Looking for songs?

• musiqueradio (more indy)
•  Le Top 100 (more mainstream)
• Frenchmusicblog (good source of francophone music you can buy in the US)
• Musique Mercredi (FB group with lots of songs, activities, etc.)

What to do with songs?

I have transitioned to a new, more efficient format:

• Monday: I tell my students the story of the artist and/or the song and/or the video clip. Always a story on Monday and then we watch the clip together! Sometimes I do a cultural activity on the video.
• The rest of the week: I give my students a cloze version of the lyrics (including English translation). Each day they listen to the song once and complete the cloze.
• Friday: We complete the cloze together, and if they are up for it, we sing our song of the week!

Artists in alphabetical order

(This list is not up-to-date, sorry)

• Amir “J’ai cherché” (2016): lyrics with cloze
• Angele “Tout oublier” (2018): lyrics with cloze
• Big Flo et Oli “Dommage” (2017) : lyrics with cloze
• Bilal Hassani “Roi” (2019): lyrics with cloze
• Black M “Je suis chez moi” (2016): lyrics with cloze
• DJ Kayz, Wassila, Scridge “Le jour J” (2018): lyrics with cloze
• Gregory Lemarchal “De temps en temps (2007): lyrics with cloze
• Indila “Tourner dans le vide” (2015): storyboard, story script, lyrics with cloze
• Khaled “Aicha” (1996): lyrics with cloze
• Kids United Mama Africa (2017): Angelique Kidjo; lyrics with cloze + cultural activity
• Louane “immobile” (2018): lyrics with cloze
• Louane “je vole” (2015): lyrics with cloze
• Maitre GIM’s “La même” (2018): character and unconscious bias analysis, lyrics with cloze 
• Vincent Vallieres “On va s’aimer” (2011): lyrics with cloze
• Zaz “Sous le ciel de Paris” (2015): lyrics with cloze

(photo @ Suzanne Schols)