Céline Dion storms the French charts with “Encore un soir”

Earlier in May, Céline Dion covered Queen’s legendary song “The Show Must Go On”. The lyrics addressed the pain she endured after losing her husband René Angélil and her brother Daniel Dion within days of each other in January.

As always music remains her salvo, and she recently opened up to the French public.

Last week she appeared on French television to tell her fans about saying goodbye to René — the man who built her career and with whom she shared her entire adult life.

Before heading back to Las Vegas to resume her residency, Céline will perform nine shows at AccordHotels Arena.

Céline sings the story of her life

Four years after “Sans attendre”, Céline’s last album in her mother tongue, the winner of Eurovision 1988 has teamed up with Jean-Jacques Goldman — one of her favourite songwriters — for her forthcoming album.

He wrote most of the songs on her 1995 album “D’eux” — the highest selling French-language album of all times. It included the massive hits “J’irai où tu iras”, “Je sais pas”, “Vole” and “Pour que tu m’aimes encore”.

Their much-anticipated collaboration kicks off with the release of “Encore un soir” — the first single from her upcoming album, which she hopes to release by the fall.

The lyrics clearly reflect her personal experience as a world class superstar and her enduring memories of René. It all went by so fast: “But when life’s too beautiful, too exciting, we forget about time…”

As the track crescendos, Céline begs us for one last moment with her lover: “One more night, one more hour…”

Straight to the top

In its first week, the single topped the French charts. Contrast that with “Parler à mon père”, the lead single from “Sans attendre” which only reached No. 8. Given the good start, expectations are high for the Canadian chanteuse as she finishes the album.

English translation for “Encore un soir”