On the Billboard Hot 100 dated Feb. 28, 1998, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” which Horner completed writing with Will Jennings to close the 1912 (and 1997)-set Titanic, crowned the Hot 100. It debuted at No. 1 as it spent its fifth week atop the Radio Songs chart and arrived as the week’s best-selling song, newly released as a limited-edition stand-alone single.

 

On the Billboard 200, the Titanic soundtrack, featuring the ballad, scored its sixth week at No. 1, of 16 total weeks on top.

 

The song won the Oscar for best original song, awarded to Horner (who passed in 2015) and Jennings, who composed the music and wrote the lyrics, respectively. It also won at the Grammy Awards for, among its four victories, record and song of the year.

 

“Heart” has drawn 5 billion in cumulative airplay audience and 728 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate. The Titanic soundtrack has sold 10.2 million copies in the U.S., while Titanic has grossed $2.2 billion at the box office worldwide, the fourth-best total in cinema history. The film is currently in theaters, in 4K 3D, in honor of its 25th anniversary.

 

For Dion, “Heart,” released on Sony’s 550 Music label, and distributed by Epic Records, marked her third of four Hot 100 No. 1s, among 10 top 10s. The song was also released on her album Let’s Talk About Love, which became her second of five No. 1s on the Billboard 200. She most recently led the list with Courage in 2019.

 

Notably, as Taylor’s 1998 reporting further chronicled, “Heart” started slowly at radio – until Titanic premiered. On Radio Songs, at that point, “it exploded like popcorn,” he wrote, “catapulting to No. 39, then 18 to 4 to No. 1.”

 

An all time classic, appreciate  

 

 

Edited February 28, 20233 yr by Hector

 

The success was insane. 

Wow

The biggest soundtrack song of all time did that 

The "Shallow" of the 90s

A smash!!

it kinda feels older for some reason. 

one of the best songs of all time. 

Iconic 

inescapable it was everywhere

 

 

what a moment that was!! 

Edited February 28, 20233 yr by shyboi

My Hearts success cannot be overstated 

Truly one of the biggest and greatest songs of all time 

Truly, one of the biggest hits of all time. 

Her peak was insane and no other pop girl will eclipse what she achieved in 5 years 

 

100M pure albums, 2 Diamond 30M+ selling eras, ROTY with this song and Album of the year grammy win, biggest French album ever, 2nd biggest Xmas album by a female omg, 20M+ greatest hits seller, Titanic soundtrack slayage  

A solo SMASH that sold 60M+ albums  

Blocked Frozen, right? 

If only they didnt sabotage the release. One of the greatest songs of all time.

A classic.