THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

220-Celine Dion-My Heart Will Go On.

1998-Number 1 single.

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Celine Marie Claudette Dion who was the youngest of 14 children born to her parents, was born on March 30th, 1968, in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, she is the best selling Canadian recording artist of all time, and also the best selling French Language artist of all time. In Canada in the 1980’s she was a teen star, releasing eight studio Albums in French, before leaning English, and signing to ‘Epic Records’ in 1990, and then issuing her first English sung Album ‘Unison’ in 1990. Celine Dion first gained international recognition in 1982 when winning the ‘Yamaha World Popular Song Festival’, and further international success was gained when she won the 1988 ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ representing Switzerland, in Dublin, Ireland, with the song ‘Ne partez pas sans moi.’ In total Celine Dion has released 15 French language studio Albums between 1981-2016, and 12 English language studio Albums between 1990-2019. She has released 137 singles between 1981-2019, with 18 French language songs charting on the Canada QC’ chart in the 1980’s. In America on Billboard, 17 of her singles have reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with four of her songs reaching Number 1, while in the UK, 24 of her singles have reached the top 40, with two making the Number 1 spot. With sales of over 200 million records Celine Dion is one of the best selling artists of all time, and during her peak period between 1997-1998 it was reckoned that she was selling a record once every 1.2 seconds of the day.

My Heart Will Go On’ was written for the 1997 American romance and disaster film ‘Titanic,’ it is a fictionalised account of the sinking of the ‘RMS Titanic’ in 1912. The music for ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ and also the films score was written by James Horner, (1953-2015) who by 1997 had already scored for dozens of other films and television programmes including his breakthrough success with ‘The Lady In Red’ in 1979, he would go on to score ‘Avatar’ in 2009, which is the highest grossing film of all time, ahead of ‘Titanic’ in second place. Horner died in 2015 when the aircraft he was piloting crashed in Los Padres National Forrest, California, he was 61 years old.

‘The lyrics to ‘My Heart Will Go On’ were written by Will Jennings, (see also best songs 588) who has worked with, and written for many of the world’s top artists. Other notable songs he has co-written include ‘Up Where We Belong,’ for the 1982 film ‘An Officer and a Gentleman,’ and ‘Didn’t We Nearly Have It All,’ which when recorded by Whitney Houston in 1987 became a Billboard Number 1 single. ‘My Heart Will Go On’ has become Celine Dion’s signature tune, and with sales in excess of 20 million copies it is the best selling single by a solo female artist in history, and is currently the seventh biggest selling single of all time.

‘Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on. Far across the distance, and spaces between us, you have come to show you go on.’