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S'il suffisait d'aimer
1998 studio album by Celine Dion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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S'il suffisait d'aimer (English: "if only love could be enough") is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her eleventh French-language album. It was released by Sony Music on 31 August 1998. The album was mainly written by French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, and produced by Goldman and Erick Benzi.
It received generally positive reviews, with particularly strong praise from critics in Francophone countries, and became the second best-selling French-language album of all time, after Dion's own D'eux (1995). It includes three hit singles: "Zora sourit", "S'il suffisait d'aimer" and "On ne change pas". S'il suffisait d'aimer won the Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album of the Year.
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The project reunited Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman, who last worked together on the very successful album D'eux. In their first collaboration Goldman wrote songs for Dion, this time he wrote more in his own style, while letting Dion sing her own unique way, like she has been singing a long time ago. Most of the arrangements on that album are simple to let her voice dominate the songs.
During the francophone concerts in the Let's Talk About Love World Tour, Dion performed six songs from S'il suffisait d'aimer. The concerts in Paris were recorded and released as Au cœur du stade in 1999. It was promoted by the video of Dion performing "Dans un autre monde". In addition, video from behind the scenes of the recording session of S'il suffisait d'aimer was included as a bonus on the Au cœur du stade DVD.
Some tracks from S'il suffisait d'aimer were featured on Dion's 2005 greatest hits album On ne change pas.
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The album received generally positive reviews, with particularly strong praise from critics in Francophone countries. AllMusic said that "fans will be pleased to hear Dion's return, in a sense, to her roots, especially since the album is about as consistent as any of her albums, both English and French".[3]
The French magazine Public rated the album 20 out of 20, which is the highest score that Dion's albums have received on the magazine's website, noting: "Compared to the slightly overachieving tone of D'eux, we slightly prefer its younger sibling, S'il Suffisait D'aimer, the second collaboration between Jean-Jacques Goldman and Céline Dion, released in 1998. With less to prove and a softer approach, it's a more 'indie' album—if one might say so—for the duo. Rather than opening with a hit like 'Pour que tu m'aimes encore,' it begins with an intimate song, Je crois toi, which was never released as a single. The tone is set from the very beginning. Full of subtlety, relying less on vocal power and more on emotional nuance, the album reaches into the heart of Céline—a heart that Jean-Jacques Goldman understands well, portraying her through moments of doubt. Tracks like On ne change pas reflect on the child within her; En attendant ses pas speaks of the child she is expecting; and others, like Zora sourit or Tous les blues sont écrits pour toi, address more socially conscious themes. A hidden gem, Papillon, written by Erick Benzi, was re-recorded by Céline in the studio simply for the joy of singing it again—knowing its intimacy likely wouldn't fit on stage. The album ends with a lament about the state of the world—but one that carries a sense of hope. S'il Suffisait D'aimer has, in our eyes, become Céline's anthem".[4]
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S'il suffisait d'aimer is the second best-selling French language album of all time, behind her own D'eux. In its first three weeks of availability worldwide (except the US), it has already sold 2 million copies with 700,000 of it in France alone.[5] To date, It has sold over 4 million copies worldwide,[6][7] including 2 million in Europe, where it was certified 2× Platinum by the IFPI.[8]
S'il suffisait d'aimer has sold over 1,890,000 copies in France alone and was certified Diamond.[9] In Canada, it has sold 500,000 copies[10] and was certified 4× Platinum.[11] The album was certified Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum around the world, also in non-Francophone countries. S'il suffisait d'aimer became the second, after D'eux, French-language album to be certified Gold in the United Kingdom.[12] In the United States, although a French-language release, it has sold 112,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.[13][14]
S'il suffisait d'aimer topped the charts in Switzerland (for five weeks), France (for four weeks), Belgium Wallonia (for four weeks), in Quebec (for two weeks) and in Canada, Greece, Poland and on the European Top 100 Albums.[15] It charted inside top 40 in many non-Francophone countries, including the United Kingdom at number 17, or Germany where it peaked at number 11.
Accolades
S'il suffisait d'aimer won a Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album. It was also nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in category Pop, Rock Album of the Year and Dion was nominated in category Female Artist of the Year.
Track listing
All tracks produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Erick Benzi. All tracks written by Jean-Jacques Goldman, except where noted.
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