My Love: Essential Collection | ||||
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Released | 24 October 2008 | |||
Recorded | 1990–2008 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 158:11 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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My Love: Essential Collection is the third English-language greatest hits album by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion. It was released by Columbia Records on 24 October 2008 as the follow-up to her previous English-language compilation, All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999). In the album's liner notes, she dedicated this collection of songs, recorded between 1990 and 2008, to her fans who supported her throughout the years. My Love: Essential Collection was released as a single disc, consisting of Dion's most successful singles, including: "My Heart Will Go On", "Because You Loved Me", "The Power of Love" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now". The two-disc edition, entitled My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection, has been further expanded to include more hits and rare songs that have not previously appeared on her albums. Both editions include one new track, "There Comes a Time". The album was not released in Japan, where Sony Music Entertainment instead released Complete Best .
My Love: Essential Collection received a positive response. It topped the albums charts in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, as well as the compilation album chart in France. My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number two in Canada, number five in the United Kingdom and number eight in the United States, and was certified four-times Platinum in the UK, double-Platinum in Canada and Ireland, Platinum in Belgium and Gold in Mexico, Finland, New Zealand and Hungary. In most territories, the album's first single was a live recording of "My Love", a semi-autobiographical song written for Dion by Linda Perry, originally released on Taking Chances (2007). In France, a new remix of "I'm Alive" was released as a promotional single instead. In July 2011, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was re-issued with the same track listings as part of Sony's The Essential line. A limited-edition, titled The Essential Celine Dion 3.0, was also released in the United States in August 2011 with a bonus third CD with seven more tracks. On 5 April 2024, the album was released for the first time on vinyl.
Dion took the stage for her final performance of A New Day... on 15 December 2007. The Las Vegas show that had been viewed by nearly three million spectators at 717 performances since its premier in March 2003 had come to an end. [1] On 14 February 2008, she embarked on her first worldwide concert tour in over nine years. Dion performed her biggest hits along with songs from her new album, Taking Chances . The Taking Chances World Tour played to sold-out stadiums and arenas throughout 2008. By its completion, at the end of February 2009, it had crossed five continents, twenty-three countries, and ninety-three cities, en route to playing for an audience of over three million people. [2] On 27 August 2008, Dion's official website announced that a new greatest hits album would be released in October 2008. [3] On 5 September 2008, it was revealed that the album will be available in two formats: a one-disc edition called My Love: Essential Collection as well as a two-disc edition called My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection, [4] with the track listing posted on 11 September 2008. [5] "My Love", originally from Taking Chances, was confirmed as the first single in an official press release on 22 September 2008. [6] My Love: Essential Collection features a live version of the song, which premiered on 17 September 2008 [7] and the live music video was released seven days later. [8] The lyrics to the only new track on the album, "There Comes a Time" were posted on 7 October 2008 on Dion's official website [9] and an excerpt of the song was posted on 23 October 2008. [10]
The artwork for My Love: Essential Collection features a close-up shot of Dion, wearing a white blouse with a black camera hanging from her neck. [11] The cover's background is blurred white and purple imagery, with the singer's name and the album title written in white letters. [11] The photography was done by Denise Truscello, and shot in a studio in Los Angeles in 2007. [11] Dion was very grateful working with Truscello, and described their professional experience positively: "Out of all the people I've worked with, she's the absolute best. I've worked with her for six years, and she's always kind to everybody. Super, super kind". [11]
My Love: Essential Collection features seventeen songs on the US version and eighteen songs on the European version of the album. The US version includes the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles: "The Power of Love", "Because You Loved Me", "My Heart Will Go On" and "I'm Your Angel", and the European version contains the UK number one single, "Think Twice". [12]
The two-disc edition, entitled My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was released simultaneously. It is a twenty-seven song set on the US version and thirty-six song set on the European version. My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection released in the United States contains three rare songs not released on a Dion record: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (from Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King ), "Dance with My Father" (from So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross ), and "I Knew I Loved You" (from We All Love Ennio Morricone ). [2] The European version also includes singles successful in Europe. [13]
In July 2011, the album was re-issued as part of The Essential series, [14] featuring either the US or European track listing (depending on the country of release). A limited edition, titled The Essential 3.0, was released exclusively in the United States on 29 August 2011. It was expanded with a bonus third CD with seven tracks, including alternate versions of "Think Twice" and "Only One Road". [15]
On 5 April 2024, the album was released for the first time on vinyl. The tracklist is similar to the original European edition, but includes also "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and "If You Asked Me To", and omits "Alone".
The performance of "My Love" was aired for the very first time on television on 31 August 2008, during the 43rd annual MDA Labor Day Telethon . [16] On 28 October 2008, an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show was dedicated to Dion, as well as several inspirational journeys of parents and their young children, who suffered from many diseases. [17] Dion was featured throughout the special titled, Miracle Children with Celine Dion due to the personal struggles and difficulties she was facing at the time with childbirth. [17] Towards the end of the special, she performed a live rendition of "My Love". [17] The following day, Dion was forced to reschedule her concert of 30 October in Minneapolis, as well many others in November 2008, citing illness as the cause for the postponements. [18] On 1 December 2008, she performed "My Love" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . [19] On 13 December 2008, her official website posted a behind-the-scenes clip of Dion in the recording sessions for the song, "There Comes a Time". [20] The Taking Chances World Tour ended on 26 February and on 1 March 2009, Dion gave her last public performance on Star Académie in Canada, [21] singing a medley of her popular French and English-language songs alongside the contestants. [21] Following the performance, Dion began her temporary retirement from the music industry, in order to focus time on her family and conceiving another child. Aside from the several televised appearances, "My Love" was performed throughout Dion's Taking Chances World Tour, beginning with her concert in Seoul on 18 March 2008. "My Love" was included later on the Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert , released on DVD and CD in April 2010. [22]
My Love: Essential Collection was released while Dion was on her Taking Chances World Tour. During her concert in Stockholm, Sweden on 7 June 2008, Dion recorded a live version of "My Love", [23] which was confirmed to be the first single from the compilation. The song premiered on the radio on 22 September 2008 and a digital single was released the next day, [6] accompanied by a live music video. Chuck Taylor, senior editor of Billboard , said that "My Love" was an inspired choice from the album and complimented Linda Perry's composition and Dion's delivery of the song, calling it highly emotive ballad about ache and uncertainty. [24] After "My Love" debuted on the US Adult Contemporary chart, Dion became the artist with the most adult contemporary hits in the 2000s, with "My Love" being her sixteenth entry of the decade. [25] The song peaked at number fifteen. [26] The next single, "I'm Alive" was remixed by Laurent Wolf and released in October 2008 to radio to promote the album in France, instead of "My Love". [27] In January 2009, new remixes of "I'm Alive" by Maurice Joshua were sent to the US clubs. [28] They reached number thirty-five on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. [29] "I'm Alive" was originally released as a single from A New Day Has Come in 2002 and peaked at number seven in France [30] and number six on the US Adult Contemporary chart. [31]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [32] |
Daily Express | [33] |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor of AllMusic, called My Love: Essential Collection an overcompensation for how All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999), concentrated on newer recordings at the expense of hits. [32] According to him, My Love: Essential Collection "fits the bill well" for those listeners who are looking for an overview of Celine Dion's two decades as an international superstar, as it has all her big adult contemporary hits. [32] Erlewine also noted that although Dion has had more hits in the ten years since All the Way... A Decade of Song, apart from her cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night", almost none of her new-millennium hits are as memorable as her singles from the '90s. [32]
My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200, becoming Dion's eleventh top ten album on the chart, with first week sales of 57,000 copies. [34] [35] On the Canadian Albums Chart, My Love: Essential Collection debuted at number two, with sales of 17,700 copies, [36] and the following week, the album dropped to number three, selling another 11,000 copies. [37] By its third week on the chart, My Love: Essential Collection sank another three spots to number six, [38] and by January 2009, was certified double-Platinum by CRIA, denoting shipments of 160,000 copies. [39]
In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number five, selling 42,411 copies and was certified four-times Platinum for sales of over 1,200,000 units. [40] In Ireland, it peaked at number one [41] and was certified double-Platinum in 2008. [42] My Love: Essential Collection proved to be very popular in these two countries, as it re-entered the charts many times over the years, spending 300 weeks on the chart in Ireland. [43]
It debuted at number one in France [44] and the Netherlands, [45] occupying the top for two weeks in both countries. My Love: Essential Collection also topped the chart in Belgium Flanders and peaked inside the top ten in many European countries, reaching number six on the European Top 100 Albums. [45] [46] The album also peaked inside top ten in New Zealand and Mexico, [45] and was also certified Platinum in Belgium, [47] Gold in Mexico, [48] Finland, [49] New Zealand [50] and Hungary. [51] Worldwide, it became the forty-second best selling album of 2008, according to the IFPI. [52] In addition, Sony Music released The Essential in 2011, with the same track listing, which was certified Silver by the BPI in the UK as a standalone album. [40]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" | Christopher Neil | 4:33 | |
2. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) | Walter Afanasieff | 4:04 | |
3. | "If You Asked Me To" | Diane Warren | Guy Roche | 3:55 |
4. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) | David Foster | 4:49 | |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Linda Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
7. | "The Power of the Dream" |
|
| 4:30 |
8. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" | Jim Steinman |
| 7:37 |
9. | "All by Myself" | Foster | 5:08 | |
10. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
| 4:41 | |
11. | "I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly) | Kelly | Kelly | 5:31 |
12. | "That's the Way It Is" |
| 4:03 | |
13. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) | 4:23 | ||
14. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
15. | "I Drove All Night" | 4:00 | ||
16. | "Taking Chances" | John Shanks | 4:07 | |
17. | "There Comes a Time" | Emanuel Kiriakou | 4:03 | |
Total length: | 78:33 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
2. | "Think Twice" |
| 4:48 | |
3. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit) | Steinman | 5:20 | |
4. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
7. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
8. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
9. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
10. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
11. | "Falling into You" |
|
| 4:18 |
12. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
13. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
14. | "All by Myself" (edited single version) |
| Foster | 4:00 |
15. | "Alone" |
| Ben Moody | 3:23 |
16. | "Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) | Afanasieff | 4:12 | |
17. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) |
| Afanasieff | 4:04 |
18. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
Total length: | 78:11 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
2. | "Falling into You" |
|
| 4:18 |
3. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
4. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" | Steinman | 7:37 | |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "All by Myself" |
| Foster | 5:08 |
7. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
8. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
9. | "Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) |
| Afanasieff | 4:12 |
10. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
11. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
12. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
13. | "Ten Days" | Palmas | 3:37 | |
14. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
15. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
16. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
17. | "One Heart" |
|
| 3:24 |
Total length: | 76:22 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
2. | "Think Twice" |
|
| 4:48 |
3. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit) | Steinman | 5:20 | |
4. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
7. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
8. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
9. | "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" |
| Neil | 4:33 |
10. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
11. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
12. | "Falling into You" |
|
| 4:18 |
13. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
14. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
15. | "All by Myself" (edited single version) |
| Foster | 4:00 |
16. | "If You Asked Me To" | Warren | Roche | 3:55 |
17. | "Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) |
| Afanasieff | 4:12 |
18. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) |
| Afanasieff | 4:04 |
19. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
Total length: | 83:16 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" |
| Neil | 4:33 |
2. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) |
| Afanasieff | 4:04 |
3. | "If You Asked Me To" | Warren | Roche | 3:55 |
4. | "Love Can Move Mountains" (edit) | Warren | Wake | 4:01 |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
7. | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | Foster | 3:40 | |
8. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
9. | "The Power of the Dream" |
|
| 4:30 |
10. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" | Steinman | 7:37 | |
11. | "All by Myself" |
| Foster | 5:08 |
12. | "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" | Jean-Jacques Goldman |
| 4:14 |
13. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
Total length: | 61:01 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
2. | "To Love You More" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:42 |
3. | "River Deep, Mountain High" |
| 4:10 | |
4. | "I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly) | Kelly | Kelly | 5:31 |
5. | "The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli) | 4:29 | ||
6. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
7. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
8. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
9. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
10. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
11. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
12. | "Dance with My Father" |
| 4:38 | |
13. | "I Knew I Loved You" |
| 4:31 | |
14. | "My Love" (radio version) (hidden track) | Perry | Perry | 4:09 |
Total length: | 60:57 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Alone" |
| Moody | 3:23 |
2. | "Us" | Billy Pace |
| 5:46 |
3. | "The Reason" |
| 5:01 | |
4. | "Think Twice" (alternate version) |
|
| 4:28 |
5. | "When I Fall in Love" (duet with Clive Griffin) | Foster | 4:21 | |
6. | "I Surrender" | Simon Franglen | 4:49 | |
7. | "Only One Road" (alternate version) | Peter Zizzo | Wake | 4:49 |
Total length: | 32:37 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
2. | "Think Twice" |
|
| 4:48 |
3. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit) | Steinman | 5:20 | |
4. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
7. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
8. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
9. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
10. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
11. | "Falling into You" |
|
| 4:18 |
12. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
13. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
14. | "All by Myself" (edited single version) |
| Foster | 4:00 |
15. | "Alone" |
| Moody | 3:23 |
16. | "Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) |
| Afanasieff | 4:12 |
17. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) |
| Afanasieff | 4:04 |
18. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
Total length: | 78:11 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "River Deep, Mountain High" |
|
| 4:10 |
2. | "One Heart" |
|
| 3:24 |
3. | "I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly) | Kelly | Kelly | 5:31 |
4. | "Only One Road" | Zizzo | Wake | 4:49 |
5. | "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" | Goldman |
| 4:14 |
6. | "You and I" |
|
| 4:05 |
7. | "To Love You More" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:42 |
8. | "Eyes on Me" |
| Lundin | 3:53 |
9. | "Have You Ever Been in Love" |
|
| 4:08 |
10. | "The Reason" |
|
| 5:01 |
11. | "Seduces Me" |
| 3:46 | |
12. | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | Ewan MacColl | Foster | 4:09 |
13. | "Dance with My Father" |
|
| 4:38 |
14. | "Misled" |
| Wake | 3:30 |
15. | "Love Can Move Mountains" (edit) | Warren | Wake | 4:01 |
16. | "Call the Man" |
| 6:08 | |
17. | "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | Lange | 5:19 |
18. | "The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli) | 4:29 | ||
Total length: | 79:57 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" (Tony Moran's anthem vocal mix) |
|
| 9:43 |
2. | "That's the Way It Is" (The Metro club remix) |
|
| 5:29 |
3. | "I Drove All Night" (Hex Hector extended vocal import mix) |
|
| 7:55 |
4. | "I Want You to Need Me" (Thunderpuss radio mix) | Warren | 4.33 | |
5. | "Misled" (MK's history remix) |
|
| 6:41 |
Total length: | 34:21 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" |
| Neil | 4:33 |
2. | "Beauty and the Beast" (duet with Peabo Bryson) |
| Afanasieff | 4:04 |
3. | "If You Asked Me To" | Warren | Roche | 3:55 |
4. | "Love Can Move Mountains" (edit) | Warren | Wake | 4:01 |
5. | "My Love" (live version) | Perry | Perry | 5:04 |
6. | "The Power of Love" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:49 |
7. | "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" | Goldman |
| 4:14 |
8. | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" |
| Foster | 3:40 |
9. | "Because You Loved Me" | Warren | Foster | 4:35 |
10. | "Falling into You" |
|
| 4:18 |
11. | "The Power of the Dream" |
|
| 4:30 |
12. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" | Steinman | 7:37 | |
13. | "All by Myself" |
| Foster | 5:08 |
14. | "River Deep, Mountain High" |
|
| 4:10 |
15. | "Tell Him" (duet with Barbra Streisand) |
|
| 4:51 |
Total length: | 69:29 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "My Heart Will Go On" |
|
| 4:41 |
2. | "To Love You More" (radio edit) |
| Foster | 4:42 |
3. | "Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) |
| Afanasieff | 4:12 |
4. | "I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly) | Kelly | Kelly | 5:31 |
5. | "The Prayer" (duet with Andrea Bocelli) | 4:29 | ||
6. | "That's the Way It Is" |
|
| 4:03 |
7. | "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) |
| 4:23 | |
8. | "I'm Alive" |
| 3:30 | |
9. | "Ten Days" |
| Palmas | 3:37 |
10. | "I Drove All Night" |
|
| 4:00 |
11. | "One Heart" |
|
| 3:24 |
12. | "Taking Chances" |
| Shanks | 4:07 |
13. | "There Comes a Time" |
| Kiriakou | 4:03 |
14. | "Dance with My Father" |
|
| 4:38 |
15. | "I Knew I Loved You" |
|
| 4:31 |
Total length: | 63:51 |
Notes
Adapted from AllMusic. [53] [54]
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
All-time charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Australia (ARIA) [112] | Platinum | 70,000‡ |
Belgium (BEA) [113] | Platinum | 30,000* |
Canada (Music Canada) [114] | 4× Platinum | 320,000‡ |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [115] | Gold | 16,027 [115] |
Germany (BVMI) [116] | Gold | 100,000‡ |
Hungary (MAHASZ) [117] | Gold | 3,000^ |
Ireland (IRMA) [118] | 2× Platinum | 30,000^ |
Mexico (AMPROFON) [119] | Gold | 40,000^ |
Netherlands (NVPI) [120] | Platinum | 60,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [121] | Gold | 7,500^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [40] | 4× Platinum | 1,200,000‡ |
United States | — | 543,667 [122] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
In July 2011, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection was re-issued with the same track listing as part of Sony Music's The Essential line. It charted and was certified separately from the original release.
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Australia (ARIA) [112] | Gold | 35,000‡ |
Poland (ZPAV) [133] | Gold | 10,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [134] | Silver | 60,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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Europe [135] | 24 October 2008 | Columbia | CD |
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2CD |
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Australia [136] | 27 October 2008 | 88697374522 | ||
North America [6] | 28 October 2008 | CD | 88697411432 | |
2CD | 88697374522 | |||
Australia [136] | 11 July 2011 | Legacy Recordings The Essential | 88697936772 | |
Europe [14] | 15 July 2011 | |||
North America [15] [137] | 29 August 2011 | 3CD | 886979487321 | |
13 September 2011 | 2CD | 886979487222 | ||
Various [138] | 5 April 2024 | Sony Legacy | Vinyl | 196588794513 |
A New Day Has Come is the eighteenth studio album and seventh English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music on 25 March 2002. It was her first new studio album since her 1998 Christmas album These Are Special Times. Dion returned to the music scene after a two-year hiatus when she gave birth to her first child in 2001. She collaborated on A New Day Has Come with various producers, including Anders Bagge and Peer Åström for the first time.
All the Way... A Decade of Song is the first English-language greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. Released by Sony Music on 12 November 1999, it features nine previously released songs on most editions and seven new recordings on all editions. Dion worked on new tracks mainly with David Foster. Other producers include Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, James Horner, and Matt Serletic. It is the best-selling greatest hits album in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. All the Way... A Decade of Song has sold over 22 million copies worldwide, including over nine million in the United States, five million in Europe, two million in Japan and one million units in Canada.
Let's Talk About Love is the fifteenth studio album and fifth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 14 November 1997 by Sony Music. The follow-up to the commercially successful Falling into You (1996), Let's Talk About Love showed a further progression of Dion's music. Throughout the project, she collaborated with Barbra Streisand, the Bee Gees, Luciano Pavarotti, Carole King, George Martin, Diana King, Brownstone, Corey Hart, and her previous producers: David Foster, Ric Wake, Walter Afanasieff, Humberto Gatica, and Jim Steinman. The album includes Dion's biggest hit, "My Heart Will Go On". Written by James Horner and Will Jennings and serving as the love theme for James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film, Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On" topped the charts around the world and is considered to be Dion's signature song.
"My Heart Will Go On" is a song performed by the Canadian singer Celine Dion, used as the theme for the 1997 film Titanic. It was composed by James Horner, with lyrics by Will Jennings, and produced by Horner, Walter Afanasieff and Simon Franglen. It was released as a single internationally by Columbia and Epic on November 24, 1997, and included on Dion's album Let's Talk About Love (1997) and the Titanic soundtrack.
The Colour of My Love is the twelfth studio album and third English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was released by Sony Music on 9 November 1993. The songs were produced mainly by David Foster, Ric Wake, Walter Afanasieff, Christopher Neil, and Guy Roche, and four of them were written by Diane Warren. The album features cover versions of "The Power of Love" and "When I Fall in Love".
1 fille & 4 types is the twentieth studio album and twelfth French-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music on 13 October 2003. 1 fille & 4 types features thirteen songs written and arranged by Jean-Jacques Goldman, Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, and Gildas Arzel, and produced by Benzi. The first single from the album, "Tout l'or des hommes", reached top ten in all Francophone countries, including number one in Quebec and number three in France. It was followed by "Et je t'aime encore" and "Contre nature".
Falling into You is the fourteenth studio album and fourth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 11 March 1996 by Sony Music. The follow-up to her blockbuster album The Colour of My Love (1993) and French-language D'eux (1995), Falling into You showed a further progression of Dion's music. Throughout the project she collaborated with Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", among others. Several songs were produced by David Foster, including Diane Warren's "Because You Loved Me". In total, Dion worked on the album with fourteen producers and a variety of songwriters and musicians.
Celine Dion is the eleventh studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion and her second English-language album. It was released by Columbia Records and Epic Records on 30 March 1992 and features the Grammy and Academy Award-winning song "Beauty and the Beast" and other hits, such as "If You Asked Me To" and "Love Can Move Mountains". The album was produced by Walter Afanasieff, Ric Wake, Guy Roche, and Humberto Gatica. It reached numbers one in Quebec and three in Canada, where it was certified Diamond for shipments of over one million copies. At the 35th Annual Grammy Awards, Celine Dion was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album has sold over five million copies worldwide.
These Are Special Times is the seventeenth studio album and sixth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and also her first English-language Christmas album. It was first released in Europe on 30 October 1998, by Columbia Records. In the United States, it was released on 3 November 1998 through Epic Records. The album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs and original material, including "I'm Your Angel" and "The Prayer". Dion worked with David Foster and Ric Wake, who produced most of the album. These Are Special Times was released after two of Dion's most successful third and fourth English albums, Falling into You (1996) and Let's Talk About Love (1997).
Dion chante Plamondon is the ninth French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was released on 4 November 1991 by Sony Music and features songs with words written by French-Canadian lyricist, Luc Plamondon. In Europe, the album was renamed Des mots qui sonnent. It was promoted in Quebec by four promotional singles: "Des mots qui sonnent", "L'amour existe encore", "Je danse dans ma tête" and "Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime". In France, three commercial singles were released: "Je danse dans ma tête", "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" and "L'amour existe encore". Dion chante Plamondon won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year and Félix Award for Best Selling Album of the Year. It topped the chart in Quebec and reached number four in France.
S'il suffisait d'aimer is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her eleventh French-language album. It was released by Sony Music on 31 August 1998. The album was mainly written by French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, and produced by Goldman and Erick Benzi. It garnered favorable reviews from music critics and became the second best-selling French-language album of all time, after Dion's own D'eux (1995). It includes three hit singles: "Zora sourit", "S'il suffisait d'aimer" and "On ne change pas". S'il suffisait d'aimer won the Juno Award for Best Selling Francophone Album of the Year.
"Alone" is a song composed by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, who recorded it under the name i-Ten on their 1983 album Taking a Cold Look.
"Think Twice" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released as the third single from her third English-language album, The Colour of My Love (1993) in North America in July 1994, in the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan in October 1994, and in other European countries in 1995. It was written by Andy Hill and Peter Sinfield, and produced by Christopher Neil and Aldo Nova. In this rock-influenced song with a guitar solo, the protagonist is telling her lover to "think twice" before leaving her. The song became one of Dion's most successful hits in Europe and Australia, topping multiple charts, including those of Flemish Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Remaining at the top of the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks, it eventually became the fourth single by a female artist to sell in excess of one million copies in the UK.
Canadian singer Celine Dion has released 27 studio albums, seven live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 25 box sets. Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads", Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time and the best-selling artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era in Canada. Dion is also the second best-selling female artist in the United States since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991 with over 53.2 million albums sold in the country. Guinness World Records recognises her as the Top Selling Album Act in Europe with 33 million certified album sales since 1996. In 2003, Dion was honored by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling 50 million albums in Europe. Billboard placed her second among the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s Decade in the United States with 17.3 million albums sold via Soundscan. According to Billboard, Dion is the sixth Greatest Billboard 200 female solo artist of all time, as well as the eighth Greatest female solo artist of all time in Billboard's chart history.
D'elles is the twenty-second studio album and thirteenth French-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Columbia Records on 18 May 2007. It is a concept album which features thirteen songs written by influential female authors from France and Quebec, including: Françoise Dorin, Christine Orban, Nina Bouraoui, Marie Laberge, Lise Payette, Denise Bombardier, Nathalie Nechtschein, Jovette Alice Bernier, Janette Bertrand and George Sand. The themes throughout this album centre on "woman"; the album's title is a play on the title of her earlier album D'eux (1995), replacing the third person plural masculine or neutral pronoun eux with the feminine elles.
Taking Chances is the twenty-third studio album and tenth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Columbia Records on 7 November 2007. Dion returned to the music scene after almost five years of performing A New Day... on the Las Vegas Strip. She collaborated on Taking Chances with various rock and pop producers, including John Shanks, Linda Perry, ex-Evanescence members Ben Moody and David Hodges, Kristian Lundin, Ne-Yo, Chuck Harmony, Tricky Stewart, Eurythmics' David A. Stewart, Kara DioGuardi, Emanuel Kiriakou, Anders Bagge, Peer Åström, Aldo Nova, Christopher Neil and Guy Roche.
On ne change pas is the first comprehensive French-language greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music on 30 September 2005. It features songs recorded between 1981 and 2005, including three new tracks, all of which were released as singles: "Je ne vous oublie pas", "Tous les secrets" and "I Believe in You". "Je ne vous oublie pas" reached number two in France and was certified Silver. The other singles peaked at numbers twenty and thirty, respectively. On ne change pas received positive reviews from music critics. It reached number one in France and Belgium Wallonia, and number two in Canada and Switzerland. On ne change pas was certified 3× Platinum in France and Canada, Platinum in Belgium and Gold in Switzerland. In 2009, it was re-released under the title Best of – 3 CD.
Loved Me Back to Life is the twenty-fifth studio album and eleventh English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Columbia Records on 1 November 2013. It was preceded by the lead single and title track, "Loved Me Back to Life", which was released on 3 September 2013. Loved Me Back to Life was Dion's first English-language studio album since Taking Chances (2007). It was produced by Emanuel Kiriakou, Babyface, Tricky Stewart, Aaron Pearce, Kuk Harrell, Eg White, Play Production, Ne-Yo and Walter Afanasieff, among others. The album includes two duets: "Incredible" with Ne-Yo and "Overjoyed" with Stevie Wonder. Loved Me Back to Life garnered positive reviews from music critics and has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Sans attendre is the twenty-fourth studio album and fourteenth French-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Columbia Records on 2 November 2012. It is her first new French studio album since 2007's D'elles. Sans attendre features sixteen songs produced mainly by Jacques Veneruso, David Gategno and Scott Price. It contains three duets with Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Pierre Ferland and the late Henri Salvador. The first single from the album, "Parler à mon père" was released on 2 July 2012 and "Le miracle" was selected as the second track to promote Sans attendre. Both songs reached number one in Quebec and "Parler à mon père" also peaked inside the top ten in France. Third single "Qui peut vivre sans amour?" was sent to radio stations in March 2013.
Céline une seule fois / Live 2013 is a live album/home video by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was released by Columbia Records on 16 May 2014 as a three-disc set. The album/video was recorded on 27 July 2013 on the historic Plains of Abraham in Quebec City during the one-night only Céline... une seule fois show. The CD also includes four bonus tracks recorded in Paris during Dion's sold-out Tournée Européenne 2013 in November and December 2013.
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