Jain (singer)

Jain (2016)

Jain [dʒeɪn] (born February 7, 1992 in Toulouse ; actually Jeanne Louise Galice ) is a French pop singer .

Career

Jain's father works in the oil industry, so she spent much of her youth abroad. When she was nine, she moved with her family from southwest France to Dubai, where she learned to play tabla . From the age of 13 she grew up in the Congo, where she drew a lot of musical experiences and influences. She produced the song Come , which she wrote when she was 16, and posted it on MySpace . She found a manager through the Internet and was discovered by Yodelice , who promoted her and produced her music. In July 2015, their first EP Hope was released and the title track and the song Come made it into the top 200 of the French charts.

Jain's first album, Zanaka , was released on November 6, 2015. At first it was only hesitantly successful, then the song Come developed into an internet hit and in February 2016 reached number one in the French and number five in the Belgian single charts . The album was also placed in Belgium and Switzerland and rose to the top 10 in France. There it was awarded a gold record for 50,000 copies sold and nominated for a Victoire in the Album Revelation category. She had a second hit single with the song Makeba , which was used in advertising by the mobile operator Sosh and also by the Levis brand.

At the beginning of 2017, Jain was named Artist of the Year and Makeba was named Video Clip of the Year at the Victoires .

The video clips for her songs contain optical gimmicks in the style of MC Escher or Surrealism , in which the lyrics appear implemented. Her singing voice seems very flexible between different English metro folks and various accents.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
2015	Zanaka	FR6th diamond (107 weeks)FR	BE W4 (173 weeks) BE W	CH17th gold (63 weeks)CH	First published: November 5th, 2015 Sales: + 510,000
2018	Souldier	FR1 platinum (… Where.)FR	BE W3 (45 weeks) BE W	CH2 (11 weeks) CH	First published: August 24, 2018 Sales: + 100,000

EPs

• 2015: Hope

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
2015	Come Zanaka	FR1 diamond (86 weeks)FR	BE W5 (18 weeks) BE W	CH75 (1 week) CH	First published: May 11, 2015 Sales: + 393,333
	Hope Zanaka	FR87 (4 weeks) FR	-	-	First published: June 22, 2015
	Makeba Zanaka	FR15th gold (72 weeks)FR	BE W27 (17 weeks) BE W	-	First published: October 30, 2015 Sales: + 91,666
2017	Dynabeat Zanaka	FR99 (1 week) FR	-	-	First published: July 10, 2017
2018	Alright Souldier	FR6th diamond (45 weeks)FR	BE W2 (28 weeks) BE W	CH38 (13 weeks) CH	First published: May 25, 2018 Sales: + 333,333
	Oh Man Souldier	FR23 platinum (27 weeks)FR	BE W9 (16 weeks) BE W	-	First published: October 8, 2018 Sales: + 200,000
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2016	Heads up Zanaka	FR128 gold (2 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry: January 9, 2016 Sales: + 100,000
2018	On My Way Souldier	FR184 (1 week) FR	-	-	Chart entry: September 1, 2018

Awards

Victoires de la Musique

• 2017: Artiste féminine de l'année
• 2017: Vidéo-clip de l'année (for Makeba )

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Italy 2019: for the single Makeba  Canada 2018: for the single Come

Platinum record  Poland 2016: for the single Come 2 × platinum record  Italy 2017: for the single Come

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
France (SNEP)	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	3 × diamond3	1,533,332	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	125,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	gold1	-	-	40,000	musiccanada.com
Poland (ZPAV)	-	platinum1	-	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	-	10,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	5 × gold5	5 × platinum5	3 × diamond3

Web links

Commons : Jain  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• personal website
• Chart sources: FR (official charts with archive) / BE (Wallonia) / CH

Remarks

1. ↑ Jon Berrien: Parisian songstress Jain emerges with “Come” and a new 'Hope' EP. In: groundsounds.com. September 21, 2015, accessed October 13, 2016 . 
2. ^ Gilles Renault: Jain: "Come", ça vient . In: Liberation.fr . SARL Liberation, Paris February 11, 2016 ( liberation.fr ).
3. ↑ Zanaka est Disque d'Or! | Jain - Site Officiel . In: Jain - Site Officiel . February 19, 2016 ( jain-music.com ). jain-music.com ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR BEW CH
5. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for music sales: FR CH