Celine Dion really snapped in the 90s

[johnny_9ss]

1995 D'eux - Best selling french album of all time

1996 Falling into You - Grammy album of the year + 32 million copies sold worldwide

1997 Let's Talk About Love - Includes My Heart Will Go On + 31 million copies sold

1998 S'il suffisait d'aimer - 2nd best selling french album of all time (after D'eux)

1998 These Are Special Times - 12 million copies sold worldwide 

1999 All the Way... A Decade of Song - +20 million copies sold worldwide

 

She literally OWNED the 90s.

 

[Cheetos]

Such an underrated legend! 

[Power love]

Whitney, Celine, Janet, Toni & Madonna ruled the 90s 

[naval23]

Yessss 

The fact she pushed 115M+ albums in the 90s alone is insane

 

 

[Gabers05]

OMG she really dominated selling that much in a decade. Insane but deserved.

Edited December 28, 2022 by Gabers05

[FightDragonsWithMe]

And did 

[Last Boy on Earth]

Damn even the titles are basic lol

[GlamSlam]

You forgot "The Color of my Love" (20M) - one of her best albums.

[Mystic Boy]

The Colour of Love deserves its spot too, it was huge!

Her 90s career is phenomenal and amazing to contemplate

 

The steady climb between UNISON to LTAL is one of the best music industry studies ever , René and her really did that

[Keter]

Yes and Celine was very disciplined! I really admire her as a vocalist for that. Misled shocked me first time I heard it. She has a very diverse discography and she sings it very well. 

[ninetiesceline]

1993: The Colour of My Love (20 million) — Her breakthrough album

1995: D'eux (10 million) *best-selling French album ever

1996: Falling Into You (32 million) *Grammys AOTY & best-selling album of 1996 globally

1997: Lets Talk About Love (31 million) *Grammys ROTY & best-selling studio album globally in 1997

1998: These are Special Times (15 million) *second best-selling holiday album by a woman ever

1999: All The Way... (23 million) * best-selling greatest hits album in the US since the Neilsen era began

 

Céline had the world in her palms back then 👑

Edited December 28, 2022 by ninetiesceline

[Sharapov]

and early 00s too

 

[theweekend]

include the colour of my love because she snapped there too

[Bloodflowers.]

1 hour ago, Sharapov said:

and early 00s too

 

 

A New Day Has Come album another 12M seller, 3rd best selling album of 2001

 

 

Her 2003 Britney inspired bop "Love Is All We Need" whew Celine snappedt. truly in early 2000s too

 

 

[stevyy]

The last and only great decade for female vocalists and Céline slayed it. 

[Buffy]

12 minutes ago, stevyy said:

The last and only great decade for female vocalists and Céline slayed it. 

Yeah… as much as I like Taylor and think she’s saved the music industry, there is something special about the 90s nostalgia. I miss hearing Celine, Shania Twain, Mariah, Cher, Jessica Simpson (her power ballads), and Faith Hill on the radio… when songs were actually lyrically deep and meaningful.

[stevyy]

2 minutes ago, Buffy said:

Yeah… as much as I like Taylor and think she’s saved the music industry, there is something special about the 90s nostalgia. I miss hearing Celine, Shania Twain, Mariah, Cher, Jessica Simpson (her power ballads), and Faith Hill on the radio… when songs were actually lyrically deep and meaningful.

What I love about the 90s is that even older acts could still get a piece of the pie... like a Streisand or Aretha etc.. who were able to collect huge sales and were even on the verge of reaching the H100 or did many times over.

 

In my country of Germany, older acts usually chart and sell better than younger acts and this was still the case in the 90s basically everywhere. Even in the UK it is still possible today. 

 

The US has become such a toxic place for acts beyond the H100. A couple of years ago Sheryl Crow said that she knows that releasing music is pointless bc it either wouldn't chart or wouldn't sell enough to make any profit and she said that she will only release another album if she has something to say. (Alanis Morissette said the same btw).

 

The market - albeit so huge due to streaming - has also become so small. Yes, streaming is huge, but the majority of streams tend to go to old music which used to be popular, like old Beatles, Queen etc stuff... Older acts releasing something new and current will never get any substantial support. 

 

In the 1990s you could chart at like #69 on the BB200 and still sell 500,000 or even 1 million albums and make a good profit. In 2022 you debut at #69 and made like $3000 in revenue. 

[stevyy]

BTW looking at those Céline stats, she made like $3 billion for SONY music with those albums (ON TOP of her touring success). 

 

If the phrase "XY is the music industry" was ever true, it was during the 1990s with those vocalists. 

[byzantium]

Probably the biggest peak of all time.  That 5 year stretch was legendary. 

[Nightingale]

Yes. Her slayage was insane and she had some classics

[1989]

The way that The Colour Of My Love, D’eux, and Falling Into You are some of the absolute best albums ever. Let’s Talk About Love is also a really solid album, too.