1 fille & 4 types received favourable reviews from music critics, some of whom noted that it is a record many Dion fans were hoping would arrive one day. On the commercial level, the album also became a success. It topped the charts in Canada, France, Belgian Wallonia, and Greece, and also reached top ten in Switzerland, Poland, Finland, and Belgian Flanders. 1 fille & 4 types was certified 2× Platinum in France, Platinum in Belgium and Switzerland, and Gold in Finland.
Background
Dion started working on her upcoming French-language album on 8 October 2002 in Paris when she met with four well-known French songwriters and producers: Jean-Jacques Goldman, Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, and Gildas Arzel. After four days of rehearsals, Dion met with them again in Las Vegas in May 2003, during her break from performing in her residency show A New Day.... The songs were recorded between 2 and 11 May 2003.[1] On 11 August 2003, Dion's official website announced that the release of a new French album, titled 1 fille & 4 types (meaning 1 girl & 4 guys), was set for 13 October 2003 in Europe and 14 October 2003 in Canada.[2] Dion worked on this project with "4 guys" only: Goldman, Benzi, Veneruso, and Arzel.[2] Goldman, who had written and produced the best-selling French-language albums of all time, D'eux and S'il suffisait d'aimer, guided 1 fille & 4 types as artistic director.[3] The first single, "Tout l'or des hommes", was sent to radio on 27 August 2003.[2][3][4] It was written by Veneruso, who had penned Dion's 2001 number-one hit, "Sous le vent", a duet with Garou.[3] The music video for the song was serviced to video outlets in September 2003, and the CD single was scheduled for release on 6 October 2003 in France, Switzerland, and Belgium; on 7 October 2003 in Canada; and a few weeks later in Germany.[3][5] The behind-the-scenes from the video for "Tout l'or des hommes" and the making of the album was posted in the video section on celinedion.com on 28 September 2003.[6]1 fille & 4 types was also scheduled for release in the United States on 11 November 2003, in Japan on 17 December 2003, in Sweden on 9 February 2004, and in Spain on 19 April 2004.[7][8][9][10]
Content
On 14 September 2003, the album's track listing was posted on Dion's website.[11] On 23 September 2003, it was revealed that 1 fille & 4 types would be released in three different versions.[12] While the standard edition was available from all retailers, a deluxe edition with special photos and a DVD was sold in Europe and exclusively in Archambault stores in Canada.[12] Finally, a limited edition with a special 45-page booklet was made available in France's Carrefour stores.[12] After the album was released, it turned out that it contained a hidden track, "Valse adieu". The songs were written and arranged by Goldman, Benzi, Veneruso, and Arzel, and produced by Benzi. Goldman's brother, J Kapler, co-wrote "Et je t'aime encore" and wrote "Valse adieu". Goldman, Benzi, Veneruso, and Arzel also played instruments and sang lead and background vocals on the record. The album contains three covers: "Retiens-moi", recorded by Nanette Workman for her 1996 album, Une à une; "Tu nages", recorded by Anggun for her 2000 album, Désirs contraires; and "Rien n'est vraiment fini", recorded by Leyla Doriane for her 2000 album, Libre.[13][14][15] "Et je t'aime encore" is a French-language version of the song "Je t'aime encore", from Dion's One Heart, which was released in March 2003.[16]
Promotion
To promote the album, Dion taped a television special at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on 1 October 2003.[17] The footage from this show was used to create two television specials, one for Canada and the second for France.[17] During the television special for Canada, titled 1 fille & 4 types à Las Vegas, Dion was interviewed by Julie Snyder, and short clips of performances form the Colosseum at Caesars Palace were shown, including "Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce)" (duet with Henri Salvador), "Je lui dirai", "Apprends-moi", "Mon homme", "Quand on n'a que l'amour" (duet with the winner of Star Académie), "Sous le vent" (duet with Garou), "Contre nature", "Toi et moi" (duet with Charles Aznavour), "Tout l'or des hommes", "Et je t'aime encore", "Ne bouge pas", and "Le vol d'un ange".[18] The show was broadcast on 19 October 2003 on TVA and attracted 1,536,500 viewers, becoming the most watched program in Quebec that day.[19]
The second television special, for France, titled Céline!, was hosted by Flavie Flament and included the full performance of the following songs: "Tout l'or des hommes" (with the "4 guys"), "On ne change pas", "Toi et moi" (with Charles Aznavour), "Et je t'aime encore", "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (duet with Florent Pagny), "Le vol d'un ange", "Apprends-moi" (with the "4 guys"), "Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce)" (with Henri Salvador), "Sous le vent" (with Garou), "S'il suffisait d'aimer" (with Patrick Fiori, Florent Pagny, and Roch Voisine) and "Valse adieu" (with the "4 guys"). The show also included solo performances by special guests Roch Voisine, Garou, Florent Pagny, Patrick Fiori, Michael Jones, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Charles Aznavour, Gérard Darmon, Martin Fontaine, Henry Salvador, and Ricky Martin.[20][21] The show was broadcast on 18 November 2003 on TF1 and became the most watched program of the French prime-time by attracting 6,131,800 viewers and getting a 31,1% share of the audience.[20][21]
On 15 October 2003, Dion returned to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform her show, A New Day...[22]
Singles
The first single, "Tout l'or des hommes", was released on 6 October 2003 and reached number one in Quebec, number two in Canada, number three in France, number five in Belgian Wallonia, and number ten in Switzerland;[23][24][25][26] it was certified Silver in France. The second single, "Et je t'aime encore", was sent to radio on 11 December 2003, and the limited-edition CD single was released on 23 February 2004;[27][28] the music video premiered on 8 March 2004.[29] "Et je t'aime encore" reached number two in Quebec, number fourteen in Belgian Wallonia, number sixteen in France, and number thirty-one in Switzerland.[30] The cover art for the next promotional-only single, "Contre nature", was released to TeamCeline members on 6 March 2004.[31] The song was sent to radio in France on 18 March 2004 and in Canada on 12 April 2004.[30][32] The music video, directed by Didier Kerbrat in Las Vegas, premiered on 30 April 2004.[32][33][34] The song reached number two in Quebec. "Je lui dirai" was later included on Dion's next album, Miracle, and released as a promotional single in October 2004.
The album met with favourable reviews from music critics.[37] A reviewer from the Montreal Gazette called it the "most sympathetic and intimate work of her career". The French newspaper Le Parisien rated it as excellent, while the Swiss newspaper Le Matin wrote, "It's solid Dion, square and effectively devilish". Rob Theakston from AllMusic wrote that 1 fille & 4 types "is a record that many Dion fans were hoping would arrive one day. Her voice values dynamics over acrobatics and the band is stripped down to its bare essentials, taking Dion into relatively unfamiliar territories such as country-pop and folk, and she proves herself more than up to the task of delivering top-notch performances every time. This stripped-down, back-to-basics attitude is only further reinforced within the album's packaging: Dion in several fashionably rugged poses that could have come straight from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog complete with photos of a rugged life 'on the road,' including a shot of her with the band all lying on a bed together with her hair up in a towel and the air conditioner apparently not working during the summertime. It's completely premeditated and no diva in her right mind would stand for such living conditions, but this only reinforces how far away Dion wants to distance herself from her image this time around. The pop songs are equally as infectious as they are hummable".[35]Entertainment Weekly editor David Browne wrote a mixed review: "The presentation cries out empress of overkill goes alt-rock, but the truth is much less engaging" and said that the album "does stand as a marked departure from her usual fare. Forsaking orchestras and pop gloss, she and her guys offer up reverby twang in "Tout l'or des hommes," a slide-guitar romp in "Ne bouge pas," and enough mopey, semi-unplugged arrangements to make you think they just discovered Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love". For her part, Dion sounds more restrained than on her English-language extravaganzas. The album falls victim to the same bathetic love songs that cripple every Dion project, and the quasi-adventurous production gives way to drippy folk-pop balladry".[36]
Commercial performance
With the release of 1 fille & 4 types, Dion rocketed to the top of Canadian charts for the second time in less than seven months.[38] The album accomplished the feat with first-week sales of 44,532 copies, including 42,500 units sold in Quebec alone.[38][39] It marked her sixth number-one album in the SoundScan era and her fourth to debut at the top position.[38] Her previous album, One Heart, entered the chart at number one in April 2003, selling 97,000 copies.[38]1 fille & 4 types stayed at number one for the second week, selling 19,300 units.[40] In the third week, it fell to number seven, with sales of 8,300 copies.[41] The record sold over 100,000 units in Canada in 2003.[42] It also debuted at number one in Quebec and stayed at the top for three weeks.[43]
In France, 1 fille & 4 types debuted at number one, selling 123,600 copies, and remained at the top for four non-consecutive weeks.[39][44] On 18 December 2003, 1 fille & 4 types was certified 2× Platinum for shipping 600,000 copies, and it became the fifth best-selling album of 2003.[45][46] It has sold over 750,000 copies in France.[47]
1 fille & 4 types also reached number one in Belgian Wallonia for two consecutive weeks and peaked at number one in Greece, number two in Switzerland, number seven in Poland, number nine in Belgian Flanders and Finland, and eventually reached number nine on the European Top 100 Albums. It was certified Platinum in Belgium and Switzerland and Gold in Finland.[48][49][50]
"Tous les secrets" is the second single from Celine Dion's 2005 French-language greatest hits album, On ne change pas and also a theme song from the animated movie Asterix and the Vikings. It was released in March 2006.
Canadian singer Celine Dion has released 27 studio albums, seven live albums, 19 compilation albums, and 25 box sets. Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads", Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time and the best-selling artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era in Canada. Dion is also the second best-selling female artist in the United States since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991 with over 53.2 million albums sold in the country. Guinness World Records recognises her as the Top Selling Album Act in Europe with 33 million certified album sales since 1996. In 2003, Dion was honored by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling 50 million albums in Europe. Billboard placed her second among the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s Decade in the United States with 17.3 million albums sold via Soundscan. According to Billboard, Dion is the sixth Greatest Billboard 200 female solo artist of all time, as well as the eighth Greatest female solo artist of all time in Billboard's chart history.
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"Tout l'or des hommes" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her twentieth studio album, 1 fille & 4 types (2003). It was written by Jacques Veneruso and produced by Erick Benzi. "Tout l'or des hommes" was released as the album's lead single on 6 October 2003. It topped the charts in Quebec and Poland. In Canada, "Tout l'or des hommes" reached number two, becoming the joint-highest-charting French-language song on the Canadian Singles Chart. Elsewhere, it peaked at numbers three in France, five in Belgium Wallonia and 10 in Switzerland. The single was also certified Gold in France.
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"Je lui dirai" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her twentieth studio album, 1 fille & 4 types (2003). It was written by Jean-Jacques Goldman and produced by Erick Benzi. In October 2004, "Je lui dirai" was added to the Miracle album in France and Belgium and released as a promotional single in these countries. It entered the airplay chart in Belgium Wallonia, reaching number 22. The music video showing the making of the Miracle: A Celebration of New Life book was also released.
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"Et je t'aime encore" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her twentieth studio album, 1 fille & 4 types (2003). It was written by Jean-Jacques Goldman and J. Kapler, and produced by Erick Benzi. "Et je t'aime encore" was released as the album's second single on 16 February 2004. It reached numbers two in Quebec, 14 in Belgium Wallonia, 16 in France and 31 in Switzerland.
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