Popularity ranking · France

The 100 most popular New Waves in France

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest new waves in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 164 new waves tracked in France, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Home Front, BODEGA and Merchandise lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 614k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 24k, and the largest, Home Front, reaches around 272k people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each new wave, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in France. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in France, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in France. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Home Front 272k 35.3 43.5% New wave
2 BODEGA 175k 38.0 50.4% New wave
3 Merchandise 166k 41.7 51.9% New wave
4 Fontaines D.C. 160k 41.5 52.3% New wave
5 ADULT. 127k 38.7 51.4% New wave
6 Crows 122k 38.7 59.5% New wave
7 David Byrne 107k 48.6 56.2% New wave
8 shame 103k 41.5 51.5% New wave
9 Psyche 95k 41.4 43.5% New wave
10 Spoons 92k 48.7 55.3% New wave
11 Hotel Lux 88k 0.0 0.0% New wave
12 ACTORS 82k 44.3 84.5% New wave
13 Deeper 65k 31.8 48.7% New wave
14 Carpenter Brut 63k 0.0 0.0% New wave
15 Bambara 48k 40.7 48.6% New wave
16 GosT 48k 0.0 0.0% New wave
17 Molchat Doma 36k 45.6 46.6% New wave
18 Automatic 29k 37.4 43.4% New wave
19 The Nightingales 28k 36.3 19.7% New wave
20 Perturbator 25k 0.0 0.0% New wave
21 Talk Show 22k 36.5 59.7% New wave
22 Lene Lovich 22k 52.3 32.4% New wave
23 Ought 22k 40.0 44.5% New wave
24 Gary Numan 22k 47.9 40.3% New wave
25 Pylon 20k 47.2 55.6% New wave

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular new waves compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across France and ranks each new wave by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest new wave in France?

Home Front currently leads with an estimated audience of 272k people in France.

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