Live à Paris

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Live à Paris
Live album by Céline Dion
Released	October 22, 1996 (1996-10-22)
Recorded	October 1995
Genre	Pop
Length	73:15
Label	Columbia, Epic
Producer	David Foster, Claude Lemay
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Céline Dion chronology
Falling into You (1996) Live à Paris (1996) Let's Talk About Love (1997)
Singles from Live à Paris
"Les derniers seront les premiers" Released: October 21, 1996 "To Love You More" Released: October 21, 1996 "Je sais pas" Released: May 19, 1997 "J'attendais" Released: June 30, 1997

Live à Paris (meaning Live in Paris) is a live album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on October 22, 1996. It's her 3rd live album, 18th French album and 22nd in total.

Contents 1 Album information 2 Chart success 3 Track listing 4 Chart performance 5 Awards 6 Release history 7 References

[edit] Album information

After having the best-selling Francophone album of all time - D'eux, Céline Dion released Live à Paris, which contains ten out of twelve songs from D'eux. The concert was recorded in Zenith Theatre, Paris in October 1995, during the D'eux Tour. The CD contains also few English songs, including studio recording of "To Love You More," which became a smash hit in Japan.

The disc does not contain the full show. All songs can be found on the Live à Paris home video, released also in 1996.

Live à Paris won one Juno Award and two Félix Awards in 1997.

[edit] Chart success

Live à Paris followed the successful D'eux and topped the charts for eight weeks in France, four weeks in Belgium and one week in Switzerland, selling 2 million copies in Europe and 3 million in total.

On November 1, 1996, Céline Dion wrote a new page in the record book of French music industry, becoming the very first artist to have three of her albums in the French top 20. That week, Live à Paris entered the chart on top position (her 3rd number 1 album in France this year), while Falling into You (seven months after it entered the chart) was still at the 6th position and D'eux was still at number 16 (a year and a half after its release).

[edit] Track listing

1. "J'attendais" (Jean-Jacques Goldman) – 4:58
2. "Destin" (Goldman) – 4:11
3. "The Power of Love" (Candy DeRouge, Gunther Mende, Mary Susan Applegate, Jennifer Rush) – 4:45
4. "Regarde-moi" (Goldman) – 3:49
5. "River Deep, Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 3:29
6. "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" (Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger) – 5:03
7. "Les derniers seront les premiers" (with Jean-Jacques Goldman) (Goldman) – 3:52
8. "J'irai où tu iras" (with Jean-Jacques Goldman) (Goldman) – 3:46
9. "Je sais pas" (Goldman, J. Kapler) – 4:25
10. "Le ballet" (Goldman) – 10:33
11. "Prière païenne" (Goldman) – 4:55
12. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (Goldman) – 5:10
13. "Quand on n'a que l'amour" (Jacques Brel) – 4:41
14. "Vole" (Goldman) – 4:03
15. "To Love You More" (studio recording) (David Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28

[edit] Chart performance

Chart	Peak position	Certification	Sales/shipments
Austrian Albums Chart[1]	24
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[2]	6	Platinum	50,000[3]
Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart[4]	1
Canadian Albums Chart[5]	8	2x platinum	200,000[6]
Dutch Albums Chart[7]	9	Gold	50,000[8]
European Albums Chart[9]		2x platinum	2,000,000[10]
French Albums Chart[11]	1	2x Platinum	670,000[12]
German Albums Chart[13]	63
Italian Albums Chart[14]	46
New Zealand Albums Chart[15]	25
Polish Albums Chart[16]		Gold	50,000[17]
Swiss Albums Chart[18]	1	Platinum	50,000[19]
UK Albums Chart[20]	53
U.S. Billboard 200[21]			11,000

[edit] Awards

Year	Award show	Award
1997	Juno Awards	Best Selling Francophone Album – Live à Paris
1997	Félix Awards	Album of the Year (Pop Rock) – Live à Paris
1997	Félix Awards	Album of the Year (Best Seller) – Live à Paris

[edit] Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Europe	October 22, 1996	Columbia	CD	4888062
Canada	October 29, 1996	Columbia	CD	80238

[edit] References

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