D'eux - Chart Success

Chart Success

D'eux is the best-selling French-language album of all time, with sales of 10 million copies worldwide. In France, D'eux was certified diamond and after selling over 4,412,100 copies, it became the best-selling album ever in that country. It spent 44 consecutive weeks at the top of the French chart and 137 weeks on the chart in total, breaking sales records. When Dion's next album, Falling into You was released in 1996 it debuted at number 2 on the French chart, since the first slot was still being occupied by D'eux. Dion was also the most-played act on the French radio in 1995, as well as the best-selling recording artist.

In Belgium Wallonia, no other album has spent as long as 37 weeks at number 1, nor 131 weeks on the entire chart, since D'eux. In Switzerland, it topped the chart for five weeks, and in Belgium Flanders for 4 weeks. D'eux was certified 7x platinum in Canada, 6x platinum in Belgium, and 4x platinum in Switzerland.

Although a French-language album, D'eux charted and was certified also in many non-French speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 7, setting a record for a French release. It has sold 250,000 copies there and Dion became the first and only artist who achieved UK gold certification with a French-language recording. Later, she repeated this success with S'il suffisait d'aimer. Even in the United States the album has sold 242,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

D'eux was also certified platinum in the Netherlands, Poland, and gold in New Zealand. Other top 10 positions in non-Francophone countries include: number 1 for two weeks in the Netherlands, number 2 in Portugal, number 5 in Denmark, and number 9 in Sweden. On the European Top 100 Albums, D'eux reached number 3 and was certified 8x platinum by the IFPI.