La Musique (Angelica)

Infobox Single
Name = La Musique (Angelica)


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Artist = Star Academy France
Album = L'Album
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B-side = Remix
Released = December 2001
Format = CD single
Recorded = France, 2001
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:24
Label = Island, Universal Music
Writer = FB Cool, Anne Gregory Barry Mann, SDO, Cynthia Weil
Producer = FB Cool, SDO
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This single = "La Musique (Angelica)" (2001)
Next single = "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (2002)
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"La Musique (Angelica)" is a 2001 song recorded by the contestants of the first edition of French TV reality show Star Academy. The song was released as a single in December 2001 from the album "L'Album" and also recorded in a live version on the album "Live". Cover of a 1960s song, this version achieved a huge success in France in terms of chart positions and sales.

ong information

In the 1960s, the Sandpipers band had a hit with "Angelica", originally recorded in English-language. In 1967, French singer Nicoletta made her own modified version of the song, under the title "La Musique", but this cover passed unnoticed at the time. Thirty-four years later, this version was covered by Star Academy France which decided to consider this cover as the show's anthem and the lead single from its debut album. Fourteen constestants participeted in the recording of the new version which particularly puts foreward the singing. [Elia Habib, "Muz hit. tubes", p. 546 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)]

Surprisingly, the song became a smash success in France : it went straight to number-one on December 8, 2001, and stayed there for nine weeks. Then it dropped regularly, totalling 12 weeks in the top ten, 19 weeks in the top 50 and 24 weeks in the top 100. Certified Diamond disc by the SNEP only two weeks after its release, it is at present ranked 16th on the best-selling singles of all time chart of France. [Best-selling singles of all time in France [http://www.infodisc.fr/S_ToutTemps.php Infodisc.fr] (Retrieved September 30, 2008)]

Track listings

; CD single
# "La Musique (Angelica)" (mix radio) — 3:24
# "La Musique (Angelica)" (mix mega) — 3:40
# "La Musique (Angelica)" (instrumental mix radio) — 3:24

Credits

; Mix radio
* Mixed, produced and arranged by SDO and FB Cool for Herbert Music
* Recorded at Studio Heben and at the castle by Yves Jaget; Mix Mega
* Produced and arranged by SDO and FB Cool for Herbert Music
* Recorded at Studio Heben and at the castle by Yves Jaget
* Guitars : Fabrice Ragot
* Brass : Christian Martinez, Thierry Farrugia and Denis Leloup

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