Subliminal (album)


Subliminal is the debut solo album by French-Congolese singer and rapper Maître Gims. The 18-track album was released 20 May 2013 on Wati B and Monstre Marin Corporation, the latter founded by Maître Gims himself. The lyrics were all by Maître Gims whereas the music was by Maître Gims, Renaud Rebillaud and Stan-E Music. The album was a great success charting in France, Belgium as well as charting in Switzerland.
On 2 December 2013, it was reissued and titled Subliminal / La face cachée, including 6 additional tracks for a total of 24 tracks.
By 31 August 2015, the album had accumulated a total of more than 1,000,000 copies sold in France.
On 3 January 2020, "Bella" combined 432 million views.

Promotion

In 2012, Maître Gims announced through social network that he was preparing for an animated series titled Au cœur du Vortex and in conjunction was developing a clothing line to be named Vortex VX.
The greatly expected solo album was heavily promoted by Maître Gims in an announcement through his video "Welcome to the Wa Part. 4: La Consécration".
A series of consecutive releases of unpublished materials called Ceci n'est pas un Clip were released in anticipation:
On 1 March 2013, Maître Gims also released "Meurtre par strangulation" as a first pre-release from the Subliminal album.
On 15 March 2013, just two weeks later, he released a second track from the album "J'me tire", that topped the SNEP official French Singles Chart.

Track list: Subliminal

Track list: La face cachée

Charts

Year-end charts