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S'il suffisait d'aimer is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her eleventh French-language album. It was released by Sony Music on 31 August 1998. The album was mainly written by French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, and produced by Goldman and Erick Benzi. It garnered favorable reviews from music critics and became the second best-selling French-language album of all time, after Dion's own D'eux (1995). It includes three hit singles: "Zora sourit", "S'il suffisait d'aimer" and "On ne change pas". S'il suffisait d'aimer won the Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album of the Year.
During the francophone concerts in the Let's Talk About Love World Tour, Dion performed six songs from S'il suffisait d'aimer. The concerts in Paris were recorded and released as Au cœur du stade in 1999. It was promoted by the video of Dion performing "Dans un autre monde". In addition, video from behind the scenes of the recording session of S'il suffisait d'aimer was included as a bonus on the Au cœur du stade DVD.
S'il suffisait d'aimer is the second best-selling French album of all time, behind her own D'eux. In its first three weeks of availability worldwide (except the US), it has already sold 2 million copies with 700,000 of it in France alone.[2] To date, It has sold over 4 million copies worldwide,[3][4] including 2 million in Europe, where it was certified 2 Platinum by the IFPI.[5]
S'il suffisait d'aimer has sold over 1,890,000 copies in France alone and was certified Diamond.[6] In Canada, it has sold 500,000 copies[7] and was certified 4 Platinum.[8] The album was certified Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum around the world, also in non-Francophone countries. S'il suffisait d'aimer became the second, after D'eux, French-language album to be certified Gold in the United Kingdom.[9] In the United States, although a French-language release, it has sold 112,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.[10][11]
S'il suffisait d'aimer topped the charts in Switzerland (for five weeks), France (for four weeks), Belgium Wallonia (for four weeks), in Quebec (for two weeks) and in Canada, Greece, Poland and on the European Top 100 Albums.[12] It charted inside top 40 in many non-Francophone countries, including the United Kingdom at number 17, or Germany where it peaked at number 11.
S'il suffisait d'aimer won a Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album. It was also nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in category Pop, Rock Album of the Year and Dion was nominated in category Female Artist of the Year.
"S'il suffisait d'aimer" (meaning "if it were enough to love") is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her sixteenth studio album, S'il suffisait d'aimer (1998). It was written by Jean-Jacques Goldman and produced by Goldman and Erick Benzi. The song was released as the album's second single on 23 November 1998. It peaked inside top 10 in France, Quebec and Belgium Wallonia, and was certified Gold in France and Belgium.
After D'eux became the best-selling French-language album of all time, Dion reunited with Jean-Jacques Goldman to record another album together.[1] S'il suffisait d'aimer was recorded between September 1997 and July 1998, and produced by Goldman and Erick Benzi.[2] The title track "S'il suffisait d'aimer", written by Goldman, was chosen as the second single. Commercially, it was released on 23 November 1998 in France and 7 December 1998 in Belgium.[3] The song became the most successful from the album and Dion often performed it during her concerts. In 2005, "S'il suffisait d'aimer" was included on her greatest hits album, On ne change pas.
In Quebec, "S'il suffisait d'aimer" entered the chart on 7 November 1998, peaked at number five and spent 42 weeks on it.[4] In Europe, the single reached numbers four in France,[5] six in Belgium Wallonia,[6] 72 in Belgium Flanders,[7] and as a result number 19 on the European Hot 100 Singles chart.[8] It was certified Gold in France[9] and Belgium.[10]
The official live music video for "S'il suffisait d'aimer" was recorded in September 1998 in Chicago, Illinois during the Let's Talk About Love World Tour. It was directed by Yannick Saillet.[11] In 2005, the video was included on Dion's greatest hits DVD collection, On ne change pas.