Le Mot de passe
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Le Mot de passe is the name of an album recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas
. It was her fifth successful studio album and was released in 1999. It was well charted in many countries, including France
and Belgium
.
and Dans ma chair
, it was composed and produced by many famous artists in France. For example, it was produced by the French singer and songwriter Pascal Obispo
, on which Kaas was accompanied by an orchestra on several tracks. Jean-Jacques Goldman
again contributed to the making of the studio album, among others writing two songs : "Une Fille de l'Est" (Eng: "A Girl from the East") in which Kaas praised her East French heritage and "Quand les chansons commencent" (Goldman had already worked with Kaas for her two previous studio albums). The French singer Zazie
wrote the track "Je compte jusqu'a toi" (she had also participated in the writing of "Je compte jusqu'à toi", on Dans ma chair
). Lionel Florence, who had composed many songs for many artists such as Nolwenn Leroy
, was involved in the writing of three tracks. Yvan Cassar, Abraham Laboriel Jr. and Jean-Philippe Audin, who participated in Mylène Farmer
's albums and concerts tours, were parts of musicians.
The song "Les Éternelles" (Eng: "The Eternals") was also published in Germany as a duet with the Swiss
tenor
Erkan Aki under the title of "Unter der Haut" (Eng: "Under the skin"), and was the theme music of the five-part ZDF
serial Sturmzeit (Eng: Stormy Times), based on a book by Charlotte Link.
In France, the two singles from this album didn't meet a great success. The first one, "Ma Liberté contre la tienne", peaked only at #34, while the second one, "Une Femme comme une autre", failed to reached the top 50 (#78). Two other songs from Le Mot de passe were released as singles in 2000 ("Mon Chercheur d'or" and "Les Chansons commencent"), but in their live versions available on Kaas' 2000 album Live. They weren't successful too.
status and was the 26th best-selling album of 1999.
In Belgium (Wallonia), the album had a great success : it debuted at #14 on May 29, then jumped to #7, finally hit #2 and remained at this position for three consecutive weeks. It dropped slowly and featured in the top ten for nine weeks, 18 weeks in the top 20 and 26 weeks in the top 40.
The album was charted for 15 weeks in Switzerland
(top 50), eight of them in the top 30, with a peak at #14 in its second week, on June 6, 1999. The album was certified Gold disc the same year.
Le Mot de passe met a moderate success in Germany
, where it peaked at #27, and Finland
, where it hit #26 and stayed on the chart for four weeks.
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...
. It was her fifth successful studio album and was released in 1999. It was well charted in many countries, including 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...
and 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...
.
Background and writing
This album was released on May 14, 1999. As for Je te dis vousJe te dis vous
Je te dis vous is the name of an album recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas. It was released in 1993 and achieved a huge success in many countries.-Background and writing:...
and Dans ma chair
Dans ma chair
Dans ma chair is the name of an album recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas. It was released in 1997 and achieved success in many countries.-Background and writing:...
, it was composed and produced by many famous artists in France. For example, it was produced by the French singer and songwriter Pascal Obispo
Pascal Obispo
Pascal Michel Obispo is a French singer/songwriter.Pascal Obispo started singing in 1980. He got his first record deal in 1990, Le long du fleuve. With his second album, Plus que tout au monde, selling over 2 million albums, his songs became a popular success...
, on which Kaas was accompanied by an orchestra on several tracks. Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...
again contributed to the making of the studio album, among others writing two songs : "Une Fille de l'Est" (Eng: "A Girl from the East") in which Kaas praised her East French heritage and "Quand les chansons commencent" (Goldman had already worked with Kaas for her two previous studio albums). The French singer Zazie
Zazie
Zazie is a French singer and songwriter. Zazie co-produces all her albums.-Early life:...
wrote the track "Je compte jusqu'a toi" (she had also participated in the writing of "Je compte jusqu'à toi", on Dans ma chair
Dans ma chair
Dans ma chair is the name of an album recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas. It was released in 1997 and achieved success in many countries.-Background and writing:...
). Lionel Florence, who had composed many songs for many artists such as Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Leroy, , is a French singer and songwriter, discovered by the French television reality show Star Academy. She is best known for her two Number One singles "Cassé" and "Nolwenn Ohwo!"....
, was involved in the writing of three tracks. Yvan Cassar, Abraham Laboriel Jr. and Jean-Philippe Audin, who participated in Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
's albums and concerts tours, were parts of musicians.
The song "Les Éternelles" (Eng: "The Eternals") was also published in Germany as a duet with the Swiss
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....
tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Erkan Aki under the title of "Unter der Haut" (Eng: "Under the skin"), and was the theme music of the five-part ZDF
ZDF
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
serial Sturmzeit (Eng: Stormy Times), based on a book by Charlotte Link.
In France, the two singles from this album didn't meet a great success. The first one, "Ma Liberté contre la tienne", peaked only at #34, while the second one, "Une Femme comme une autre", failed to reached the top 50 (#78). Two other songs from Le Mot de passe were released as singles in 2000 ("Mon Chercheur d'or" and "Les Chansons commencent"), but in their live versions available on Kaas' 2000 album Live. They weren't successful too.
Chart performances
Even if this album was successful, it didn't hit the same sales and chartings as Kaas' two previous studio albums. In France, it reached #2 on May 22, 1999, and stayed there for three consecutive weeks. After that, it almost kept on dropping, falling off the top ten after just six weeks. However, it managed to stabilize in the lower positions and totaled 27 weeks in the top 50 and 36 weeks in the top 100. It achieved PlatinumMusic recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
status and was the 26th best-selling album of 1999.
In Belgium (Wallonia), the album had a great success : it debuted at #14 on May 29, then jumped to #7, finally hit #2 and remained at this position for three consecutive weeks. It dropped slowly and featured in the top ten for nine weeks, 18 weeks in the top 20 and 26 weeks in the top 40.
The album was charted for 15 weeks in 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....
(top 50), eight of them in the top 30, with a peak at #14 in its second week, on June 6, 1999. The album was certified Gold disc the same year.
Le Mot de passe met a moderate success in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, where it peaked at #27, and Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, where it hit #26 and stayed on the chart for four weeks.
Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ma Liberté contre la tienne" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo) |
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| 2. | "Une Fille de l'Est" (J.J.Goldman) |
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| 3. | "Si tu rêves" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo) |
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| 4. | "J'attends de nous" (Zazie / P.Obispo) |
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| 5. | "Le Mot de passe" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo) |
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| 6. | "Les Éternelles" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo) |
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| 7. | "La Clé" (L.Florence / P.Obispo) |
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| 8. | "Mon Chercheur d'or" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo) |
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| 9. | "Quand je t'oublie" (D.Golemanas / P.Obispo - P.Jaconelli) |
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| 10. | "Une Femme comme une autre" (L.Florence / P.Obispo) |
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| 11. | "Les Chansons commencent" (J.J.Goldman) |
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| 12. | "Et je m'en veux" (L.Florence / P.Obispo) |
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Musicians
- Strings arrangements : Yvan Cassar, except Yvan Cassar, Pascal Obispo (5-7)
- Keyboards, synths : Christophe Voisin, except Pascal Obispo (8)
- Organs : Jean Mora
- Piano : Yvan Cassar, except Pascal Obispo (8-9)
- Bass : Reggie Hamilton, except Laurent Vernerey (3-8-11)
- Acoustic guitars : Hugh Burns, Pascal Obispo, except Hugh Burns (1-9), Jean-Jacques Goldman (2)
- Guitar : Pierre Jaconelli
- Percussion : Denis Benarrosh
- Drum kit : Abraham Laboriel Jr., except Christophe Deschamps (3-8-11)
- Background vocals : Pascal Obispo, except Sweetness (9), Pascal Obispo, Patricia (3), Chorale Improvisation, Pascal Obispo, Jean-Jacques Goldman (11)
- Strings directed by Yvan Cassar
- First violin : Christophe Guiot
- Violins : Véronique Marcel, Marie-Paule Vieille, Thibault Vieux, Laurent Philipp, Élisabeth Pallas, Michèle Deschamps, Patrice Mondon, Alain Kouznetzoff, Yves Melon, Marie-Hélène Beridot, Jeanne Lancien, Christophe Bruckert, Arnaud Nuvolone, Alain Persiaux, Éric Lacrouts, Véronique Guay, Mathilde Pasquier, Thierry Huchin, François Harmelle, David Gabel, Alexandre Pelovsky, Fanny Rome, Gilles Donge, Pierre Rogue, Marie-Hélène Clausse, Lionel Turchi, Céline Plane, Cyril Ghestem, Marianne Lagarde, Lyonel Schmit, Béatrice Lormand
- Altos : François Gneri, Jonathan Naze, Diederik Suys, Jean-Charles Monciero, Olivier Grimoin, Petia Bruckert, Fabrice Leroux, Étienne Julien Tavitian, Alexis Rojanski, Vincent Aucante, Antoine Di Pietro, Christian Lormand, Agnès Toussaint, Cyrille Mercier
- Cellos : Jean-Philippe Audin, Philippe Nadal, Philippe Cherond, Cyrille Lacrouts, Michel Lacrouts, Mathieu Rogue, Philippe Feret, Nathalie Gaudemer, Frédéric Lagarde, Béatrice Toussaint
- Double basses : Philippe Noharet, Jean-Pascal Beintus, Stéphane Logerot, Axel Salles, Ludovic Dutriez, Michel Peyratou, Sandrine Vautrin, Catherine Robin, Sylvain Le Provost, Rémy Bouchy
- Flute : Frédéric Chatoux
- Oboe : François-Xavier Bourin
- Clarinets : Philippe Berraud, Jérôme Verharghe
- Bassoon : Jean-François Duquesnoy
- Horns : Jean-Michel Tavernier, Hervé Joulain, Jacques Peillon
Recording and production
- Produced by Pascal Obispo
- Engineer, mixing : Thierry Rogen
- Assistants : Nicolas Duport, Étienne Colin, Frédéric Perrinet, Xavier Poisonnière
- Chargé of production : Marion Morel Derocle
- Artistic coordination : Michel Boulanger
- Recorded and mixed at Studio Méga (Suresnes, France)
- Mastering : Tony Cousin at Metropolis (London)
- Photos : Christine Fuhrmann, Ken Browar, Roland Allard
- Make up : Charlotte Willer
- Hairdresser : Romain Sorin, Barnabé, Stéphane Pous
- Design : FKGB
- Management : Talent Sorcier (Cyril Prieur, Richard Walter), Paris, France
- Editions: Sony / ATV Music Publishing
- Programming : Ivan Inverd, except Pascal Obispo, Christophe Voisin (3)
Certifications and sales
| Country | Certification | Date | Sales certified | Physical sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Gold | 25,000 | ||
| France | Platinum | 1999 | 300,000 | 295,000 |
| Switzerland | Gold | 1999 | 25,000 | |
Charts
| Chart (1999-2000) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart | 2 |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 26 |
| French Albums Chart | 2 |
| German Albums Chart | 27 |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 14 |
| End of year chart (1999) | Position |
|---|---|
| Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart | 23 |
| French Albums Chart | 26 |