List of number-one singles of 2001 (France)
Top Ten Best Sales -- Albums
Table:
Pos.

Artist

Title

Sales*

1

Garou

Seul

1,490,100

2

Jean-Jacques Goldman

Chansons pour les pieds

1,636,200

3

Dido

No Angel

1,262,800

4

Manu Chao

Próxima Estación: Esperanza

982,000

5

L5

L5

1,234,600

6

Gérald de Palmas

Marcher dans le sable

1,540,800

7

Les Enfoirés

2001, l'Odyssée des Enfoirés

750,500

8

Noir Désir

Des visages des figures

938,000

9

MC Solaar

Cinquième As

791,200

10

Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah

1,691,900

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Pierre Garand ( born 26 June 1972 ) , known by his stage name Garou ( a diminutive of his last name Garand ) , is a Canadian singer and actor from Sherbrooke , Quebec . He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris ( playing Quasimodo in both the original French and English casts ) and the No . 1 hits Belle , Seul , Sous le vent , and La Rivière de notre enfance . He currently holds the SNEP record for most weeks at No . 1 . [ citation needed ]
Seul is the debut album recorded by the Canadian singer Garou . Released in November 2000 , this album was a great success in the francophone countries , reaching the top of the charts in France and Belgium ( Wallonia ) and becoming the best-selling album of 2001 . It contains the hit single Seul which also topped the charts in these countries .
Jean-Jacques Goldman ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ʒɑ̃.ʒak ɡɔldman ] ; born 11 October 1951 ) is a French singer-songwriter and music producer . He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world . Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French pop rock act . Born in Paris and active in the music scene since 1975 , he had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s , and was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones , releasing another string of hits in the 1990s . He also wrote successful albums and songs for many artists , including D'eux for Céline Dion , which is the most successful French language record to date . He was also part of the Les Enfoirés charity collective from 1986 to 2016 , and got his most notable official recognition in the English-speaking world for winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997 , as a co-author of three tracks on Céline Dion 's Falling Into You . Despite a voluntary retirement from the music scene in the early 2000s , he remains highly appreciated and influential in France .
Chansons pour les pieds was a 2001 album by Jean-Jacques Goldman sung in French . The album was recorded at the Théâtre du Cratère d'Alès by Eric Van de Hel and Gildas Lointier , assisted by Renaud Van Welden . All songs were written by the singer himself . Released by JRG , the album met smash success on the charts : it topped the French and Belgian Albums Charts and remained charted for almost two years , and was # 2 in Switzerland . As the title ( Songs for the Feet ) suggests , all the tracks are devoted to dance and represent music styles ( canon chorale , gigue , technoriental , slow , tarentelle , R & B , ballad , disco , rock , slow zouk , fanfare swing , pop ) . There was a sole single from this album : Et l'on y peut rien , which peaked at # 7 in France , 37 in Belgium ( Wallonia ) and # 61 in Switzerland .
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong ( born 25 December 1971 ) , known professionally as Dido ( /ˈdaɪdoʊ/ DY-doh ) , is an English singer and songwriter . Dido attained international success with her debut album No Angel ( 1999 ) . Hit singles from the album include Here with Me and Thank You . It sold over 21 million copies worldwide , and won her several awards , including two Brit Awards : Best British Female and Best British Album , and the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act . The first verse of Thank You is sampled in Stan , a collaboration with Eminem . Her next album , Life for Rent ( 2003 ) , continued her success with the hit singles White Flag and Life for Rent . In 2004 Dido performed with other British and Irish artists in the Band Aid 20 version of the charity single Do They Know It 's Christmas ? . Dido 's first two albums are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history , and both are in the top 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s in the UK . Her third studio album , Safe Trip Home ( 2008 ) , received critical acclaim but failed to duplicate the commercial success of her previous efforts . She was nominated for an Academy Award for the song If I Rise . Dido was ranked No . 98 on the Billboard chart of the top Billboard 200 artists of the 2000s ( 2000-2009 ) based on the success of her albums in the first decade of the 21st century .
Manu Chao ( Spanish pronunciation : [ ˈmanu ˈtʃao ] ; born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao , June 21 , 1961 ) is a French musician of Spanish descent . He sings in French , Spanish , English , Italian , Arabic , Catalan , Galician , Portuguese , Greek and occasionally in other languages . Chao began his musical career in Paris , busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos , which combined a variety of languages and musical styles . With friends and his brother Antoine Chao , he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987 , achieving considerable success , particularly in Europe . He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995 , and since then tours regularly with his live band , Radio Bemba .
Próxima Estación : Esperanza ( English : Next Stop : Hope ) is an album by Manu Chao . It was released in Europe in 2001 . It was released in the United States on 5 June 2001 on Virgin Records . Chao and others sing in Arabic , English , French , Galician , Portuguese and Spanish on this album . The backing track to Homens , a tight rap about various kinds of men , written and performed by Brazilian journalist ( and Chao 's friend ) Valeria dos Santos Costa , is identical to the backing track for Bongo Bong , Chao 's successful single from four years earlier ; however , in the short documentary film Infinita tristeza ( included within the bonus section of his 2002 live DVD Babylonia en Guagua ) , Chao stated that Homens was the song for which the well-known backing track was originally recorded . The final song on the album , Infinita Tristeza , does not contain any vocals by Chao , but it consists of the same backing track as Me Gustas Tú , over which several samples and soundbites are layered ; most of them come from a cartoon-based TV documentary film about pregnancy and childbirth , produced in 1977 by TVE and aimed at children . A number of voice samples from the documentary are looped and repeated throughout the track in Chao 's typical fragmented style . The album title comes from a sample of an announcement for the Esperanza station of Madrid Metro 's Line 4 ; in Spanish esperanza means hope . Another Line 4 station , named Avenida de la Paz [ literally Peace Avenue ] is also mentioned several times on the album , but the two stations are actually several blocks apart , and the sample used by Chao actually consists of two separate announcements pasted together . The voice actor Javier Dotú and a Metro announcer later sued for infringement of intellectual property rights over the use of their voices . Próxima Estación : Esperanza received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance . In 2010 Esperanza was listed at # 65 in Rolling Stone 's Best Albums of the Decade .
L5 was a French girl group playing pop music . The group is known for their participation in the French Popstars TV programme in its first season in 2001 . L5 reached the 50th position in the list of French best-selling singles and 48th position in the list of French number-one hits of 2001 with their song Toutes les femmes de ta vie . They toured in France with Jérémy Chatelain in 2003 and with Billy Crawford in 2006 . Make a Change , on the album Destiny by No Angels , is an English-language remake of L5 's single Reste Encore ( 2003 ) .
Gérald De Palmas ( born Gérald Gardrinier , on 14 October 1967 in Saint-Denis , Réunion ) is a French singer .
Les Enfoirés ( French : [ lez‿ɑ̃fwaʁe ] , for The Tossers or The Bastards ) is the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur . Founded in 1986 , its first concert was held in 1989 .
Noir Désir ( French pronunciation : ​ [ nwaʁ deziʁ ] , Black Desire ) were a French rock band from Bordeaux . They were active during the 1980s , 1990s and early 2000s , and have had two albums certified double platinum in France and three certified gold . They have been an influence on numerous French musicians including Cali , Louise Attaque and Miossec . While active , the band consisted of Bertrand Cantat ( vocals , guitar ) , Serge Teyssot-Gay ( guitar ) , Jean-Paul Roy ( bass guitar ) and Denis Barthe ( drums ) .
Des Visages des Figures is an album by French rock band Noir Désir . It was released in France and other European countries on 11 September 2001 . It turned out to be the band 's last studio effort , as two years later the singer Bertrand Cantat was imprisoned for the murder of Marie Trintignant , and after his release the attempts to reunite the band and produce a new album proved unsuccessful ( only one new track was released in 2008 ) ; Noir Désir was officially disbanded in November 2010 . The group received five Victoires de la Musique award nominations in 2001 , winning both Best Rock Album of the Year for Des Visages des Figures and Music Video of the Year for Le vent nous portera . During that event , Bertrand Cantat read out a speech on behalf of the band , addressed to Jean-Marie Messier , then CEO of Vivendi , the group that had recently acquired Noir Désir 's record company , Universal , and ( according to him ) used the band 's name and reputation to somehow cover up his disfigurement of french culture for the sake of profit , ending with the phrase and if we are embarked on the same planet , we definitely are not from the same world , sparking numerous commentaries in the media . In 2010 the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 60th greatest French rock album ( out of 100 ) . All music was composed by Noir Désir , where not otherwise specified . Lyrics are by Bertrand Cantat , where not otherwise specified . Manu Chao plays the guitar in Le vent nous portera , among numerous musicians participating in the album .
Claude M'Barali , professionally known as MC Solaar ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ɛm si sɔˈlaʁ ] ) ( born 5 March 1969 ) , is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin . He is one of France 's most famous and influential hip hop artists . Some even consider him as the best French rapper of all time . MC Solaar is known for his complex lyrics & amazing flow , which rely on word play , lyricism , and inquiry . In the English-speaking world , Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin ' Loud and recorded with British group Urban Species and the late rapper Guru , who was a member of the critically acclaimed New York-based rap group Gang Starr . Solaar has since released eight studio albums and one live album . The 8th studio album , Géopoétique , produced by Alain Etchart and mixed by sound engineer David Gnozzi , won best album of the year at the Victoires de la Musique awards in 2018 .
Cinquième As is the fifth studio album by MC Solaar , and was released in 2001 . It is slightly different from his previous works because of a stronger emphasis on a string background . The album gained exposure in the United States after La Belle et le Bad Boy was heard on an episode of Sex and the City . Musically , the album features more R & B themes featuring a layering of a female voice on a few tracks , and it is especially notable and true to the MC Solaar character which is strong emotion expressed in the delivery and lyrics . The album pays tribute to Senegal , where he spent his childhood . He uses the album to condemn the role of the World Bank in developing nations . This is most apparent on the track Les Colonies , where the lyrics state , Dans cette ère de négoce où ne vivent que les big boss/ Rentabilité - instabilité - imbécillité/ N'ont fait qu'augmenter les taux de mortalité , meaning , In this era of trade where only the big bosses live/ Profitability - instability - imbecility/ Have done nothing but increase rates of mortality , referring to policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank . MC Solaar also discusses the condition of African immigrants in France . He himself emigrated with his family to the suburbs of Paris as a teenager , and he talks about this experience in the song Leve-toi et rap . MC Solaar 's message is seen throughout the lyrics and the visual design of the album . The album cover is a picture of a group of men , including the artist himself , all shirtless , as if trying to convey an image of slaves about to embark on a slave ship . However , upon taking a closer look , it appears that the men are African wrestlers .
Yannick Noah ( French pronunciation : ​ [ janik noa ] ; born 18 May 1960 ) is a former professional tennis player and singer from France . He won the French Open in 1983 , and is currently the captain of both France 's Davis Cup and Fed Cup team . During his career , which spanned almost two decades , Noah captured a total of 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles , reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No . 3 in July 1986 and attaining the World No . 1 doubles ranking the following month . Since his retirement from the game , Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder , with his mother , of a charity organization for underprivileged children . Noah is also the father of NBA player Joakim Noah .