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Category: France Best Selling Albums

France Best Selling Albums Ever

By MJD Posted on January 16, 2021 60 Comments

It has been 5 years since ChartMasters.org is online. It started with a large string of articles about the best selling albums of all-time in France, articles which served to created the comprehensive top sellers list. Several years later, we …

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France best selling albums ever:
25 by Adele (2015)

By MJD Posted on March 31, 2017 2 Comments

Recording the 26th top selling album of all-time with 21, Adele came back four years later with her third album, 25. As soon as it got published, lead single Hello resonated all around the World, France

France best selling albums ever:
Femmes D’Aujourd’hui by Jeanne Mas (1986)

By MJD Posted on March 28, 2017 1 Comment

Just after Michael Jackson immensely improved the profile of music videos and MTV, a group of female singers came from obscurity to the spotlight. The World had Madonna and Whitney Houston leading the pack. France on its side had Mylène Farmer, Patricia Kaas …

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France best selling albums ever:
La Vieille by Michel Sardou (1976)

By MJD Posted on March 25, 2017 No Comments

If the media love to create controversies around everything – and nothing -, Michel Sardou offered them a gold mine for their furious debates. No matter how doubtful his lyrics were, the fact is his new 1976 album La Vieille was

France best selling albums ever:
Chambre 12 by Louane (2015)

By MJD Posted on March 4, 2017 No Comments

Until the early 90s, it wasn’t the norm to debut big. During the last 20 years it has become more and more frequent. Starting as incredibly well as Louane did is still a feat as rare as it is

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France best selling albums ever:
En Public by Jean-Jacques Goldman (1986)

By MJD Posted on March 4, 2017 No Comments

Jean-Jacques Goldman was all over the place while studying the all-time best selling albums in France with 9 million sellers on his own plus 14 others on which he was involved as composer and songwriter. Checking who’s bubbling under the list, …

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France best selling albums ever:
Partir Un Jour by 2Be3 (1997)

By MJD Posted on March 3, 2017 No Comments

1996 was the year of teen Pop bands. A few years earlier, the movement got started by heavily hyped boys band New Kids On The Block. During the following years the likes Take That, East 17 or Boyzone arrived too. …

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Partir Un Jour by 2Be3 (1997)
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France Best Selling Albums Ever

By MJD Posted on February 5, 2017 17 Comments

INTRODUCTION Both steps are completed – updating all previously posted million selling albums with their 2016 sales plus adding all new albums over that mark. The only thing left is to compile everything together to build the France best

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France best selling albums ever:
Mon Frère by Maxime Le Forestier (1972)

By MJD Posted on February 4, 2017 No Comments

As you may know, establishing a list of all-time best selling albums is a very difficult target. I’m fairly satisfied with the results of all the work that has been done over the last 12 months to compile such a …

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Mon Frère by Maxime Le Forestier (1972)
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France best selling albums ever:
Dans Ma Bulle by Diam’s (2006)

By MJD Posted on February 2, 2017 No Comments

Back in 2006, local Rap music wasn’t so strong in France. Inside the official Year End Album Chart top 25, only one such album was there. That album was Dans Ma Bulle by Diam’s, quite simply the

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