- Is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records twice: For top-selling single of all-time, for 1991's "Désenchantée", and for most exported album of all-time, for 1995's "Anamorphosée".
- Her videos, since 1986's Mylène Farmer: Libertine (1986), have mostly been long projects, ranging from 10 minutes to sometimes 20, and are mostly directed by Laurent Boutonnat. However, since the flop feature film project Giorgino (1994), her videos have been mostly directed by other well-respected, and often famous, directors. Besides France, shooting locations include Romania, the United States, China, and Iceland.
- Is a major recording star in Europe, especially in France. She released her first video and single in 1984, and her first album in 1986. As of September 2018, she has had eleven studio albums, six live albums and five compilation albums.
- Her surname, "Farmer", comes from actress Frances Farmer, a Hollywood actress who was famous for her iconoclasm, and was admitted to a mental institution by her mother and studio, and administered shock therapy.
- She made her feature-film debut in the 1994 film Giorgino (1994), which was a critical and financial disaster. In fact, it made 1% of its budget.
- She speaks fluent English, as she was born and raised in Canada, then spent time in the United States in the mid-1990s.
- She holds the record for the most sold best-of album in France with her album "Les mots" that was released in November 2001.
- She is the only French female singer to have twice sold out the Stade de France for consecutive performances (in 2009 and 2023). The two 2009 shows sold out in about 3 hours with a total of 160,000 tickets sold. The two 2023 shows were rescheduled to 2024 due to civil unrest near the stadium on the weekend of the shows.
- She holds the record for the most sold DVD concert in France with her concert Mylène Farmer: Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (2006) that was released in 2007, September the 24th.
- She holds the record for the highest budget for a French tour for her "Timeless 2013" that cost 30 million euros.
- Often mistaken for French, she is actually a Quebecois, or a French-Canadian singer, native from Quebec. She was born in Pierrefonds, Québec, where she grew up until she was almost 11 years old.
- She holds the record of the highest budget for a French music clip for Mylène Farmer: L'âme-stram-gram (1999) that cost 900,000 euros.
- In 1987-1988 was selected as one of the most beautiful women in the world (#16 in april 1988) by 'readers' of French magazine LUI (monthly telematic poll). She had, by then, drastically altered her original break-out look of 1984.
- The first Canadian performer---among a series of many international female singers---who consciously fashioned themselves after original creative singer, Jeanne Mas, and who went on to successfully reproduce in their own careers Jeanne's unique style of singing, dancing, stage presence and fashion sense.
- Aunt of singer Lisa Gautier.
- Obtained her driver's license at the age of 30 while in the United States. When asked about why she didn't get her license in France, she answered that she wanted to be judged for what she was truly capable of without wondering if it had not been "given" to her.
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