For this week’s ‘The Global Countdown’, Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco gets ready for the Paris Olympics with some French pop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You're listening to the Global Countdown, first broadcast on the briefing on the 25th of July.
And finally on today's briefing, it is Thursday, which is Global Countdown day here on Monocle Radio.
Our senior correspondent and musical curator Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here in studio for a special edition.
Not that every Global Countdown isn't special or anything, Faye, but we do have to look at France this week because, I mean, just in case nobody's heard, there's an Olympics around the corner.
There is.
And I think there's an opportunity to give you a snapshot of French pop.
And I have to say, if you are a listener of Monoco Radio, you might have noticed I'm bad with maths, but I have a feeling that 20 to 25% of all the tracks we play are from France.
At least, Fernando.
At least.
Right.
I think I'm being.
Yes, could be more.
As I said, I'm not very good at maths.
You've beaten the French.
French radio station requirements for French music.
Exactly.
We are in.
I mean, it's such a diverse music scene, you know.
And, you know, for this snapshot, by the way, I'm already telling you that of course there's some amazing artists.
They're not here.