Made in Love explained

Made in Love
Type:Studio album
Artist:Zazie
Cover:Made_in_love.jpg
Released:11 May 1998
Genre:Pop, pop rock
Length:53:55
Label:Mercury Records, Universal Music, Polygram
Prev Title:Zen
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Ze Live
Next Year:1999

Made in Love is a 1998 album recorded by French pop singer Zazie. It was her third studio album and was released on 11 May 1998. It achieved success in francophone countries, although it was not as successful as Zazie's next albums. It provided five singles, two of which were only released as promotional singles. Except for "Tout le monde" (#23 in France), they did not make it to the Top 40: "Tous des anges" (#87 in France), "Ça fait mal et ça fait rien" (#75 in France).

Background, singles, and chart performance

The album was produced by Ali Staton, Pierre Jaconelli and Zazie. It was scheduled to be published on 5 May 1998, but was delayed to avoid a release at the same moment as Pascal Obispo's live album. Obispo did not compose any tunes for Made in Love. However, he had worked on a song entitled "Amazone", which was eventually not included in the track listing.

The music video for "Ça fait mal et ça fait rien", the second single, was censored on television because of its violent content. It presented several couples in which the husband was unfaithful and the wife have different reactions that lead in some instances lead to murder. Part of the music video was subtitled in English. "Femmes téfales" deals with liars and conniving women.

In France, the album debuted at a peak of number three on 16 May 1998. It dropped rather quickly, but remained in the top 50 for 29 weeks. In Belgium (Wallonia), the album was stayed 39 weeks in the Ultratop 50, peaking at 17 during its third week, on 13 June 1998.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Zazie except where noted.

Credits and personnel

Release history

Date Label Region Format Catalog
11 May 1998MercuryBelgium, France, SwitzerlandCD272338
1 November 1998JapanPHCR-1673
30 November 1998Belgium, France, Switzerland550080
2001Polygram International538722

Charts

Chart (1998)Peak
position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[1] 17
French SNEP Albums Chart3
Year-end chart (1998)Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[2] 72
French Albums Chart[3] 54

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Made in Love, in various albums charts . Lescharts . 26 July 2009.
  2. Web site: 1998 Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart . Ultratop . 25 July 2009.
  3. Web site: 1998 French Albums Chart . Disqueenfrance . 25 July 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120404180257/http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-259376.xml?year=1998&type=2 . 4 April 2012 .