RUMOUR: Adele to cover "The Power of Love"?

[mike_z]

Celine's version is more popular and more well-known in Canada, U.S., South America, France, Belgium, Asian countries, New Zealand and Australia...

 

I wouldn't be that sure about South America probably depending on which country

BUT don't forget Jennifer recorded a spanish version which is also pretty well-known along South America "Si tu eres mi hombre"/"El poder del amor" #1 in Spain.

 

 

We have more american-influenced countries and more european-influenced onces.

I guess it depends on that

[comingback]

Jennifer:

CBS Records London chief Paul Russell had heard Rush sing at a CBS Records convention held in Hawaii in 1984 and it was due to Russell's interest in Rush that "The Power of Love" was released in the UK, debuting at #97 on the UK chart dated 22 June 1985. Within a month the disc had stalled at the lower end of the Top 50: CBS resultantly deleted the single for a few weeks to concentrate demand in hopes of effecting a Top 40 debut upon the single's re-release. In fact "The Power of Love" did enter the Top 40 of the first UK chart subsequent to being re-released, appearing at #36 on the UK chart dated 21 September 1985, and Rush was consequently allowed to perform "The Power of Love" on Top of the Pops with a resultant leap for the disc, first to #15 and then to #2, with two further TOTP performances enabling the song’s rise to #1 and retaining the top spot for five weeks with a total of ten weeks accrued in the Top Ten;^[1] eventually Rush's "The Power of Love" was assessed as the most successful UK single by a female singer.^[2] The song has sold 1.39 million copies in the UK as of November 2012.^[3]

The massive success of "The Power of Love" in the UK occasioned widespread international success for Rush's single in the last months of 1985 and the first of 1986 including a German re-release of "The Power of Love" with a resultant #9 charting. Eventually "The Power of Love" reached #1 in Australia, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and South Africa, and also charted in Denmark (#9), France (#25), the Netherlands (#7), Switzerland (#3) and Sweden (#3). The success of Rush's "The Power of Love" in Spain - where it reached #2 in March 1986 - led Rush to render her song in Spanish and the resultant Si tu eres mi hombre y yo tu mujer spent six weeks at #1 in Spain from 19 April 1986.

CBS held off on releasing "The Power of Love" in North America feeling the disc was "too European"; the disc finally saw release in the US and Canada in January 1986^[4] but despite rising to #1 in Canada that spring Rush's "The Power of Love" failed to become a significant US hit, stalling at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 despite performances by Rush on the March 11, 1986 broadcast of The Tonight Show and the 12 April 1986 broadcast of American Bandstand.^[5]

 

Celine:

The song debuted at number 72 on November 19, 1993 ((Hot 100)). Nine weeks later it reached number one, making it her first number one single in the country. The song has sold over 4 million copies worldwide as of March 2010. "The Power of Love" became an international smash hit. The song rose to the top of the charts in the United States, Australia and Canada. In the U.S. it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, the first Céline Dion single to do so. It also went to number 1 for 5 weeks on the Hot 100 Singles Sales and to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay. It was also number 1 for 4 weeks on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. _ The song spent 12 weeks at the top in Canada and 70 weeks on the chart in total. "The Power of Love" was a top 10 hit in the rest of the world (number 3 in France, number 4 in the United Kingdom and Belgium, number 6 in Sweden, number 7 in New Zealand). It was certified platinum in the U.S. (1,120,000 copies sold) and Australia (70,000), gold in New Zealand (5,000) and silver in France (225,000 copies sold).

[GusDion]

I wouldn't be that sure about South America probably depending on which country

BUT don't forget Jennifer recorded a spanish version which is also pretty well-known along South America "Si tu eres mi hombre"/"El poder del amor" #1 in Spain.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqO1mbuM1A4

 

We have more american-influenced countries and more european-influenced onces.

I guess it depends on that

I'm from argentina just like you , but I've never heard Jennifer's version, maybe once thespanish one but most of the time people think it's Céline's song.

[LukeD]

Adele doesn't have the range nor the power to sing TPOL. She might make her own rendition but still... I think she should avoid the old-school, power ballad genre.

[CelineDionFreak]

Adele doesn't have the range nor the power to sing TPOL. She might make her own rendition but still... I think she should avoid the old-school, power ballad genre.

 

I do have to agree. Adele couldn't do that song. It wouldn't work with her range.

[CelinesDIVO5]

What if this is just a song that Adele wrote with a coincidental title??

[smw]

I think this would be lovely if it's true.... Perhaps it's her way of thanking Celine for all of the love she's offered her these past couple of years?

 

Granted, it's not Celine's song -- but Celine's version is the one that most people think of.

 

And Adele always has a cover on her albums. I can imagine a very nice, gritty, stripped down version of the song. It'd be great.

[chocolatechip15]

What if this is just a song that Adele wrote with a coincidental title??

 

Yes, and there's another totally different Power of Love from the 80s - I think its by Huey Lewis