World Records: that of the most viewed music video in 24 hours with “Pink Venom” (accumulating today Now with over 610 million views at the time of writing, it was the biggest video debut on YouTube in 2022 – even the music video by female artists to break the bar the fastest. 100 million views on YouTube in History: in 30 hours), as well as the most followed group on Spotify. A phenomenon.

July 15 at the Stade de France.

After a sold-out North American tour, The Weeknd and his After Hours til Dawn Tour will stop in Paris. Following the 2020 release of the album After Hours, whose single “Blinding Lights” reached No. 1 on the charts in 34 countries and currently holds the record for number of weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, she may distract him from the apparent disaster of filming his series The Idol.

Presented at the Cannes Film Festival and broadcast in June on HBO, this series with Lily-Rose Depp, whose release is constantly postponed, is already accused of glorifying rape. We are waiting to see. In the meantime, his concerts never disappoint. Especially since the talented Kaytranada will accompany him.

July 29 and 30 at the Stade de France.