base talk Did Céline Dion have the biggest 5-year period for any female artist ever?

[Celineendedyourfaves]

Yes. Honorable mentions:

 

Adele 2011-2016

Taylor 2022-2026

Madonna 1985-1990

 

[Loca]

This thread will be used as evidence of gays being bad at math, no offence.

[Popboi.]

19 minutes ago, Celineendedyourfaves said:

Yes. Honorable mentions:

 

Adele 2011-2016

Taylor 2022-2026

Madonna 1985-1990

 

Taylor will probably lay low at least one of those years and Adele was very much MIA with not that many sales in 2014. Madonna 1986-1990 is absolutely the runner up.

[tiagol88]

She's not the biggest female artist from the 90s for no reason. No one ever had an imperial phase like that. Not even sure if Michael Jackson did. Probably only the beatles.

[MP3]

Céline 90's success is very underrated.

Only 1 year and 8 months between Falling Into You and Let's Talk About Love releases and both sold over 30 million copies. It's an achievement on itself. D'eux sold 300k copies in the US and it's a French album.

 

She was only known in the US for 6 years before performing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

 

For a girl coming from rural Quebec in a poor French-Canadian familly, she was able to dominate the US and the entire world in a way that have been never seen

 

 

[SoldierofLove]

 

Wow! Her imperial years really solidified her as one of the greatest artists of all time. Iconic album after iconic album after iconic song after iconic song! 
 

She had everyone buying her music! Whites, Blacks, Italians, Chinese, Jamaicans, Americans, Canadians! Literally everyone!

[MardinBeksloy]

Taylor's 2020-2024 is bigger. Within these 5 years period, she will accumulate: the most streamed female song, four future diamonds albums, highest grossing tour ever, highest grossing concert movie ever, and especially two GRAMMYs AOTY. 

[naval23]

Yup. Adele probably comes close for 2012-2016

 

But Celine basically pushed 100M + pure albums in the span of 5 years from a global XMas album (12M), a global francophone album (8M), a global compilation album (20M) and 2 blockbuster albums selling 30M+ each along with a soundtrack that sold another 25M+ each

[ninetiesceline]

Her commercial peak was insane, its definitely up there with the Beatles and Michael Jackson. My Heart Will Go On itself is bigger than some careers lol.

[Mandalay]

Yes, her commercial success was astronomical.

[blueberries]

7 hours ago, Trent W said:

Britney 2019-2024 is the biggest peak of all time

 

OF ALL TIME

on tmz maybe

[Radical Pessimism]

Releasing A Decade Of Song was the perfect way to end the decade. 

Edited August 8 by Radical Pessimism

[Feanor]

10 hours ago, brenda-walsh said:

maybe, but Madonna's run from 1986-1990 was also massive

 

she had:

20M+ selling True Blue album

15M+ selling Like A Prayer album

30M selling The Immaculate Collection

two soundtracks that each sold 5M+

Who's That Girl World Tour and Blonde Ambition Tour were record breaking 

 

And in general she set the blueprint for female popstars after her with her videos, outfits, performances, etc

Yeah, Madonna is someone I had in mind too when making this thread. She had a history 5 years as well.

[MP3]

8 hours ago, MardinBeksloy said:

Taylor's 2020-2024 is bigger. Within these 5 years period, she will accumulate: the most streamed female song, four future diamonds albums, highest grossing tour ever, highest grossing concert movie ever, and especially two GRAMMYs AOTY. 

The difference is Taylor was known since 14 years before achieving that, Celine was only known since 4 years internationally

[GreatestLoveofAll]

18 hours ago, Feanor said:

To say that Céline Dion's career in the late 1990s was on fire would be an understatement. For a period of 5 years (if not even longer), it seemed like she could do no wrong and everything she did ended up a huge success:

 

 

1995

 

Release of 'D'eux', the best-selling French album in history.

 

 

1996

 

Release of 'Falling Into You', the first of Céline's two massive blockbuster albums, selling a reported 30M+ copies worldwide.

 

 

1997

 

Winning the most prestigious Grammy of all: Album Of The Year for 'Falling Into You'.

 

 

Following it up with 'Let's Talk About Love', another 30M+ selling album for Céline.

 

 

And while not her own album, "My Heart Will Go On" was undeniably a driving factor behind the Titanic soundtrack reportedly also selling 30M copies worldwide, and has forever linked Céline's name with one of the biggest movie of all time…

 

 

1998

 

… and also netted her a Grammy win for Record Of The Year.

 

 

Launching the Let's Talk About Love World Tour, which over the next two years would gross $133M and become the highest-grossing female tour ever up until that point.

 

 

Release of 'S'il Suffisait D'Aimer', the 2nd biggest French album, and 'These Are Special Times', the 2nd best-selling Christmas album by a female artist.

 

 

1999

 

And finally, finishing off the 1990s with her compilation 'All The Way… A Decade Of Song', one of the biggest Greatest Hits albums ever released, reportedly having sold over 20M copies globally.

 

 

These are some of her biggest successes from 1995-99. Given all that, would you say that Céline Dion had the biggest 5-year period for any female artist ever? If not her, which female artist do you think had an even more impressive period of 5 back-to-back years?

 

 

honestly yes. I dont think anyone has had such dominance before or even after. she was ruling the sales and the airwaves with an iron fist.

[theweekend]

yes

and if you count the color of my love she's heading to have a huge decade from 1993.

 

if Whitney hasn't had a commercial dip with I'm your baby tonight her run from 1985 to 1995 would've been HUGE too.

Mariah from 1990 to 1996 is HUGE too.

Edited August 7 by theweekend

[nightowl]

Never.

[Topaz]

On 8/6/2024 at 4:18 PM, Loca said:

That would be six years, not five. 

Dont forget Dark Horse smashed into 2014 followed by her blockbuster Half Time Show so 2008-2015 a true peak

[Topaz]

4 hours ago, theweekend said:

yes

and if you count the color of my love she's heading to have a huge decade from 1993.

 

if Whitney hasn't had a commercial dip with I'm your baby tonight her run from 1985 to 1995 would've been HUGE too.

Mariah from 1990 to 1996 is HUGE too.

Mariah was a true queen #1's from 1990-2000 then back again in 2005.

[tost1]

Wow, that's a long period

[alexrex]

No the katy kats inserting Katy in a true vocalist's thread, let alone comparing Céline's iconic career to whatever Katy (and her producer friend) did in the past 

 

OT: Bravo Céline  The legend that you are

Edited August 8 by alexrex

[theweekend]

10 hours ago, Topaz said:

Mariah was a true queen #1's from 1990-2000 then back again in 2005.

yes. single-wise there's no doubt. but Celine truly beat her out from 1996-2000 when butterfly/rainbow were commercial dips (the same as Whitney's I'm your baby tonight).

[UnusualBoy]

Probably, the closest we had to that is:

 

Madonna's 1986-1991

Britney's 1999-2004

Taylor's 2019-2024

Edited August 8 by UnusualBoy

[supertiffany]

On 8/6/2024 at 5:48 PM, brenda-walsh said:

maybe, but Madonna's run from 1986-1990 was also massive

 

she had:

20M+ selling True Blue album

15M+ selling Like A Prayer album

30M selling The Immaculate Collection

two soundtracks that each sold 5M+

Who's That Girl World Tour and Blonde Ambition Tour were record breaking 

 

And in general she set the blueprint for female popstars after her with her videos, outfits, performances, etc

it will be longer too if Like A Virgin era was included isnt it? 

[superben]

Yes, even the non-music-listening people knew about Celine in the 90s.