Falling into You

Infobox Album | Name = Falling into You
Type = Studio album
Artist = Céline Dion


Released = Start date|1996|3|8 | Recorded = 1995-1996
Genre = Pop
Length = 76:02
Label = Columbia, Epic
Producer = Babyface, Roy Bittan, Jeff Bova, David Foster, Humberto Gatica, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Rick Hahn, Dan Hill, John Jones, Rick Nowels, Aldo Nova, Steven Rinkoff, Billy Steinberg, Jim Steinman, Ric Wake
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:z9ec97ukkrdt link]
*"Entertainment Weekly B [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,291693,00.html link]
*"Los Angeles Times" (mixed) 03/27/97. (pg. 47)
Last album = "D'eux"
(1995)
This album = "Falling into You"
(1996)
Next album = "Live à Paris"
(1996)
Misc = Singles
Name = Falling into You
Type = studio
Single 1 = Falling into You
Single 1 date = February 19 1996
Single 2 = Because You Loved Me
Single 2 date = February 19 1996
Single 3 = It's All Coming Back to Me Now
Single 3 date = July 29 1996
Single 4 = All by Myself
Single 4 date = October 7 1996

"Falling into You" is Céline Dion's fourth English album and twenty-first in total, released on March 11, 1996. The album won the Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year at the 1997 Grammy Awards Ceremony. Along with Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller", "Falling into You" is the only album to stay in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 Album charts for more than one year. It remains one of the best-selling albums in history, and one of the best-selling albums by a female artist with nearly 30 million copies sold worldwide. [http://www.mediatraffic.de/alltime-album-chart.htm MediaTraffic — All-Time Album Chart] ]

"Let's Talk About Love / Falling into You / A New Day Has Come" 3CD set in a new package was released in November 2007 in Europe and Canada, and December 2007 in Australia. It was released on January 29 2008 in the U.S.

Album information

"Falling into You" presented Dion at the height of her popularity, and showed a further progression of her music. In an attempt to reach a wider audience, the album combined many elements: ornate orchestral frills and African chanting, and instruments like the violin, Spanish guitar, trombone, the cavaquinho, saxophone and supreme string arrangements by Paul Buckmaster created a new sound. The singles encompassed a variety of musical styles: the title track and "River Deep, Mountain High" (a Tina Turner cover) made prominent use of percussion instruments; "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (a remake of Jim Steinman's song) and a remake of Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano; and the maudlin ballad, "Because You Loved Me," written by Diane Warren, served as the theme to the 1996 film "Up Close & Personal". The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1996, as well as four Grammy Awards. Céline Dion performed at both ceremonies. The album included also Carole King's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and Marie Claire D'ubaldo's "Falling into You."

"If That's What It Takes," "I Don't Know," and "Fly" are the English adaptations of songs from the album "D'eux".

Dion's status on the world stage was further solidified when she was asked to perform "The Power of the Dream" at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics. She sang in front of more than 100,000 people around her, in addition to over three and a half billion of TV viewers from their homes. Céline Dion gave away the money she received for the occasion with a little extra to the Canadian team, to support Canadian athletes. The song was included on some limited editions of "Falling into You" in Asia and Australia. It became available worldwide on her 2000 compilation "The Collector's Series Volume One".

"Falling into You" won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as many various awards all over the world. On April 17 1997 in Monaco, Dion was the big winning star of the World Music Awards ceremony. She has won 3 awards: Best-selling Canadian female singer, Best-selling artist (all categories altogether) and Best-selling Pop artist. They announced sales of 25 million for 1996, it's the second year in a row Céline Dion sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. During the ceremony, she sang "Call the Man" with a 30-voice gospel choir.

Dion went on the Falling into You Tour to support the album.

Critical response

The album was met with generally favorable reviews. On the one hand, Dan Leroy wrote that "Falling into You" was not very different from her previous work, and Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" and Elysa Gardner of "Los Angeles Times" wrote that the album was formulaic, and there was a lack of emotional connection to the songs. However, other critics such as Chuck Eddy, Erlewine and Daniel Durchholz lavished the album as "compelling," "passionate," "stylish," "elegant," and "remarkably well-crafted."

Chart success

"Falling into You" became one of Dion's two most successful albums, together with "Let's Talk About Love". It remains one of the best-selling albums in history, and the fifth best-selling album by a female artist (behind Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard Soundtrack," Shania Twain's "Come on Over," Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill," and Celine's own "Let's Talk About Love") with nearly 30 million copies sold worldwide. [http://www.mediatraffic.de/alltime-album-chart.htm MediaTraffic — All-Time Album Chart] ]

In the U.S. it debuted at number 2 with 192,000 copies sold in its first week, and then remained in the Top after reached the number 1 position in its 31st week. The album's achievements are notable as it is one of only three albums to remain in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for one full year (along with Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette), spending 59 consecutive weeks in the top 10. Due to its incredible staying power in the album charts, it was the third best-selling album of 1996 and of 1997 in the U.S.. In the UK the album spent a total of 43 weeks in the top 10, selling more than 2.1 million copies, and has received a 7x platinum certification.

"Falling into You" was the album that kicked "D'eux" off the top of the French chart, staying at number 1 for five weeks and being certified diamond for more than 1 million copies sold. It was the second best-selling album in 1996 in France, while "D'eux" was the fourth and "Live à Paris" tenth, making Dion the only artist in history to have three number 1 albums and three albums in the tenth best-selling ones in a year-end chart in France.

In Canada, the album topped the chart for one week and stayed there for 112 weeks. It has also been certified diamond for more than 1 million copies sold.

Track listing

#"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Jim Steinman) – 7:37
#"Because You Loved Me" (Diane Warren) – 4:33
#"Falling into You" (Billy Steinberg, Rick Nowels, Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo) – 4:18
#"Make You Happy" (Andy Marvel) – 4:31
#"Seduces Me" (Dan Hill, John Sheard) – 3:46
#"All by Myself" (Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff) – 5:12
#"Declaration of Love" (M. Jay, C. Gaudette) – 4:20
#"Dreamin' of You" (Aldo Nova, Peter Barbeau) – 5:07
#"I Love You" (Nova) – 5:30
#"If That's What It Takes" (Phil Galdston, Jean-Jacques Goldman) – 4:12
#"I Don't Know" (Galdston, Goldman) – 4:38
#"River Deep, Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 4:10
#"Call the Man" (Andy Hill, Peter Sinfield) – 6:08
#"Fly" (Galdston, Goldman) – 2:58Canadian bonus track:15. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12European/Australian bonus tracks:15. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Jerry Wexler, Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:40:16. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12Japanese bonus tracks:15. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12:16. "To Love You More" (David Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28Asian bonus tracks:15. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Wexler, Goffin, King) – 3:40:16. "To Love You More" (Foster, Miles) – 5:28Mexican/Spanish bonus tracks:15. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Wexler, Goffin, King) – 3:40:16. "Sola Otra Vez" (Carmen, Rachmaninoff, Manny Benito) – 5:12

Limited Asian bonus CD
#"The Power of the Dream" (live) (Foster, Babyface, L. Thompson) – 4:31
#"Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12
#"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Classic Paradise mix) (Steinman) – 8:15
#"The Power of Love" (live) (C. Rouge, G. Mende, M.S. Applegate, J. Rush) – 4:45
#"River Deep, Mountain High" (live) (Spector, Barry, Greenwich) – 3:29First limited Australian bonus CD
#"Because You Loved Me" (Warren) – 4:33
#"I Don't Know" (Galdston, Goldman) – 4:38
#"Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (Goldman) – 4:14
#"Le ballet" (Goldman) – 4:25
#"The Power of the Dream" (Foster, Babyface, Thompson) – 4:31 Second limited Australian bonus CD
#"Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" (live) (Arnie Roman, R. Desalvo) – 4:01
#"Love Can Move Mountains" (live) (Warren) – 4:53
#"If You Asked Me To" (live) (Warren) – 3:55
#"Only One Road" (live) (Peter Zizzo) – 4:49
#"Think Twice" (live) (Hill, Sinfield) – 4:47
#"The Power of Love" (live) (Rouge, Mende, Applegate, Rush) – 5:43

Chart performance

ee also

*List of best-selling albums worldwide
*List of best-selling albums in the United States
*Best-selling albums in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began
*List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States
*List of best-selling CDs (Brazil)

References

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before = "Home Again" by New Edition
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = October 5 - October 18 1996
October 26 - November 1 1996
after = "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah"
by Nirvanasuccession box
before = "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" by Oasis
title = UK number one album
years = March 23 1996 – March 29 1996
after = "Anthology 2" by The Beatles succession box
before = "Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
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June 30 - July 6 1996
July 14 - July 20 1996
August 18 - August 24 1996
after = "To the Faithful Departed"
by The Cranberries