Last month, there was a huge discussion going on Tiktok, Facebook and Youtube, between fans of Fally against those of Koffi, Clan Wenge and Ferre about the gold and platinum records Fally, received from Centre National de la Musique (CNM), which exists since 2020, for his albums Formule 7 and Tokoos 2. CNM gave them based on the amount of streams and sales outside France, calling it export-gold record and export-platinum record. The certifications were contested by the fans of his rival and former mentor, saying that it doesn’t count, since his spokesmen often used to say that music recording certification only count when it is certificate by SNEP. That is was the polemique-side, but when thinking about the past, you would often read that albums like Koweit Rive Gauche, Avis de Recherche, Jetez l’Eponge, Noblesse Oblige, Gérant, Pon Moun Baka Bougé, Zouké-Zouké, V12, Mario, Nippon Banzai, Loi, Solola Bien, Feux de l’Amour, Kalayi Boeing, Sala Noki, Kin é Bougé, Sans Commentaire, Phenomene, Eau Benité, Foridoles and Coupé Bibamba would have sold between 200.000 and 500.000 copies of cassettes in Africa (Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, etc.). Soukous legends Aurlus Mabele, Diblo Dibala and Kanda Bongo Man received multiple cassette d’or in African countries for the huge amount of copies their album sold in Africa and West-Indies.
If record labels like Sonodisc, JPS, Syllart Records, Tamaris, Ets Ndiaye, Jimmy’s International Production and SIPE Production would submit those old documents of record sales in Africa, would Général Defao, Pepe Kalle, Franco, Madilu, Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomidé, Simaro Lutumba, Wenge Musica 4x4, Tshala Muana, Awilo Longomba Mbilia Bel, Werrason and JB Mpiana in no-time receive gold, platinum and diamond records by CNM? Or does that not count, because of more than 25 years being passed ?
The song of Tamaris saying that they sold 200.000 cassettes of Koweit Rive Gauche in one week.
With CNM now giving export music record certifications. Do you think that Congolese artists based in Kinshasa will be able to receive it in future or is it mission impossible, since that people abroad don't listen to Congolese music like how it used to be in the past ?
