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Tag: Michel Sardou

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:
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

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:
Update Part 6 (41-21)

By MJD Posted on January 28, 2017 2 Comments

Bigger and bigger. Having completed already 2016 sales of 127 albums out of the 168 million sellers, we get into the Top 40 territory – plus

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France Best Selling Albums Ever:
Update Part 4

By MJD Posted on January 24, 2017 2 Comments

At last! After going through 3 parts of our comprehensive list of 2016 sales updates for all 168 million selling albums, we end up reaching the 92 albums that

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France Best Selling Albums Ever:
Update Part 1

By MJD Posted on January 14, 2017 1 Comment

Let’s go back to our first love! During the first quarter of 2016, we went on to define the best selling albums of all-time in France. As many as 168 artist albums entered that countdown covering all million selling LPs. …

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Update Part 1
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France Best Selling Albums Ever:
All-Time Ranking (2015)

By MJD Posted on April 10, 2016 3 Comments

INTRODUCTION Yes, it is not only over for the 70s, this study is now completely over! At least for the million sellers part as more will come as a bubbling under list! We have been carefully

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France best selling albums ever:
Summary 1970-1979

By MJD Posted on April 9, 2016 No Comments

INTRODUCTION It’s over! If few 70s albums made it past the million level, 21 in total, they were by very far the

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France best selling albums ever:
La Java De Broadway by Michel Sardou (1977)

By MJD Posted on April 2, 2016 No Comments

During the entire 70s Michel Sardou was absolutely unstoppable. La Maladie D’Amour in 1973 and La Vieille in 1976 were

France best selling albums ever:
Les Lacs Du Connemara by Michel Sardou (1981)

By MJD Posted on March 22, 2016 No Comments

It is almost a symbol that just after completing Jean-Jacques Goldman career, we enter into the Michel Sardou hey-days. France had three main

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