Celine Dion :: Charts & Sales History

[brunosilva]

26 60 83 67 DION*CELINE THESE ARE SPECIAL TIMES 15 25 12 5233395

2 173 60 DION*CELINE MY HEART WILL GO ON (FROM BLEEP! 6548 43 4564 768668

What means FROM BLEEP! ?

[brunosilva]

My Heart Will Go On - US:

Itunes:
Pop Chart: 73 [#257 on the main chart] + 529
Soundtrack Chart: 53 + 63 + 268 + 295 + 491

Amazon.com:
287

[brunosilva]

My Heart Will Go On - US:

Itunes:
Pop Chart: 69 [#231 on the main chart] + 613
Soundtrack Chart: 45 + 77 + 221 + 376 + 540

Amazon.com:
234

My Heart Will Go On - itunes:

Spain: 84 + 193
Portugal: 100 + 833
Italy: 153
New Zealand: 159
UK: 164 + 759
Belgium: 185
Austria: 209 + 449
France: 228 + 531
US: 231
Switzerland: 246 + 295
Denmark: 249 + 879
Ireland: 271
Australia: 350 + 399
Germany: 379 + 616 + 766
Norway: 429
Netherlands: 451
Finland: 557 + 643
Mexico: 576
Luxembourg: 598
Japan: 620
Canada: 624 + 851 + 861
Sweden: 696
Greece: 721

[aez]

Catalog Albums:

1 62 TITANIC SOUNDTRACK 2453 999 83 10149729

14 129 134 136 DION*CELINE LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE 1700 3 1657 9566727

Great! And next week we'll see the effect of the first weekend of the movie in theaters.

[Wayne]

Thanks to the movie Titanic, the hit song My Heart Will Go On and singer Celine Dion are as synonymous with the ship as the iceberg and "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown.

As James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster drama sailed on to become the largest-grossing movie ever — at least until Cameron's Avatar in 2009 — the Dion power ballad was making historic waves of its own.

Written by Oscar-winning composer James Horner , the pop tune was the world's best-selling single of 1998, has sold more than 15 million copies since, won four Grammy Awards , won an Oscar for best original song and ranks No. 14 on the American Film Institute 's list of the 100 greatest movie songs.

As with all phenomena, it's a triangulation of events," says Craig Marks, editor in chief of the music site Popdust.com. "It's the biggest movie that's both for grown-ups but especially for ardent teenagers who see emotions as these big huge things that are uncontrollable. The song matched that feeling. There is no bigger-sounding song, really, than My Heart Will Go On."

Although the song is so tied to the movie, it originated near the end of production of the film — after Cameron had decided there were to be no songs on the soundtrack.

Horner, who had worked with the director when scoring 1986's Aliens, worked out five different themes when composing for Titanic, toying with different instruments and influences such as Celtic music. (Almost every note Horner created for Titanic, even the unused material, will appear on a four-disc Collector's Anniversary Edition of the soundtrack.)

The composer spooled two themes together, commissioned lyrics from songwriter Will Jennings and recorded Dion, a friend of his, singing the song on a digital audio tape.

The challenge then was finding a time to spring the tune on Cameron when he was in a good mood. Horner ended up carrying the tape in his pocket for a month until one day, when the director was happy after fixing a problematic special effect, Horner sat him down to listen to it.

He immediately recognized Dion's voice and the love themes the song shared with the cinematic story of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), Horner says. "It was a bit of a revelation because he had never ever thought about this before, and here we were breaking new ground on something."

Horner had isolated himself in his studio and was working on his next movie score when Titanic opened in December 1997. He was unaware of the success of the movie and song until Cameron and record executives called him a month later.

As the song and the soundtrack album rose to the top of the Billboard charts, "I think it was sort of at that point that I realized that the music had just transcended being film music and that Titanic was really taking a place in history as an important cinema marriage, as opposed to being another run-of-the-mill movie," Horner says.

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In the meantime, Dion was going from pop star to supernova, with her first name becoming a one-word household name as she was making My Heart Will Go On her signature tune. "Titanic made my fame bigger, crazier. It was wonderful, a fantasy," she told USA TODAY in 2000.

"It's a really, really range-y song, and it has this horrendous modulation halfway through," Horner says. "You have to have a very strong voice and a sure voice to be able to sing it. And she was just the person."

Marks agrees. "There's that point two-thirds of the way through where there's that big key change, and she hits that big note, and that's it.

"It's hard to remain stoic in the face of that octave change. It grabs you by the throat and chokes the life out of you."

He was the editor of Spin magazine at the time the song was topping charts. And while it wasn't the normal thing he was tuned into, the song's pop-culture effect was hard to ignore, especially in an era of hyper-romantic movie power ballads like Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You from The Bodyguard.

The schmaltz-laden soundtrack and ones that followed, such as Armageddon featuring Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, usually "reek of uncool," says Marks, who was editor of Blender when the magazine and VH1 ranked My Heart Will Go On at No. 50 on their list of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs … Ever." (After revisiting the Dion tune recently, Marks says he finds the penny whistle in My Heart Will Go On "incorrigibly maudlin. It's just so manipulative.")

Still, that kind of love-enduring-after-death grandiosity has the potential to melt even the coldest hearts.

"In some ways, it is very much like the movie in that it raises your critical hackles, and my first instinct is to resist," Marks says. "But like the movie, all of a sudden you're sitting there and you're like, 'What is this water coming out of my eye? Oh yeah, I'm crying. Holy (expletive).' It just kind of takes you away in ways that your brain doesn't necessarily want to go, but you can't help it."

Adds Horner: "It's a powerful song that unleashes a lot of inner feelings, and the inner feelings are different for those who experience it. Different people have different feelings. The fact that the general public wanted this kind of a thing was sort of amazing."

[lostprophet]

HOW WE KNOW IT GOES ON

Hi Gary,

Thank you for honoring Celine Dion on her birthday last Friday (March 30) with a look at her most notable Billboard chart achievements.

With "Titanic" having been re-released in theaters this week in 3D, it's very likely that there will be a renewed public interest in the film's theme song, Dion's Academy- and Grammy-Award winning "My Heart Will Go On." The song spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1998.

I was wondering if you could please provide up-to-date sales for the classic song, as well as Dion's best selling songs overall.

Thanks and God bless,

Derek Fenningdorf
Brighton, Michigan

Hi Derek,

Movie-goers/music fans have actually already begun to rekindle their love for "My Heart Will Go On." The song rises from 6,000 to 8,000 downloads sold this week, according to SoundScan. (That's also four-times the sales of her next-best-seller this week, "Because You Loved Me.")

As for Dion's top-selling songs, since her career covers both the physical and digital singles eras, let's talk about love that fans have given her in each configuration.

First, Dion's top physical singles, in terms of SoundScan sales:

1,343,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,176,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,117,000, "The Power of Love"
658,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
500,000, "All By Myself"

And, here are Dion's best-selling digital tracks:

1,133,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
704,000, "Because You Loved Me"
498,000, "Taking Chances"
387,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
357,000, "A New Day Has Come"

Overall, Dion's top-selling songs, physical and digital combined, look like this:

2,047,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,791,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
1,563,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,471,000, "The Power of Love"
784,000, "Beauty and the Beast," with Peabo Bryson

While "Because" takes overall best-seller honors, that "Heart" is easily Dion's most popular download, the configuration of choice for the last decade, reinforces its appeal more than 14 years after its original release, when "Titanic" first stormed theaters.

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-does-lionel-richie-make-billboard-1006700152.story?page=4

[Wayne]

YAY! Thanks LostProphet!

That's over 3m sales from those five digital sellers alone!

[Wayne]

1,133,000, "My Heart Will Go On" [ 821,000 as of July 2010 = 312,000]
704,000, "Because You Loved Me" [473,000 as of July 2010 = 231,000]
498,000, "Taking Chances" [263,000 as of February 2008 = 235,000]
387,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" [291,000 as of August 2010 = 96,000]
357,000, "A New Day Has Come" [187,000 as of June 2008 = 170,000]

[brunosilva]

Wow!

I love new numbers!

We can conclude that The Power Of Love has sold 354k copies and Beauty And The Beast has sold 284k copies.

[brunosilva]

We have numbers for 36 songs.
All the numbers are from July/August/September/October 2010 and O Holy Night is till 18/12/2011.

1.133.000 - My Heart Will Go On
704.000 - Because You Loved Me
498.000 - Taking Chances
387.000 - It's All Coming Back To Me Now
357.000 - A New Day Has Come
354.000 - The Power Of Love
284.000 - Beauty And The Beast
173.000 - The Prayer
170.425 - O Holy Night
164.000 - I Drove All Night
156.000 - I'm Alive
154.000 - That's The Way It Is
117.000 - All By Myself
101.000 - Have You Ever Been In Love
098.000 - Alone
096.000 - I'm Your Angel
086.000 - If You Asked Me To
084.000 - To Love You More
074.000 - Tell Him
051.000 - God Bless America
043.000 - I Surrender
036.000 - River Deep Mountain High
031.000 - My Love
030.000 - Where Does My Heart Beat Now
026.000 - Eyes On Me
021.000 - Pour Que tu m'aimes Encore
018.000 - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
017.000 - Don't Save It All For Christmas Day
015.000 - Love Can Move Mountains
015.000 - Nothing Broken But My Heart
014.000 - Think Twice
013.000 - When I Fall In Love
010.000 - A World To Believe In
009.000 - Only One Road
008.000 - Misled
007.000 - (If There Was) Any Other Way

Total: 5.554.425

[Aries]

956,000 of those 5+ million were sold last year as well as 167,000 sales of MHWGO.

Do they get sales info before the tracking week ends? What do you think of it selling 8k? Did you expect more?

[brunosilva]

My Heart Will Go On - itunes:

Luxembourg: 73
Portugal: 108
Spain: 113 + 386 + 496 + 953
UK: 142 + 569
Switzerland: 164 + 535 + 733
Italy: 169 + 360 + 957
New Zealand: 182
Austria: 208 + 220 + 586
France: 247 + 485
Belgium: 253
US: 276
Sweden: 300 + 343 + 865 + 886
Denmark: 311 + 790
Ireland: 316 + 426 + 554 + 563 + 882
Australia: 351 + 473
Mexico: 368
Norway: 375 + 494
Germany: 436 + 919
Japan: 473
Netherlands: 668 + 821
Finland: 676 + 746
Greece: 715
Canada: 787 + 835

[Wayne]

Its slowly rising in the UK, but I did expect more in the US.

[brunosilva]

956,000 of those 5+ million were sold last year as well as 167,000 sales of MHWGO.

Do they get sales info before the tracking week ends? What do you think of it selling 8k? Did you expect more?

I don't think they get sales info before the tracking week ends.

8k is fantastic! I think it will sell more than 15k copies this week!

[aez]

First, Dion's top physical singles, in terms of SoundScan sales:

1,343,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,176,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,117,000, "The Power of Love"
658,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
500,000, "All By Myself"

I'm trying to find the article of "Ask Billboard" where it explains why MHWGO sold so few copies and why it only spend 2 weeks at the top, being the massive hit it was.

If someone knows something about it, let me know!

[kewlmekk2000]

First, Dion's top physical singles, in terms of SoundScan sales:

1,343,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,176,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,117,000, "The Power of Love"
658,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
500,000, "All By Myself"

I'm trying to find the article of "Ask Billboard" where it explains why MHWGO sold so few copies and why it only spend 2 weeks at the top, being the massive hit it was.

If someone knows something about it, let me know! ÙB:)

I remember it had a limited release...only 500 000 copies of the single were available...Because of that, it could only stay 2 weeks at the top of the Hot 100. I guess they wanted people to buy the album instead... i never saw the article you are talking about...

[denise]

Titanic already at the top of the top grossing movie of the week in Italy

Expect a big boost of MHWGO here.......looks like the fever for this movie is starting again.

[Wayne]

I remember it had a limited release...only 500 000 copies of the single were available...Because of that, it could only stay 2 weeks at the top of the Hot 100. I guess they wanted people to buy the album instead... i never saw the article you are talking about...

Yes, had it been given a full on release, it would've sold 3 or 4m copies stateside, I have no doubt - it was the first song in US history to top 100m AI on radio [eventually reaching 117m AI] and topped airplay for 10 weeks. It sold 360 odd thousand copies in week one, and the rest in the next week or two.

I sometimes wish that they hadn't given it a limited release; it currently stands at around 11-12m copies sold worldwide - it'd top 15m I think, had the release not been limited in the US. But then, would Lets Talk About Love have suffered? Hmm...

[aez]

Titanic already at the top of the top grossing movie of the week in Italy

Expect a big boost of MHWGO here.......looks like the fever for this movie is starting again.

That's good! Unfortunately "the fever" is not reaching the US, where it ranked 3th with "only" 17 million on its first weekend: http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ ... =14&p=.htm

[denise]

Titanic already at the top of the top grossing movie of the week in Italy

Expect a big boost of MHWGO here.......looks like the fever for this movie is starting again.

That's good! Unfortunately "the fever" is not reaching the US, where it ranked 3th with "only" 17 million on its first weekend: http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ ... =14&p=.htm

Only? 3th for a movie seen already by milions is damn good.

[aez]

Only? 3th for a movie seen already by milions is damn good.

I'm not saying it's not good, I'm just saying that it was less than expected. I mean, even "The Lion King (3D)" did better

[aez]

Talking about Titanic*

Titanic 3D opened to $35.2 million from 84 territories. Its biggest market was Russia with $5.2 million, which is actually slightly more than Titanic originally made there in 1998 (that demonstrates just how much that market has expanded in the past decade). The 3D re-release also took first place in the United Kingdom ($4.36 million) and Italy ($3 million), and had solid openings in Germany ($3.4 million), France ($3 million), Australia ($1.9 million), Spain ($1.8 million), South Korea ($1.6 million), India ($1.2 million) and Japan ($1.2 million). All in, this was a significant improvement over Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace's 3D re-release, which only opened to $20.5 million in February despite reaching more markets initially.

Titanic 3D debuts in China today (April 10), and it will likely wind up being the movie's highest-grossing market. It also reaches Brazil and Mexico on Friday, and it should ultimately add over $100 million to the movie's already-remarkable foreign tally. As it stands now, Titanic's new overseas total is $1.279 billion, which ranks second all-time behind Avatar.

*I know it's off topic but it kind of give us a good idea of how MHWGO will perform later this week on international charts.

[brunosilva]

@CNN:
"My Heart Will Go On" is the best selling single of the past 14 years and the 11th biggest selling single of all time.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2 ... e-dion.cnn

[brunosilva]

Catalog Physical Albums
15 134 136 146 DION*CELINE LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE 1844 8 1700 9568571

Digital Tracks Catalog:
3 173 60 40 DION*CELINE MY HEART WILL GO ON (FROM BLEEP! 10157 55 6548 778825

Top Seasonal Albums:
27 83 67 41 DION*CELINE THESE ARE SPECIAL TIMES 23 53 15 5233418

Top Soundtracks:
12 13 TITANIC SOUNDTRACK 3745 53 2453 10153568

[aez]

Catalog Physical Albums
15 134 136 146 DION*CELINE LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE 1844 8 1700 9568571

Digital Tracks Catalog:
3 173 60 40 DION*CELINE MY HEART WILL GO ON (FROM BLEEP! 10157 55 6548 778825

Top Soundtracks:
12 13 TITANIC SOUNDTRACK 3745 53 2453 10153568

Good! But not as I expected considering this was the "big" week.