Gourmandises

Gourmandises
Studio album by Alizée
Publication (s)	November 28, 2000 March 13, 2001
Label (s)	Polydor , Universal Music
Format (s)	CD , music cassette
Genre (s)	Pop music , French pop
Title (number)	10
running time	44:45
production	Mylène Farmer Laurent Boutonnat
chronology - Gourmandises Mes Courants Électriques (2003)
Single releases 4th July 2000 Moi ... Lolita November 28, 2000 L'Alizé April 24, 2001 Parler tout bas August 13, 2001 Gourmandises

Gourmandises ( dt. "Delicacies") is the debut studio album of French pop - singer Alizée . It was released in France on November 28, 2000. For over 1 million copies sold in Europe, the album was awarded the IFPI Platinum Europe Award by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry .

background

After Alizée's appearance on the French talent show Graines de Star of the television channel M6 , where she met the music producer Laurent Boutonnat and the singer Mylène Farmer , she was invited by both to make test recordings. At that time, Farmer was looking for a young singer for the song Moi ... Lolita, which she had written . Alizée convinced during these test recordings, so Farmer decided to release this song as a single with Alizée as the singer. The recordings for this took place in mid-2000. When the success of Moi… Lolita was in sight, a full studio album with Alizée was recorded in mid-2000 and released in France on November 28, 2000.

Genre Technically, the songs are Gourmandises the French Pop classify, but also influences include electronic music .

Reviews

Gourmandises was received positively by the critics. For Michael Frömmer from Laut.de "Gourmandises convinces with a very varied mixture of beautifully arranged rock and pop sounds". In conclusion, he describes the album as “a nicely arranged pop album that is enhanced by the pleasant voice of 17-year-old Alizée and breathes a little bit of France through the loudspeakers”.

Track list

No.	title	length
1.	Moi ... Lolita	4:27
2.	Lui Ou Toi	4:19
3.	L'Alizé	4:18
4th	JBG	4:01
5.	Mon maquis	5:44
6th	Parler tout bas	4:43
7th	Veni vedi vici	4:22
8th.	Abracadabra	4:08
9.	Gourmandises	4:16
10.	À quoi rêve une jeune fille	4:09

Single releases

A total of four singles were released from the album Gourmandises .

Moi ... Lolita

Moi ... Lolita ( Eng .: "I ... Lolita") was Alizée's debut single and at the same time her commercial breakthrough. At the time of the single's release, Alizée was 15 years old. In terms of content, the song describes a seductive Lolita , based on the novel ofthe same name by Vladimir Nabokov . While the song was released in France in 2000, it wasn't released in the rest of Europe until a year later. Moi ... Lolita entered the French singles chart at number 9 and was in the top 10 for 31 weeks. With second place, the song only just missed the top position. In the German single charts , the song reached number 5 as the highest position and stayed in the top 10 for a total of nine weeks. Moi… Lolita hit the chartsin many other European countries,and number one in Italy and Spain .

Chart placements Charts (2000-02) Best placement Weeks  Germany 5 26th  Austria 5 20th  Switzerland 11 73  United Kingdom 9 13  France 2 44

Awards for music sales country Awards Sales  France gold 1,280,400  Switzerland platinum 50,000 All in all 1 × gold 1 × platinum 1,330,400

L'Alizé

L'Alizé ( Eng .: " The trade wind ") was released as the second single on the album and reached number 1 in the French single charts at the end of 2000 . In the rest of Europe, however, the single was not quite as successful as Moi… Lolita and only reached the top 10 in the Belgian charts (Wallonia).

Chart placements Charts (2000-02) Best placement Weeks  Germany 43 9  Austria 52 5  Switzerland 23 18th  France 1 26th

Awards for music sales country Awards Sales  France platinum 515,400 All in all 1 × platinum 515,400

Parler tout bas

Parler tout bas ( dt : "quietly speak") was the third single from Gourmandises and was released in April 2001 in France. It was not published outside France and Belgium.

Chart placements Charts (2000-02) Best placement Weeks  France 12 23

Awards for music sales country Awards Sales  France gold 250,000 All in all 1 × gold 250,000

Gourmandises

The single Gourmandises ( Eng .: "Delicacies") was released in France, Belgium and Switzerland as the fourth and last song from the album of the same name. Commercially, Alizée was able to keep up with previous releases with this song, at least in France, the song reached the top 20 of the French single charts and was also awarded a gold record in France .

Chart placements Charts (2001-02) Best placement Weeks  Switzerland 70 5  France 14th 29

Awards for music sales country Awards Sales  France gold 250,000 All in all 1 × gold 250,000

Commercial win

Gourmandises was particularly commercially successful in France. After the album entered the French album charts at number 10 on December 2, 2000, it was able to rise week after week until it reached number one on these charts in the tenth week of the chart. This position could be held for a week, the album spent a total of 84 weeks in the French charts. In total, Gourmandises were sold 889,700 times in France. In Germany and Switzerland the album reached the top 30, in Austria it reached the top place 40. In the Belgian album charts (Wallonia) Gourmandises also reached a top 10 position.

Gourmandises has received the IFPI Platinum Europe Award from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . This award is given for sales of over 1 million copies in Europe. Other sources assume a total sales figure of over 4 million. RFI Musique assumes that Mylène Farmer earned a total of 10.4 million euros as producer, songwriter and composer on this album and its singles.

Chart placements

Charts (2000-02)	Best placement	Weeks
Germany	29	21st
Austria	40	9
Switzerland	27	50
France	1	84

Awards for music sales

country	Awards	Sales
Belgium	gold	25,000
France		889,700
Switzerland	platinum	50,000
All in all	1 × gold 1 × platinum	964,700 (according to awards) + 4,000,000 (according to source)

Contributors

The details of the credits are taken from the cover text by Gourmandises .

Alizée : vocals , backing vocals (all songs) Laurent Boutonnat: keyboard , programming Bernard Paganotti: Bass Slim Pezin: guitar Matthieu Rabaté: drums Ann Calvert: Refrain ( JBG and Veni vedi vici ) Emeline Chetaud: musical assistance Jérôme Devoise & Didier Lozahic: sound engineers

Stéphane Briand & Denis Caribaux: sound engineer assistants Bertrand Châtenet: Mixing ( Moi… Lolita ) Didier Lozahic: Mixing ( Lui ou toi to À quoi rêve une jeune fille ) Mastering : Bruno Gruel, André Perriat Executive Producer : Paul Van Parys Laurent Boutonnat: photography Henry Neu: Artwork

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ ^{a b} IFPI Platinum Europe Awards - 2002. IFPI , archived from the original on March 20, 2007 ; Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ The Lolita who doesn't want to be. In: Der Spiegel . August 20, 2001. Retrieved February 26, 2016 . 
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28. ↑ Alizée - Gourmandises (Album) Chart placement Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
29. ↑ Alizée - Gourmandises (album) Chart placement Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
30. ↑ album Certifié GOLD (25,000 exemplaires vendus) de Belgique. Retrieved March 1, 2016 (French).