Lapointe's Debut album Sur le fil (2005) After her province-wide tour with the 2004 Star Académie finalists, in which she acquired more confidence and self-esteem, she immediately started recording her first album Sur le fil, produced by Francis Collard. The album was launched and debuted on August 30, 2005 at the Vidéotron headquarters in Montreal. The event was held in front of several personalities including Star Académie and Le Banquier host Julie Snyder and one of the competition's judges and La Presse editor Stéphane Laporte. The album itself is composed of many ballads and love songs. Her first two hits, Nous sommes and La mer, performed very well on the French charts with the first one hitting the top spot on the RockDétente Top 20 Countdown. A third hit, Je sais déjà, played on French radio stations and TV station MusiquePlus in December 2006. Singers Catherine Durand, Projet Orange frontman Jean-Christophe Boies and Sylvie Paquette as well as writers Dave Richard and Martine Coupal participated in the composition of Sur le fil. Lapointe wrote portions of the final two songs, Love You and Interlude, along with Dave Richard. As of November 2006, 30 000 copies of the album were sold across Quebec and was at one point in September 2005, the francophone album with the most copies sold provincewide. In 2006, she also participated in the debut album of writer and journalist Tristan Malavoy as she provided background vocals in one of Malavoy's songs. The videoclip of La Mer was directed by video and scene director Dominique Laurence who also directed clips for songs by Ariane Moffatt, Jean-Franois Breau, former Star Académie season 2 finalist Martin Giroux and Season 1 winner Wilfred Le Bouthillier.