base talk Celine has two of the top female selling albums of all time. Thoughts?

[loveisdead9582]

Celine is known for her powerhouse vocals and is considered a part of the vocal Trinity (Whitney, Celine, Mariah). Turns out, she has two out of the top selling female albums.

 

Top selling female albums are:

1) Whitney Houston - the Bodyguard

2) Shania Twain - Come On Over

3) Alanis Morisette - Jaged Little Pill

4) Celine Dion - Falling Into You

5) Adele - 21

6) Celine Dion - Let’s Talk About Love

7) Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

8) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

9) Mariah Carey - Music Box

10) Britney Spears - baby one more time

 

Celine is also an honorable mention for being the only vocalist featured on the Titanic Soundtrack which beat out Britney. 

 

Personally I’m kind of shocked that Adele’s 21 wasn’t higher on the list but Celine served. 
 

Thoughts?

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[FolkLover1989]

Not surprising She is just that iconic

 

Also hardworking queen and touring force.

[CottageHore]

She really is one of the most identifiable legends of all time. 

[Henry Torres]

Celine legend wbk

 

Btw imagine your DEBUT album released as a teenager in top 10 best selling female albums of all time, wow Britney did that

[EmailMySwift]

She is a legend. 

[campelo]

Tapestry or True Blue at #10 not BOMT 

[ninetiesceline]

Imagine releasing a 43M seller in 1996, then decided to release a 46M seller in 1997, few months after winning AOTY at the Grammys? She had the world under her palms.. 

[byzantium]

Celine’s peak was legendary and there is a reason she is the second bestselling female artist of all time.
 

It should be noted though that all these albums sans Nora and Adele’s were released in the 90s when music sales reached their peak. 

[byzantium]

1 minute ago, ninetiesceline said:

Imagine releasing a 43M seller in 1996, then decided to release a 46M seller in 1997, few months after winning AOTY at the Grammys? She had the world under her palms.. 

and also during that time being intimately tied with a soundtrack album that sold another 30 million!  

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[ninetiesceline]

12 minutes ago, byzantium said:

and also during that time being intimately tied with a soundtrack album that sold another 30 million!  

Céline's selling power during her commercial peak really had the industry shooked:

 

Dion has sold more than twenty million albums in America in just one year’s time. And that figure is a precise one reflecting the actual number of albums purchased, not the number of albums shipped out to stores, which is how more liberal platinum certifications are determined.

 

“The idea that a single artist could be responsible for selling more than twenty million albums in one year was once unthinkable. Even Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and Hootie and the Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View, two of the best selling albums of the Nineties (selling 13.2 million and 9.7 million copies, respectively), took nearly two years to accumulate those huge tallies. As Billboard chart chief Geoff Mayfield puts it, “If you could buy stock in an artist, I’d buy stock in Celine Dion.”

 

Rollingstone article

December 22, 1998

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/celine-dions-sales-will-go-on-and-on-and-on-76660/amp/

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by ninetiesceline

[byzantium]

4 minutes ago, ninetiesceline said:

Céline's selling power during her commercial peak really had the industry shooked:

 

Dion has sold more than twenty million albums in America in just one year’s time. And that

figure is a precise one reflecting the actual number of albums

purchased, not the number of albums shipped out to stores, which is how more liberal platinum certifications are determined.

 

“The idea that a single artist could be responsible for selling more than twenty million albums in one year was once unthinkable. Even Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and Hootie and the Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View, two of the best-selling albums of the Nineties (selling 13.2 million and 9.7 million copies, respectively), took nearly two years to accumulate those huge tallies. As Billboard chart chief Geoff Mayfield puts it, “If you could buy stock in an artist, I’d buy stock in Celine Dion.”

 

Rollingstone article

December 22, 1998

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/celine-dions-sales-will-go-on-and-on-and-on-76660/amp/

 

20 million albums in the US in ONE year?    For perspective…That is more than Ariana’s whole career (including EAS) in the US.  

[Fastlane]

Céline has only two fails: not to be songwriter of her music (she could have been a billioner with Oscar win) and not to be the main artist of Titanic Soundtrack like Whitney did with The Bodyguard.

[ninetiesceline]

Céline's million-selling albums (studio, compilations & live)

 

4M — Unison (1990)

2.5M — Dion chante Plamondon (1991)

6M — Céline Dion (1992)

20M — The Colour of My Love (1993)

12M — D'eux (1995)

34M — Falling Into You (1996)

2.5M — Live a Paris (1996)

35M — Lets Talk About Love (1997)

15M — These are Special Times (1998)

5M — S'il suffisait d'aimer (1998)

24M — All The Way... (1999)

2M — Au coeur du Stade (1999)

3.1M — The Collector's Series V1 (2000)

12M — A New Day Has Come (2002)

8M — One Heart (2003)

2.5M — 1 fille et 4 Types (2003)

2M — Miracle (2004)

1.5M — A New Day... LILV (2004)

2.2M — On ne change pas (2005)

4.5M — Taking Chances (2007)

1.1M — D'elles (2007)

3.5M — My Love: Essential Collection (2008)

1.5M — Sans Attendre (2012)

2M — Loved Me Back To Life (2013)

1.8M — Encore Un Soir (2016)

[Lightbringer007]

Legend!

[allforyou]

An absolute legend  She was the 90s in Europe, her music was everywhere

[loveisdead9582]

42 minutes ago, campelo said:

Tapestry or True Blue at #10 not BOMT 

Negative. Also, both were outsold by Whitney’s self titled album..

[lonnie]

33 minutes ago, ninetiesceline said:

Céline's selling power during her commercial peak really had the industry shooked:

 

Dion has sold more than twenty million albums in America in just one year’s time. And that figure is a precise one reflecting the actual number of albums purchased, not the number of albums shipped out to stores, which is how more liberal platinum certifications are determined.

 

“The idea that a single artist could be responsible for selling more than twenty million albums in one year was once unthinkable. Even Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and Hootie and the Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View, two of the best selling albums of the Nineties (selling 13.2 million and 9.7 million copies, respectively), took nearly two years to accumulate those huge tallies. As Billboard chart chief Geoff Mayfield puts it, “If you could buy stock in an artist, I’d buy stock in Celine Dion.”

 

Rollingstone article

December 22, 1998

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/celine-dions-sales-will-go-on-and-on-and-on-76660/amp/

 

My goodness

[ninetiesceline]

19 minutes ago, Fastlane said:

Céline has only two fails: not to be songwriter of her music (she could have been a billioner with Oscar win) and not to be the main artist of Titanic Soundtrack like Whitney did with The Bodyguard.

If some of y'all are interested, here are some songs Céline wrote/co-written for herself and other artists: