Posted July 17, 200619 yr 1995 JANUARY *Celine was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single ("The Power Of Love"). FEBRUARY *Colour Of My Love was certified 3x platinum. *Colour Of My Love topped the UK Albums chart for 6 weeks. *Celine topped the UK Singles chart for 7 weeks with "Think Twice." MARCH *Celine was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("The Power Of Love"). MAY *Celine released French Album. OCTOBER *Celine contributed the track "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woma" to the Carole King tribute LP, Tapestry Revisited. *Celine won a World Music Award for Best-Selling Canadian Singer, Female and 2 Juno Awards for Album of the Year (Colour Of My Love) and Best-Selling Foreign or Domestic Artist. 1996 MARCH *Celine hit worldwide super-stardom with the released of Falling Into You. Celine topped the ARC Weekly Top 40 with three #1 hits: "Because You Loved Me" (hitting the Top 40 and Top 10 in March) from the film, Up Close And Personal, "It's All Coming Back To Me Now," and "All By Myself." *Celine topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart (both for 6 weeks), and the Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks chart for 19 weeks with "Because You Loved Me." *Falling Into You topped the UK LP charts for a week. *Awards for Celine during the year included an Irish Recorded Music Award for Best International Female Singer, a Juno Award for Best-Selling Francophone Album (D'eux), a World Music Award for Best-Selling Canadian Singer, Female, and was named VH1's Artist of the Year. APRIL *"Because You Loved Me" hit #1 for 6 weeks. *Celine topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Airplay chart for 14 weeks with "Because You Loved Me." *The single "Because You Loved Me" was certified platinum. MAY *Falling Into You was certified 2x platinum. JUNE *Falling Into You was certified 3x platinum. JULY *Celine Dion was certified 2x platinum. AUGUST *Falling Into You was certified 4x platinum. *Celine hit the Top 40 with "It's All Coming Back To Me Now." SEPTEMBER *Celine hit the Top 10 with "It's All Coming Back To Me Now." OCTOBER *Colour Of My Love was certified 4x platinum and Falling Into You was certified 5x platinum. *The single "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" was certified platinum and hit #1 for 5 weeks. *Falling Into You topped the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for 3 weeks. NOVEMBER *Falling Into You was certified 7x platinum. *Celine topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Airplay chart for 2 weeks and the Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks chart for 5 weeks with "It's All Coming Back To Me Now." 1997 JANUARY *Celine was nominated for 2 American Music Awards for Favorite Female Artist Rock/Pop and Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist. *Falling Into You was certified 8x platinum. FEBRUARY *Celine won 2 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album (Falling Into You) and was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("Because You Loved Me"). *Celine hit the Top 40 with her remake of "All By Myself." MARCH *Celine hit the Top 10 with "All By Myself." APRIL *Falling Into You was certified 9x platinum. *Celine hit #1 with "All By Myself." *"All By Myself" topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 3 weeks. MAY *The single "All By Myself" was certified gold. JUNE *Unison was certified platinum. *Celine spent much of the year picking up major awards including 2 Grammy Awards, 4 Juno Awards for Best-Selling Foreign or Domestic Album (Falling Into You), Best-Selling French-Speaking Album (Live A Paris), Female Vocalist of the Year, and the International Achievement Award, 3 World Music Awards for Best-Selling Canadian Recording Artist, World's Best-Selling Pop Artist, and World's Overall Best-Selling Artist, and an Irish Recorded Music Award for Best International Female Album (Falling Into You). Celine was also nominated for 2 other Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female ("Because You Loved Me"). NOVEMBER *Celine hit the Top 40 helping out Barbra Streisand with "Tell Him." *The next LP by Celine, Let's Talk About Love, was released. Celine was joined on the LP by the Barbra Streisand (on the Top 40 hit "Tell Him"), the Bee Gees, Luciano Pavarotti, Carole King, and included the theme to the film, Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On." *Celine hit the Top 40 with "My Heart Will Go On." DECEMBER *Falling Into You was certified 10x platinum. *Let's Talk About Love topped the UK Albums chart for 5 weeks. *Celine hit the Top 10 with "My Heart Will Go On." 1998 JANUARY *Celine won an American Music Award for Favorite Female Artist Rock/Pop and was nominated for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist *Let's Talk About Love hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart for a week. *Let's Talk About Love was certified 4x platinum. *"My Heart Will Go On" topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Airplay chart for 10 weeks and the Adult Contemporary chart for 10 weeks. FEBRUARY *Celine was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Tell Him" with Barbra Streisand). *Let's Talk About Love was certified 5x platinum. *Celine hit #1 with "My Heart Will Go On" and stayed on top for 6 weeks. *"My Heart Will Go On" topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 2 weeks, and the Latin Tracks chart for 1 week. The single also topped the UK Singles chart for 4 weeks. MARCH *By March, Celine had topped the pop charts with "My Heart Will Go On" (including 6 weeks at #1 on the ARC). The song almost didn't make it on the soundtrack to Titanic. Originally, the movie's director James Cameron was against a song with vocals for the film. His composer, James Horner, felt differently and secretly had Dion record the song. Eventually, Cameron was made privy to the recording, and the song was included on the soundtrack and the film's closing credits. *It was announced toward the end of March that Celine will be made an officer in the Order of Canada on May 1st. The honor is bestowed on those who demonstrate "the highest qualities of citizenship... (with contributions that) enrich the lives of their contemporaries." *Let's Talk About Love was certified 7x platinum and "My Heart Will Go On" was certified gold. MAY *Celine hit the Top 40 with "To Love You More." JUNE *Let's Talk About Love was certified 8x platinum. *Celine hit the Top 10 with "To Love You More." AUGUST *Celine topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart with "To Love You More" for 8 weeks. SEPTEMBER *Celine was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film and Viewer's Choice ("My Heart Will Go On"). OCTOBER *Celine released S'il Suffisait D'aimer in the U.S. and could also be found on the LP, Divas Live (VH1). NOVEMBER *Celine released a holiday LP, These Are Special Times with the Top 40 duet "I'm Your Angel" with R. Kelly. *Celine could be seen guest starring in Touched By An Angel on CBS and performing live in a CBS special. *Celine also started talking about semi-retirement - taking time off for motherhood and "a normal life." Her husband, Rene, said Celine is planning a New Years Eve concert in '99 after which she'll take a break from performing and possibly starting a family and/or a film. Celine stated: "I'm only 30 years old but I live somebody who's 56... I don't feel like going on like this for another 10 years because Rene won't be there forever, unfortunately." *Celine sued a French tabloid newspaper that implied in an article that she was unable to have a child. Celine and her husband are suing for $17,500 each in damages. DECEMBER *Celine's LP, Let's Talk About Love, was the 2nd biggest-selling LP of 1998 (topped only by the Titanic soundtrack) with 5.9 million copies sold in the U.S. *"My Heart Will Go On" was the Top Single of the Year according to The ARC Weekly Top 40. *These Are Special Times was certified 3x platinum. *"I'm Your Angel" topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 6 weeks, and the Adult Contemporary chart for 12 weeks. *Celine topped the Billboard Year-End Charts as the Top Billboard 200 Album Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album Artist - Female, Top Hot Adult Contemporary Artist, and with the Top Soundtrack Single ("My Heart Will Go On"). *Awards during the year included a MuchMusic Video Award for People's Choice Favorite Canadian Artist, a World Music Award for Best-Selling Canadian Singer, Female, and was again named VH1's Artist of the Year. 1999 JANUARY *Celine won 2 American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Album (Let's Talk About Love). *Celine hit #1 with "I'm Your Angel" (with R. Kelly). FEBRUARY *Celine won 2 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("My Heart Will Go On") and was nominated for Best Pop Album for Let's Talk About Love, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("I'm Your Angel" (with R. Kelly)). MARCH *Celine won 4 more Juno Awards for Best Female Vocalist, Best-Selling Francophone Album (S'il Suffisait D'aimer), Best Album and Best Selling Album (Let's Talk About Love) and a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Musical Performer. *Let's Talk About Love was certified 9x platinum. APRIL *It was announced that Celine would postpone several of her concerts in April and May due to her husband's recovery from surgery for skin cancer. She stated: "Rene is the biggest priority in my life and I want to be at his side as he continues his treatment." MAY *Celine took home a Blockbuster Award for Favorite Song from a Movie for "My Heart Will Go On." SEPTEMBER *Dion confirmed that her December 31st concert in Montreal will be her last public performance for "...at least 2 years, maybe 2 and a half, maybe 3..." to spend time with her husband and possibly start a family. Dion said "...we are going to go for picnics. We are going to try to have a child. We want to be there for each other." OCTOBER *Dion had to defend herself against a lawsuit by a former drummer claiming that she lip-synced during many live performances. NOVEMBER *A new LP, All The Way - A Decade Of Song, was released with some of her hits and some new tracks including a "virtual duet" with Frank Sinatra. *Colour Of My Love was certified 6x platinum, Let's Talk About Love was certified 10x platinum, and These Are Special Times was certified 4x platinum. *Celine hit the Top 40 with "That's The Way It Is." DECEMBER *Celine was nominated for a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female performer. *The single "I'm Your Angel" (with R. Kelly) was certified platinum. All The Way - A Decade Of Song was certified 4x platinum and topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart for 3 weeks. *Celine hit the Top 10 with "That's The Way It Is" which also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 1 week. *All The Way - A Decade Of Song topped the UK Albums chart for a week and the Billboard Top Internet Album Sales chart for 2 weeks. *Celine ended her year with a New Year's Eve concert in Quebec - her last concert performance for the next few years.
July 17, 200619 yr WELL DONE SUUS that an excellent post and a very interesting and full filling read,i love reading and knowing this kinda stuff so thank you :cheer:
July 17, 200619 yr Author Me 2 actually. You get to know peeps a little better when u know the facts and figures.
July 17, 200619 yr YA I WILL GIVE THAT A GO cheers, have to have a shower will be back in a wee while
July 17, 200619 yr Author Ok. Am off to bed as I'm 1 hour ahead of you and I have to get up in about 7 hours. Good luck with your Kylie facts.
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