7 vies is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by Australia

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n singer and songwriter

Songwriter

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 Tina Arena

Tina Arena

Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...

, released on 28 January 2008 on Columbia Records

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 in France

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. The title translates into English as "7 Lives" and the first single from the album "Entends-tu le monde?

Entends-tu le monde?

"Entends-tu le monde?" is the first single released from 7 vies, the second French language album by Australian singer Tina Arena. The title roughly translates into English as "Do you hear the world?". The music video for the song was directed by Fabien Dulfils in and around Sydney in December and...

" was released digitally on 15 November 2007 and physically on 11 February 2008.
Track 12 is a duet between Arena and Jean-François Bernardini from Corsica

Corsica

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n folk music

Folk music

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 group I Muvrini

I Muvrini

I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language.-History:The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and Alain Bernardini who were born in the village of Tagliu-Isulacciu in the north of Corsica...

 and track 7, "Ta Vie", is a French language version of "Until" which appeared on her previous English

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 album Songs of Love & Loss

Songs of Love & Loss

Songs of Love & Loss is the sixth studio album, and first cover album, by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena, released on December 1, 2007. The album was Arena's first full length English language record in six years and her first album with EMI since her debut Strong as Steel in 1990...

.

7 vies is Arena's second album to be recorded entirely in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and debuted on the French Album Chart at #12, her highest debut on the chart to date. The album has sold around 25,000 copies in France.

On 14 February 2008, the second single was confirmed to be "L'un pour l'autre".

Track listing

#	Title	Length	Composer(s)	Lyricist(s)	Producer(s)
1	"Entends-tu le monde? Entends-tu le monde? "Entends-tu le monde?" is the first single released from 7 vies, the second French language album by Australian singer Tina Arena. The title roughly translates into English as "Do you hear the world?". The music video for the song was directed by Fabien Dulfils in and around Sydney in December and... "	3:58	Thione Seck Thione Seck Thione Ballago Seck is one of Senegal's greatest singers and musicians in the mbalax genre, on par with Baaba Maal and Youssou N'dour although he hasn't achieved the same level of fame outside his country. Seck comes from a family of "griot" singers from the Wolof people of Senegal...		Un Chat
2	"Tu pourras dire"	4:20	Patrick Fiori Patrick Fiori Patrick Fiori is a French singer.-Biography:Fiori was born to an Armenian father and a Corsican mother in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical La légende des santonniers... , Noam Kaniel, Marie-Jo Zarb		Rémi Lacroix
3	"7 vies"	3:45	Tina Arena, David Gategno	Elodie Hesme	Gategno
4	"Danser la vie"	3:55	Lacroix	Philippe Latger	Lacroix
5	"Ombres chinoises"	4:22	Arena, Lacroix	Arena, Hesme	Lacroix
6	"L’un pour l’autre"	3:23	Gategno	Hesme	Gategno
7	"Ta vie"	4:28	Arena, Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani		Blackwell, Guardiani
8	"S’il m’est donné"	4:35	Arena, Fiori	Vincent Hare	Lacroix
9	"Hollywood boulevard"	4:22	Arena, Gil Gemenez	Hare	Blackwell, Guardiani
10	"Je vois ta lumière"	4:09	Arena, Kevin Malpas		Blackwell, Guardiani
11	"Ailleurs"	3:54	Arena, Paul Begaud, Vanessa Corish		Greg Fitzgerald
12	"Dis-moi"	3:30	Arena, Jean-François Bernardini, Peter-John Vettese Peter-John Vettese Peter-John Vettese , also known as Peter Vettese, is a British keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer....	Arena, Bernardini	Vettese
13	"N'oublie pas"	4:38	Anse Lazio	Moria Nemo	Blackwell, Guardiani

Peak Positions

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	16
European Top 100 Albums	75
French Albums Chart	12
French Digital Albums Chart	6
Swiss Albums Chart	56

End of year charts

Year	Chart	Position
2008	Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	95
	French Albums Chart	177

Sales

Country	Certification	Physical sales
France	—	25,000+

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Catalogue
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	January 28, 2008	Columbia Records	88697222702
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	3 June 2008