Les Chansons En Or
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Les chansons en or is a French greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Canadian singer Céline Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

, released in Quebec, Canada in 1986. It's her 12th French album and 2nd greatest hits.

Album information

Dion was very hardworking during the past 5 years. She had recorded 9 albums for the Canadian market (5 regular releases, 2 Christmas albums, 1 live recording, and 1 greatest hits). She had also released 2 compilations in France. Dion got gold and platinum certifications for her albums and singles and received 11 Félix Award
Félix Award
The Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois...

s and 2 Yamaha Music Festival Awards
Yamaha Music Festival
The World Popular Song Festival, also known as Yamaha Music Festival and unofficially as the "Oriental Eurovision", was an international song contest held in 1970-1989. It was organised by the Yamaha Music Foundation in Tokyo, Japan from 1970 until 1989...

. It was about time to sum up those achievements and that's how Les chansons en or was born.

It was promoted by the new song "Fais ce que tu voudras
Fais Ce Que Tu Voudras
"Fais ce que tu voudras" was written by Quebec's composer René Grignon and French lyricist Eddy Marnay. It is the first single from Céline Dion's greatest hits album Les chansons en or...

," which reached number 36 on the Quebec chart.

Dion did her first French music video for that single. Her first commercial video ever was for an English song "Listen to the Magic Man
Dans La Main D'un Magicien
"Dans la main d'un magicien" is Céline Dion's first single from the movie soundtrack Opération beurre de pinottes. It was released in 1985 in Quebec, Canada....

" in 1985. It was Dion's first movie song as well as her first English song recorded in the studio. This greatest hits album was Céline Dion's first album released on a CD
Compact Disc
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.

The album has sold 150,000 copies.

Track listing

  1. "Ce n'était qu'un rêve
    Ce N'etait Qu'un Reve
    "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" is a debut single by Quebecer singer Céline Dion, released on June 19, 1981 in Quebec, Canada. It was included on her first album La voix du bon Dieu....

    " (Thérèse Dion, Céline Dion
    Celine Dion
    Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

    , Jacques Dion)
    – 3:52
  2. "La voix du bon Dieu" (Eddy Marnay, Suzanne-Mia Dumont) – 3:22
  3. "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi
    Tellement J'ai D'amour Pour Toi
    "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Tellement j'ai d'amour.... It was released in December 1982 in Quebec, Canada....

    " (Marnay, Hubert Giraud) - 3:01
  4. "D'amour ou d'amitié
    D'amour Ou D'amitie
    "D'amour ou d'amitié" is the second single from Céline Dion's album Tellement j'ai d'amour.... It was released in April 1983 in Quebec, Canada...

    " (Eddy, Jean Pierre Lang, Roland Vincent) – 4:05
  5. "Mon ami m'a quittée
    Mon Ami M'a Quittee
    "Mon ami m'a quittée" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in September 1983 in Quebec, Canada, and later in France and Belgium....

    " (Marnay, Christian Loigerot, Thierry Geoffroy) – 3:05
  6. "Les chemins de ma maison" (Marnay, Patrick Lemaitre, Alain Bernard) – 4:16
  7. "Mon rêve de toujours
    Mon Reve De Toujours
    "Mon rêve de toujours" is the second single from Céline Dion's album Mélanie. It was released in September 1984 in Quebec, Canada and in France....

    " (Marnay, Jean-Pierre Goussaud) – 4:23
  8. "Mélanie" (Marnay, Diane Juster) – 3:48
  9. "Une colombe
    Une Colombe
    "Une colombe" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Mélanie. It was released in June 1984 in Quebec, Canada.The single was a hit. On June 30, 1984 it entered the Quebec Singles Chart and reached number 2, spending forty four weeks on chart in total...

    " (Paul Baillargeon, Marcel Lefebvre) – 3:13
  10. "C'est pour toi" (Marnay, François Orenn) – 4:07
  11. "Fais ce que tu voudras
    Fais Ce Que Tu Voudras
    "Fais ce que tu voudras" was written by Quebec's composer René Grignon and French lyricist Eddy Marnay. It is the first single from Céline Dion's greatest hits album Les chansons en or...

    " (Marnay, René Grignon) – 3:43

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
Canada 1986 TBS CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

TBSCD 507
Record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

TBS 507
Cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

TBS 4507
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