Françoise
by Françoise Hardy
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Françoise Hardy bestography
Françoise is ranked 19th best out of 40 albums by Françoise Hardy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Françoise Hardy is Françoise Hardy (1962) which is ranked number 2741 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 574.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Françoise track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Françoise rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 98 Music Albums of 1966 | 80/98 | 1 |
| 2026 | BorderFreeAndrew | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 54/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Francoise Hardy / Françoise Hardy (FR/FRA) - Ranked | 16/38 | - |
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 30 Music Albums of 1966 | 29/30 | 0 |
| 2020 |  jnfbn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 85/100 | 1 |
| 2018 | mistertrick | Top 10 Music Albums of 1966 | 9/10 | 1 |
| 2018 | Rovers | Top 66 Music Albums of 1966 | 51/66 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 7 | |||
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Françoise ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/10/2024 20:30 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,736 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2023 18:29 | TonySayers61 | 25,774 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2022 06:28 | Moondance | 20,826 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 73.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 8.6.
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The title track of this album was one of Hardy's biggest international hits, and one of the few singles that Hardy did not write herself. In fact, it is an Italian song, which has been given new French lyrics.
Charles Blackwell was still arranger and producer for Hardy, and this album could perhaps be seen as the final chapter of Hardy's early career as a pop-singer. The following albums showed a more mature Hardy, who gradually took distance to her image as a pure pop singer.
The album has as usual a lot of great songs, among which most were written by Hardy herself. Some of the most significant song were this time written by outside composers such as the title track, the exquisite "Rendez vous d'automne" (Bourgeois/Riviere) and "Je changerais d'avis" (Morricone/De Chiara).
Many of Hardy's own songs are obviosly great too - favourites are "Si c'est ca", "Peut-etre que Je t'aime" and "Comme"
VictorVale 04/11/2019 10:26 | #234776
Sempre forte, se aproxima do pop italiano.
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