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Gurinder Gill Is Ready For a Global Ascent With New Album 'World Is Ours'

The Punjabi-Canadian rapper and singer releases his anticipated second album.

Gurinder Gill

Gurinder Gill

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Gurinder Gill is taking on the world with his new album.

World Is Ours is out now and marks a new chapter for the independent Punjabi-Canadian artist.


Gill rose to fame in 2019 with viral single "Faraar," made with fellow rising stars AP Dhillon and Shinda Kahlon. After a series of collaborations with Dhillon, including global hits like "Brown Munde" and "Excuses," his 2023 album Hard Choices saw him striking out on his own.

"You can’t say it was an overnight success,” he told Billboard Canada at the time, as part of the cover story on Punjabi music. “It was a lot of work when we started taking it seriously. We had to do everything by ourselves: videos, music, artwork. It was just four or five people just running around, trying to make things happen.”

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World Is Ours is a confident follow-up and follow-through on that decision. The album brings together hard-hitting trap beats and sweet guitar licks, from the intense "MVP" to the mellow "City 2 City."

The music video for the title track has already racked up nearly 400K views on YouTube, with fans commenting that it's Gill's time to shine.

As the Punjabi Wave continues to grow in Canada, Canadian institutions are putting more resources behind the movement. In this moment, it's a bold choice for a rising Punjabi star to go fully independent.

Labels aren't always necessary for artists to break out, particularly in a case like Gill, who already has a strong base.

The desire to see him reach the next level is there — if he plays his cards right, the world could be his.

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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris
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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris

The French edition of the world's leading music media outlet is creating a local vertical to cover music news in the Greater Paris region.

Billboard France, the French edition of the world’s leading music media outlet, today announced the official launch of Billboard Paris.

This new vertical, which has already reached 10 million views on social media, will focus exclusively on music news from across the Paris region, covering local events — from small-scale concerts and club nights to music exhibitions — as well as major celebrations such as Fête de la Musique, Nuit Blanche, Techno Parade, and Pride Month.

Billboard Paris will be operated by Billboard France under the leadership of Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy. Yanis Si Youcef has been appointed editor-in-chief, with support from Julien Zeidan.

“In the space of a year, Billboard France has established itself as both a leading outlet for French and international music news and a reference point for industry professionals," Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy, president and managing Director of Billboard France and Billboard Paris, said in a joint statement. "This new Paris-focused event vertical allows us to build a highly localized audience while simultaneously expanding both our editorial and commercial offering. We are pleased to entrust it to Yanis Si Youcef, whose expertise closely aligns with our editorial ambitions.”

“Paris deserved its own benchmark music platform. Billboard Paris will tell the story of the city through its music, its scenes, and its nightlife, with the standards that have defined the Billboard brand for more than a century," added Yanis Si Youcef, editor-in-chief of Billboard Paris.

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