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French popular music; List of artists who reached number one on the French Singles Chart This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 23:32 (UTC). Text is ...
This category contains lists of French number-one songs organized by year. Pages in category "Lists of number-one songs in France" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total.
The Chanson de l'Oignon (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də lɔɲɔ̃]; "Song of the Onion") is a French marching song from around 1800 but the melody can be found earlier in Ettiene Nicolas Mehul’s overture to La chasse de Juene Henri in 1797. According to legend, it originated among the Old Guard Grenadiers of Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
Artist Single Year Sales John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John "You're the One That I Want" 1978 1,800,000 [6]: Kaoma "Lambada" 1989 1,800,000 [7]: Laurent Voulzy "Rockollection" 1977 ...
French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by the Notre Dame School, an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period.
The song was inspired by Napoleon I's campaign in Egypt and Syria. It represents a chivalric composition of the aspirations of a crusader knight in a style typical of the First French Empire. Hortense (Napoleon I's stepdaughter and the mother of Napoleon III) indicated in her Memoires that she wrote the music when she lived at Malmaison. During ...
Song Voice, piano 1887 45 Berlioz, Hector Harold en Italie, Op. 16 Symphony Orchestra 1834 44 Berlioz, Hector Les nuits d'été [u] Song cycle Orchestra, soprano 1846 43 Saint-Saëns, Camille Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 Concerto Piano 1896 42 Franck, César Symphony in D minor, M. 48 Symphony Orchestra 1888 41 Saint-Saëns, Camille
Canzone napoletana (Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna]; Neapolitan: canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə]), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the ...