Abracadabra is a 2006 album recorded by French

France

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 singer Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,...

. It was his tenth studio album and was on April 18, 2006. It achieved huge success in France and Belgium (Wallonia) where it remained charted respectively for 66 and 22 weeks, including a peak at #2. It provided a sole hit single, "Là où je t'emmènerai" (#4 in France, #7 in Belgium, #39 in Switzerland). There is also an edition including a DVD released on November 13, 2006, under Universal Music label.

Track listing

CD

1. "Le Mur" (Daran, Fostinelli, Lebert) — 4:26
2. "Je suis" (Cosso, Daran, Fostinelli, Janois, Rousseau) — 3:52
3. "Là où je t'emmènerai" (Daran, Vga) — 4:05
4. "Comme l'eau se souvient" (Haroche, Manset) — 3:21
5. "Désolé" (Cahen, Daran, Fostinelli, Grillet) — 3:02
6. "Ça change un homme" (Darren, Miossec) — 3:39
7. "Vivons la paix" (Alhister, Daran, Fostinelli, Puccino, Ricour) (duet with Marie-Pascale Giunta) — 4:25
8. "J'ai beau vouloir" (Cosso, Daran) — 4:24
9. "Abracadabra" (Alhister, Cosso, Ricour) — 2:46
10. "Envers et contre moi" (Daran, Fostinelli, Hébrand, Janois, Tarlay) — 5:26
11. "À tout peser à bien choisir" (Guirao, Léopold, Soulier) — 5:49

DVD

Bonuses

Source : Allmusic.

Personnel

• Florent Pagny
  Florent Pagny
  Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Fabien Cahen – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  
• Philippe Entressangle – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Erik Fostinelli – percussion, clavier
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  

Production

• René Ameline – engineer
• David Boucher – mixing
• Alexandra Cubizolles – assistant, production executive
• Jean-Paul Gonnod – engineer
• Bertrand Lamblot – artistic director
• Bob Ludwig – mastering

Releases

Date	Label	Country	Format	Catalog
April 18, 2006	Universal Music	Belgium, France, Switzerland	CD	9839034
November 13, 2006			DVD	98444368

Certifications and sales

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified	Physical sales
Belgium	Gold	June 17, 2006	25,000
France	Platinum	December 20, 2006	300,000	310,600
Switzerland	Gold	2007	10,000

Charts

Chart (2006-2007)	Peak position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	2
French SNEP Albums Chart	2
Swiss Albums Chart	13

End of year chart (2006)	Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	9
French Albums Chart	14