Tout l'or des hommes

"Tout l'or des hommes"
Single by Celine Dion
from the album 1 fille & 4 types
B-side"Tu nages"
Released6 October 2003 (2003-10-06)
Recorded2–11 May 2003
StudioDigital Insight (Las Vegas)
GenrePop
Length2:58
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Jacques Veneruso
Producer(s)Erick Benzi
Celine Dion singles chronology
"One Heart"
(2003) 		"Tout l'or des hommes"
(2003) 		"Have You Ever Been in Love"
(2003)
Music video
"Tout l'or des hommes" on YouTube

"Tout l'or des hommes" (meaning "all the men's gold") is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her twentieth studio album, 1 fille & 4 types (2003). It was written by Jacques Veneruso and produced by Erick Benzi. "Tout l'or des hommes" was released as the album's lead single on 6 October 2003. It topped the charts in Quebec and Poland. In Canada, "Tout l'or des hommes" reached number two, becoming the joint-highest-charting French-language song on the Canadian Singles Chart. Elsewhere, it peaked at numbers three in France, five in Belgium Wallonia and 10 in Switzerland. The single was also certified Gold in France.

Background and release

Dion started working on her next French-language album on 8 October 2002 in Paris where she met with four French songwriters and producers: Jean-Jacques Goldman, Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso and Gildas Arzel. After four days of rehearsals, Dion met with them again in Las Vegas in May 2003, during her break from performing in A New Day.... The songs were recorded between 2–11 May 2003.[1] Goldman, who wrote and produced Dion's best-selling French-language albums of all time, D'eux, guided 1 fille & 4 types as the artistic director.[2] The first single, "Tout l'or des hommes" was sent to radio on 27 August 2003.[3][2][4] It was written by Jacques Veneruso who wrote Dion's and Garou's 2001 number-one hit, "Sous le vent".[2] The music video for the song was serviced to video outlets in September 2003 and the CD single was released on 6 October 2003 in France, Switzerland and Belgium, on 7 October 2003 in Canada and a few weeks later in Germany.[2][5] In 2005, "Tout l'or des hommes" was included on Dion's greatest hits album, On ne change pas.

Critical reception

Rob Theakston of AllMusic highlighted this song.[6] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Dion and her "guys" offer up "reverby twang" in "Tout l'or des hommes".[7]

Commercial performance

In Quebec, "Tout l'or des hommes" topped the chart for eight weeks.[8] It also spent three weeks atop the chart in Poland.[9] "Tout l'or des hommes" reached top ten in the Francophone countries, including number three in France[10] where it was certified Gold for selling 250,000 copies.[11] It also became the highest-charting French-language song on the Canadian Singles Chart (along with Audrey De Montigny's "Même les anges"[12]), peaking at number two in October 2003.[13] Elsewhere, it peaked at numbers five in Belgium Wallonia,[14] 10 in Switzerland[15] and on the European Hot 100 Singles,[16] 16 in Finland,[17] 29 in Flanders,[18] 77 in Germany,[19] 82 in Romania[20] and 100 in the Netherlands.[21] On the airplay charts in Belgium, "Tout l'or des hommes" reached numbers two in Wallonia and 13 in Flanders.[22]

Music video

The music video, directed by Yannick Saillet, was shot in May 2003 in the Mojave Desert and released in September 2003.[2] It was included on the "Tout l'or des hommes" DVD single in 2003 and later on Dion's greatest hits DVD collection, On ne change pas (2005). The making of "Tout l'or des hommes" video was featured on the 1 fille & 4 types limited edition and the On ne change pas DVD as well.

Track listing and formats

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for "Tout l'or des hommes"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[11] Gold 250,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

"Tout l'or des hommes" release history
Region Date Format Label Ref.
France 6 October 2003
Columbia [5]
  • Belgium
  • Switzerland
 CD
Canada 7 October 2003

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