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"La Musique (Angelica)"
Single by Star Academy France
from the album L'Album
B-side	"Remix"
Released	December 2001
Recorded	France, 2001
Genre	Pop
Length	3:24
Label	Island, Universal Music
Songwriter(s)	FB Cool, Ann Grégory (real name : Arlette Kotchounian) Barry Mann, SDO, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)	FB Cool, SDO
Star Academy France singles chronology
"La Musique (Angelica)" (2001) "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (2002)

"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.

Song information

The song "Angelica" was written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, in English, and first recorded by Gene Pitney in 1966 (titled Angelique) but it wasn't released at the time. The first released version was by Mann in 1966. Versions were then recorded by various other artists, including The Sandpipers, Scott Walker, Roy Hamilton, (his last recording, after Elvis Presley, who was scheduled in late January 1969 to record it, turned it over to him), and, in 1970, the American singer Oliver, whose version scraped into the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

Earlier, 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 contestants participated in the recording of the new version which particularly puts foreword the singing.

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, the song became the fifth best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 1,140,000 units sold.

Track listing

CD single

1. "La Musique (Angelica)" (mix radio) — 3:24
2. "La Musique (Angelica)" (mix mega) — 3:40
3. "La Musique (Angelica)" (instrumental mix radio) — 3:24

Credits and personnel

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

Charts and sales

Certifications

References

1. "Amgelica", SecondhandSongs. Retrieved 1 September 2014
2. Elia Habib, Muz hit. tubes, p. 546 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)
3. "Top 100 des singles les plus vendus du millénaire en France, le top 10 final!". Chartsinfrance, PureCharts. 13 September 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
4. ^ "La Musique (Angelica)", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved September 30, 2008)
5. Les classements annuels 2001 snepmusique.com Archived 2012-09-15 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved July 7, 2013)
6. 2001 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved September 30, 2008)
7. 2002 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved September 30, 2008)
8. "Year in Review – Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 2002" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 21, no. 2–3. 11 January 2003. p. 14. Retrieved 2 September 2024 – via worldradiohistory.com.
9. Les classements annuels 2002 snepmusique.com Archived 2012-09-15 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved July 7, 2013)
10. 2002 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved September 30, 2008)
11. Belgian certifications Ultratop.be (Retrieved September 30, 2008)

• 2001 singles
• Ultratop 50 Singles (Wallonia) number-one singles
• SNEP Top Singles number-one singles
• Star Academy France songs
• Songs written by Barry Mann
• 1966 songs
• Songs with lyrics by Cynthia Weil