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[Derek F.]

The legacy of My Heart Will Go On: The Most notable achievements and success
"My Heart Will Go On"… One of the most popular, successful, notable, and enduring songs of all time, by any music artist in history, which has been called “the billion-dollar song” for generating album and single sales totaling over a billion dollars in revenue!

Celine’s “signature song” has experienced a tremendous amount of success since it’s release in 1997!
It’s one of the best selling songs of all time, and the legacy of the timeless and iconic song will continue to go on and on.

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Let’s celebrate this awesome song, with a list of the greatest achievements of My Heart Will Go On, which can be an ongoing list 😊

Also, let’s PLEASE keep this post positive, celebrating the achievements and success of My Heart Will Go On. Please no negative posts/comments, and/or arguments.


Greatest Chart Success:

• Debuted at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, one of the first eight songs to ever do that in history, and stayed at #1 for 2 consecutive weeks
  
• Broke the record at the time, for the most played song in American radio history in regard to audience and radio spins, three different weeks in Feb. and March of 1998!
  
• Achieved 10 weeks at #1 on Billboard Hot 100 Airplay and Billboard’s Top Adult Contemporary Songs chart
  
• The official music video hit #1 on both the MTV top 20 countdown and VH1’s top 20 countdown charts, for several weeks in a row!
  
• Hit #1 in more than 30 countries around the world!
  
• The song helped Celine’s album, “Let’s Talk About Love” and the Titanic soundtrack to hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, with the soundtrack breaking a record for any soundtrack in history, to spend 16 consecutive weeks at the top of that chart!
  
• Spent 17 weeks at #1 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart!
  
• Hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks chart, the very first time a English-language song topped that chart
  
• Was #1 on the 1998 year-end charts for the most successful song of the year, on the European Hot 100 singles chart, and in Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and was the top song of the year on Canada’s Adult Contemporary chart, and Billboard’s Hot Soundtrack Singles chart!
  
• Was a top 5 song, at #5, on the Rick Dees Top 40 songs of the 1990’s chart/countdown
  
• Was a top 10 song, at #10, on the Casey Kasem American Top 40, top 40 of the 1990’s chart/countdown
  
• Was a top 10 song of the 1990’s on the France singles chart
  
• VH1 named the song, the #1 movie song of all time in Aug. of 1998 on countdown of best movie songs
  
• Is a top 40 song of all time on the UK Singles chart

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Greatest Sales success:

• Has sales of more than 18 million worldwide and is the second best-selling song ever by a female artist! It’s also one of the top 10 best selling songs in history!!
  
• The song helped the Titanic soundtrack become the best selling orchestral soundtrack of all time, and helped the soundtrack sell more than 32 million copies worldwide!
  
• Has physical single sales of more than 650,000 copies sold (was given a limited release by Sony) in the U.S. and digital download sales in the U.S. of more than 1.7 million (as of 2017) and official U.S. streams of more than 588 million as of 2019! Now ELIGIABLE for RIAA digital single certification of at least 5X Platinum, as of Dec. 2020.
  
• Has been certified Diamond in France, and 7X Platinum in China, 4X Platinum in Germany, 3X Platinum in the UK and Belgium, and multi-platinum in Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and in Sweden.

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Greatest Awards success:

• Swept/Dominated the 1999 Grammy Awards, winning Song of the year, Record of the year, Best Female Pop vocal performance, and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture!
  
• Won the Academy Award in 1998 for Best Original Song
  
• Won the Golden Globe Award in 1998 for Best Original Song
  
• Won The Billboard Music Award in 1998 for Soundtrack single of the year
  
• Won The Japan Gold Disc Award for song of the year
  
• Won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award, for favorite song from a movie
  
• Won a Billboard Latin Music Award for being the very first English-language song to ever hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart

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Greatest honors:

• Voted a Song of the Century from the RIAA and National Endowment for the Arts
  
• Voted by the American Film Institute or AFI and a top 15 song, at #14, in AFI’s 100 years… 100 songs, top movie songs of all time or American Film history (was the highest-ranking song of the past 25 years!)
  
• The music video set a Guinness World Record, in the Guinness World Records 2000 Millennium Edition as “the most played music video” of all time on The Box Music Video Channel, a very popular music video channel where viewers could call in and pay a fee to see their favorite music videos before Youtube was created. The music video had more than 60,000 requests!
  
• Was named one of the 1,000 most unforgettable moments in American Pop Culture by People Magazine in 2011
  
• In April 2010, the UK radio station Magic 105.4 voted the single the "top movie song of all time" after listeners's votes
  
• TrackRecord called it "The Greatest Movie Ballad Of All Time"
  
• Celine’s performance of the song at the 1998 Grammy Awards, was voted the # 2 greatest Grammy moments/performances of all time for a official TV special aired in 2007 by the public, and was the #1 solo artist Grammy performance of all time!

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Did you see any achievements or success you were unaware of? Did I miss anything?
I hope you all enjoy this list 😊 please add to the list any additional chart, sales, or award achievements I may have missed, and any future achievements as well!

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[sarit_celine]

Thank you, summed up beautifully.

This song was the reason I've wanted to play flute, and managed to play this song only by hearing.

[sarit_celine]

What is your favorite live performance of this song?

I'm still not sure what is mine there is tough competition.

[MaiconSC]

This is the song that made me knew Celine... And fall in love with her
Also, I learned to play flute because of this song...
I love it so much.

This is my favorite performance:

Edited by MaiconSC, 07 December 2020 - 09:53 AM.

[Ukrfan]

Seeing AIWFCIY ruling the charts years after being released, I wonder if MHWGO could have returned to chats again in 2017, 20 years after Titanic came out.

It would be so beautiful if it dominates the world once again Maybe 2024?

Anyway, I think my favorite live performances of MHWGO are:

- at The Rosie O'Donell show
- at ANDHS TV Special
- at Oprah (original key omg)
- at Billboard 2017 (beautiful look & sung so emotionally)

To be honest, I was never a big fan of MHWGO live performances. There is something special in Celine's voice in the album version that has never been translated well on stage. Even in Divas Live: her vocals were on fire that night, but ughh... it sounds emotionless to me.

However, I think Celine's voice in 2002 was closest to the album version. So nice to hear these two live performances, even though they are not in full. After 2002, her voice became tired and nasal, and I can't listen to that Live in Las Vegas live. They made it even worse with that editing making Celine sound as a robot.

Her live performances after James Horner deaths were very interesting and versatile!    The humming was nice and suitable at the beginning, but then she started to make them unpleasant (you know what I mean). I still appreciate how she managed to change the melody a bit.

Overall, I still believe MHWGO is her best English song, and it had a tremendous success. It is amazing how many live performances of MHWGO we have!

Edited by Ukrfan, 07 December 2020 - 10:08 AM.

[Katie]

Can we make up a research; but I do believe ,that, it's the most sold song ever appearing on CD (Compact Disc)

Let's talk about Love album : 32 M + Titanic Soundtracks: 30 M + The physical single: 18M + All the way...A decade of song (Physical sales only): 22 M + My Love: Essential Collection/My Love: Ultimate Essential collection (Physical sales only): 3 M + All the different compilations/Best hits... here and there around the world since 23/25 years (Let's say approximately 5 M)

Maybe I forgot some other CD's, thanks for adding to this list !

The song appears at least on 110 Million CD's sold around the world

Let's try to count together !

Edited by Katie, 07 December 2020 - 10:33 AM.

[CelinesDIVO5]

sarit_celine, on 07 December 2020 - 08:13 AM, said:

What is your favorite live performance of this song?

I'm still not sure what is mine there is tough competition.

Mine is a 3 way tie...

The Oscars 1998
ANDHC CBS Special
World Children’s Day

[Katie]

Katie, on 07 December 2020 - 10:32 AM, said:

Can we make up a research; but I do believe ,that, it's the most sold song ever appearing on CD (Compact Disc)

Let's talk about Love album : 32 M + Titanic Soundtracks: 30 M + The physical single: 18M + All the way...A decade of song (Physical sales only): 22 M + My Love: Essential Collection/My Love: Ultimate Essential collection (Physical sales only): 3 M + All the different compilations/Best hits... here and there around the world since 23/25 years (Let's say approximately 5 M)

Maybe I forgot some other CD's, thanks for adding to this list !

The song appears at least on 110 Million CD's sold around the world

Let's try to count together !

Plus I forgot the Live versions on CD's: Au coeur du stade + A new day...Live in Las Vegas + Taking chances: The World tour: The concert/Taking chances: La tournée mondiale: Le spectacle + Une seule fois...Live 2013...

[sarit_celine]

CelinesDIVO5, on 07 December 2020 - 11:03 AM, said:

Mine is a 3 way tie...

The Oscars 1998
ANDHC CBS Special
World Children's Day

Yes they are all amazing

[sarit_celine]

Ukrfan, on 07 December 2020 - 10:05 AM, said:

There is something special in Celine's voice in the album version that has never been translated well on stage.

She really put in the album's version a lot of magic. To my ears, what that made this song so special is her French accent
and her unique nuances. I wonder if acapella version for live shows will work.

[Céline RO]

sarit_celine said:

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What is your favorite live performance of this song?

I'm still not sure what is mine there is tough competition.

Oscars 1998, Vegas DVD and BBMAs 2017 are all iconic. I also quite liked the waterfall effect in Vegas. Vocally, however, it has to be performances from September 1999 on the LTAL tour. Those were perfection.

Edited by Céline RO, 07 December 2020 - 03:25 PM.

[nuts2you]

this version gets me everytime. it makes my hair on my arms stand up

[smw]

nuts2you, on 07 December 2020 - 03:50 PM, said:

this version gets me everytime. it makes my hair on my arms stand up

Agreed.
The beginning is breathtaking.
So thankful for the Edison Ballroom concert.
She demonstrated just how legendary she is that night.

Edited by smw, 07 December 2020 - 04:18 PM.

[nuts2you]

I wish i was there that night,  just wish also that she could have done it this last  yr before the tour even stated ,

[actofcontrition]

The ANDHC cbs special performance was almost perfection!

[browseceline]

sarit_celine, on 07 December 2020 - 01:51 PM, said:

She really put in the album's version a lot of magic. To my ears, what that made this song so special is her French accent
and her unique nuances. I wonder if acapella version for live shows will work.

She was sick that day and sang the sang with a breathy voice only and that one take was what was used for the studio version.
She never sings it in the original key and that way anymore.

This masked singer does sing it in original key and that breathy voice;



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Edited by browseceline, 07 December 2020 - 08:49 PM.

[sarit_celine]

browseceline, on 07 December 2020 - 08:47 PM, said:

She was sick that day and sang the sang with a breathy voice only and that one take was what was used for the studio version.
She never sings it in the original key and that way anymore.

This masked singer does sing it in original key and that breathy voice;



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I didn't remember she was sick just that she went to record it after her morning coffee lol she did pretty amazing
job given that she was sick.
I think that she is sick singing it that's why there is no more emocion to this song from recent times

[Chantemoi]

browseceline, on 07 December 2020 - 08:47 PM, said:

She was sick that day and sang the sang with a breathy voice only and that one take was what was used for the studio version.
She never sings it in the original key and that way anymore.

This masked singer does sing it in original key and that breathy voice;



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First off, the masked singer sang it better than Céline has in several years.

And Céline wasn’t sick when she recorded it, but she said in an interview that she was on her period and not feeling well.

[Ukrfan]

Céline RO, on 07 December 2020 - 03:24 PM, said:

Oscars 1998, Vegas DVD and BBMAs 2017 are all iconic. I also quite liked the waterfall effect in Vegas. Vocally, however, it has to be performances from September 1999 on the LTAL tour. Those were perfection.

The one in Chicago, IIRC?

There's nOOOOOOOOOOOOthing I fear!!

[Ukrfan]

Chantemoi, on 07 December 2020 - 09:16 PM, said:

First off, the masked singer sang it better than Céline has in several years.

And Céline wasn't sick when she recorded it, but she said in an interview that she was on her period and not feeling well.

I think she also mentioned drinking lots of coffee, didn't she?

Her voice in the studio version is my favorite of all songs and live performances. So emotional, so soft, so beautiful! Funny how she didn't feel well because her voice absolutely did!

[Unisono]

Ukrfan, on 07 December 2020 - 10:05 AM, said:

Seeing AIWFCIY ruling the charts years after being released, I wonder if MHWGO could have returned to chats again in 2017, 20 years after Titanic came out.

It would be so beautiful if it dominates the world once again Maybe 2024?

Anyway, I think my favorite live performances of MHWGO are:

- at The Rosie O'Donell show
- at ANDHS TV Special
- at Oprah (original key omg)
- at Billboard 2017 (beautiful look & sung so emotionally)

To be honest, I was never a big fan of MHWGO live performances. There is something special in Celine's voice in the album version that has never been translated well on stage. Even in Divas Live: her vocals were on fire that night, but ughh... it sounds emotionless to me.

However, I think Celine's voice in 2002 was closest to the album version. So nice to hear these two live performances, even though they are not in full. After 2002, her voice became tired and nasal, and I can't listen to that Live in Las Vegas live. They made it even worse with that editing making Celine sound as a robot.

Her live performances after James Horner deaths were very interesting and versatile!    The humming was nice and suitable at the beginning, but then she started to make them unpleasant (you know what I mean). I still appreciate how she managed to change the melody a bit.

Overall, I still believe MHWGO is her best English song, and it had a tremendous success. It is amazing how many live performances of MHWGO we have!

Wow, wow and wow again! The Oprah one vocals are amazing, both because you loved me and my heart will go on! The way she sang "forever this way" broke my heart! The world children's day one is great too, one of the best (the whole concert is one of Céline's highest moments).

[Céline RO]

Ukrfan, on 08 December 2020 - 06:47 AM, said:

The one in Chicago, IIRC?

There's nOOOOOOOOOOOOthing I fear!!

Chicago? Wasn’t that 1998?

I was mainly talking about Providence and Columbus but generally her LTAL tour performances were the best ever.

[beelee]

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[smw]

Do we know why the official My Heart Will Go On music video has never been posted on Celine's official YouTube channel?
I assume there's more to it than "her team sucks".

It's so nice to finally have O Holy Night from her CBS special uploaded on her channel. I don't understand copyright issues at all. Why can O Holy Night from a 1998 CBS special be uploaded to her channel yet the My Heart Will Go On music video can't?

[couldawouldashoulda]

smw, on 29 December 2020 - 04:01 PM, said:

Do we know why the official My Heart Will Go On music video has never been posted on Celine's official YouTube channel?
I assume there's more to it than "her team sucks".

It's so nice to finally have O Holy Night from her CBS special uploaded on her channel. I don't understand copyright issues at all. Why can O Holy Night from a 1998 CBS special be uploaded to her channel yet the My Heart Will Go On music video can't?

Because different companies own the different videos. One company might give the rights to post a video; another company may so no.

[Chantemoi]

I wonder what rights CDA/Feeling Productions own?

[smw]

couldawouldashoulda, on 29 December 2020 - 04:05 PM, said:

Because different companies own the different videos. One company might give the rights to post a video; another company may so no.

Hopefully they can get it straightened out.
Having the official video posted on her account would be wonderful.