Artist · chart history
Projet Orange
Band Active 2000–2007
Projet Orange formed in 2000 and was active until 2007. Projet Orange has 4 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Tell All Your Friends”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #51. The station that charted Projet Orange most often is CHOI Radio X (Quebec City, QC), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Projet Orange came out of Quebec City in 2000, the brainchild of brothers Jean-Christophe and Jean-Sébastien Boies, and from the start their ears were tuned across the Atlantic: catchy, flowing rock with a heavy Britpop accent. Stéphane Gaudreau and Louis Lalancette filled out the lineup, and the first real break came when they won L'Empire des futures stars, a Quebec music contest. Even the name was an accident. Signing up for a multi-band bill, each act had to fill in a blank after the word "Projet", somebody spotted a bandmate's orange coat, and that was that.
Then came the scare. In 2002 Jean-Sébastien was struck by a blood disease, and the band shut down for half a year, songwriting and all. Their debut had been sung entirely in French; the follow-up went looking for English-speaking Canada, with eleven of its fifteen songs in English, made with help from singer-songwriter Simon Wilcox and producer Gavin Brown, and shadowed by Jean-Sébastien's illness and the September 11 attacks.
Megaphobe, on BMG in 2004, is home to "Tell All Your Friends", the title track and "Les Geants": tight guitars, choruses that soar, Anglophile hooks landing clean. Projet Orange folded in 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Projet Orange on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell All Your Friends | 2 | #51 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Megaphobe | 1 | #75 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | Les Geants | 1 | #82 | – | 2004 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 75 | Megaphobe | CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2005 |
| 2004 | 51 | Tell All Your Friends | CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 82 | Les Geants | CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 102 | Tell All Your Friends | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004 |
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