Au cœur du stade

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Au cœur du stade
Live album by Céline Dion
Released	August 27, 1999 (1999-08-27)
Recorded	June 19-20, 1999
Genre	Pop
Length	64:34
Label	Columbia, Epic
Producer	Claude Lemay
Professional reviews
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Céline Dion chronology
These Are Special Times (1998) Au cœur du stade (1999) All the Way… A Decade of Song (1999)

Au cœur du stade (meaning At the Heart of the Stadium) is a live album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on August 27, 1999. It's her 4th live album, 20th French album and 25th in total.

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

[edit] Album information

Au cœur du stade was recorded at the Stade de France in Paris, during two sold-out performances on June 19 and 20, 1999. These performances made concert history as Dion became the very first to draw audiences in excess of 90,000 spectators at a single show for a grand total of 180,000 in only two nights.

Most of the songs on this album are live versions of tracks originally recorded for S'il suffisait d'aimer. Au cœur du stade contains also some of singer's early French songs ("Ce n'était qu'un rêve," "D'amour ou d'amitié," "Mon ami m'a quittée") and few English-language tracks, including "Let's Talk About Love" and "My Heart Will Go On." Medley acoustique (track nine) is five different songs, each of which could have stood alone as its own track, especially "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" which clocks in at over three minutes.

The CD does not contain the full show. All songs can be found on the Au cœur du stade DVD, also released in 1999. Au cœur du stade was recorded during the European leg of the Let's Talk About Love Tour.

The album was promoted with "Dans un autre monde" live video.

[edit] Chart success

Au cœur du stade hit number 1 for four weeks in Switzerland, two weeks in France and one week in Belgium Wallonie. It has sold 600,000 copies in France being certified 2x platinum, 50,000 copies in Switzerland (platinum), Belgium (platinum) and Canada (gold), and 10,000 copies in Portugal (silver). Total sales exceeded 1.5 million copies worldwide.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Let's Talk About Love" (Bryan Adams, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Elliott Kennedy) – 7:39
2. "Dans un autre monde" (Goldman) – 4:26
3. "Je sais pas" (Goldman, J. Kapler) – 5:47
4. "Je crois toi" (Goldman) – 4:36
5. "Terre" (Erick Benzi) – 4:26
6. "J'irai où tu iras" (with Jean-Jacques Goldman) (Goldman) – 4:06
7. "S'il suffisait d'aimer" (Goldman) – 5:10
8. "On ne change pas" (Goldman) – 6:03
9. Medley acoustique:

"Ce n'était qu'un rêve" (Thérèse Dion, Céline Dion, Jacques Dion) – 1:18

"D'amour ou d'amitié" (Eddy Marnay, Jean Pierre Lang, Roland Vincent) – 2:01

"Mon ami m'a quittée" (Marnay, Christian Loigerot, Thierry Geoffroy) – 1:58

"L'amour existe encore" (Luc Plamondon, Richard Cocciante) – 2:05

"Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" (Plamondon, Michel Berger) – 3:21

10."Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (Goldman) – 5:20
11."My Heart Will Go On" (James Horner, Will Jennings) – 5:23

[edit] Chart performance

Chart	Peak position	Certification	Sales/shipments
Austrian Albums Chart[1]	18
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[2]	3	Platinum	50,000[3]
Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart[4]	1
Canadian Albums Chart[5]	15	Gold	50,000[6]
Danish Albums Chart[7]	23
French Albums Chart[8]	1	2x platinum	600,000[9]
German Albums Chart[10]	37
Hungarian Albums Chart[11]	37
Portuguese Albums Chart[12]		Silver	10,000[13]
Swiss Albums Chart[14]	1	Platinum	50,000[15]
UK Albums Chart[16]	146
U.S. Billboard 200[17]			10,000[18]

[edit] Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Europe	August 27, 1999	Columbia	CD	4952402
Canada	August 31, 1999	Columbia	CD	80438
Japan	October 25, 2000	Epic	CD	ESCA 8239

[edit] References

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