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S'il suffisait d'aimer (meaning If Only Love Could Be Enough) is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on September 7, 1998. It's her 19th French album and 24th in total.
[edit] Album information
The project reunited Céline 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 Céline 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.
S'il suffisait d'aimer won a Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album.
The concert at the Stade de France in Paris was recorded and released as Au cœur du stade, including five songs from S'il suffisait d'aimer. It was promoted by the video of Céline 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.
[edit] Chart success
S'il suffisait d'aimer is the second (after D'eux) best-selling French album of all time. It topped the charts for five weeks in Switzerland, four weeks in France and Belgium Wallonie, and one week in Canada, Greece and Europe. The album sold 4 million copies in total, including 1.5 million in France alone. S'il suffisait d'aimer became the second (after D'eux) French-language album to be certified gold in the United Kingdom. It was certified also in others non French-speaking countries.
[edit] Track listing
- "Je crois toi" (Jean-Jacques Goldman) – 5:05
- "Zora sourit" (Goldman, J. Kapler) – 3:51
- "On ne change pas" (Goldman) – 4:09
- "Je chanterai" (Goldman) – 4:10
- "Terre" (Erick Benzi) – 4:17
- "En attendant ses pas" (Goldman) – 4:07
- "Papillon" (Benzi) – 4:01
- "L'abandon" (Goldman) – 4:27
- "Dans un autre monde" (Goldman) – 4:38
- "Sur le même bateau" (Goldman) – 4:25
- "Tous les blues sont écrits pour toi" (Goldman) – 4:48
- "S'il suffisait d'aimer" (Goldman) – 3:35
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart |
Peak
position |
Certification |
Sales/shipments |
| Austrian Albums Chart[1] |
3 |
Gold |
25,000[2] |
| Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[3] |
2 |
Platinum |
50,000[4] |
| Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart[5] |
1 |
| Canadian Albums Chart[6] |
1 |
4x platinum |
400,000[7] |
| Dutch Albums Chart[8] |
4 |
Gold |
50,000[9] |
| European Albums Chart[10] |
1 |
2x platinum |
2,000,000[11] |
| Finnish Albums Chart[12] |
12 |
|
|
| French Albums Chart[13] |
1 |
Diamond |
1,500,000[14] |
| German Albums Chart[15] |
11 |
|
|
| Greek Albums Chart[16] |
1 |
|
|
| Hungarian Albums Chart[17] |
15 |
|
|
| Italian Albums Chart[18] |
33 |
|
20,000[19] |
| Japanese Albums Chart[20] |
37 |
|
35,000[21] |
| Polish Albums Chart[22] |
|
Gold |
50,000[23] |
| Portuguese Albums Chart[24] |
|
Silver |
10,000[25] |
| Swedish Albums Chart[26] |
23 |
|
|
| Swiss Albums Chart[27] |
1 |
2x platinum |
100,000[28] |
| UK Albums Chart[29] |
17 |
Gold |
100,000[30] |
| U.S. Billboard 200[31] |
– |
|
110,000[32] |
[edit] Awards
| Year |
Award show |
Award |
| 1999 |
Juno Awards |
Best Selling Francophone Album – S'il suffisait d'aimer |
[edit] Release history
[edit] References
