Posted November 14, 201311 yr Celine Dion’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles revealed 14/11/2013 http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/8604-celine_dion_2013_420x250.jpg By Daniel Lane To celebrate the release of her new album, Loved Me Back To Life, we reveal Celine Dion’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling UK Singles! Celine Dion is well and truly back! The Canadian singing sensation released her 11th English language album, Loved Me Back To Life, earlier this week, and it went straight into Wednesday’s Official Albums Chart Update at Number 2 (right behind Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP). If it maintains its momentum through to Sunday night’s final whistle, Loved Me Back To Life is on track to become her highest charting UK album in over a decade. To celebrate Celine's return, and her impending chart success, we reveal her Official Top 40 Biggest Selling UK Singles! While her recording career spans 33 years (she released her first album in 1981 when she was just 12-years-old), Celine Dion didn’t become a household name in the UK until 1988… But it was for all the wrong reasons! The then 20-year-old was chosen to represent Switzerland at Eurovision Song Contest. She finished in first place with her track Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi (which roughly translates as ‘Don't Leave Without Me’), beating the UK entry, Go, by Scott Fitzgerald by 137 points to 136. Grrr! (Maybe that’s why it’s only her 72nd biggest selling UK single? – Eurovision Ed) Her English language album, Unison, was released in 1990 in North America, but Celine didn’t find chart success on these shores until 1992 with her version of the title song from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast. The track, which also features the vocals of Peabo Bryson, was ditched from the film’s final theatrical release, but Disney elected to keep it on the official soundtrack. It peaked at Number 9 on the Official Singles Chart in May, 1992 and is her 24th biggest selling UK single to date with over 18,000 sales. While her subsequent three UK single releases (1992’s If You Asked Me, Love Can Move Mountains and 1993’s Where Does My Heart Beat Now?) failed to make the UK Top 40, Celine was back with a vengeance in 1994 with The Power Of Love, which peaked at Number 4. It’s now her 11th biggest selling UK single overall with 157,000 sales to date. Celine scored her first UK Number 1 the following year with Think Twice. This slow burning, powerhouse of a ballad, would go on to become one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all time. It’s also her second biggest selling single so far, with more than 1.32 million copies sold to date. However it would be Celine’s second Number 1, My Heart Will Go On, which would go on to become her first UK million selling single, and her over-all biggest selling single of all-time. Taken from the soundtrack to James Cameron’s cinema epic Titanic, My Heart Will Go On spent two non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 in 1998. It lost the top spot initially to Fatboy Slim’s remix of Cornershop’s Brimfull Of Asha and the Run DMC Vs Jason Nevins’ It’s Like That. We don't think Celine minded, too much, as My Heart Will Go On passed the million copies mark in the UK after just eight weeks. It has now sold over one-and-a-half million copies to date in the UK. 1996’s Because You Loved Me is Celine’s third biggest selling UK single with more than 467,000 sales, while her 1997 duet with Barbra Streisand is at Number 4 with 436,000 sales. The Top 5 is completed by 1996’s It’s All Coming Back To Me Now (425,000 UK sales to date). So here they are then, Celine Dion’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling UK Singles of all-time! Celine Dion’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling UK Singles TITLE ARTIST CREDIT PEAK CHART POSITION YEAR OF RELEASE 1 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1 1998 [1.5+ Million] 2 THINK TWICE CELINE DION 1 1994 [1.32 Million] 3 BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME CELINE DION 5 1996 [467,000] 4 TELL HIM BARBRA STREISAND & CELINE DION 3 1997 [436,000] :o :o 5 IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW CELINE DION 3 1996 [425,000] 6 I'M YOUR ANGEL CELINE DION & R KELLY 3 1998 7 ALL BY MYSELF CELINE DION 6 1996 8 IMMORTALITY CELINE DION WITH THE BEE GEES 5 1998 9 FALLING INTO YOU CELINE DION 10 1996 10 A NEW DAY HAS COME CELINE DION 7 2002 11 THE POWER OF LOVE CELINE DION 4 1994 [157,000] 12 THE REASON CELINE DION 11 1997 13 THAT'S THE WAY IT IS CELINE DION 12 1999 14 TU M'AIMES ENCORE (TO LOVE ME AGAIN) CELINE DION 7 1995 15 ONLY ONE ROAD CELINE DION 8 1995 16 I'M ALIVE CELINE DION 17 2002 17 CALL THE MAN CELINE DION 11 1997 18 MISLED CELINE DION 15 1995 19 THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE CELINE DION 19 2000 20 TREAT HER LIKE A LADY CELINE DION 29 1999 21 I DROVE ALL NIGHT CELINE DION N/A 2003 22 TAKING CHANCES CELINE DION 40 2007 23 ALONE CELINE DION 85 2007 24 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CELINE DION & PEABO BRYSON 9 1992 [18,000] 25 GOODBYE'S (THE SADDEST WORD) CELINE DION 38 2002 26 THE PRAYER CELINE DION N/A 1999 27 RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH CELINE DION N/A 2005 28 ONE HEART CELINE DION 27 2003 29 I BELIEVE IN YOU (JE CROIS EN TOI) IL DIVO & CELINE DION N/A 2005 30 LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE CELINE DION 75 2013 31 DANCE WITH MY FATHER CELINE DION N/A 2005 32 I LOVE YOU CELINE DION N/A 2005 33 IF THATS WHAT IT TAKES CELINE DION N/A 2005 34 EYES ON ME CELINE DION 113 2007 35 TO LOVE YOU MORE CELINE DION N/A 2004 36 FLY CELINE DION N/A 2005 37 I SURRENDER CELINE DION N/A 2004 38 THEN YOU LOOK AT ME CELINE DION N/A 2004 39 O HOLY NIGHT CELINE DION N/A 2004 40 WHERE DOES MY HEART BEAT NOW CELINE DION N/A 2004 © 2013 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...-revealed-2609/ Edited November 14, 201311 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
November 14, 201311 yr So a #9 single can be outsold by one which peaked at #85? :P Nice to see 'All By Myself' in the Top 10; I'd like to think her version is more popular than the original - her performance from the Taking Chances World Tour is the best live vocal I've ever heard. :wub: Z9i03WJMyFw
November 14, 201311 yr how is I Drove All Night so high? It peaked at #27, not sure why the OCC says it missed the charts.
November 14, 201311 yr So a #9 single can be outsold by one which peaked at #85? :P Nice to see 'All By Myself' in the Top 10; I'd like to think her version is more popular than the original - her performance from the Taking Chances World Tour is the best live vocal I've ever heard. :wub: Z9i03WJMyFw Well, mostly live :P
November 14, 201311 yr Author It peaked at #27, not sure why the OCC says it missed the charts. It was released as a double A side single with "One Heart", although it was treated more as a B side since "One Heart" was the song really being promoted at the time.
November 14, 201311 yr Which bit isn't? Pretty sure the Big Note is pre-recorded and has been for years.
November 14, 201311 yr Pretty sure the Big Note is pre-recorded and has been for years. I was fearing that. :cry: Ffs Celine.
November 14, 201311 yr It was released as a double A side single with "One Heart", although it was treated more as a B side since "One Heart" was the song really being promoted at the time. The OCC database, Polyhex, both the last Guinness & Virgin books have it just "One Heart" charting, no mention of a double A side
November 14, 201311 yr A song that missed the top 200 in 2003 has sold more than a top 10 hit from 1992. :lol:
November 14, 201311 yr The OCC database, Polyhex, both the last Guinness & Virgin books have it just "One Heart" charting, no mention of a double A side Well the tracklistings of the CD's are: CD1 1. One Heart 2. I Drove All Night 3. All by Myself 4. One Heart (video) CD2 1. One Heart 2. I Drove All Night 3. I Drove All Night (Hex Hector extended vocal import mix) 4. I Drove All Night (video) So it would seem like it was a double A side but on the cover it just says 'One Heart'. I only have CD1, don't know about CD2. :lol: Edited November 14, 201311 yr by Scherz
November 14, 201311 yr Why would "I Drove All Night" featuring as track 2 make it seem like a Double A-side? If it's only got "One Heart" on the cover I think that pretty much confirms that was the A-side and "I Drove All Night" was a B-side
November 14, 201311 yr Celine Dion was established as an album seller in music industry. The fact that the cd-singles were so expensive in the past, it can explain why her sales were a bit low..Nowadays, you can spend the same money for candies and songs. That's why the majority of artists have great singles sales..But the majority of them have disappointed album sales too..When you buy a whole album, it means that you like more than one song..So, it's better for artists having great album sales and not only random hits..
November 14, 201311 yr Why would "I Drove All Night" featuring as track 2 make it seem like a Double A-side? If it's only got "One Heart" on the cover I think that pretty much confirms that was the A-side and "I Drove All Night" was a B-side I'm not saying it was for sure, but the OCC seem to have counted it as one for this list. It's also got a remix and the video featured on CD2.. would a b-side warrant having a remix and a video? That said, if you search for Celine Dion on the OCC's site, it has no mention of "I Drove All Night". Weird :P
November 15, 201311 yr Were sales really that bad in 1992? 'Beauty and the Beast' spent 3 weeks in the Top 20. [14-9-16-23-42-55-74] :unsure:
November 15, 201311 yr So a #9 single can be outsold by one which peaked at #85? :P I know, how is that even possible? :wacko: I guess 'Alone' must continue to sell well on trickle sales or something. I had no idea Celine Dion even released 40 singles! For me, 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' >>>>>> all other Celine Dion songs :wub:
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