Talk:Celine Dion

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New movie about her

There is a new movie coming about about Céline Dion. I don't know if anyone here would want to add it yet since it's still so new.

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Overrated and is it really useful for the progress(promotion) of the humanity? GH, 30 July 2006

Il più piccolo cervello della storia! LL, 31 July 2006

Where's the archive discussion?

Where did the discussion go? Where's the archive? Mtl2la 05:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

CELIND DION HITS AND F#6 in "Sorry for Love"

Here is the archive. Peter O. (Talk) 19:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Tours and The Las Vegas Show

If anybody would be up to it and could find the information I think we should have Tour pages for Celine Dion especially the Las Vegas Show and her 1996-1997 Falling Into You tour and 1998-1999 Let's Talk About Love Tour.

My Heart Will Go On: Canadian position

The single topped the Canadian airplay chart for fifteen weeks. I don't recall the single even entering the Canadian Singles Chart. It peaked at number fourteen? If it was released as an import, I would understand, but imports do not count toward a single's official position on the Canadian Singles Chart. If it was indeed released as an import — to simply raise the sales of the two albums that were popular at the time — number fourteen would have been a remarkable peak for an import; however, these are not counted toward. Velten 19:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

All talk and no sources from any of you. And "Velten," believe me, if you turn this into a battle ground like all the others you'll regret it. Orane (talk • cont.) 23:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Please don't threathen me — I'm just trying to clarify for those users who did not know this. I have no online sources because the Canadian Singles Chart is not very popular today, but this should be fixed by next year (from what I've heard). There are many past print sources from the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and various other newspapers. Because some of these articles are archived online, perhaps they could be retrieved and read? Velten 00:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Per Journalist's wishes, I won't start "battlegrounds" here and therefore not edit this article anymore. Velten 00:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Singles

Someone changed the singles to 11 # 1s in United States this is not correct. She has had 4 #1 Singles in United States, someone has to put the informtion how it was before.

Celine Dion Singles chart in Canada

I love Celine and I wish she was #1 all over the world. However, the table is using Canadian SoundScan Singles SALES chart, not airplay chart. "My Heart Will Go On" was #1 on BDS Airplay chart but didn't reach the top on Sales chart. Here's how it was: There were 2 IMPORT versions of the single released in Canada. First version peaked at #33 on February 22, 1998. Second - the remixes version peaked at #14 on May 03, 1998 (13 weeks on chart). Here is the link to the source: http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17305&highlight=canada

Max24 11:38, 04 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry Max24, but you cannot use a forum to which you contribute as a source for your argument. Do you have any other links? Orane (talk • cont.) 19:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, so here http://chartts.tripod.com/CA/CACHS.HTM you can check Top10 Singles chart form January 1998. There's no "My Heart Will Go On".....Max24 13:08, 05 November 2006 (UTC)

Celine Dion as a Songwriter?

I think it is both inaccurate and misleading to label Celine as an 'occasional songwriter', since she rarely writes her material (maybe less than two songs are co-written by her). And to put this in the introduction gives a yet more distorted image. Celine Dion is not an occasional songwriter. She only co-wrote two songs out of hundreds she has recorded...

Nov 9/06: I agree that this statement should be removed. I wasn't even aware that she co-wrote two songs, what were they?

-Madeleine

The songs co-recorder by Celine: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve", "Threat like a lady" , "Tout prêt du bonheur" The songs co-recorder by Celine: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve", "Threat like a lady" , "Tout prêt du bonheur"

She also co-wrote at least one song on the "These Are Special Times" album. I think the occasional songwriter description is valid.

Celine Dion tours

(Please ammend: Céline's first Tour was in 1984 promoting her album Les Chemins de ma Maison in Quebec. Her second Tour was indeed in 1985 but was not called Mélanie Tour as it promoted her album C'Est Pour Toi (1985) Thank you very much for your attention) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.1.17 (talk • contribs) 17:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I would like to make something clear. The series of concerts Céline gave in 1985 could only have served for the imminent release of her album C'est pour toi. The one performance that we know well is the one at the Place des arts, which only included one song from the album Mélanie. This performance was later on broadcast on Quebecois television with the name "C'est pour toi concert" and the opening titles already showed the famous "heart" print of Céline's initials that she used for both C'est pour toi and En concert albums. The picture used in this article is taken from that television show, which includes songs such as C'est pour toi, Avec toi and Amoureuse, from the C'est pour toi album.

Céline toured Quebec in 1983-84 promoting Les chemins de ma maison. She reached Rimouski and Chicoutimi, among other sites. Parts of this tour were shown in the TV special "Sur les chemins de ma maison", of 1984, descriptions of one particular performance of this tour are given by Céline in her autobiography "My story, my dream" (where she relates her nervousness as on one particular night, at an out-door concert by a lake, flying insects nearly went into her mouth, impeding her to sing properly).

I'd be very grateful if someone could help me participate properly in this discussion. Thank you very much. Oiseaudubonheur 09:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Genre's

Pop, Adult Contemporary, and Soft Rock are good and accurate, but I think that 'Classical' should be removed. Celine is not an opera singer. Sure, some her songs may have a classical instrumentation influence, but you still wouldn't class them as classical songs. Pop songs with a classical flavour or influence, but not classical music.

Conservative nature

It says in the article that Celine Dion is made fun of in TV shows because of here "conservative nature". I've never heard of this, what makes her conservative? There's nothing wrong with being conservative, of course (or progressive for that matter). Porchlight 14:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ive never seen her been ridiculed for being conservative either.

Page name

The discussed page should be moved to Céline Dion, because that is the correct spelling of her name. ► Adriaan90 ( Talk ♥ Contribs ) ♪♫ 19:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Opening section

Why is Falling Into You mentioned as some kind of breakthrough single in the English-speaking world? It was "Think Twice" and later "Because You Loved Me" that got her two huge hits, long before "My Heart Will Go On", while the song "Falling Into You" had less success than these. Dollvalley 13:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

The opening section refers to the album, not the single from the album.

14? 15?

Just a heads-up to note that this diff shows a brand-new user changing her family size from 14 to 15. Herostratus 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Album sales

I think for the discography sales they must revise what sales the pages states that Celine Dion has had sales of 200 million, even though in 2004 she was supposed to have sold 175 million. How did she sell in less than 3 years 15 million albums?

The sources are OFFICIAL Sony BMG statements. Max24 10:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

But listen they go from 175 million in 2004 to 200 million in 2007. Come on guys does this make sense she sold 3.5 million of Miracle, 1.5 million of ne change pas and MAX of 0.5 million of Elles which by the way is shipped. Max24 I respect that you like Celine Dion but if they said 215 million albums when they release her album in October are you going to believe them.

Opening sentence

Whether the opening sentence should include awards such has "Grammy winning artist" has been discussed in several other biographies such as Christina Aguilera and Kanye West and consensus was that it's not NPOV to start the opening sentence with "award winning". It's not NPOV to begin the first sentence with an award because it should simply state who or what the subject is. Winning awards is something Celine Dion has done, but it's not who she is. They can of course be included later in the lead, but not in the opening sentence. Spellcast 00:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

There seems to be consensus on Wikipedia_talk:Neutral_point_of_view#POV_in_first_sentence.3F that it's inheritely POV to put awards in the first sentence, so if anyone thinks otherwise, they can discuss it there. Spellcast 21:59, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Album Sales

Im mentioning this again because no-one seems to see what is happening. Look Im a fan of Celine Dion dont get me wrong I think shes awesome but just look. In 2003 The World Music Awards said that Mariah Carey was the biggest selling female artist with 150 million and then next year in 2004 they said that now Celine Dion is with 175 million sales. Where did the 25 million albums come in one year it might have happened in 1996 but not 2004. Now she sold from 2003 to 2007 50 million albums!!! So shes having super fast sales. Im sorry but this is incorrect I mean did they all of find hidden certifications they didnt know where there. Come on this needs to be fixed!!!

WMA has declared that its auditors have determined that Celine Dion is the Current reigning worlds best selling female vocalist. The fact is others may be higher but Celines Sales are certified. Neither Madonna, Whitney, or Mariah have audited certified sales as high as Celine Dion. So maybe they have sold more but the fact is there is nothing to validate that they may or may not have. Which is why Celine Dion is the only artist that can claim to be the worlds best selling female vocalist. By 2000 Celine had sold 150 million albums, 25 million comes from 12 million for A New Day, 6 million for one heart 2.5 million from 1fille and four types, 5 million from miracle, and several other millions from other albums. This is not an error this is not a problem. The fact is that the best information available in the recording world gives the title to Celine Dion. We cant change the facts.

Wording of sentence regarding "I'm Your Angel"

I believe the wording should be changed in the sentence about the song "I'm Your Angel." Currently, it states "...her fourth and final number one single in the US..." or something like that. Saying that it is her final number one single is speculation, as she remains an active artist. The language should be changed to "fourth and most recent" or similar. MplsNarco 15:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)