"Courage" album - Official Topic

[celinesounds]

 

I think Sony actually promoted it pretty strongly to radio in the US -- it was just that they focused on A/C radio first, before trying Top 40 radio. On the day after Labor Day 2013, they had LBMTL played every hour on a ton of A/C stations. That must have been a really expensive promotion, but it didn't do anything. On the A/C charts or anywhere else -- Americans just weren't interested in that song. That happens sometimes.

 

A Single means Music Video that was the problem

 

LBMTL

Audio - 20 995 332 Views

Live video - 9 214 931 Views

lyrics video 1 534 421 Views

 

[melquilisboa]

 

 

A Single means Music Video that was the problem

 

LBMTL

Audio - 20 995 332 Views

Live video - 9 214 931 Views

lyrics video 1 534 421 Views

 

The audio alone has more views than Mariah's last 4 attempts

[Xpresso]

If the audio alone has almost 21M views, then who needs a video?

[celinesounds]

If the audio alone has almost 21M views, then who needs a video?

 

Audio for Havana by Camilla has more than 400 000 000 😁

[celinefanonline]

i wouldn't mind if Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a song for Celine and record for this album

[Xpresso]

Can't really compare trendy Camilla to Céline... It's like comparing Beyoncé to Barbra Streisand...

[fred]

My hopes rose sky high wih her latest instagram update. Saw Adele and for an instant thought it was an in studio shot. But no... from the Vegas gig.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeaQlUPgs-t/?hl=sv

Edited January 26, 2018 at 04:49 PM by fred

[Javito]

I’m sick of Chamomile Havana song. Sick of it. We all know trendy doesn’t mean quality. Nobody will remember this song in a couple of years, while everyone remembers timeless classics like those of our queen.

 

But she’s very young, it’s a good start for Chamomile and she also pays tribute to her roots.

[dj_a_rock]

If the audio alone has almost 21M views, then who needs a video?

 

The song itself does. The total sales of the song did not even reach more than 50,000 copies worldwide. LMBTL is her biggest flop single.

Edited January 26, 2018 at 05:17 PM by dj_a_rock

[SuperLove4Celine]

And some people on here think I make too big a deal about audio videos. LOL Streaming is the way of the present and future, unfortunately. So, with that said, Celine's team really should get it together and start uploading tons of them onto YouTube. Start with the songs that are important to Celine (e.g. "All The Way" (with Frank Sinatra), "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Ce n'etait qu'un reve," "Right Next To The Right One," "A Song For You," "The Colour Of My Love," etc.). After that, start getting audio videos up for the singles that don't have music videos (e.g. "Alone," "Faith," "Stand By Your Side," "In Some Small Way," "Have A Heart," etc.) , or for the ones that do with distracting noise not found in the album version (e.g. "I'm Your Angel," "Taking Chances," "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," "Falling Into You," etc.). Once those are done, start going after songs found in her past and current tours/shows (e.g. "Fade Away," "Love Is All We Need," "Refuse To Dance," "The Reason," "Nature Boy," "What A Wonderful World," "I Surrender," "Seduces Me," etc.). And of course, get the rest of the videos currently blocked in major markets (e.g. Canada, U.S.A., France, Australia, Japan, U.K., Germany, etc.) UNblocked (e.g. her French material, the audio videos for "My Heart Will Go On" and "O Holy Night," etc.), as well as getting the rest of her music videos uploaded (e.g. "Live (For The One I Love)," "Water From The Moon," "Did You Give Enough Love," etc.). It would also be great to see her team start uploading various performances to her YouTube channel, too. Take a look at what Cher and her team are doing. They have been uploading TONS of performance footage as of late. Just recently, they uploaded Cher's performance of "Save Up All Your Tears" from her appearance on Letterman's old show, as well as "I Hope You Find It" from "Vivement Dimanche." If Cher's team can get it together and figure out how to do it, Celine's team most assuredly could as well. </end rant...for now, until next time> Edited January 26, 2018 at 05:26 PM by SuperLove4Celine

[alexceline]

Sales of the song are important but in 2018 what's really important as well is streams (YouTube,spotify) and this is where Celine lacks.Camila's album for example debuted with 119k copies and 55k of that were streams. Edited January 26, 2018 at 05:30 PM by alexceline

[SuperLove4Celine]

Sales of the song are important but in 2018 what's really important as well is streams (YouTube,spotify) and this is where Celine lacks.Camila's album for example debuted with 119k copies and 55k of that were streams.

 

Precisely.

[Xpresso]

But what's even more important for Céline is selling albums. She's always been an album seller over singles.

The album LMBTL wasn't that big in Céline terms but it did fairly well (internationally) compared to other artists that year.

Edited January 26, 2018 at 06:37 PM by Xpresso

[celinesounds]

I'm sick of Chamomile Havana song. Sick of it. We all know trendy doesn't mean quality. Nobody will remember this song in a couple of years, while everyone remembers timeless classics like those of our queen.

 

But she's very young, it's a good start for Chamomile and she also pays tribute to her roots.

 

there are many artists with only an hit song years ago and after 10 or 30 years people still remembers

 

exemples

 

Lambada

Macarena

Mambo N5

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

Emilia - Big World

Leona Lewis

 

this is just a few

[CSCfan]

Céline about the new album in a new interview.....

 

It’s going to be ready when it’s ready

 

In between performing and preparing for her upcoming tour' date=' Dion is quietly working on her next musical project, an English-language album that she says “is exciting, and a little bit different”.[/i']

 

“Musically, the best is yet to come,” she said. “I’m not going to say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is the new me’. We’re not doing that. But we are exploring new sounds, new producers and writers and lyricists.”

 

Asked when the record might be finished, Dion reverts to a thread that has run through the conversation. In mourning the loss of her husband, she talked about how she also found her own voice and learned to stand up for herself. She is better at drawing boundaries, and is more selective than ever about how she spends her time, and with whom.

 

“Saying ‘yes’ all the time is not the right thing to do,” she said. “Saying ‘no’, in a positive way, might be. You have to choose your people. You have to be aware of the vibrations around you. Some people mean well, some don’t, and not everybody loves you. I’m trying to meditate, to find my own strength, to open a space in the inner centre of my body. And when I do that I feel like everything good is happening.”

 

But will her new album be finished? “It’s going to be ready when it’s ready,” she laughs. “Before, it had to be done by yesterday. But now, I’m like, ‘sorry, bye, I’m going to go meditate’. I’m just human after all.”

Edited January 27, 2018 at 12:07 PM by CSCfan

[jpatdeleon09]

So... we will wait... i hope not until next year... i just hope the long wait is worth it.

[fred]

Wonderful interview!

Too bad the album seems even more far away now

Edited January 27, 2018 at 12:40 PM by fred

[Javito]

But we are exploring new sounds, new producers and writers and lyricists.”

 

Sounds promising, sounds good

[Peppercorn1991]

I love how in control she is now! Finding new sounds!!

 

Kev x

[flutefreak]

Musically the best is yet to come! Now that's exciting!!

[Shamrock_1982]

She does need to get her finger out though and get this album out!!! Lol

[jpatdeleon09]

She's going to meditate first 😂

[DionFanAlways]

Céline about the new album in a new interview.....

I like how she is talking. Take charge! I can easily wait as long as it takes.

[zuv]

Lol so she does faint the questions... but u just have to ask twice with Celine.

[Javito]

We need that Collector’s Series Vol. 2 while she meditates... and 3... and 4...

[Xpresso]

It's clear Céline and Sony don't want to give too many details, which is great in my opinion.

It seems they want to take the time needed to get the best album possible.

[Xpresso]

I'm also secretly hoping that Xavier Dolan will use one of Céline's new songs in his first English-language movie (The Death and Life of John F. Donovan -- with Kit Harrington, Jessica Chastain, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, etc.)

He used On ne change pas in his movie (Mommy) a few years ago.

The new movie will be released in 2018 but no specific date as it keeps changing... He likes Céline and Adele so who knows.

Edited January 27, 2018 at 05:36 PM by Xpresso

[Dancing_Queen]

Céline about the new album in a new interview.....

 

Thanks for posting this.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but this part stuck out for me:

 

"You have to choose your people. You have to be aware of the vibrations around you. Some people mean well, some don’t, and not everybody loves you."

 

This also echoes something she told Pepe (according to Gala, who interviewed him recently: (http://www.gala.fr/l...-demande_411841))

Roughly translated :

 

"From the moment we have crossed this hall, expect that at least one person will not like what you do. Learn to live with this inevitability and everything will be fine."

 

I thought Céline never really gave much thought to people disliking her before. But maybe she was sheltered from it by René.

Seeing as she's now the one running the show ('C'est moi, le boss'), she's (sadly) confronted with it much more.

 

Maybe the whole Donald Trump-situation also plays a role.

(Creepy) Steve Wynn was allegedly the one who tried to convince her to perform for the presidential inauguration. She may have made some powerful enemies in Vegas by saying no (even if she had a valid excuse)...

Those fake Macedonian videos about her disliking America were clearly orchestrated by someone with a vendetta. I really don't think she was randomly targetted...

[scielle]

I'm also secretly hoping that Xavier Dolan will use one of Céline's new songs in his first English-language movie (The Death and Life of John F. Donovan -- with Kit Harrington, Jessica Chastain, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, etc.)

He used On ne change pas in his movie (Mommy) a few years ago.

The new movie will be released in 2018 but no specific date as it keeps changing... He likes Céline and Adele so who knows.

 

I feel like it's only a matter of time until he does some kind of collab with Celine. I mean, during the filming of that movie, he walked around with a boombox playing MHWGO (and let's not forget he took Kit & Jessica to see Celine in Montreal)

 

https://www.wmagazin...tflix-interview

"I really loved working with Xavier. I think because he was an actor, he is so cognizant of the tone that’s created on set. He’s always walking around with a boom box playing music, and he’s so involved in the scenes it almost feels like he’s in them. So it was really cool.

What were the main boom box tracks?

You won’t even believe it, but he loves Titanic, and he loves with Celine Dion, so during a lot of the scenes, he’s playing “My Heart Will Go On.” "

Edited January 27, 2018 at 05:43 PM by scielle

[scielle]

 

I thought Céline never really gave much thought to people disliking her before. But maybe she was sheltered from it by René.

Seeing as she's now the one running the show ('C'est moi, le boss'), she's (sadly) confronted with it much more.

 

Maybe the whole Donald Trump-situation also plays a role.

(Creepy) Steve Wynn was allegedly the one who tried to convince her to perform for the presidential inauguration. She may have made some powerful enemies in Vegas by saying no (even if she had a valid excuse)...

Those fake Macedonian videos about her disliking America were clearly orchestrated by someone with a vendetta. I really don't think she was randomly targetted...

 

Interesting theory.

 

And yes, she was definitely sheltered a lot by Rene. But, she also has an extraordinary EQ. Denise Bombardier pointed out in her Celine bio that Celine is better at reading people than any politician she ever interviewed (and she interviewed some of the most powerful politicians in the world.)

I've always gotten the sense that Celine is far more attuned to people and much smarter than she gets credit for. And I think for a long time people took her for a push-over. There was this assumption that Rene was a puppet master and she'd just go out there on stage and do as told. But actually, I think she was always very independent and assertive - it's just that she trusted Rene and valued his opinion and business-savvy. But now that she's running the show, people are starting to recognize she's actually a very strong, independent woman.