The Colour of My Love

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The Colour of My Love
The Colour of My Love cover
Studio album by Céline Dion
Released November 9, 1993 (1993-11-09)
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
Professional reviews
Céline Dion chronology
Celine Dion
1992		 The Colour of My Love
(1993)		 À L'Olympia
(1994)
Alternate cover
Japanese limited edition
Japanese limited edition
Singles from The Colour of My Love
  1. "When I Fall in Love"
    Released: June 28, 1993
  2. "The Power of Love"
    Released: November 1, 1993
  3. "Misled"
    Released: April 4, 1994
  4. "Think Twice"
    Released: July 18, 1994
  5. "Only One Road"
    Released: November 21, 1994
  6. "Next Plane Out"
    Released: October 23, 1995
  7. "Just Walk Away"
    Released: October 23, 1995
  8. "To Love You More"
    Released: October 23, 1995

The Colour of My Love is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 9, 1993. It's her 3rd English-language album and 18th since she started recording.

Contents

[edit] 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.

[edit] Chart success

The Colour of My Love to this point was Dion's biggest success. The album sold around 17 million copies worldwide. 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.

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Chart performance

Chart Peak
position		 Certification Sales/shipments
Australian Albums Chart[1] 1 8x platinum 560,000[2]
Austrian Albums Chart[3] 18 Gold 25,000[4]
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[5] 1 2x platinum 100,000[6]
Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart[7] 13
Canadian Albums Chart[8] 1 Diamond 1,800,000[9]
Dutch Albums Chart[10] 2 3x platinum 300,000[11]
European Albums Chart[12] 4x platinum 4,000,000[13]
Finnish Albums Chart[14] 7 Platinum 45,000[15]
French Albums Chart[16] 7 Platinum 300,000[17]
German Albums Chart[18] 16 Gold 250,000[19]
Greek Albums Chart[20] 1 35,000[21]
Irish Albums Chart[22] 1 80,000[23]
Italian Albums Chart[24] 11 Platinum 150,000[25]
Japanese Albums Chart[26] 7 Million 1,000,000[27]
Mexican Albums Chart[28] Platinum 150,000[29]
New Zealand Albums Chart[30] 2 6x platinum 90,000[31]
Norwegian Albums Chart[32] 1 3x platinum 175,000[33]
Spanish Albums Chart[34] 7 Platinum 155,000[35]
Swedish Albums Chart[36] 4 Platinum 165,000[37]
Swiss Albums Chart[38] 9 Platinum 55,000[39]
UK Albums Chart[40] 1 5x platinum1 1,900,000[41]
U.S. Billboard 200[42] 4 6x platinum 6,000,000[43]

1 should be certified 6x platinum (1,800,000)

[edit] Awards

Year Award show Award
1994 Grammy Awards Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (to David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock) – "When I Fall in Love"
1994 Juno Awards Female Vocalist of the Year
1994 Félix Awards Female Artist of the Year
1994 Félix Awards Quebec Artist Achieving the Most Success in a Language Other Than French
1994 Félix Awards Quebec Artist Achieving the Most Success Outside the Province Of Quebec
1995 World Music Awards World’s Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year
1995 Ivor Novello Awards Song of the Year – "Think Twice"
1995 Juno Awards Album of the Year – The Colour of My Love
1995 Juno Awards Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) – The Colour of My Love
1996 MIDEM Awards Award For Combined European Sales of Over 10 Million Units in 1995
1996 Japan Gold Disc Awards International Song of the Year – "To Love You More"
1996 IRMA Awards Best International Female Artist Album – The Colour of My Love
1996 Malta Music Awards Best Selling International Artist

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
North America November 9, 1993 Epic CD 57555
Japan December 2, 1993 Epic CD 4747432
United Kingdom February 21, 1994 Epic CD 4747432
Australia March 7, 1994 Epic CD 4747432
France June 10, 1994 Columbia 2CD 4747432

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Albums Chart
  2. ^ ARIA
  3. ^ Austrian Albums Chart
  4. ^ IFPI Austria
  5. ^ Flandres Albums Chart
  6. ^ IFPI Belgium
  7. ^ Wallonie Albums Chart
  8. ^ Canadian Albums Chart
  9. ^ CRIA
  10. ^ Dutch Albums Chart
  11. ^ NVPI
  12. ^ European Albums Chart
  13. ^ IFPI
  14. ^ Finnish Albums Chart
  15. ^ IFPI Finland
  16. ^ French Albums Chart
  17. ^ SNEP
  18. ^ German Albums Chart
  19. ^ IFPI Germany
  20. ^ Greek Albums Chart
  21. ^ IFPI Greece
  22. ^ Irish Albums Chart
  23. ^ IRMA
  24. ^ Italian Albums Chart
  25. ^ FIMI
  26. ^ Japanese Albums Chart
  27. ^ RIAJ
  28. ^ Mexican Albums Chart
  29. ^ AMPF
  30. ^ New Zealand Albums Chart
  31. ^ RIANZ
  32. ^ Norwegian Albums Chart
  33. ^ IFPI Norway
  34. ^ Spanish Albums Chart
  35. ^ PROMUSICAE
  36. ^ Swedish Albums Chart
  37. ^ IFPI Sweden
  38. ^ Swiss Albums Chart
  39. ^ IFPI Switzerland
  40. ^ UK Albums Chart
  41. ^ BPI
  42. ^ Billboard 200
  43. ^ RIAA
Preceded by
Three Legged Dog by The Cruel Sea		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
May 14 - June 10, 1995
July 30 - August 12, 1995
September 10 - September 23, 1995		 Succeeded by
Tuesday Night Music Club by Sheryl Crow
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Céline Dion