Let's Talk About Love

Infobox Album | Name = Let's Talk About Love
Type = Studio album
Artist = Céline Dion


Released = Start date|1997|11|14
Recorded = 1997
Genre = Pop
Length = 74:35
Label = Columbia, Epic
Producer = Walter Afanasieff, David Foster, Humberto Gatica, Corey Hart, James Horner, George Martin, Billy Pace, Tony Renis, Jim Steinman, Ric Wake
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:osr67u50o0jw link] | Last album = "Live à Paris"
(1996)
This album = "Let's Talk About Love"
(1997)
Next album = "S'il suffisait d'aimer"
(1998)
Misc = Singles
Name = Let's Talk About Love
Type = studio
Single 1 = Tell Him
Single 1 date = November 3, 1997
Single 2 = Be the Man
Single 2 date = November 13, 1997
Single 3 = The Reason
Single 3 date = December 8, 1997
Single 4 = My Heart Will Go On
Single 4 date = December 8, 1997
Single 5 = Immortality
Single 5 date = June 8, 1998
Single 6 = When I Need You
Single 6 date = September 7, 1998
Single 7 = I Hate You Then I Love You
Single 7 date = September 7, 1998
Single 8 = Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)
Single 8 date = September 7, 1998

"Let's Talk About Love" is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 14, 1997. It is her 5th English-language album and 23rd in total. 3CD set including "Let's Talk About Love / Falling into You / A New Day Has Come" in a new package was released between November 2007 and January 2008 worldwide.

Album information

Céline Dion followed successful "Falling into You" with "Let's Talk About Love", which she publicized as its sequel. The recording process took place in London, New York, and Los Angeles, and featured a host of special guests: Barbra Streisand on "Tell Him," the Bee Gees on "Immortality," and world-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti on "I Hate You Then I Love You." Other musicians included Carole King and Sir George Martin - the famous The Beatles producer on "The Reason," Bryan Adams on "Let's Talk About Love," and Jamaican singer Diana King, who added a reggae tinge to "Treat Her Like a Lady." As the name suggests, the album had the same theme as Dion's preceding albums: "love." However, emphasis was also placed on "brotherly love" with "Where Is the Love" and "Let's Talk About Love."

The most successful single from the album became the classically influenced ballad "My Heart Will Go On," which was composed by James Horner, and produced by Horner and Walter Afanasieff. Serving as the love theme for the 1997 blockbuster film "Titanic", the song topped the charts in most countries across the world, and has become Dion's signature song. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, four Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, and many other awards around the world. "Let's Talk About Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and "Tell Him" for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

The track "Where Is the Love" was a last minute addition to the album. It replaced "Is Nothing Sacred," a Jim Steinman penned/produced song which was removed from the album for unknown reasons. An early Asian advertisement poster for the forthcoming album listed "Is Nothing Sacred" in the tracklist. The album was originally named "The Reason".

"Let's Talk About Love" includes the following covers: "Treat Her Like a Lady" (Diana King), "Love Is on the Way" (Billy Porter), "When I Need You" (Leo Sayer), "I Hate You Then I Love You" (slightly modified "Never, Never, Never" by Shirley Bassey - an adaptation of the Italian song "Grande, Grande, Grande" sang by Mina Mazzini), "Let's Talk About Love" (English version of the French song "Puisque Tu Pars" by Jean-Jacques Goldman) and "Amar Haciendo el Amor" (Spanish adaptation of the "You Only Love Once" by Billy Mann).

Dion did the 1998-99 Let's Talk About Love Tour to support the album.

Chart success

Before "Let's Talk About Love" was even released, Sony Music Entertainment announced they had orders for almost 11 million copies worldwide (10,750,300), making it the most expected album of 1997. The sales skyrocketed right at the beginning, and the album quickly topped the charts all around the world, smashing sales records in many countries. "Let's Talk About Love" has sold 30 million copies worldwide and became one of the best-selling albums in history (20 million were sold in first four months, 6 of which in the U.S.).

In Canada, it debuted at number 1 with 230,212 copies sold, another record by Dion in her native country that still remains, and after only three weeks, it was certified diamond; 1.5 million copies were sold to date. In the United States, it debuted at number 2 with 334,000 copies. The sales were going on increasing until a 624,000 total in its sixth week, though remaining at number 2. Finally, "Let's Talk About Love" topped the Billboard 200 the following week, despite a decrease of 54%. To date, it has sold more than 10.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been certified diamond (10x platinum).

In 2003, the album received an IFPI Award to commemorate the sale 10 millions copies of "Let's Talk About Love" in Europe, including 2 million copies sold in the UK, 1.5 million in Germany, 1.2 million in France and 1 million in Italy.

The album became a million seller also in Japan and Brazil.

"Let's Talk About Love" made Dion the only female recording artist to have two albums with more than 30 million copies sold (with her previous international release "Falling into you"), a record that she still holds.

Track listing

#"The Reason" (Carole King, Mark Hudson, Greg Wells) – 5:01
#"Immortality" (featuring the Bee Gees) (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb) – 4:11
#"Treat Her Like a Lady" (featuring Diana King and Brownstone) (Diana King, Andy Marvel, Billy Mann, Céline Dion) – 4:05
#"Why Oh Why" (Marti Sharron, Danny Sembello) – 4:50
#"Love Is On the Way" (Peter Zizzo, Denise Rich, Tina Shafer) – 4:25
#"Tell Him" (with Barbra Streisand) (Linda Thompson, Walter Afanasieff, David Foster) – 4:51
#"When I Need You" (Albert Hammond, Carole Bayer Sager) – 4:12
#"Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" (Corey Hart) – 4:40
#"Us" (Billy Pace) – 5:47
#"Just a Little Bit of Love" (Maria Christensen, Arnie Roman, Arthur Jacobson) – 4:06
#"My Heart Will Go On" (love theme from " Titanic") (James Horner, Will Jennings) – 4:40
#"Where Is the Love" (Hart) – 4:55
#"I Hate You Then I Love You" (with Luciano Pavarotti) (Tony Renis, Manuel de Falla, Alberto Testa, Fabio Testa, Norman Newell) – 4:42
#"Let's Talk About Love" (Bryan Adams, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Eliot Kennedy) – 5:12U.S. bonus track:15. "To Love You More" (Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28
Canadian bonus track:15. "Amar Haciendo el Amor" (Mann, Rich, Manny Benito) – 4:12
Australian / Asian / European bonus tracks:15. "Amar Haciendo el Amor" (Mann, Rich, Benito) – 4:12
:16. "Be the Man" (Foster, Miles) – 4:39

Asian tour limited edition bonus CD
#"My Heart Will Go On" (Richie Jones mix) (Horner, Jennings) – 4:16
#"To Love You More" (Tony Moran mix) (Foster, Miles) – 5:54
#"Be the Man" (karaoke version) (Foster, Miles) – 4:39
#"Unison" (remix) (Andy Goldmark, Bruce Roberts) – 4:04
#"Love Can Move Mountains" (live) (Diane Warren) – 5:25

Chart performance

ee also

*List of best-selling albums worldwide
*List of best-selling albums in the United States
*List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States
*List of best-selling CDs (Brazil)

References

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