Dégénération - Single Version
Appelle Mon Numéro
Je M'Ennuie
Paradis Inanimé
Looking For My Name
Point De Suture
Réveiller Le Monde
Sextonik
C'Est Dans L'Air
Si J'Avais Au Moins...
Frogtoon Music Album Info: Point De Suture
Published: 01 Jan 2017, 20:30
Point De Suture Is The Seventh Studio Album By French Singer-Songwriter Mylène Farmer And Her 14th Album Overall. Preceded By The Lead Single "Dégénération" It Was Released Digitally On August 20 2008 Then On CD Five Days Later. This Album Which Contains Especially Songs With Electro Sonorities Marked An Important Musical Change In The Singer's Career. Variously Received In The Media Which Mainly Criticized It For A Lack Of Innovation The Album Had Success On The French Swiss Belgian Russian And Greek Charts. For The Name Of This Album Farmer Drew Her Inspiration From Al Pacino's Sentence In The 1993 Film Carlito's Way That Which Appears Inside The Digipack "All The Stitches Of The World Cannot Sew Us Again". The Photos Illustrating This Album Were Made By A Japanese Photographer. The Cover As Well As The Booklet Show A Doll Covered With Scars With Surgical Instruments In The Foreground. Inside There Is Only A Sole Photo Of Farmer Turned Back. This Album Was Announced As Being Very Different From The Previous Ones In Musical And Promotional Terms. About This Album Farmer Explained During An Interview "If I Compare It With Avant Que L'ombre... It Will Probably Be More Electronic... With Many "up Tempo" Songs". In This Album There Is A Little Bit Of All The Universes That Characterize Mylène's Albums Melancholy Ballads Songs With Electro / Techno Sounds Club-Friendly And Pop-Rock Songs The Subjects In This Album Are "sexuality Uneasiness Mantras Coded Plays On Words" "melancholy" "extreme Love Purity Loneliness" "life Death Love Tackled In Turn With Seriousness Or Humor". The Album Also Evokes "the Resilience And The Indelible Scars Of The Childhood" With Numerous Quotations And Literary References Süskind Schubert Baudelaire... . The Album Received Mixed Reviews. La Voix Du Nord Published Reviews From The Singer's Fans Proving That The Reactions Are Shared Between "disappointed Love And Ecstasy". La Meuse And 20 Minutes Summed Up Many Critics Deeming This Album Is "nor Completely Failed Nor Completely Exciting" "without Surprise But Pleasant". In A Survey Held By The Biggest Fan Site Of Mylène Farmer "Mylène.Net" Point De Suture Was Voted As The Forth All Time Favourite Studio Album Of Her Discography. The Chart Performance Of The Album In France Was Great With 5 121 Downloads On Four Days It Went Straight To Number-One On The French Digital Albums Chart On August 23 Which Is One Of The Records Of The Year. Universal Music Even Declared It Was The Record For A Francophone Artist. The Album Stayed For Another Week At #1 With And Then Dropped To #3 And Remained On The Chart Top 50 For 13 Weeks.
With 108 596 Sales The Album Was Directly #1 On The SNEP Albums Chart On August 30. It Dropped To #2 The Week After With 48 144 Sales 616 Sales Of Difference With The Number-One Album Then To #3 And Fell Off The Top Ten After Five Weeks.
In Addition Universal Music's President Revealed On September 2 That About 175 000 Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones Containing The Album Point Suture Were Sold. In Russia Europa Plus Radio Aired The Album For The First Time On August 23. Available Two Days Later It Met A Great Success On A Single Day It Was Certified Platinum For More Than 20 000 Sold Copies.
In Switzerland The Album Was Certified Gold In One Week And Debuted At #2 On September 7 2008 Then It Dropped And Remained On The Chart Top 100 For Nine Weeks.
In Belgium Wallonia The Album Reached #1 In Its First Week On September 6 And Stayed There For Other Two Weeks. Therafter It Dropped Regularly. In Belgium Flanders The Album Was #32 On September 13 2008 And Stayed For A Sole Week On The Chart But Became Farmer's Highest Ranked Album On This Chart.
The Album Reached #60 On The Albums Chart In Canada On September 14 2008 It Was #11 In Quebec City And #6 In Montreal .
In The 37th Week Of 2008 Without Any Promotion The Album Entered The Greek International Albums Chart At #25 Then Peaked At #16 For Two Weeks And Remained Ranked For Five Weeks. Five Singles Have Been Released "Dégénération" "Appelle Mon Numéro" "Si J'avais Au Moins..." "C'est Dans L'air" And "Sextonik". All Of Them Have Met Success In France And Have Topped The Singles Chart Making Point De Suture Her Only Album That Spawned More Than One Number One Hits.