| "Au DD" | ||||
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| Single by PNL | ||||
| from the album Deux frères | ||||
| Released | 22 March 2019 | |||
| Recorded | 2018 | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | QLF | |||
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| Producer(s) | TrackBeatz | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Au DD" on YouTube | ||||
"Au DD" (pronounced [odede] ) is a song by French rap band PNL. It was released on 22 March 2019 as the third single from their third studio album Deux frères . The song peaked atop the charts of France and Belgium.
Through 2018, PNL released two singles, "À l'ammoniaque" and "91's", both have reached number one on the French chart. [1] "Au DD" was released on 22 March 2019, along with the announcement of the duo's third studio album, Deux frères . [2] The album was released on 5 April 2019, with "Au DD" serving as its third single. [2]
The accompanying music video was filmed in December 2018 in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, becoming the first duo or band to film a video on the tower. [2] In the midnight of 22 March 2019, the duo launched a livestream on its YouTube channel showing the Earth spinning. At 4 p.m., it was announced that the video will be released at 8 p.m. [3] The video features the two brothers performing the song at the top of the tower, wearing a jacket that had been specially designed by Virgil Abloh for the occasion. [4] The video was well received by the music critics, with The Guardian editor Iman Amrani writing: "In the vertigo-inducing clip, they turn the structure into a trap house, making it resemble the lifts at the bottom of the estates where drug dealers set up shop". [2] Dummy magazine's editor Felicity Marting wrote that it "fit[s] the duo’s cloud rap sonics perfectly". [5]
In December 2019, the video had more than 129 million views, making it the most viewed video of the year on YouTube in France. [6] In 2020, it won the category for Best Music Video at the Victoires de la Musique Awards. [7]
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| France (SNEP) [15] | Diamond | 333,333‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
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