Discography
Her debut album, Cendres de lune, was first released in
April 1986. It was re-issued in 1987, and has sold
approximately 700,000 copies. It peaked at No.10 in
France, and contained the singles Libertine, and Tristana.
In April 1988, her second album, Ainsi soit je..., was even
more successful. It reached the top of the French album
chart and contained Farmer's first No.1 single, Pourvu
qu'elles soient douces, as well as three more Top 20 hits
on the SNEP chart. The album has sold approximately 1.8
million units to date. This was followed by Farmer's first
live album and video, En Concert, released in 1989 and
became a Top 10 hit.
Third studio album, L'Autre..., released on 9 April 1991,
led by Farmer's best-selling single Désenchantée, which
topped the French singles chart for nine weeks and also
charted in various countries outside France. The album
had three other Top 10 hits, Regrets, Je t'aime mélancolie
and Beyond My Control. With twenty weeks atop of the
French chart and approximately 2 million copies sold,
L'Autre... is Farmer's most successful album and is the
second biggest selling album in France by a female artist.
Fourth studio album, Anamorphosée, was released on 17
October 1995, and included the number-one hit XXL and
the top ten singles L'Instant X, California and Rêver. The
album was also a No.1 and has sold approximately 1.3
million copies. To promote the album, Farmer embarked
on a tour in 1996, which was recorded and released as
the live album and video/DVD Live à Bercy - which also
reached No.1 and achieved the feat of becoming the
best-selling live album of all time in France.
Farmer's fifth studio album, Innamoramento, was
released on 7 April 1999. Although it narrowly missed
reaching the top spot it has sold over 1.3 million copies
and achieved diamond status, as had Farmer's previous
three studio albums, making her the singer with the most
number of diamond albums in France. The album
provided five top ten hits, including L'Âme-stram-gram,
Souviens-toi du jour and the title track - all of which made
the Top 5. Her next live album, Mylenium Tour, was
released in 2000 and was also a success, topping the
chart and has sold 650,000 copies.
26 November 2001, Farmer released her first greatest
hits compilation album entitled Les Mots. It became the
best selling compilation album of all time in France with
approximately 1.5 million copies sold. The album also
contained some new material including the songs Les
Mots and C'est une belle journee, both of which became
Top Five hits.
Farmer's Sixth and Seventh studio albums, Avant Que
L'ombre... and Point de suture were released respectively
on 4 April 2005 and on 25 August 2008. They both won
the NRJ Music Awards in the category Francophone
album of the year and each has sold in excess of half a
million copies. Point de suture gave Farmer five number-
one singles. In addition, the two DVD of Farmer's 2006
and 2009 tours, Avant Que L'ombre... A Bercy and N°5 on
Tour, had huge sales in their first weeks of release, the
first one is the best-selling musical DVD of all time in
France, with over 500,000 sales.
Eighth studio album, Bleu Noir, was released in 2010, and
in its first week of release achieved a record number of
downloads on the French digital chart. The lead single of
the album, Oui mais... non, topping the French singles
chart for three weeks. The next two singles, Bleu Noir
and Lonely Lisa, also reached number one.
November 2012, Farmer released her ninth studio album
Monkey Me, which started at number one on the French
chart, selling over 147,000 units. The album was certified
diamond by the SNEP and spawned three singles: A
l'ombre, which reached number one, Je te dis tout and
Monkey Me, which both ended at number three.
November 2015, Farmer's tenth album Interstellaires was
released, with Stolen Car, a duet with Sting, as lead
single. Both debuted at number one on the French
charts, the album performing which was then the highest
weekly sales of 2015 in France, with 109,971 sales.
January 2018, first single Rolling Stone of Mylène
Farmer's eleventh studio album Désobéissance was
available for streaming and download. Five months after
Rolling Stone, second single N'oublie Pas duet with LP
has been released on June 22 in digital. Finally the album
Désobéissance was released on September 28th where
the 12 titles were composed by Feder, LP with Mike Del
Rio and Leon Deutschmann. As of 2021, Farmer holds the
record for 20 number one singles and 14 number one
albums in France.
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