L'amour est un soleil

"L'amour est un soleil" is a 2003 song recorded by French artist Hélène Ségara. It was the lead single from her fourth studio album, Humaine, on which it features as third track, and was released on 11 April 2003. It was a hit particularly in France, where it almost topped the chart.

"L'amour est un soleil"
Single by Hélène Ségara
from the album Humaine
B-side	"Petites Douleurs"
Released	11 April 2003
Recorded	France, 2003
Genre	Pop
Length	3:54
Label	East West, Warner Music
Songwriter(s)	Romano Musumarra, Roberto Zanelli, Luc Plamondon
Producer(s)	Pierre Jaconelli
Hélène Ségara singles chronology
"Donner tout" (2002) "L'amour est un soleil" (2003) "Encore une fois" (2003)

Song information

Romano Musumarra, who had previously worked for many famous artists, such as Jeanne Mas, Elsa Lunghini and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, participated in the writing of the song. French-Canadian lyricist Luc Plamondon, who had already written songs from the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, also composed the song. When it was composed, Ségara had just given birth to her second son, and lyrics were inspired by this event.

The song was included on Ségara's 2004 greatest hits album Le Best of and was also available on many French compilations, such as Stars France 2003, Vol. 2. It was also the b-side of Ségara's 2004 single "On ne dit pas".

Chart performance

"L'Amour est un soleil" went straight to number two on 19 April 2003, and stayed there for three consecutive weeks, but was unable to dislodge Florent Pagny's hit "Ma liberté de penser" which topped the chart then. Afterwards, the single almost always dropped, and remained for six weeks in the top ten, 13 weeks in the top 50 and 19 weeks on the chart,^[1] hitting Gold status awarded by the SNEP^[2] and featuring at number 36 on the year-end chart.^[3]

In Belgium (Wallonia), the song was less successful, peaking only at number 14 in its fifth week, on 31 May, and it dropped quickly, and fell off the chart after eight weeks.^[4]

In Switzerland, "L'Amour est un soleil" peaked at number 13 twice, in its first and fourth weeks, then dropped quickly. It remained for five weeks in the top 20 and 13 weeks on the chart (top 100). It was Ségara's second-most-successful single in this country (the first is "On oublie rien, on vit avec").^[5]

Track listings

CD single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"L'Amour est un soleil"	3:54
2.	"Petites Douleurs"	3:29

Digital download

No.	Title	Length
1.	"L'Amour est un soleil" (album version)	4:06

Personnel

Lyrics : Luc Plamondon Music : Romano Musumarra and Roberto Zaneli Arrangements : Pierre Jaconelli Keyboards programmations : Sébastien Cortella Guitars : Pierre Jaconelli Drum kit : Ian Thomas Bass : Nicolas Fiszman Percussion : Denis Benarrosh

Strings direction : David Sinclair Whitaker Strings : Les Archers de Paris Orchestral direction : Philippe Nadal Violin : Christian Guiot Recording and mixing : Peter Schwier at Studio Mega C / Guillaume Tell Studio Edited by Georges Mary editions / Luc Plamondon

Charts and sales

Peak positions Chart (2003) Peak position Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[4] 14 French SNEP Singles Chart[1] 2 Swiss Singles Chart[5] 13

Year-end charts Chart (2003) Position Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[6] 95 French Singles Chart[3] 36

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[2]	Gold	250,000*
* Sales figures based on certification alone.