Céline sur les Plaines
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Céline sur les Plaines is the ninth home video
by Canadian singer Céline Dion
, released on DVD
in Quebec on November 11, 2008. Titled Live à Quebec, it was also released in France and Belgium on May 20, 2009, in two editions: standard DVD, and collector's edition DVD in digipak
with 10 photographs from the concert.
In October 2009, Céline sur les Plaines received a Félix Award
for a DVD of the Year.
in Quebec City
, Canada
on August 22, 2008. Dion and her personally chosen guests: Garou
, Marc Dupré
, Nanette Workman
, Dan Bigras
, Mes Aïeux
, the Dion family, Zachary Richard
, Éric Lapointe
, Claude Dubois
, Jean-Pierre Ferland
and Ginette Reno
performed over 30 songs. The show aired live on Bell TV and was watched by additional 200,000 people. Later on September 21, 2008 the short version of Céline sur les Plaines was televised on TVA
and became the evening's most-watched broadcast in the province of Quebec. It attracted an average of 1,706,000 viewers.
Filmed in high definition with 5.1 surround sound, this DVD presents three hours of concert footage and is filled with additional thirty minutes of bonus features, including sneak peeks into rehearsals, behind-the-scenes action, and never-before-seen footage.
"Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin" from the concert was often played by Quebec radio stations, starting from November 2008.
After the concert, Zachary Richard recorded "Acadian Driftwood
" as a duet with Dion and included it on his album Last Kiss, released on April 7, 2009.
"L'amour existe encore
" performed by Céline Dion and Éric Lapointe during the Quebec's concert appeared on Lapointe's album Ailleurs Volume 1, released on April 28, 2009. Radio stations in Quebec started playing it in May 2009. The song charted on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart and Quebec Airplay Chart (top 10 on the Francophone Radio BDS).
. With 32,800 copies sold in Quebec in its first week, the DVD had the highest entry sales numbers for all DVDs in Canada for 2008. After just 3 weeks, Céline sur les Plaines has sold 49,059 in Quebec alone. In 2009, it received a Félix Award
for a DVD of the Year.
Live à Quebec also debuted at number 1 in France and spent three weeks at the top and 48 weeks on the chart in total. It has sold 34,250 copies in 2009, becoming the best selling DVD by a female artist in France that year and tenth best selling DVD overall. In the first half of 2010, the DVD has sold additional 3,290 copies, bringing total to 37,540 copies.
In Belgium Wallonia, Live à Quebec entered the chart at number 1 and spent four weeks at the top. In Belgium Flandres it peaked at number 10. After 30 weeks on the chart in Belgium Wallonia, it became the fifth best-selling DVD of the year 2009. In Belgium Flandres, the DVD spent 26 weeks on the chart and became the 43rd best-selling DVD of 2009. After additional 14 weeks on the chart in 2010, it became also the 29th best selling DVD in 2010 in Belgium Wallonia.
Home video
Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into current optical disc formats like DVD and Blu-ray Disc and, to a lesser extent, into methods of digital...
by Canadian singer Céline Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
, released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in Quebec on November 11, 2008. Titled Live à Quebec, it was also released in France and Belgium on May 20, 2009, in two editions: standard DVD, and collector's edition DVD in digipak
Digipak
Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...
with 10 photographs from the concert.
In October 2009, Céline sur les Plaines received a Félix Award
Félix Award
The Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois...
for a DVD of the Year.
History
The DVD contains Dion's historic performance in front of 250,000 spectators to celebrate Quebec's 400th anniversary. The concert was held at the Plains of AbrahamPlains of Abraham
The Plains of Abraham is a historic area within The Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Quebec, that was originally grazing land, but became famous as the site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place on 13 September 1759. Though written into the history books, housing and minor...
in Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
, 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...
on August 22, 2008. Dion and her personally chosen guests: Garou
Garou (singer)
Garou , from the French expression "loup-garou", which means "werewolf" and is a transformation of "Garand", his last name; is a Canadian singer from Sherbrooke, Quebec. He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris and the #1 hits "Belle", "Seul", "Sous le vent", and "La Rivière de...
, Marc Dupré
Marc Dupré
Marc Dupré is a Canadian French musician. He is a singer, songwriter , and guitarist, who has performed with Céline Dion on tour and on other occasions. She appears in the music video for Marc Dupré's single "Tout près du bonheur", which was filmed "in early May 2006 in the Nevada desert"...
, Nanette Workman
Nanette Workman
Nanette Joan Workman is today a singer-songwriter, actress and author who has been based in Quebec, Canada during much of her career. She was raised by musician parents in Jackson, Mississippi where she began her first performances. She mainly performs in French although raised as a native...
, Dan Bigras
Dan Bigras
Dan Bigras is a francophone rock singer and actor from Canada. He was discovered by Gerry Boulet in 1983, and his first album Ange Animal was released in 1990....
, Mes Aïeux
Mes Aïeux
Mes Aïeux is a folk music group from Quebec, Canada founded in 1996.Although they are labeled as leaders of the "neo-traditional" movement in Quebec, they frequently use subjects and characters from traditional French Canadian folklore in order to approach modern themes with a...
, the Dion family, Zachary Richard
Zachary Richard
Zachary Richard is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.-Biography:...
, Éric Lapointe
Éric Lapointe (singer)
Éric Lapointe is one of Québec's most popular francophone lead rock singers. His signature sound is characterized by very strong emotional lyrics, a rich, deep gravelly voice and the virtuoso guitar work by Stéphane Dufour...
, Claude Dubois
Claude Dubois
Claude André Dubois is a Canadian singer-songwriter.Dubois was an early star of the francophone musical Starmania...
, Jean-Pierre Ferland
Jean-Pierre Ferland
Jean-Pierre Ferland, OC, CQ is a Canadian singer and songwriter.-Life and career:Ferland began work with Radio-Canada in 1956 as an accountant, but his career there was short lived. Shortly after, he began taking guitar lessons with Stephen Fentock and began to fall in love with music, writing his...
and Ginette Reno
Ginette Reno
Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
performed over 30 songs. The show aired live on Bell TV and was watched by additional 200,000 people. Later on September 21, 2008 the short version of Céline sur les Plaines was televised on TVA
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...
and became the evening's most-watched broadcast in the province of Quebec. It attracted an average of 1,706,000 viewers.
Filmed in high definition with 5.1 surround sound, this DVD presents three hours of concert footage and is filled with additional thirty minutes of bonus features, including sneak peeks into rehearsals, behind-the-scenes action, and never-before-seen footage.
"Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin" from the concert was often played by Quebec radio stations, starting from November 2008.
After the concert, Zachary Richard recorded "Acadian Driftwood
Acadian Driftwood
"Acadian Driftwood" is a song by The Band. It was the fourth track on the album Northern Lights - Southern Cross."Acadian Driftwood" is a portrayal of the troubled history of Nova Scotia and Acadia, the Great Upheaval...
" as a duet with Dion and included it on his album Last Kiss, released on April 7, 2009.
"L'amour existe encore
L'amour Existe Encore
"L'amour existe encore" is a song from Céline Dion's album Dion chante Plamondon. It was released as the second single in Canada and third commercial single in France ....
" performed by Céline Dion and Éric Lapointe during the Quebec's concert appeared on Lapointe's album Ailleurs Volume 1, released on April 28, 2009. Radio stations in Quebec started playing it in May 2009. The song charted on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart and Quebec Airplay Chart (top 10 on the Francophone Radio BDS).
Chart success
Céline sur les Plaines debuted at the top of the Music DVD Chart in Quebec according to Nielsen SoundScanNielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
. With 32,800 copies sold in Quebec in its first week, the DVD had the highest entry sales numbers for all DVDs in Canada for 2008. After just 3 weeks, Céline sur les Plaines has sold 49,059 in Quebec alone. In 2009, it received a Félix Award
Félix Award
The Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois...
for a DVD of the Year.
Live à Quebec also debuted at number 1 in France and spent three weeks at the top and 48 weeks on the chart in total. It has sold 34,250 copies in 2009, becoming the best selling DVD by a female artist in France that year and tenth best selling DVD overall. In the first half of 2010, the DVD has sold additional 3,290 copies, bringing total to 37,540 copies.
In Belgium Wallonia, Live à Quebec entered the chart at number 1 and spent four weeks at the top. In Belgium Flandres it peaked at number 10. After 30 weeks on the chart in Belgium Wallonia, it became the fifth best-selling DVD of the year 2009. In Belgium Flandres, the DVD spent 26 weeks on the chart and became the 43rd best-selling DVD of 2009. After additional 14 weeks on the chart in 2010, it became also the 29th best selling DVD in 2010 in Belgium Wallonia.
Track listing
- Avant le spectacle
- "Dans un autre mondeDans un autre monde"Dans un autre monde" is a promotional single from Céline Dion's album Au cœur du stade. It was released in France and Belgium on August 30, 1999.Originally the song was featured on the album S'il suffisait d'aimer in 1998....
" (Céline DionCeline DionCéline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
) - "Destin" (Céline Dion)
- "On ne change pasOn ne change pas (song)"On ne change pas" is the third and last commercial single from Céline Dion's album S'il suffisait d'aimer. It was released on March 1, 1999 in Francophone countries....
" (Céline Dion) - "Sous le ventSous le vent"Sous le vent" is a duet between Garou and Céline Dion, released on October 29, 2001. It's the third hit single from Garou's album Seul...
" (Céline Dion and GarouGarou (singer)Garou , from the French expression "loup-garou", which means "werewolf" and is a transformation of "Garand", his last name; is a Canadian singer from Sherbrooke, Quebec. He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris and the #1 hits "Belle", "Seul", "Sous le vent", and "La Rivière de...
) - "SeulSeul (song)"Seul" is the name of a 2000 song recorded by the Canadian singer Garou. It was released on October 2000 as the first single from his debut album, Seul, on which it features as the fourth track. It achieved a smash success in France and Belgium where it topped the charts for three months, and was...
" (Garou) - "Si pour te plaire" (Marc DupréMarc DupréMarc Dupré is a Canadian French musician. He is a singer, songwriter , and guitarist, who has performed with Céline Dion on tour and on other occasions. She appears in the music video for Marc Dupré's single "Tout près du bonheur", which was filmed "in early May 2006 in the Nevada desert"...
) - "Tout près du bonheurTout Pres Du Bonheur"Tout près du bonheur" is a duet between Marc Dupré and Céline Dion, released as a music download on April 11, 2006 in Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth single from Dupré's debut album Refaire le monde, released on October 18, 2005."Tout près du bonheur" was composed in 2000 by Céline Dion for Marc...
" (Céline Dion and Marc Dupré) - "Show" (Nanette WorkmanNanette WorkmanNanette Joan Workman is today a singer-songwriter, actress and author who has been based in Quebec, Canada during much of her career. She was raised by musician parents in Jackson, Mississippi where she began her first performances. She mainly performs in French although raised as a native...
) - "Lady MarmeladeLady Marmalade"Lady Marmalade" was also covered by Italian pop star Sabrina. It was released in 1987 as the album's second single by Baby Records. In some countries, including France and the Netherlands, the song was known as "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? " and was released in 1988.-Track listings:7" maxi#...
" (Céline Dion and Nanette Workman) - "J'irai où tu irasJ'irai Où Tu Iras"J'irai où tu iras" is a duet between Céline Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman from Dion's D'eux album. It was released as a promotional single in Quebec in April 1996.The track was written and produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman....
" (Céline Dion and Nanette Workman) - "Tue-moi" (Céline Dion and Dan BigrasDan BigrasDan Bigras is a francophone rock singer and actor from Canada. He was discovered by Gerry Boulet in 1983, and his first album Ange Animal was released in 1990....
) - "Ô Fortuna" (Dan Bigras)
- "Les trois petits cochons" (Dan Bigras and Mes AïeuxMes AïeuxMes Aïeux is a folk music group from Quebec, Canada founded in 1996.Although they are labeled as leaders of the "neo-traditional" movement in Quebec, they frequently use subjects and characters from traditional French Canadian folklore in order to approach modern themes with a...
) - "Ton père est un croche" (Mes Aïeux)
- "Le déni de l'évidence" (Mes Aïeux)
- Céline en coulisses 1
- "Dégénérations/Le reel du fossé" (Céline Dion and Mes Aïeux)
- Medley de la Famille Dion: "Jos Montferrand/La bastringue/Jack Monoloy/Le reel facile/Dans nos vieilles maisons/Le bal chez Jos Brûlé/À la claire fontaine" (Céline Dion and the Dion family)
- "La ballade de Jean Batailleur" (Zachary RichardZachary RichardZachary Richard is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.-Biography:...
) - "La promesse cassée" (Céline Dion and Zachary Richard)
- "L'arbre est dans ses feuilles" (Céline Dion and Zachary Richard)
- "L'amour existe encoreL'amour Existe Encore"L'amour existe encore" is a song from Céline Dion's album Dion chante Plamondon. It was released as the second single in Canada and third commercial single in France ....
" (Céline Dion and Éric LapointeÉric Lapointe (singer)Éric Lapointe is one of Québec's most popular francophone lead rock singers. His signature sound is characterized by very strong emotional lyrics, a rich, deep gravelly voice and the virtuoso guitar work by Stéphane Dufour...
) - "Toucher" (Éric Lapointe)
- "Mon ange" (Éric Lapointe)
- Céline en coulisses 2
- "La chasse-galerie" (Éric Lapointe, Garou and Claude DuboisClaude DuboisClaude André Dubois is a Canadian singer-songwriter.Dubois was an early star of the francophone musical Starmania...
) - "Si Dieu existe" (Céline Dion and Claude Dubois)
- "Femme de rêve" (Claude Dubois)
- "Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)"Et s'il n'en restait qu'une " is the first hit single from Céline Dion's French album D'elles. It premiered on the radio in France, Quebec, Switzerland and Belgium on February 14, 2007 and was released as a music download on the same day...
" (Céline Dion) - "S'il suffisait d'aimerS'il suffisait d'aimer (song)"S'il suffisait d'aimer" is the second single from Céline Dion's album S'il suffisait d'aimer. It was released on November 23, 1998 in Francophone countries and became the most successful single from this album....
" (Céline Dion) - "Pour que tu m'aimes encorePour Que Tu M'aimes Encore"Pour que tu m'aimes encore" is the first hit single from album D'eux by Céline Dion. It was released on March 13, 1995 in Francophone countries and in September 1995 in other European countries. In Canada it was a radio only release. The song was also released in Japan in October 1996...
" (Céline Dion) - "Une chance qu'on s'a" (Céline Dion and Jean-Pierre FerlandJean-Pierre FerlandJean-Pierre Ferland, OC, CQ is a Canadian singer and songwriter.-Life and career:Ferland began work with Radio-Canada in 1956 as an accountant, but his career there was short lived. Shortly after, he began taking guitar lessons with Stephen Fentock and began to fall in love with music, writing his...
) - "Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin" (Céline Dion, Jean-Pierre Ferland and Ginette RenoGinette RenoGinette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
) - Après le spectacle
Chart performance
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Flandres Music DVD Chart | 1 |
| Belgian Wallonia Music DVD Chart | 1 |
| French Music DVD Chart | 1 |
| Quebec Music DVD Chart | 1 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quebec | November 11, 2008 | Les Productions Feeling Inc. | DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... |
64027233193 |
| Belgium, France | May 20, 2009 | TF1 TF1 TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network... |
3384442217859 | |
| DVD (digipak with photographs) | 3384442217866 |