1996 Celine Dion – Falling Into You

Falling Into You is the fourteenth studio album and fourth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 11 March 1996 by Sony Music. The follow-up to her commercially successful album The Colour of My Love (1993) and French-language D’eux (1995), Falling into You showed a further progression of Dion’s music. Throughout the project she collaborated with Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”, among others. Several songs were produced by David Foster, including Diane Warren’s “Because You Loved Me”. In total, Dion worked on the album with fourteen producers and a variety of songwriters and musicians.

Falling into You won many awards around the world, including two Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th annual ceremony, during which Dion performed live. In April 1997, she also won three World Music Awards for World’s Best Selling Artist of the Year, World’s Best Selling Pop Artist of the Year and World’s Best Selling Canadian Artist of the Year. The album is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Definitive 200 list.

Falling into You became Dion’s best-selling album and one of the best-selling albums in history, with sales of more than 32 million copies worldwide, including twelve million copies in the US, over two million in the United Kingdom, and over one million in Germany, France, Canada and Australia. In Europe, it has sold over nine million units. It topped the charts around the world, including number one in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia and many more. It became one of the best-selling albums of 1996 and 1997 in various countries and also one of the top-selling albums of the decade. It was certified Diamond, Multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold around the world.

Five singles were released from the album in Europe, four in Australia, and three in North America. The major success came with the release of “Because You Loved Me”, theme from Up Close & Personal (number one in the United States, Canada and Australia), “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” (number one in Canada, Belgium and number two in the US), and Eric Carmen’s “All by Myself” (top ten in various countries, including number four in the US).