Une Enfant Du Siècle
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Une enfant du siècle is French pop singer Alizée
's fourth studio album, the first one released under the Jive Records
/Epic
label. The full album leaked onto the Internet on 19 March 2010. The album was released in France on 29 March 2010. On that day Alizée signed autographs at the Virgin Megastore in Paris
. The album is inspired by and depicts the life of Edie Sedgwick
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Alizée
Alizée Jacotey is a French singer, known professionally by her given name Alizée She was discovered by Mylène Farmer, following her winning performance in the talent show, Graines de Star, in 1999...
's fourth studio album, the first one released under the Jive Records
Jive Records
Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
/Epic
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
label. The full album leaked onto the Internet on 19 March 2010. The album was released in France on 29 March 2010. On that day Alizée signed autographs at the Virgin Megastore in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. The album is inspired by and depicts the life of Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick was an American actress, socialite, model and heiress. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the 1960s...
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Track list
- "Eden, Eden" – 4:22
- "Grand Central" – 3:24
- "Limelight" – 5:09
- "La candida" – 2:14
- "Les Collines (Never Leave You)" – 3:43
- "14 décembre" – 3:18
- "À cœur fendre" – 3:07
- "Factory Girl" – 4:11
- "Une fille difficile" – 3:41
- "Mes fantômes" – 3:16
Singles
- "Les Collines (Never Leave You)": The song was released 19 March 2010 as the album's lead single. The music video directed by Hawaii Fantôme, which shows a more mature Alizée, was released on 19 March 2010 on Alizée's YouTube account. The song has reached the top 3 in iTunesITunesiTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
Italy and the top 75 in iTunes France. The music video for the song topped the Top 10 music videos chart in MTV Latin AmericaMTV Latin AmericaMTV Latin America is a cable television specialty service aimed at residents in Hispanic American countries. It was launched on October 1, 1993 as MTV en Español. The channel is a Hispanic American version from MTV...
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Chart performance
Une enfant du siècle entered the French Albums Chart at #24 on April 3, 2010, making this her worst performing studio album to date. In its second week, it dropped to #69, spending only 2 weeks in the top 100 and 6 weeks in the top 200, it also peaked at #13 on the digital chart but only spent 1 week in the top 50. In Mexico, the album started at #2 and spent 5 weeks in the top 100. The album has sold just around twenty-thousand copies worldwide.Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart | 60 |
French Albums Chart | 24 |
French Digital Albums Chart | 13 |
Mexican Albums Chart | 2 |
- Chart run on the French Albums chart: 24-69-107-127-149-169
Release history
Region | Date | Label Record label In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,... |
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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... |
29 March 2010 | Jive Epic | CD |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
29 March 2010 | Wisteria | Digital download |