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[jpatdeleon09]

I heard Walter have a different story.....

[MTJ]

jpatdeleon09, on 09 February 2021 - 12:43 PM, said:

We need this. Just incase someone will bring this up... again lol

Vocals only

Horner's version (Soundtrack)



Walter's version (Album)

jpatdeleon09, on 11 February 2021 - 11:28 AM, said:

I heard Walter have a different story.....

Thanks for bringing this back up! We almost forgot how you feel about it.

[jpatdeleon09]

MTJ, on 11 February 2021 - 11:50 AM, said:

Thanks for bringing this back up! We almost forgot how you feel about it.

I feel good that I need to rerecord my feelings. Just incase and add echoes to it

Edited by jpatdeleon09, 11 February 2021 - 11:58 AM.

[I Drove All Night!]

Céline RO, on 08 December 2020 - 09:19 AM, said:

Chicago? Wasn’t that 1998?

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

Providence - September 25, 1999


Columbus - September 27, 1999 (Video is incorrectly labeled as April 1999)


Unpopular opinion time... I really love this Larry King performance. She struggles through the belts and highs (Fore(flat)eeeeeever this way) but there's always been something about this one that has stuck with me. There's a rawness and extra emotion that I love. I believe this was the one year anniversary of 9/11 so maybe she was feeling extra emotional?


For vocally stellar performances definitely WCD and Oscars for me!

Edited by I Drove All Night!, 12 February 2021 - 12:50 PM.

[jpatdeleon09]

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Céline RO, on 01 April 2021 - 11:53 PM, said:

Anything new?

Same story but there's no mariah mentioned that mariah fans were saying about being the first one to record this song. No delusional story bulls

Edited by jpatdeleon09, 02 April 2021 - 12:01 AM.

[marc-02]

jpatdeleon09, on 01 April 2021 - 11:57 PM, said:

Same story but there's no mariah mentioned that mariah fans were saying about being the first one to record this song. No delusional story bulls

If Mariah was first to record MHWGO then celine was first to record AIWFCIY 😆😆😆

Edited by marc-02, 02 April 2021 - 03:03 AM.

[Derek F.]

I found some new exciting info recently about "My Heart Will Go On"!  

Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" is the MOST STREAMED #1 SONG FROM THE 90's!, with an incredible 651,522,000 official U.S. On-demand streams, as of July 2020. (By August 2021, most likely the song now has more than 700 million streams!)
This info was found in an article titled: Which No. 1 Singles from the 80's and 90's Stand the Test of Time? on Jezebel.com
The writer said he reached out to Nielsen Music to request U.S. streaming numbers for all 375 songs that carried the distinction of being at some point the most popular song in the country in the 1980's and 1990's, according to trusted industry source Billboard, and that he wanted to see which smashes stood the test of time. The writer pointed out "Early-to-mid 80's songs fill the top 10, which includes ONLY ONE from the '90s (My Heart Will Go On, by Celine Dion)!

Buzzfeed.com named "My Heart Will Go On" the "GREATEST BALLAD OF ALL TIME".

According to YouTube insights as of July 2021, "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine, has more than 2.5 BILLION views worldwide, since September 2014!
(can you imagine the YouTube views/on-demand streams if the official music video was posted by Team Celine on Celine's official YouTube channel?!)

Also, according to Chartmasters.org: "My Heart Will Go On" is the most successful song of all time!, at 62,750,000 EAS (Equivalent album sales), as of June 2018.
Chartmasters also stated: "The physical single sold more than 4.6 million units in Germany, the UK and France. Since it's release to date, no other song sold that much in this format."

This song is absolutely timeless and legendary! (Just like Celine, and her voice)

[jpatdeleon09]

and Thank God they didn't listen to her. (about refusing to sing this song)

[Gicedi]

I wonder whats going on with the Grammys process.
Why the song got nominated and won at the 1999 Grammys (where she sung The prayer)? And not at 1998 Grammys that she was nominated for Tell him (which is from the same album/year with My heart will go on and Titanic OST) where she was about to performe Tell him and finally performed My heart will go on.
I guess all those should be in 1998 Grammys and in 1999 to be just the nomination  & performance for The prayer.

[ordinary fan]

Derek F., on 17 August 2021 - 12:50 AM, said:

I found some new exciting info recently about "My Heart Will Go On"!  

Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" is the MOST STREAMED #1 SONG FROM THE 90's!, with an incredible 651,522,000 official U.S. On-demand streams, as of July 2020. (By August 2021, most likely the song now has more than 700 million streams!)
This info was found in an article titled: Which No. 1 Singles from the 80's and 90's Stand the Test of Time? on Jezebel.com
The writer said he reached out to Nielsen Music to request U.S. streaming numbers for all 375 songs that carried the distinction of being at some point the most popular song in the country in the 1980's and 1990's, according to trusted industry source Billboard, and that he wanted to see which smashes stood the test of time. The writer pointed out "Early-to-mid 80's songs fill the top 10, which includes ONLY ONE from the '90s (My Heart Will Go On, by Celine Dion)!

Buzzfeed.com named "My Heart Will Go On" the "GREATEST BALLAD OF ALL TIME".

According to YouTube insights as of July 2021, "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine, has more than 2.5 BILLION views worldwide, since September 2014!
(can you imagine the YouTube views/on-demand streams if the official music video was posted by Team Celine on Celine's official YouTube channel?!)

Also, according to Chartmasters.org: "My Heart Will Go On" is the most successful song of all time!, at 62,750,000 EAS (Equivalent album sales), as of June 2018.
Chartmasters also stated: "The physical single sold more than 4.6 million units in Germany, the UK and France. Since it's release to date, no other song sold that much in this format."

This song is absolutely timeless and legendary! (Just like Celine, and her voice)

Man they should upload the official video. In my opinion her official account looks so strange with the video of her most important song nowhere to be found. Anyway thank's for the info

Edited by ordinary fan, 17 August 2021 - 07:19 AM.

[Ukrfan]

Gicedi, on 17 August 2021 - 03:54 AM, said:

I wonder whats going on with the Grammys process.
Why the song got nominated and won at the 1999 Grammys (where she sung The prayer)? And not at 1998 Grammys that she was nominated for Tell him (which is from the same album/year with My heart will go on and Titanic OST) where she was about to performe Tell him and finally performed My heart will go on.
I guess all those should be in 1998 Grammys and in 1999 to be just the nomination  & performance for The prayer.

Because the song was released in December 1997, and could not got nominated for Grammy 1998 (the nominations were already announced). Tell him was released two months earlier, in October.

So instead, MHWGO got nominated for 1999 Grammy. As for the performances, Celine was supposed to sing Tell Him with Barbra on Grammy 1998, but Barbra got sick, so Celine performed MHWGO.

Edited by Ukrfan, 17 August 2021 - 11:53 AM.

[Derek F.]

According to Billboard, as reported on 11/3/21, Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" is one of the longest leading #1's ever!, and is one of only 15 No. 1 songs to reign for at least 10 weeks among 400 total leaders on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, which reflects airplay, as tabulated by MRC Data, on over 150 mainstream top 40-formatted radio stations, dating to the chart's inception in October 1992.

Another amazing chart accomplishment for "My Heart Will Go On"!

[Derek F.]

Back in January of 1998, the Titanic soundtrack and Celine's classic album "Let's Talk About Love" both featuring "My Heart Will Go On" began a legendary chart run, when the albums dominated the Billboard charts for months!

Sony music had one of the rarest, most clever marketing strategies ever, when they released two albums on 11/18/97, featuring Titanic's theme song "My Heart Will Go On", the Titanic soundtrack and Celine's "Let's Talk About Love". This simultaneous release of both albums proved to be one of the most successful strategies/plans of all time! The plan's success is very evident in the chart action achieved by both of the albums and with the incredible success of "My Heart Will Go On".

- By January 1998, Celine's album "Let's Talk About Love" became Celine's fastest-selling album, selling over 3 million copies in the U.S. within two months, and reached #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, only to be dethroned the next week by the Titanic soundtrack, which took over the #1 position at the end of January!
- By mid-February, both albums posted huge gains for several weeks:  
One week in February 1998, both albums experienced tremendous growth-the Titanic soundtrack sold a whopping 848,000 copies, while "Let's Talk About Love" sold 339,000 copies! In just that week, these albums sold almost 1.2 million copies!!
The soundtrack had a gain of 44%, and set the record at that time for the largest sales week outside of the Christmas shopping season, and first month of release!
As Billboard's Geoff Mayfield put it: "So large was the growth that, if an album sold only what Titanic gained-259,000 units- it would have ranked No. 3 for the week."
- By April 4th,1998, the albums had a hugely successful week: Titanic soundtrack spending its 11th week at #1, with Celine's "Let's Talk About Love" rising back to #2, and "My Heart Will Go On" was spending it's 10th consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary, and Hot 100 Airplay/Radio Songs chart! The song was also experiencing amazing record-setting airplay: Billboard said "Record-holder Celine Dion, who tops the airplay list with 108 million impressions, has surpassed 104 million listeners for nine weeks."

- The Titanic soundtrack spent a record-breaking 16 consecutive weeks at #1, and during that amazing run, there were 12 weeks when Celine's album was at #2, right below Titanic, including a consecutive 4 week, and 5 week stretch! That is just phenomenal!
When the Titanic soundtrack was spending its incredible 16th week at #1 on the Billboard 200 in May 1998, "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL in the top 10 on the Hot 100 Airplay/Radio Songs, and STILL in the top 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart!

- During the Titanic soundtrack's 16 week run at #1, the soundtrack sold over 200,000 copies a week for 15 consecutive weeks!!
"It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon", "This thing was the kind of album that did Christmas week numbers in January and February" said Geoff Mayfield, director of charts, and Billboard columnist.

- The successful duo of the Titanic soundtrack and Celine's album "Let's Talk About Love", both featuring "My Heart Will Go On", ended 1998 as the year's #1, and #2 album in the U.S.!!
Titanic sold over 9.2 million copies in the U.S., and Celine's album sold over 7.9 million copies, for a total of more than 17.1 million units sold in one year!! Truly astonishing!
Chart records, achievements and sales are still important today, with many new chart and sales records occurring frequently, but I believe it's safe to say, just like Billboard said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon"! These chart achievements are still legendary!

[Celinefan2019]

My Heart will go on is one of my favorite Celine songs from the late 90's. I remember when I first heard the song in 1999 and I was only 5 years old at the time

[idroveallnight]

I have no idea how it took me 20 years to discover this alternate version of MHWGO. Why Sony didn't officially remaster and release it on the 20 anniversary? You think they would actually want to make money off the 90s song with the most streams today.

[Celinelife]

idroveallnight, on 25 January 2022 - 10:48 PM, said:

I have no idea how it took me 20 years to discover this alternate version of MHWGO. Why Sony didn't officially remaster and release it on the 20 anniversary? You think they would actually want to make money off the 90s song with the most streams today.

Bro, they haven't released the music video yet, you talk about alternate version

[broadwaymike92]

So incredible this song still moves people today!! From seeing her in concert twice, there's nothing like that feeling once you hear that opening tin whistle solo (by the incredible Elise Duguay) and the crowd goes WILD!!!! Everyone in the arena lighting up their phones and waving them. Mess by the end.

[broadwaymike92]

I also wish they could have aired her performance of the song on her 2008 That's Just The Woman CBS Special!!! She did sing it during that special but was cut and did not make the final broadcast.

[Chantemoi]

broadwaymike92, on 04 February 2022 - 06:46 PM, said:

I also wish they could have aired her performance of the song on her 2008 That's Just The Woman CBS Special!!! She did sing it during that special but was cut and did not make the final broadcast.

Interesting. Was it lipped?

[jpatdeleon09]

Chantemoi, on 05 February 2022 - 08:22 AM, said:

Interesting. Was it lipped?

I think it was since only a few songs were sang fully live

[Derek F.]

Throwback to this time of year, in 1998, when Celine's mega hit classic "My Heart Will Go On" had just debuted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, one of the first 10 songs to ever in history to achieve that! "My Heart Will Go On had also just been named the most-played radio hit of all time in the U.S. as well, reaching the widest radio audience AND achieving the most radio spins in a single week!

To celebrate this anniversary, here are some more amazing chart achievements and honors that "My Heart Will Go On" has had:

• In 1998, Celine’s signature classic was one of the top 5 most played Adult Contemporary songs of the year with almost 36,000 radio spins! After spending 38 weeks- which included an incredible 10 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, My Heart Will Go On went on to top the Billboard Adult Contemporary recurrent chart for 7 weeks! The iconic song was one of the top 10 most played mainstream Top 40 songs that year as well with more than 82,000 radio spins!

• Overall, across all radio formats, My Heart Will Go On was a top 15 most played song of the year and received more than 187,000 radio spins!!
  
• My Heart Will Go On entered the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart at #1, stayed there for two consecutive weeks, and spent its first 7 weeks in the top 5 on that chart!

• In December of 2003, per Billboard, My Heart Will Go On was recognized by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) for certified airplay in North America of more than 400,000 spins. My Heart Will Go On won a BDS certification spin award for accumulating more than 400,000 radio spins/detections!!

• In 1998, Billboard asked radio program directors aka "PD's" to rate/list the most important artists and songs of the year. For AC stations, Celine was named the most important artist, and "My Heart Will Go On" was considered the most important song!

• According to Billboard's radio monitor, New Research Group president Rick Torcasso said that programmer's "need to look at creating a variety on their radio stations." As an example, he cited "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion's theme song from blockbuster film "Titanic". "That song was such a huge hit, he says, that country stations should have played it too. It comes down to expanding the format" says Torcasso, and it's a scary thought for people. But look at AC stations playing Shania Twain and look at the ratings they get. In country, instead of expanding the format, they limit it. It all depends on how you market it" he adds, "Can you [just throw] a Celine Dion on a country station and get away with it? Probably not, but you can if you market it [properly]".

• In December of 1998, Music & Media said "There's life in the Titanic after all, as the band keeps playing Celine Dion's songs. That's how the year could be summarized for Sony Music, which dominates M&M's 1998's year-end charts as no company has ever done before in the history of these charts. The Japanese major emerges as the top company and top label, both in albums and singles, while Celine Dion dominates the top singles and top albums sections by a wide margin, with Titanic's anthem My Heart Will Go On and Let's Talk About Love, respectively. Dion is also the top overall artist in both categories, as well as being top female artist for both singles and albums."

• Music & Media also said- "Queen Celine reigns supreme. Without question, Celine Dion was Europe's artist of the year in 1998, taking home six sales awards in a coup unprecedented in the history of Music & Media's European charts. Dion tops both the singles and albums year-end charts. She is also the best selling artist in both categories overall, and therefore takes the honours of the biggest selling female act on both charts. The artist's English language album "Let's Talk About Love" released on 17 November 1997, is easily the biggest selling album in Europe so far this decade. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) confirms that the last official European sales update for the album, dating from September this year (1998), has "Let's Talk About Love" at 8.5 million units- that's more than any other album has reached since IFPI Platinum Europe statistics began in January 1994." Sony Music Europe Senior VP marketing Richard Ogden contributes the growth of Dion's fanbase "specifically to My Heart Will Go On," the theme tune from Titanic. The single, which tops the European Hot 100, sold five million units across Europe, as of December 1998, according to Music & Media.

• In 2017, Billboard said this about "My Heart Will Go On"- "Celine Dion's iconic smash hit will be remembered for the indelible mark it left on film history, and for giving rise to one of the most recognizable. Following the release of Titanic in December of 1997, My Heart Will Go On was the biggest thing in music"!

• In April of 2019, Insider posted a list of the 100 best songs from the '90's, and they concluded and rounded off the list with "My Heart Will Go On"!

• As of February 2020, HarpersBazaar named Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" as one of the 70 greatest love songs of all time, saying it's "the only song grandiose enough to encapsulate Jack and Rose's love story."

• As of February 2021, Men's Health named Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" one of the 55 best pop love songs of all time and called My Heart Will Go On "the most iconic pop ballad in music history".

• Classicrockhistory.com said this about Celine and "My Heart Will Go On"- "she (Celine) was the perfect person to sing this song. The song is an emotional power ballad that captured the movie perfectly. Her vocals were stunning and angelic. The way Celine Dion sings this track, you would never know that she was hesitant about recording it".

• As of January 2022, BuzzFeed named "My Heart Will Go On" one of the top 15 (out of 104) best love songs ever written. Interestingly, the #1 best love song ever written on their list is "Because You Loved Me" by Celine.

• As of January 2022, Movieweb named "My Heart Will Go On" as one of the ten most memorable songs from movies that we can't stop listening to, that they have on repeat, and said "it's hard to think of a song that fits a movie more perfectly than this pairing." and said the song is "nothing short of beautiful, dramatic, and epic".

“My Heart Will Go On” will always be such a blessing, with stunning, beautiful vocals and lyrics! It’s such a memorable, epic, and timeless song! Truly one of the greatest songs of all time!

Edited by Derek F., 02 March 2022 - 09:07 PM.

[ordinary fan]

Derek F., on 02 March 2022 - 09:04 PM, said:

Throwback to this time of year, in 1998, when Celine's mega hit classic "My Heart Will Go On" had just debuted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, one of the first 10 songs to ever in history to achieve that! "My Heart Will Go On had also just been named the most-played radio hit of all time in the U.S. as well, reaching the widest radio audience AND achieving the most radio spins in a single week!

To celebrate this anniversary, here are some more amazing chart achievements and honors that "My Heart Will Go On" has had:

• In 1998, Celine’s signature classic was one of the top 5 most played Adult Contemporary songs of the year with almost 36,000 radio spins! After spending 38 weeks- which included an incredible 10 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, My Heart Will Go On went on to top the Billboard Adult Contemporary recurrent chart for 7 weeks! The iconic song was one of the top 10 most played mainstream Top 40 songs that year as well with more than 82,000 radio spins!

• Overall, across all radio formats, My Heart Will Go On was a top 15 most played song of the year and received more than 187,000 radio spins!!
  
• My Heart Will Go On entered the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart at #1, stayed there for two consecutive weeks, and spent its first 7 weeks in the top 5 on that chart!

• In December of 2003, per Billboard, My Heart Will Go On was recognized by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) for certified airplay in North America of more than 400,000 spins. My Heart Will Go On won a BDS certification spin award for accumulating more than 400,000 radio spins/detections!!

• In 1998, Billboard asked radio program directors aka "PD's" to rate/list the most important artists and songs of the year. For AC stations, Celine was named the most important artist, and "My Heart Will Go On" was considered the most important song!

• According to Billboard's radio monitor, New Research Group president Rick Torcasso said that programmer's "need to look at creating a variety on their radio stations." As an example, he cited "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion's theme song from blockbuster film "Titanic". "That song was such a huge hit, he says, that country stations should have played it too. It comes down to expanding the format" says Torcasso, and it's a scary thought for people. But look at AC stations playing Shania Twain and look at the ratings they get. In country, instead of expanding the format, they limit it. It all depends on how you market it" he adds, "Can you [just throw] a Celine Dion on a country station and get away with it? Probably not, but you can if you market it [properly]".

• In December of 1998, Music & Media said "There's life in the Titanic after all, as the band keeps playing Celine Dion's songs. That's how the year could be summarized for Sony Music, which dominates M&M's 1998's year-end charts as no company has ever done before in the history of these charts. The Japanese major emerges as the top company and top label, both in albums and singles, while Celine Dion dominates the top singles and top albums sections by a wide margin, with Titanic's anthem My Heart Will Go On and Let's Talk About Love, respectively. Dion is also the top overall artist in both categories, as well as being top female artist for both singles and albums."

• Music & Media also said- "Queen Celine reigns supreme. Without question, Celine Dion was Europe's artist of the year in 1998, taking home six sales awards in a coup unprecedented in the history of Music & Media's European charts. Dion tops both the singles and albums year-end charts. She is also the best selling artist in both categories overall, and therefore takes the honours of the biggest selling female act on both charts. The artist's English language album "Let's Talk About Love" released on 17 November 1997, is easily the biggest selling album in Europe so far this decade. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) confirms that the last official European sales update for the album, dating from September this year (1998), has "Let's Talk About Love" at 8.5 million units- that's more than any other album has reached since IFPI Platinum Europe statistics began in January 1994." Sony Music Europe Senior VP marketing Richard Ogden contributes the growth of Dion's fanbase "specifically to My Heart Will Go On," the theme tune from Titanic. The single, which tops the European Hot 100, sold five million units across Europe, as of December 1998, according to Music & Media.

• In 2017, Billboard said this about "My Heart Will Go On"- "Celine Dion's iconic smash hit will be remembered for the indelible mark it left on film history, and for giving rise to one of the most recognizable. Following the release of Titanic in December of 1997, My Heart Will Go On was the biggest thing in music"!

• In April of 2019, Insider posted a list of the 100 best songs from the '90's, and they concluded and rounded off the list with "My Heart Will Go On"!

• As of February 2020, HarpersBazaar named Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" as one of the 70 greatest love songs of all time, saying it's "the only song grandiose enough to encapsulate Jack and Rose's love story."

• As of February 2021, Men's Health named Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" one of the 55 best pop love songs of all time and called My Heart Will Go On "the most iconic pop ballad in music history".

• Classicrockhistory.com said this about Celine and "My Heart Will Go On"- "she (Celine) was the perfect person to sing this song. The song is an emotional power ballad that captured the movie perfectly. Her vocals were stunning and angelic. The way Celine Dion sings this track, you would never know that she was hesitant about recording it".

• As of January 2022, BuzzFeed named "My Heart Will Go On" one of the top 15 (out of 104) best love songs ever written. Interestingly, the #1 best love song ever written on their list is "Because You Loved Me" by Celine.

• As of January 2022, Movieweb named "My Heart Will Go On" as one of the ten most memorable songs from movies that we can't stop listening to, that they have on repeat, and said "it's hard to think of a song that fits a movie more perfectly than this pairing." and said the song is "nothing short of beautiful, dramatic, and epic".

“My Heart Will Go On” will always be such a blessing, with stunning, beautiful vocals and lyrics! It’s such a memorable, epic, and timeless song! Truly one of the greatest songs of all time!

Thank you for this, it's nice to read and puts a smile on my face

[Celinefan2019]

My heart will go on is one of my favorite songs from Celine. It brings back good childhood memories every time I hear the song. I was five years old when I heard the song for the first time.

[ordinary fan]

Celinefan2019, on 05 March 2022 - 08:32 PM, said:

My heart will go on is one of my favorite songs from Celine. It brings back good childhood memories every time I hear the song. I was five years old when I heard the song for the first time.

I was 8

Edited by ordinary fan, 06 March 2022 - 02:12 AM.

[Derek F.]

Additional chart feats and success of "My Heart Will Go On"

Here are some more amazing achievements of Celine's "My Heart Will Go On", and of the Titanic soundtrack that I have recently found, I spent many additional hours of research, reading many past issues of Billboard, Radio & Records, HITS magazine, The Gavin Report, and Music Week, and I hope you will enjoy reading about the info I found. Even though I'm clearly a mega-fan of "My Heart Will Go On, several of these achievments I was not aware of until recently!


November 1997-
In an official radio promo ad from HITS magazine dated Nov. 21st, 1997, Sony Music stated that "My Heart Will Go On" was the "Most Added At Top 40!" and also stated "Early Major Market Airplay" at 9 major market radio stations, and also said "More Stations Coming In At Press Time, BE A PART OF IT!!" The official radio promo ad also stated that Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" music "VIDEO DEBUTS 11/24"

December 1997- Early January 1998
In an official radio promo ad from early January included in HITS magazine, Sony music stated that "My Heart Will Go On" was the #1 Greatest Gainer of the holiday season! (late November 1997- January 1st, 1998), and it was also stated that the song was the #1 most added song of the week on Adult Monitor, and Adult Top 40 Monitor, and was getting "MASSIVE REQUESTS EVERYWHERE!" The official ad also stated that Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" music video was the #1 Most Requested Pop Video on the Box!

January 1998-
On HITS magazine's Top 50 Most Powerful Songs chart, "Cuts That Impact Album Sales", chart date January 9th, 1998 "My Heart Will Go On" was the #1 song in America, on the first HITS chart for 1998!

Radio & Record's (R&R) "The Industry's Newpaper" stated that "550 Music's Celine Dion is riding a Titanic phenomenon as 'My Heart Will Go On' earns No. 1 Most Increased Airplay honors at CHR/POP and AC for the second consecutive week." in their Jan. 16, 1998 issue!

In the HITS magazine dated January 23rd, 1998, an article was posted about the phenomenal sales happening with the Titanic soundtrack, here is a quote from part of that article: "Backing up last week's tremendous #1 ascension, the Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtracks "Titanic" disc posts an unbelievable 53% increase, docking again at #1. Said Sony Music Entertainment President/COO Thomas D. Motolla, "It's incredible having a classical score soundtrack selling more than 400,000 units in its ninth week of release. On Monday we received more than 590,000 orders, the highest sales orders in a single day for any album in our company's history, including 'Thriller.'" Wow."  

"My Heart Will Go On" was #1 on the Gavin Reports Gavin A/C chart with almost 4,000 radio spins on the chart dated Jan. 23rd, 1998!

"My Heart Will Go On" was still #1 for the 3rd week on the HITS Top 50 Most Powerful Songs chart, on chart date January 23rd, 1998. Also, "My Heart Will Go On" leaped from #5 to #1 on the HITS REQUESTS chart, which lists the most requested songs in the U.S. for chart date January 23rd, 1998.

Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" debuted at the top of the Radio & Records (R&R) CALLOUT AMERICA CHR/POP chart for the week of January 23rd, 1998!!!
CALLOUT AMERICA song selection was based on the top titles from the R&R CHR/Pop chart for the airplay week of December 29th-January 4th, according to R&R.
There was an article regarding the CALLOUT AMERICA results, called: "CALLOUT AMERICA Hot Scores, which stated- "Celine Dion enters Callout America in the top spot with 'My Heart Will Go On' (550 Music). The song, from the mega-hit movie Titanic, debuts with a 4.14 total favorability score."
"In the history of Callout America I don't recall a record debuting with such HUGE demo and regional scores."- Tony Novia/R&R

Billboard magazine had an article regarding the incredible success of the Titanic soundtrack and Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" titled "Titanic soundtrack makes huge splash" issue dated Jan. 24th. The article states: "On The Billboard 200, 'Titanic' has made a miraculous ascent-- entering at No. 154 in the Dec. 27 issue and reaching No. 1 in only five weeks." The article also stated: "On Jan. 12, the label took reorders totaling 500,000 units for the title, its largest single reorder taken on one day for any title in the company's history, according to Sony Music Soundtrax executive VP (U.S.) Glen Brunman. "No one could have possibly anticipated the demand, and some stores were out of stock" Brunman says, "but no one is losing sales on this, and we're just getting started." The article also stated: "In addition to its tremendous run at theaters, the film has been bolstered by the Dion single "My Heart Will Go On", from her album "Let's Talk About Love," which was released to radio in December. The video has also received extensive air time on VH1, which has helped add to album sales, retailers say."

In the HITS magazine dated January 30th, 1998 Issue 578, there was an article titled "Sony's Ship Comes In" which stated: "Sony Music Chief Thomas D. Mottola proves a seaworthy leader, as he guides his label groups to Album Chart domination, including the #1 Titanic soundtrack (already 8 million worldwide!) and 550's #2 Celine Dion album (16 million worldwide!)"!!!!!!

On the HITS Top 50 Most Powerful Songs chart, dated Jan. 30th, 1998, "My Heart Will Go On" was still #1 and for the same chart date of Jan. 30th, of 1998 "My Heart Will Go On" also was #1 on the HITS Pop Plays Top 60 songs chart leaping from #7 to #1, with 9,207 total plays! The massive hit song was also #1 for the second week in a row on the HITS REQUESTS song chart!


Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" spent it's 2nd week at the top of the Radio & Records (R&R) CALLOUT AMERICA CHR/POP chart for the week of January 30rd, 1998!
CALLOUT AMERICA song selection was based on the top titles from the R&R CHR/Pop chart for the airplay week of January 5th-January 11th, according to R&R.
The article regarding the CALLOUT AMERICA results, called: "CALLOUT AMERICA Hot Scores, stated- "Breaking Records: 'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion (550 Music) improves its already tremendous score with a 4.14- 4.28 move. The mega-hit, from Dion's 'Let's Talk About Love' and the Titanic soundtrack, is showing phenomenal demo and regional strength. 'Heart' registers the biggest Callout America score ever with teens-- a whopping 4.61. Congratulations to Celine Dion, 550 Music President Polly Anthony, and the entire staff of Sony's 550 Music on this extraordinary and well-deserved success."!

In Billboard's Jan. 31st issue, there was an official album promo ad from Sony Classical and Sony Music Soundtrax, that stated that the Titanic soundtrack was "THE FASTEST SELLING ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE EVER!"

Music Week magazine, named "My Heart Will Go On" the "SINGLE OF THE WEEK" in the Jan. 31st, 1998 issue, saying Celine Dion has "stunning vocals", and saying: "The theme song from the hit movie Titanic, Dion delivers another stunning vocal on an Irish-style production by Walter Afanasieff and James Horner. A major hit."

February 1998-


Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" spent it's 3rd week at the top of the Radio & Records (R&R) CALLOUT AMERICA CHR/POP chart for the week of Feb. 6th, 1998!
CALLOUT AMERICA song selection was based on the top titles from the R&R CHR/Pop chart for the airplay week of January 12th-January 18th, according to R&R.
The article regarding the CALLOUT AMERICA results, called: "CALLOUT AMERICA Hot Scores, stated-"Chalk up another record for Celine Dion! 'My Heart Will Go On' (550 Music) blasts into Callout America history with an icredible 4.33 total favorability score, setting the all-time high score. 'Heart' is also No. 1 across all demos and regions. For those of you who watch callout closely, these kind of across-the-board, multi-format hits are few and far between. If you don't have it in power rotation, you're not giving your audience what they are screaming for."

For chart date Feb. 13th, 1998 "My Heart Will Go On" was the #1 song on HITS Top 50 Most Powerful Songs and HITS REQUESTS song charts, and the song was still also #1 on HITS Pop Plays Top 60 songs chart, with 10,499 Total Plays!
In Music Week, chart date Feb. 14th, 1998, the song was also #1 on the Music Week Top 10 Growers chart with 480 increase in no. of plays!

The Gavin Report reported in Feb. that Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was the top song on their spins per week per station chart, with an average of 26.20 spins per week per station!

March 1998-
For the week of 3/2/98 Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" music video was #1 on MTV in the U.S. and in Asia!

For chart date March 7th, 1998, "My Heart Will Go On" was #1 for the second consecutive week on Billboard's famous Hot 100 Singles chart

For the chart date of March 14th, '98, "My Heart Will Go On" rose to #1 on the Official Top 75 U.K. Singles chart, as shown in Music Week magazine!

The Gavin Report reported that for the chart week March 20th, "My Heart Will Go On" was #1 on the GO Chart Top 40, with 3,974 radio spins, and states: "Go Station Panel: The GO Chart is based on reports by 110 Gavin correspondents who are not part of Radio & Records or Billboard's panels."


Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was still at the top of the Radio & Records (R&R) CALLOUT AMERICA CHR/POP chart for the week of March 27th, 1998!
CALLOUT AMERICA song selection was based on the top titles from the R&R CHR/Pop chart for the airplay week of March 2nd-March 8th, according to R&R.
The article regarding the CALLOUT AMERICA results, called: "CALLOUT AMERICA Hot Scores, stated- "The Academy Award-winning 'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion (550 Music) remains a dominant No. 1 (4.26-4.29) on Callout America, R&R's exclusive survey"

April 1998-
On HITS magazine Top 50 ALBUMS chart, dated April 3rd, 1998, the Titanic soundtrack was #1 and Celine's "Let's Talk About Love" was #2 on the albums chart, with the magazine calling the Titanic album a "Phenomenon"! For the same chart date week, "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL the #1 Most Powerful Song on the HITS Top 50 Most Powerful Songs chart!

Music Week named the Titanic soundtrack the "most successful movie score of all time in the U.K. with more than 725,000 sales", in the April 4th, 1998 issue date.

Music Week named "My Heart Will Go On" as "TRACK OF THE WEEK" on 4/4/98!
Music Week said this about the song/track: "Most labels are eager to get their acts on the Lottery Live show before a track has charted, but for Epic the appearance of Celine Dion singing My Heart Will Go On during the March 18 show emphasised the lasting radio and TV support for a song that had been around for weeks.", Music Week also said "The BBC has not been alone in wanting to feature the song despite its long chart life. My Heart Will Go On has been rotated heavily on the cable music channel The Box for 10 weeks and was the most selected song for eight weeks. With nearly 23,000 requests so far, it is The Box's most popular video this year."!

For the week ending 4/22/98, according to Music Week, "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL #1 on The Box music video channel!


Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was still at the top of the Radio & Records (R&R) CALLOUT AMERICA CHR/POP chart for the week of April 24th, 1998, with a 4.09 favorability score!
CALLOUT AMERICA song selection was based on the top titles from the R&R CHR/Pop chart for the airplay week of March 30- April 5th, according to R&R

In the April 25th issue of Music Week, they stated: "Titanic's My Heart Will Go On claimed a staggering 76.1% lead over its nearest rival to grab the crown for the biggest-selling single during 1998's opening quarter"!

"My Heart Will Go On" topped the Official Pop Chart in Music Week for the week of April 25th, '98 and with commentary by Alan Jones, who said "Celine Dion debuted at number one last week with 'My Heart Will Go On' winning massive support from DJs- and somehow managed to find a further 48% growth to attain one of the highest DJ approval ratings ever on the Pop Tip chart"!

Celine's music video for "My Heart Will Go On" was #1 again for week of 4/27/98 on MTV Asia!

July 1998-
Radio & Records released new survey results based on thier exclusive station survey, and posted a new chart of the Top 40 most-requested love songs of all time, and "My Heart Will Go On" topped the survey!! This chart was revealed in the R&R July 17, 1998 issue.
The chart was titled- "AC Extremes Closeup, Celine's Still The One" and explained how the results were determined- "Based on our exclusive station survey, these are the top 40 most-requested songs heard on the country's various Love Songs shows."

August 1998-
"My Heart Will Go On" was in the top 5, on the Billboard Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay Top 25 chart, dated Aug. 8th, 1998.

Celine's music video for "My Heart Will Go On" was still in the top 5 for week of 8/03/98 on MTV Europe!

September 1998-
"My Heart Will Go On" was in the top 4, on the Billboard Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay Top 25 chart, dated Sept. 19th, 1998!

October 1998-
In Billboard's Airplay Monitor dated Oct. 9th, 1998, Airplay Monitor counted down and listed the top radio hits of the Monitor Era ['93-'98] and in an article titled "MONITOR'S GREATEST HITS", Billboard reported that "Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On,' clearly one of the biggest hits in recent memory", was "the No. 25 mainstream top 40 title and No. 27 at AC" of the Airplay Monitor Era, and was in the top 3 on the Mainstream Top 40 TOP 10 SPIN LEADERS chart, and was the top song by any female artist on that chart as well! On issue date 2/13/98, "My Heart Will Go On" experienced 5,446 radio spins on just Mainstream Top 40!

"My Heart Will Go On" was also one of the TOP 10 SPIN GAINERS ever in the Billboard Airplay Monitor Era on Adult Top 40, with gains of 467+ issue date 1/16/98 on Adult Top 40, and was the #1 song of the entire Billboard Airplay Monitor Era at that time, on the Adult Contemporary TOP 10 SPIN LEADERS chart, with airplay spins of 1,536 on just Adult Contemporary stations, for issue date 2/6/98, the most in any week on Adult Contemporary radio!

Music Week magazine named "My Heart Will Go On" the #1 single on "THE YEAR SO FAR... TOP 20 SINGLES" chart, in issue week Oct. 24th, 1998!

December 1998-
In December '98 the Gavin Report released the results of the responses they had received from several people in the music industry, regarding their picks for AC songs that will live forever.
Louis Kaplan, PD & Julie Nakahara Stoeckel, APD/MD ALICE@97.3 (KLLC)- San Fancisco named "My Heart Will Go On" one of their picks for A/C songs that will live forever.
John C. Wada, PD KFMN-LIHUE, Kauai, HI. named "My Heart Will Go On" one of his picks for Top Ten A/C Songs that will live forever.
Jeff Ball, PD/MD WHIZ AM/FM-Zanesville, Ohio named "My Heart Will Go On" as one of his  top 5 picks out of his Top 10 A/C Songs that will live forever.
Rick Mize, Station Manager WQLJ (Q93.7) Oxford/Batesville, MISS. named "My Heart Will Go On" one of his picks for A/C Songs that will live forever
D. Scott Meyers, Director of National Promotion GTSP Records named "My Heart Will Go On" one of his top 2 picks for the Top Ten A/C songs that will live forever.

-Billboard's Geoff Mayfield reported in 1998 that the Titanic soundtrack spent "an unprecedented 11 weeks above the 400,000-unit mark", and said when Titanic was spending it's record breaking ninth week above the 400,000-unit mark "No other album in the Soundscan era, which dates back to May 1991, even comes close."

-HITS magazine named "My Heart Will Go On" the year's "MOST POWERFUL SONG" for 1998, and the Titanic soundtrack "ALBUM OF THE YEAR"! (This was listed in the special anniversary HITS magazine one thousandth issue in 2008)

- Radio & Record's (R&R) revealed the Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was the #1 Callout America song of the year! It was the top song on the Callout America Top 98 of '98 chart!
In an article posted in R&R they spoke about the amazing results. The article was titled "CHR Listeners Go Over The Top For Titanic, Exclusive Callout America year-end results"
The article stated: "The results are in from the listeners, and it comes as no surprise that Titanic ruled in 1998, the powerful combination of a beyond-blockbuster movie with a heart-throb star and a song that touched the hearts of millions of people. After tabulating almost 20,000 research calls made over the past 48 weeks, we found that Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On' (550 Music), which spent 25 weeks on the CHR/Pop chart and nine weeks at No. 1, holds the coveted No. 1 spot in R&R's exculusive Callout America Top 98 Testing Songs Of 1998. Dion scores a huge 4.21 score (out of a possible 5)."!!

January 1999-
Celine's music video of "My Heart Will Go On" re-entered the top 10 most requested/played music videos on THE BOX music video channel for the week ending Jan. 3rd, 1999!

September 1999-
On R&R's AC Most Played Recurrents chart, Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL in the top 10 on the September 10th, 1999 chart!

October 1999-
In Oct. of 1998 "My Heart Will Go On" was in the top 5 on R&R's Hottest Recurrents chart for several weeks!, and
On R&R's AC Most Played Recurrents chart, Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL in the top 10 on the Oct. 1st, 1999 chart!

November 1999-
On R&R's AC Most Played Recurrents chart, Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" was STILL in the top 15 on the Nov. 5th, 1999 chart!

The Gavin Report asked several people in the music industry their favorite songs of 1999, or of the 1990's. Mark Rizzo, Senior Director National Promotion, Adult Formats, Capitol Records named "My Heart Will Go On" his #1 top song of the 90's!
Michael Martucci at TUCCI Promotions named "My Heart Will Go On" one of his top 10 songs of 1999!
John Patrick a PD with WBXX radio in Battle Creek, Mich. named "My Heart Will Go On" one of his picks in the Top Ten A/C Songs of the '90's!
Lisa Thomas, APD/MD, KDMX-Dallas named Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" as one of her top ten songs and artists of the '90's!

2000-
In April of 2000, and for chart week of April 7, 2000, Radio & Records posted thier TOP 100 AC POWER GOLD chart, and Celine's  "My Heart Will Go On" was in the top 10 most played AC hits of all time, and by December 2000, chart week Dec. 1, 2000 "My Heart Will Go On" was in the top 20 on the chart!

2002-
Music Week magazine released their list of the Top 100 biggest-selling singles of all time in the U.K. for the November 23rd, 2002 issue, and "My Heart Will Go On" was one of the top 40 best selling singles of all time on the Top 100 list with sales of more than 1.3 million!

2020-
In 2020 Dave's Music Database website, posted a chart called "Radio & Records/Mediabase Top 150 singles 1973-2020" and Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" placed in the top 10 on that chart!

What an absolutely timeless, iconic, legendary, enduring, essential song standard, and cultural treasure "My Heart Will Go On" has been, still is, and will always be!

Can you imagine if Sony Music had released millions of copies of "My Heart Will Go On" in the U.S. instead of only a VERY limited release of only 650,000 in order to drive the sales up higher for the Titanic soundtrack and Celine's "Let's Talk About Love" album? Can you imagine the total number of weeks the song could have spent at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
I'm sure if Sony Music would have released four or five million copies for purchase, they all would have been sold within just a few months, and with the record-breaking radio airplay that was happening for the song in 1998, I'm sure the classic hit song would have stayed at #1 for several months!  Also, can you imagine the massive record-setting streams "My Heart Will Go On' would have achieved if music streaming was around in 1998?!
With all the hype today that songs get when they have a certain number of streams on Spotify within 24 hours, or in a week, or when they hit 1 Billion streams, I'm sure the streams of "My Heart Will Go On" would have been absolutely just incredible!
And, can you imagine if Sony Music/Team Celine would have released Celine's official "My Heart Will Go On" music video on Celine's official YouTube years ago?  Just like Whitney's "I Will Always Love You", I'm sure "My Heart Will Go On" would easily have more than a billion YouTube views already!

We can dream
I hope you all like this topic and post, and might learn new exciting facts about the incredible succes of "My Heart Will Go On"!

Edited by Derek F., 07 April 2022 - 01:02 AM.

[Derek F.]

Hi! I know my new post the other day was VERY long lol , but I was just excited to share the info I had found about some of the incredible successs that "My Heart Will Go On" has experienced that I was surprisingly unware of until just recently.
I read through many past issues of some very well respected music industry magazine charts and articles, and some of the info I was discovering was brand new to me, and was amazing to learn about!
I thought I had probably read almost everything to do with the phenomenal success of "My Heart Will Go On" but, when I came across the information recently that I hadn't known of, it was really exciting! I'm always excited to find out new info about the success "My Heart Will Go On" has achieved and how much the iconic song has connected with people since it was first released!! If you have a few minutes, and are a HUUUGGGEEE forever fan of "My Heart Will Go On" like me, please take a moment to read over the previous post, and some of the info you discover might be just as exciting to you as it was to me!  Not all of it might be new info for you, but I bet a lot could be! I was shockingly unaware of some of the additional charts and sales achievements that I was still unaware of. Please comment if you learned ANY new info.

I'm thankful for this forum and community here! God bless you all

Edited by Derek F., 10 April 2022 - 11:29 AM.

[Bruno Portugal]

Celine Dion was HUGE back then! She was bigger than Britney Spears, Beyoncé or Lady Gaga ever were in terms of sales. IMO commercially speaking only Adele can match what Celine Dion represented between 1995 and 1999. It was really tremendous! She was everywhere and I loved it!

[ordinary fan]

Bruno Portugal, on 10 April 2022 - 03:37 PM, said:

Celine Dion was HUGE back then! She was bigger than Britney Spears, Beyoncé or Lady Gaga ever were in terms of sales. IMO commercially speaking only Adele can match what Celine Dion represented between 1995 and 1999. It was really tremendous! She was everywhere and I loved it!

I must have been great to experience this, all fans who discovered  her later can only imagine how it was I for sure had loved it too