Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: mvulusi96 on November 04, 2016, 01:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK-lRecKY4Q
For this album I have some doubts, Attenat solding 100.000 exampl in 3 months ? hmmmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZdsD_0mwsw
Mr Simon holding a speech some minutes before the Olympia-show and giving JB the Gold record during the show. Is that guy who's dancing during the Feux de l'Amour-song gay ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEPJ2-ilD8
hahaha Zacle; eza ya solo, eza ya solo..... If remember I well 1 year before the show JPS planned to give a platina disc for Solola Bien! and Kibuisa Mpimpa (which was according to the press already a Gold-record, sold with more than 100.000 exm in 1 month) at the double Zenith-event. But I don't which hold JPS back to give it to Werrason. Solola Bien was according to the press already a Gold record, during the Bercy-days, but JPS could not give it to Werrason then, due to the departures of Aldophe & Didier Masela who where co-leaders of Wenge Maison Mere.
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Attentat had very agressive and well planned marketing program since Koffi wanted to also wanted to have a gold disc presentation be part of the show program (which was planned almost a year before).
He wanted to prove that he could follow up Droit de Veto and get gold with a (largely) new band. He had key figures employed like Monsoh - to assist with distribution, his close friend Hamed Bakayako - who used to run the very popular Radio Nostalgie to play lots of Koffi and do marketing, and the very influential Photo Joel Mbetenge (though he was a head of Fan Club WMMM) - had large posters and stock of the album in at his record store in Châteaux Rouge.
Germain Mbili of Restaurant Jakarta in London, in addition being a big financier for the concert, sold Attentat in very large amounts, which, for reasons I never looked into, were counted as French album sales.
...But there was also the "fracas" with the with SonoDisc releasing a version Radio and full version. Although Koffi wasn't happy with the abridged songs, many vendors capitalized by selling Version Radio and the full version as 2 separate discs. Since 2 dics CDs were still new, they would repackage the album into 2 individual CDs and sell them each at full price.