The SNEP 2025 report is out: one billion euros and a decade of uninterrupted growth. French electronic music doesn’t dominate the charts, but it plays a strategic role that the figures quietly confirm. The French recorded music market reached 1.071 billion euros in 2025, up 3.9…
The French recorded music market reached 1.071 billion euros in 2025, up 3.9%. That makes it the tenth consecutive year of growth. At the top of the rankings, unsurprisingly, rap and pop share the territory: each accounts for a third of total streaming consumption. GIMS, JUL, Werenoi and Damso hog the top 20 albums. Electronic music barely features. And it would be a lie to claim otherwise.
But the figures also tell another story, less visible and more interesting.
Vinyl is booming. With 113 million euros in revenue, up almost 15%, the LP has overtaken the CD in value for the first time since the 1980s. And historically, that market belongs to electronic culture. From collector’s editions to independent pressings, the scene has always known how to turn a record into a desirable object. Polo & Pan’s Caravelle certified platinum, Daft Punk’s Discovery and Random Access Memories holding on in the top 100 vinyl year after year: the format is resisting, and electronic music is one of its silent engines.
Abroad, it is even more striking. Polo & Pan took their album to number one on cult Los Angeles radio station KCRW and played a sold-out Hollywood Bowl. Vendredi sur Mer has racked up 385 million streams worldwide, 80% of them outside France, and is a hit in South-East Asia. Lewis OfMan turned a 2021 track, Siesta Freestyle, into a viral phenomenon in the United States and Mexico with more than 200 million streams. As for Air, they wrapped up 128 dates across five continents for the 25th anniversary of Moon Safari. The new generation of French Touch may not dominate Spotify France, but it is shaking Coachella, Los Angeles and Shanghai.
In France, a few positive signs are worth noting. Kavinsky’s Nightcall, in collaboration with Angèle and Phoenix, slipped into the top 200 streaming singles. Bleu Soleil are one of the few French electronic projects to appear in the top 200 albums of 2025, and their track Soleil Bleu with Luiza even made it into the radio top 100, a rare feat for a sound so rooted in electronic music. Free audio streaming grew by 12%: that is where discoveries happen, the first listens, the late-night crushes on a mood playlist. It is exactly the ground where well-placed atmospheric music can build a lasting audience.
The SNEP 2025 report doesn’t put French electronic music on the podium of the charts. But between the lines, it paints the portrait of a scene that knows exactly where it excels: vinyl, exports and the long tail of streaming. Three territories in which to build a career, and hold on to it over time.
