"En attendant ses pas" (meaning "waiting for his footsteps") is a song by Canadian singer

Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion ( ; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her ...

from her sixteenth studio album, ''

S'il suffisait d'aimer ''S'il suffisait d'aimer'' (retitled ''S'il suffisait d'aimer (If Only Love Could Be Enough)'' for the US release) is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her eleventh French-language studio album. It was released by C ...

'' (1998). It was written by

Jean-Jacques Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French p ...

and produced by Goldman and

Erick Benzi Erick Benzi (born 1 March 1959) is a French musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer from Marseille. He was previously part of the duo Die Form, with Gildas Arzel, and the group Canada (with Arzel, Jacques Veneruso, and Gwenn Arze ...

. The song was released as a promotional single in May 1999. "En attendant ses pas" topped the chart in Quebec for four weeks and reached top 10 on the airplay charts in France and Belgium Wallonia.

Background and release

After ''

D'eux ''D'eux'' (French for "Of Them, "About Them", or "From Them"; homophonic with , meaning "two") is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her tenth French-language studio album. It was released by Columbia Records on 30 M ...

'' became the best-selling French-language album of all time, Dion reunited with

to record another album together. ''

'' was recorded between September 1997 and July 1998, and produced by Goldman and

. "En attendant ses pas", written by Goldman, was chosen as the fourth, but promotional only single. It was released in late May 1999 in France, and later in Quebec and Belgium Wallonia. In 2005, "En attendant ses pas" was included on Dion's greatest hits album, ''

On ne change pas ''On ne change pas'' (meaning ''We do not change'' or ''One does not change'') is the first comprehensive French-language greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Columbia Records on 30 September 2005. It features songs rec ...

''.

Commercial performance

In France, "En attendant ses pas" entered the airplay chart on 19 June 1999 and peaked at number six on 31 July 1999. It spent three weeks at number six and nine weeks inside top 10. "En attendant ses pas" left the airplay top 25 on 11 September 1999, after 11 weeks on the chart. In Quebec, the song entered the chart on 10 July 1999. "En attendant ses pas" topped it for four weeks between 18 September and 9 October 1999 and spent 35 weeks there in total. In Belgium Wallonia, "En attendant ses pas" peaked at number 10 on 28 September 1999, spending three weeks inside top 50 of the airplay chart.

Charts

References

External links

* {{authority control Celine Dion songs 1999 singles French-language songs 1998 songs Songs written by Jean-Jacques Goldman Columbia Records singles