France best selling albums ever: Mon Paradis by Christophe MaƩ (2007)

Mon Paradis

As far as one may remember, musicals have been hugely popular in France. They also often managed to send newcomers into super stardom. It happened with Julien Clerc (Hair), Daniel Balavoine (Starmania)Ā orĀ HĆ©lĆØne SĆ©gara and Garou (Notre-Dame de Paris) among others. Successful musical Le Roi Soleil, released in 2005, brough two new star in French VariĆ©tĆ© scene: Emmanuel Moire and Christophe MaĆ©.

While the former had a strong debut, the latter reached highs unseen in several years. His debut song On S’Attache was an immediate hit and everything released since has beenĀ big as well.

Despite being topped by colorful singer Mika in 2007 Album Year End chart, timeĀ proved Mon Paradis album had the best legs out of both smashes.

Yearly French retail sales stand as below:

A grand total of 1,590,000Ā copies sold.

The picture seems rather clear but as we are going deeper into the past data contains more and more traps. In fact, Mon Paradis sold 714,000 copies in 2007 and 422,000 copies in 2008 as per IFOP that was the official sales dataĀ provider from 1995 til 2008, while GFK took over from 2009. After studying in details both providers I have to stick with GFK data as soon as it is available although IFOP was still the official one. I’ll be posting a dedicated post explaining why GFK appears to be the most accurate out of the two company.

Net shipment as of the end of 2015Ā is estimated at 1,610,000Ā copies.

As usual, feel free to comment and / orĀ ask a question!

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