1990_________________
After
conquered Canada singing in French, Celine
decided start a career in English.
She
recorded "Unison", her
first English album, with
the hit single "Where
does my heart beat now", that
reaches number 4, at
the Top Billboard Hot 100, in USA.
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1992_________________
She's
invited to sing "Beauty
and the Beast", a
duet with Peabo Bryson to the Walt
Disney movie.
Celine
won 1 Oscar and 1 Grammy Award
with
this song.
It
was the beginning of her international career.
The
songs "Nothing Broken But My Heart" and "If You Asked
Me", achieved nr. 1 at Adult Contemporary top , in USA.
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1993_________________
"The
Color of My Love" is released.
The
song "Think
Twice" reached number number 1 in Britain.
The
album stayed on the charts the amazing 149 weeks
(an achievement not replicated since 1965
with the Beatles), and sold more than 2 million copies in England.
Achieved
six platinum in the U.S.
"The Power of Love"
reaches nr.1 at the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary top, in USA.
"Misled"
is number 1 on the top Hot Dance Music/Club Play, in USA.
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1995_________________
The
French album, "D'eux", with the song
"Pour
que tu m'aimes encore", makes history.
It
remained 44 weeks as number 1
in France and sells over 4 million copies in that country.
In
the UK, "D'eux" became the first French-language album ever to be
certified gold.
"D'Eux"
became the best-selling French album of all time.
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1996_________________
"Falling Into You"
turns into one of the best selling albums ever.
Reached
number 1 all over the world.
"Because
You Loved Me" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult
Contemporary, in USA.
"All
By Myself" and "To Love You More", accomplished
nr. 1 in
the Adult Contemporary top, in USA.
It's
the best selling album of the year, selling more than 32 million copies
worldwide.
Falling
Into You received 11 Platinum Discs in United States and won 2
Grammy Awards:
"Album
of the Year" and "Best pop Album".
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1997_________________
"Let's
Talk About Love" - another nr.1
"My
Heart Will Go On" reaches nr. 1 at the Billboard Hot 100,
Adult Contemporary and even the Hot Latin Tracks, in USA.
TITANIC
song makes Celine
Dion one of the most successful singers ever.
"Let's
Talk About Love" receives 10
Platinum Discs in USA
Celine
achieved her 2nd
Oscar and two
more Grammys,
"Best
Female Pop Vocal Performance" and "Record Of The Year".
It
was the best selling album of the year
(1998), with 31 million copies.
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1998_________________
Her
Christmas album - "These
are Special Times" reached nr. 2
all over the world.
"I'm
Your Angel", a duet with R. Kelly, went
to number 1
on the Billboard Hot 100.
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1999_________________
"All
The Way...a decade of song", featuring
9 of her greatest hits and 7
brand new songs is released.
One
more time, Celine reaches number 1 all over the world.
Celine
Dion ends the decade with almost 140 million albums sold. She also
received a Sony Music Award.
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2002_________________
After
her two year hiatus, Celine Dion released "A
New Day Has Come".
A
new nr. 1 around the world for Celine.
It
debuts as number 1 on the charts of 18 countries,
including the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Australia...
The sales for the first week of Celine's album are, the biggest for any
album released by the diva.
The
title song of the album hold for 21 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
On
March 21, in London, Céline Dion was presented with the most expensive
disc ever in recognition of 15 million album and single sales in the
UK.
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2003_________________
Dion
signed a 10 million, contract to promote Chrysler's vehicles.
On
March 25, Celine Dion starts her 3 year show in Las Vegas - A New Day...
A
show that bring to the stage an unprecedented combination of
performance, passion and technical innovation.
Audiences
and critics consider that the show goes out of
its way not to defy expectations, but to exceed them.
Also
in March 2003, Celine Dion was presented with a special IFPI Award
in honour of a total of 50 million albums sold in Europe.
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2004_________________
Celine
releases the "Miracle" project. It's so far the best-selling
album ever, dedicated to children, in the United States.
On
January 6, 2004 Celine Dion unveils her Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
On
September 15, Celine
Dion received an Diamond Award, at the "World Music Awards", for
becoming the best selling female artist ever.
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2006_________________
Celine
Dion celebrates her 25 years in showbiz.
Celine's
Vegas show exceeds expectations and is extended until 2007.
Over
185 000 000 albums sold all over the
world.
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Celine's
career achievements
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Celine Dion has sold over forty-nine million albums in the United States
(according to RIAA), and fifty-four million albums in Europe (making her the
best selling female artist in Europe), according to IFPI.
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With over 185 million albums and over 35 million singles sold across the globe,
she ranks as the biggest-selling female musicians
in music history.
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Celine is the most successful artist in Canadian music history. She has sold
over 14 millions albums in Canada (according to CRIA).
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In the U.S. Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears,
Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple
diamond (shipped over ten million copies) albums.
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In October 2005, with the release of "On ne change pas", her
French-language greatest hits package, Dion set a record for the sales of a
compilation (in its opening week) in France. In a week, "On ne change pas"
had sold more than 108,000 copies. The watermark for an album is Celine's own
1995 hit album "D'eux" / "The French Album", which sold more
than 600,000 copies in its first week.
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On September 15 2004, Celine Dion received a Diamond Award at the World
Music Awards show, for selling over 175 million albums during her career.
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Dion has received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto on 25 June
2003, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2004.
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In the United States, Celine's song "I Drove All Night" from the
"One Heart" album was used, from 2003 to 2004, in an advertising
campaign for Daimler Chrysler. The contract earned her a reported $10 million.
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In 1998 she was honoured by two governments in two days: on 30 April her home
province made her an officer of the National Order of Quebec, and on 1 May she
became an officer of the Order of Canada.
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Celine Dion performed the hit single of the film "Titanic", the second
best-selling CD of the 1990s, and her albums "Falling into You" and
"Let's Talk About Love" are both in the third position, having sold
more than thirty million copies each.
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"My Heart Will Go On" has become the all-time best-selling orchestral
soundtrack in recording history.
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On U.K. singles chart Dion has had two number ones, and thirteen top-ten and
twenty-three top-forty singles.
On
the U.K. album chart she has had five number ones, and ten top-ten and fourteen
top-forty albums.
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On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Dion has had four number ones, and
ten top-ten and twenty-four top 100 singles.
On
the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart she has had four number ones and nine
top-ten albums.
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"D'Eux" / "The French Album" has sold over nine million
copies worldwide, making it the biggest selling album in a language other than
English of all time.
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Dion is the only woman in history to have had two million-selling singles in the
U.K. The first one was her U.K. hit "Think Twice" in 1994, which sold
more than 1.2 million copies. The second one was "My Heart Will Go On"
in 1998, which sold about 1.3 million copies in the U.K. alone.
"My
Heart Will Go On" is also one of the best-selling singles in music history
with worldwide sales reaches 12-15 million copies.