DJ David Guetta has been appointed in his place by the technical director of the Paris Olympics.

“Album sales” is not a sufficient criterion to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, said Thomas Joly, the artistic director of the ceremony, in response to DJ David Guetta, who was angry about not being invited.

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“In fact, we do not create an artistic direction with just a number of album sales,” Thomas Joly told reporters during a meeting about the Olympics on Wednesday evening.

“I have nothing against David Guetta or anyone. I am not here to give my tastes (…) and David Guetta, quite simply, what he developed as an art had nothing to do with what we wanted to say.

The international DJ was upset that he wasn't invited to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26.

“If you have the answer, you will give it to me. I did not understand it at all,” David Guetta told an AFP reporter before his concert at the Chateau de Chambord last weekend.

“I'm still between the fourth and fifteenth most streamed artist in the world,” he insisted.

The distribution of this concert is always kept confidential.

Aya Nakamura, whose name has been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, will wear Dior, according to a source close to the matter. According to Le Canard chainé, Celine Dion is also expected to take part, but her participation depends on her health.

Only a group of people know the exact spectacle scenario of 3:45, which starts at 19:30 and ends “breaking the codes” by occupying the first place outside a stadium, the length of the sea, according to the Games Organization Committee.

Some 3,000 dancers, musicians, actors and circus performers will take over the banks and bridges along a six-kilometre route, which is expected to attract 326,000 spectators.

Between 6,000 and 7,000 athletes (out of a total of 10,500) will take part in the parade on 85 boats.

Over a billion viewers can watch this unique show.

The concert's soundtrack includes the creations of musical director Victor Le Masne, pop music, symphony orchestras, choirs and electric loops typical of the “French touch”.

It will also rely on “other records,” according to Thomas Joly, who reveals nothing but “France is at the same time July, or Edith Piaf, or even Nathalie Dessay.”