1970-1979

Pioneer of one of the fastest growing trends in the industry today: electronic music, composer Jean Michel Jarre elevated the genre to new peaks of popularity as early as the late 70’s and 80’s with 60 million albums sold world-wide, to date.

Emerging as an innovative international superstar, he creates a new format of out-door concert performance that has contributed to break the ground for a new generation of out-door rock concerts.

In 1976, he hits the top of the charts worldwide with breakthrough album Oxygene (Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros in France). This international success in French record history remains unequalled today with sales in the region of 12 million.

The follow up, 1978’s Equinoxe, confirms Jarre’s credibility in the industry and a year later he also revolutionises the concert performance scene by creating what was to be the first of his ongoing outdoor concert-events at Place de la Concorde in Paris to a live audience of 1 million, earning his first entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest attendance.