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Desireless
Solo artist Paris France
Desireless is an artist from Paris. Desireless has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1987–1988. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Voyage, Voyage”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Desireless most often is Live 105 (San Francisco, CA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Desireless is the stage name of Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop, a Parisian singer born in 1952, and for a couple of years in the late '80s she owned the continental dancefloor with a single song. "Voyage, Voyage" swept across borders between 1986 and 1988, landing at the top of the charts in several countries: a cool, rolling synth-pop pulse with a melody that seems to be gazing out of a train window at the whole map of Europe.
The look was half the hook. Bettina Rheims directed the video and cast her in a chilly, androgynous style that put her in the same cool-headed company as Annie Lennox and Grace Jones, and that severe image stuck to the song as firmly as the chorus did.
She never packed it in, either. Desireless has kept making albums and playing live, and from 2012 onward she toured the world behind a record made with Operation of the Sun, the project of Antoine Aureche.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Desireless on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voyage, Voyage | 2 | #19 | – | 1987 |
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 99 | Voyage, Voyage | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) |
| 1987 | 19 | Voyage, Voyage | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987 |
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