Falling into You

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For the song of the same name, see Falling into You (song).
Falling into You
Falling into You cover
Studio album by Céline Dion
Released March 8, 1996 (1996-03-08)
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
Professional reviews
Céline Dion chronology
D'eux
(1995)		 Falling into You
(1996)		 Live à Paris
(1996)
Singles from Falling into You
  1. "Falling into You"
    Released: February 19, 1996
  2. "Because You Loved Me"
    Released: February 19, 1996
  3. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
    Released: July 29, 1996
  4. "All by Myself"
    Released: October 7, 1996
  5. "Call the Man"
    Released: June 23, 1997
  6. "Make You Happy"
    Released: July 7, 1997
  7. "Dreamin' of You"
    Released: July 14, 1997

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 the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind Shania Twain's Come on Over) with over 32 million copies sold worldwide.[1][2]

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.

Contents

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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."

[edit] 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 second best-selling album by a female artist of all time (behind Shania Twain's Come on Over) with over 31 million copies sold worldwide.[1][3]

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.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Jim Steinman) – 7:37
  2. "Because You Loved Me" (Diane Warren) – 4:33
  3. "Falling into You" (Billy Steinberg, Rick Nowels, Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo) – 4:18
  4. "Make You Happy" (Andy Marvel) – 4:31
  5. "Seduces Me" (Dan Hill, John Sheard) – 3:46
  6. "All by Myself" (Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff) – 5:12
  7. "Declaration of Love" (M. Jay, C. Gaudette) – 4:20
  8. "Dreamin' of You" (Aldo Nova, Peter Barbeau) – 5:07
  9. "I Love You" (Nova) – 5:30
  10. "If That's What It Takes" (Phil Galdston, Jean-Jacques Goldman) – 4:12
  11. "I Don't Know" (Galdston, Goldman) – 4:38
  12. "River Deep, Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 4:10
  13. "Call the Man" (Andy Hill, Peter Sinfield) – 6:08
  14. "Fly" (Galdston, Goldman) – 2:58

Canadian bonus track

15. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12

European/Australian bonus tracks

15. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Jerry Wexler, Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:40
16. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12

Japanese bonus tracks

15. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12
16. "To Love You More" (David Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28

Asian bonus tracks

15. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Wexler, Goffin, King) – 3:40
16. "To Love You More" (Foster, Miles) – 5:28

Mexican/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

  1. "The Power of the Dream" (live) (Foster, Babyface, L. Thompson) – 4:31
  2. "Your Light" (Nova) – 5:12
  3. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Classic Paradise mix) (Steinman) – 8:15
  4. "The Power of Love" (live) (C. Rouge, G. Mende, M.S. Applegate, J. Rush) – 4:45
  5. "River Deep, Mountain High" (live) (Spector, Barry, Greenwich) – 3:29

First limited Australian bonus CD

  1. "Because You Loved Me" (Warren) – 4:33
  2. "I Don't Know" (Galdston, Goldman) – 4:38
  3. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (Goldman) – 4:14
  4. "Le ballet" (Goldman) – 4:25
  5. "The Power of the Dream" (Foster, Babyface, Thompson) – 4:31

Second limited Australian bonus CD

  1. "Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" (live) (Arnie Roman, R. Desalvo) – 4:01
  2. "Love Can Move Mountains" (live) (Warren) – 4:53
  3. "If You Asked Me To" (live) (Warren) – 3:55
  4. "Only One Road" (live) (Peter Zizzo) – 4:49
  5. "Think Twice" (live) (Hill, Sinfield) – 4:47
  6. "The Power of Love" (live) (Rouge, Mende, Applegate, Rush) – 5:43

[edit] Chart performance

Chart Peak
position		 Certification Sales/shipments
Argentinian Albums Chart[4] Platinum 83,000[5]
Australian Albums Chart[6] 1 12x platinum 840,000[7]
Austrian Albums Chart[8] 1 2x platinum 100,000[9]
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[10] 2 4x platinum 200,000[11]
Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart[12] 1
Brazilian Albums Chart[13] Gold1 750,000[14]
Canadian Albums Chart[15] 1 Diamond 1,000,000[16]
Dutch Albums Chart[17] 1 6x platinum 600,000[18]
European Albums Chart[19] 1 9x platinum 9,000,000[20]
Finnish Albums Chart[21] 9 Platinum 51,952[22]
French Albums Chart[23] 1 Diamond 1,172,500[24]
German Albums Chart[25] 5 5x gold (2x platinum) 1,250,000[26]
Greek Albums Chart[27] 1 Platinum 60,000[28]
Hungarian Albums Chart[29] 13 Gold 10,000[30]
India 35,000
Irish Albums Chart[31] 2
Italian Albums Chart[32] 4 3x platinum 300,000[33]
Japanese Albums Chart[34] 6 Million 1,000,000[35]
Korea 450,000
Mexican Albums Chart[36] Gold 100,000
New Zealand Albums Chart[37] 1 12x platinum 180,000[38]
Norwegian Albums Chart[39] 1 3x platinum 150,000[40]
Philippines 1 4x platinum 120,000
Polish Albums Chart[41] Platinum2 200,000[42]
Spanish Albums Chart[43] 4 2x platinum 200,000[44]
Swedish Albums Chart[45] 1 Platinum 100,000[46]
Swiss Albums Chart[47] 1 3x platinum 150,000[48]
Taiwan 700,000
UK Albums Chart[49] 1 7x platinum 2,270,000[50]
U.S. Billboard 200[51] 1 11x platinum (diamond) 11,755,000

1 should be certified 3x platinum (750,000) 2 should be certified 2x platinum (200,000)

[edit] Awards

Year Award show Award
1996 BAMBI Awards Top International Pop Star of the Year
1996 VH1 Awards Artist of the Year
1997 Grammy Awards Album of the Year – Falling into You
1997 Grammy Awards Best Pop Vocal Album – Falling into You
1997 Grammy Awards Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (to Diane Warren) – "Because You Loved Me"
1997 World Music Awards World's Best Selling Pop Artist of the Year
1997 World Music Awards World's Overall Best Selling Recording Artist of the Year
1997 World Music Awards World’s Best Selling Canadian Recording Artist of the Year
1997 Juno Awards Female Vocalist of the Year
1997 Juno Awards Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) – Falling into You
1997 Juno Awards International Achievement Award
1997 Félix Awards Female Vocalist of the Year
1997 Félix Awards Most Successful Québécois Artist Outside Quebec
1997 Félix Awards Most Successful Québécois Artist in a Language Other Than French
1997 NARM Awards 1996/1997 Best Seller Award for Artist of the Year
1997 NARM Awards 1996/1997 Best Seller Award for Recording of the Year – Falling into You
1997 NARM Awards 1996/1997 Best Seller Award for Pop Recording – Falling into You
1997 IRMA Awards Best International Female Artist Album – Falling into You
1997 Malta Music Awards Best Selling Female International Artist
1998 South African Music Awards Best Selling International Album – Falling into You
1997 International Achievement in Arts Awards Entertainer of the Year for Distinguished Achievement in Music
1997 Greek Pop Corn Music Award Best International Album of the Year – Falling into You
1997 Greek Pop Corn Music Award Best International Female Singer of the Year
1997 Coca-Cola Full Blast Music Awards Most Popular International Artist of 1996
1997 FM Select Diamond Awards Top Female International Artist
1997 AMIGO Awards Best International Female Artist
1997 National TV2 Awards Best International Female Artist
1998 BMI Pop Awards Song of the Year – "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"

Céline Dion was also nominated for one Academy Award:

Céline Dion was also nominated for three more Grammy Awards:

Céline Dion was also nominated for two American Music Awards:

  • Favorite Female Artist Rock/Pop (1997)
  • Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist (1997)

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
Australia March 8, 1996 Epic CD 4837922
Europe March 11, 1996 Columbia CD 4837922
North America March 12, 1996 Epic CD 67541
Japan March 14, 1996 Epic CD ESCA-6410
Australia January 20, 1997 Epic 2CD 6629669
Asia January 20, 1997 Columbia 2CD CP2K-1784

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Record-Breakers and Trivia - Albums - everyHit.com
  2. ^ Falling Into You - 32 million sold
  3. ^ Falling Into You - 32 million sold
  4. ^ Argentinian Albums Chart
  5. ^ CAPIF
  6. ^ Australian Albums Chart
  7. ^ ARIA
  8. ^ Austrian Albums Chart
  9. ^ IFPI Austria
  10. ^ Flandres Albums Chart
  11. ^ IFPI Belgium
  12. ^ Wallonie Albums Chart
  13. ^ Brazilian Albums Chart
  14. ^ ABPD
  15. ^ Canadian Albums Chart
  16. ^ CRIA
  17. ^ Dutch Albums Chart
  18. ^ NVPI
  19. ^ European Albums Chart
  20. ^ IFPI
  21. ^ Finnish Albums Chart
  22. ^ IFPI Finland
  23. ^ French Albums Chart
  24. ^ SNEP
  25. ^ German Albums Chart
  26. ^ IFPI Germany
  27. ^ Greek Albums Chart
  28. ^ IFPI Greece
  29. ^ Hungarian Albums Chart
  30. ^ MAHASZ
  31. ^ Irish Albums Chart
  32. ^ Italian Albums Chart
  33. ^ FIMI
  34. ^ Japanese Albums Chart
  35. ^ RIAJ
  36. ^ Mexican Albums Chart
  37. ^ New Zealand Albums Chart
  38. ^ RIANZ
  39. ^ Norwegian Albums Chart
  40. ^ IFPI Norway
  41. ^ Polish Albums Chart
  42. ^ ZPAV
  43. ^ Spanish Albums Chart
  44. ^ PROMUSICAE
  45. ^ Swedish Albums Chart
  46. ^ IFPI Sweden
  47. ^ Swiss Albums Chart
  48. ^ IFPI Switzerland
  49. ^ UK Albums Chart
  50. ^ BPI
  51. ^ Billboard 200
v • d • e
Céline Dion
v • d • e
Grammy Award: Album of the Year (1991-2010)
Preceded by
Home Again by New Edition		 Billboard 200 number-one album
October 5 - October 18, 1996
October 26 - November 1, 1996		 Succeeded by
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
by Nirvana
Preceded by
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
March 24 - March 30, 1996
June 30 - July 6, 1996
July 14 - July 20, 1996
August 18 - August 24, 1996		 Succeeded by
To the Faithful Departed by The Cranberries