Totem (Zazie album)

Totem
Studio album by Zazie
Released 5 February 2007
(See release history)
Recorded 2006
Genre Pop
Label Mercury Records, Universal Music
Zazie chronology
Rodéo Tour
(2006)		 Totem
(2007)		 Zest of
(2008)
Singles from Totem
  1. "Des rails"
    Released: 2007
  2. "Je suis un homme"
    Released: 2007
  3. "J'étais là"
    Released: april 2008
  4. "Flower power"
    Released: 2008

Totem is a 2007 album recorded by French pop singer Zazie. It was her sixth studio album, and her ninth album overall. It was released first digitally on 5 February 2007, then as a CD one week later. The album achieved success in francophone countries.

Contents

Background and release

As for her previous album Rodéo, Zazie participated in the writing and the composing, alongside her friends Jean-Pierre Pilot and Philippe Paradis. A duet with Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini appears in the track listing.

Unlike for her previous album, Zazie released "Totem" under various formats, including a collector edition composed of a set box and a 70-page booklet (illustrating the lyrics with photos of the singer in Iceland produced by Laurent Seroussi), a mini-CD with the models of the songs "Je suis un homme" and "Jet lag" and a new song in English-language, "I Fall". The 2007 Christmas edition contains two other unpublished songs, including "Haut les mains", a song performed for the first time on stage at the Zénith in Nantes on 1 June 2007. This Christmas edition is also composed of a DVD with the music videos of "Des rails" and "Je suis un homme" as well as of their making-of, the making-of the album and the videos of preview for the Internet.

The album provided five singles, but four of them were only released under promotional formats ; "Je suis un homme" was a hit in France and Belgium where it peaked at number seven.

Chart performances and awards

The album went straight to number-one in France and stayed for 101 weeks in the top 200. It also reached number-one, the second week of its release, in Belgium (Wallonia) and totalled 84 weeks in the top 100. It was ranked for 18 weeks in Switzerland but reached number ten.

The album was also nominated in the category 'Album of varieties' at the 2008 Victoires de la Musique, but didn't win.

Track listings

CD
Title Length Author(s) Composeur(s)
"Des rails" 3:32 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Je suis un homme" 4:11 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"L'Ange blessé" 4:15 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Jet lag" 3:48 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Ça" 3:21 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Duo" (avec Paolo Nutini) 3:06 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Na" 3:19 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Flower Power" 2:54 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Totem" 3:47 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"07 Déc." 4:43 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"J'étais là" 3:10 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Yin yang" 3:12 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Vue du ciel" 3:49 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
DVD - Additional tracks for the 2007 Christmas edition
Title Length Author(s) Composeur(s)
"Frère Jacques" (digitally only) 3:40 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot
"Haut les mains" 3:23 Zazie Zazie / Philippe Paradis / Jean-Pierre Pilot

Credits and personnel

Release history

Date Label Region Format Catalog
5 February 2007 Mercury Belgium, France, Switzerland Digital —
12 February 2007 CD 0602498451182
CD Digipack ‡ 0602498008393
10 December 2007 Universal CD + DVD 0600753049181
27 February 2008 CD 0600753059739

Certifications and sales

Country Certification Date Sales certified Physical sales
Belgium[1] Gold 17 March 2007 25,000
France — — — 327,400[2][3]

Charts

Chart (2007/08) Peak
position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[4] 1
French SNEP Albums Chart[4] 1
French SNEP Digital Chart[5] 1
Swiss Albums Chart[4] 10
End of year chart (2007) Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[6] 4
French Albums Chart[7] 11
French Digital Chart[8] 6
Preceded by
À fleur de toi by Zazie		 French SNEP number-one album
17 February 2007 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
Hanoi by Indochine
Preceded by
Not Too Late by Norah Jones		 Belgian (Wallonia) number-one album
3 March 2007 (1 week)

References

  1. ^ "2007 certifications in France". Ultratop. http://www.ultratop.be/fr/certifications.asp?year=2007. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
  2. ^ "2007 albums sales in France". Infodisc. http://www.infodisc.fr/Ventes_Album07.php. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
  3. ^ "2008 albums & downloads sales in France". Infodisc. http://www.infodisc.fr/Ventes_Album08.php. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
  4. ^ a b c "Totem, in various albums charts". Lescharts. http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Zazie&titel=Totem&cat=a. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
  5. ^ "French Digital Chart, 3 February 2007". Disqueenfrance. http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-260584.xml?cid=261300. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
  6. ^ "2007 Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart". Ultratop. http://www.ultratop.be/fr/annual.asp?year=2007&cat=a. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
  7. ^ "2007 French Albums Chart". Disqueenfrance. http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-259376.xml?year=2007&type=2. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
  8. ^ "2007 French Digital Chart". Disqueenfrance. http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-259376.xml?year=2007&type=8. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
Zazie
Studio albums
Je, tu, ils (1993) · Zen (1995) · Made in Love (1998) · La Zizanie (2001) · Rodéo (2004) · Totem (2007) · Za7ie (2010)
Live albums
Made in Live (1999) · Ze live !! (2003) · Rodéo Tour (2006)
Compilations
Zest of (2008)
Hit singles
"À ma place" (2001) · "Je suis un homme" (2007)
Associated artists