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North rapper ZKR tops album sales in France

ZKR has sold more than 14,000 copies of his album In the hands since its release on January 8.

The city of Roubaix would it be the third city of French rap after Paris and Marseille? The successes, since 2014 of Gradur, and that, more recent of his colleagues ZKR and JNR, help to make the city of the North a stronghold of rap in France.

On January 15, the SNEP, the National Union of Phonographic Publishing, revealed that ZKR, whose real name is Zacharia, was, with his first album In the hands, released on January 8, the best seller of French albums of the moment.

It is certainly his first album but not his first project. In 2018, he released his first EP titled Absent, metaphorical title of his personal life at the time, since the young Zacharia was then in prison.

The rapper from the Nouveau-Roubaix district has sold more than 14,000 “sales equivalents” (the sum of physical sales, downloading and streaming) of In the hands. Worn by singles Pursuit with Koba LaD and You see how with PLK, ZKR, at the age of 24, is starting to make his mark on the French rap scene.

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