 Dutronc's self-titled debut album, released at the end of 1966, sold over a million copies and was awarded a special Grand Prix du Disque by the Académie Charles Cros, in memoriam of one of its founders.A second single, "Les play boys", spent six weeks at number one and sold 600,000 copies.Dutronc was one of the most commercially successful French music stars of the late 1960s and early 1970s.