The Colour of My Love

Infobox Album |
Name = The Colour of My Love
Type = Studio album
Artist = Céline Dion


Released = Start date|1993|11|9
Recorded = 1993
Genre = Pop
Length = 66:24
Label = Columbia, Epic
Producer = Walter Afanasieff, David Foster, Steve Lindsey, Christopher Neil, Aldo Nova, Guy Roche, Ric Wake
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lluk6ja771r0 link]
Last album = "Celine Dion"
1992
This album = "The Colour of My Love"
(1993)
Next album = "À l'Olympia"
(1994)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = Japanese limited editionSingles
Name = The Colour of My Love
Type = studio
Single 1 = When I Fall in Love
Single 1 date = June 28 1993
Single 2 = The Power of Love
Single 2 date = November 1 1993
Single 3 = Misled
Single 3 date = April 4 1994
Single 4 = Think Twice
Single 4 date = July 18 1994
Single 5 = Only One Road
Single 5 date = November 21 1994
Single 6 = Next Plane Out
Single 6 date = October 23 1995

"The Colour of My Love" is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 9 1993. It was her third English-language album and eighteenth overall.

Album information

Dion worked with people who helped her on previous albums "Unison" and "Celine Dion": David Foster, Walter Afanasieff or Diane Warren to name a few.

This album represents the internationalisation of Céline Dion. With "The Colour of My Love" she reached worldwide fame.

Non-U.S. version of the album included additional song "Just Walk Away" (issued as a promotional single in Spain). "The Colour of My Love" was re-released in Japan on October 21 1995 with a bonus track "To Love You More" (which became a number one smash hit in this country).

"The Colour of My Love" was noteworthy in that, in the dedication section, it was the first public acknowledgment that Dion had fallen in love with her manager, René Angélil. In the dedication, Dion had named Angélil "the colour of [her] love."

With "When I Fall in Love" and "The Power of Love" Céline Dion got two Grammy Awards nominations for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance respectively.

She won many awards during "The Colour of My Love" era, including: Ivor Novello Award for "Think Twice," Japan Gold Disc Award for "To Love You More," IRMA Award for "The Colour of My Love", and World Music Award for World’s Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year. Dion received also many Juno Awards and Félix Awards, and was nominated for one American Music Award.

She did The Colour of My Love Tour to support the album. "The Colour of My Love Concert" VHS/DVD was also released.

Chart success

"The Colour of My Love" to this point was Dion's biggest success. This is more than her two previous English albums and all of her previous French albums together. "The Colour of My Love" was Dion's first album to reach number 1 on the charts. It featured also her first number 1 singles: "The Power of Love" (United States, Canada, Australia), "Think Twice" (United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and "To Love You More" (Japan).

"The Colour of My Love" gave Céline Dion big success in the U.S. with sales exceeding more than 6 million copies making the album 6x platinum and peaking at number 4 on the Billboard 200 (149 weeks on the chart).

With very little success at this point in the UK, the main track "Think Twice" slowly moved up the chart to number 1, where the album quickly followed. "The Colour of My Love" and the single stayed at number 1 for seven weeks both (an achievement not replicated since 1965 with The Beatles). Total album sales in the UK have reached almost two million.

The album went to number 1 in seven countries, including Norway (ten weeks at the top), Australia (eight weeks), UK (seven weeks), Canada (six weeks), Ireland (four weeks), Belgium Flanders (four weeks), and Greece.

Track listing

#"The Power of Love" (Candy DeRouge, Gunther Mende, Mary Susan Applegate, Jennifer Rush) – 5:43
#"Misled" (Jimmy Bralower, Peter Zizzo) – 3:30
#"Think Twice" (Andy Hill, Peter Sinfield) – 4:47
#"Only One Road" (Zizzo) – 4:49
#"Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" (Arnie Roman, Russ DeSalvo) – 4:01
#"Next Plane Out" (Diane Warren) – 4:59
#"Real Emotion" (Warren) – 4:26
#"When I Fall in Love" (with Clive Griffin) (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 4:20
#"Love Doesn't Ask Why" (Phil Galdston, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 4:08
#"Refuse to Dance" (Charlie Dore, Danny Schogger) – 3:33
#"I Remember L.A." (T. Colton, R. Wold) – 4:22
#"No Living Without Loving You" (Warren) – 4:23
#"Lovin' Proof" (Warren) – 4:12
#"Just Walk Away" (Albert Hammond, Marti Sharron) – 4:58 (non-U.S. bonus track)
#"The Colour of My Love" (David Foster, A. Ganov) – 3:25
#"To Love You More" (Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28 (Japanese limited edition bonus track)

Chart performance

ee also

*List of best-selling albums worldwide

References

succession box
before = "Carry On up the Charts" by Beautiful South
"Elastica" by Elastica
title = UK number one album
years = January 28, 1995 – March 12, 1995
April 1, 1995 – April 7, 1995
after = "Greatest Hits" by Bruce Springsteen
"Wake Up!" by Boo Radleyssuccession box
before = "Three Legged Dog" by The Cruel Sea
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = May 14 1995 – June 10 1995
July 30 – August 12 1995
September 10 1995 – September 23 1995
after = "Tuesday Night Music Club" by Sheryl Crow