Greatest "deep cuts"/fan favorites of Celine's legendary career

[Derek F.]

Celine is a living legend and icon in music, has one of the greatest voices in history, and has had an amazing and impressive career

full of hit songs, so many greatest hits that Celine has released several greatest hit albums that have had incredible success!!

 

Aside from the major hits that have soared to #1 on the charts, and broken chart and sales records, there's a huge number of really

amazing "deep cuts" found on Celine's albums that are truly top notch songs with phenomenal lyrics, melodies, vocals, and production!

Even though these songs weren't wide released singles or officially released as singles at all to radio, many have found success with streaming numbers on streaming platforms such as Spotify and YouTube!

 

Here are the most popular/top streamed "deep cut" album tracks from Celine on Spotify and YouTube Music that were never wide released singles:

 

Spotify- Top 9 most streamed "deep cuts"/fan favorite songs (as of January '24):

• "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" - 148.1 million
  
• "I Surrender" - 33.1 million
  
• "O Holy Night" - 31.2 million
  
• "I Love You" - 25.9 million
  
• "When I Need You" - 17.1 million
  
• "Lying Down" - 15.5 million
  
• "Courage" - 14.7 million
  
• "Ave Maria"- 14.5 million
  
• "Dance With My Father" - 14.1 million
  

Honorable mentions: Both "Christmas Eve" and "Somebody Loves Somebody" have more than 10 million streams! and, "Just Walk Away" has about 8 million streams!

 

YouTube Music- Top 9 most streamed "deep cuts"/fan favorite songs (as of January '24):

• "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" - 184 million plays
  
• "I Love You" - 161 million plays
  
• "Just Walk Away" - 149 million plays
  
• "Love Doesn't Ask Why" - 105 million plays
  
• "I Surrender" - 83 million plays
  
• "How Does A Moment Last Forever" - 76 million plays
  
• "When I Need You" - 55 million plays
  
• "O Holy Night" - 34 million plays
  
• "Dance With My Father" - 32 million plays
  

Honorable mentions: "If That's What It Takes" has over 21 million plays/streams, "Seduces Me" has more than 19 million plays,

"Ave Maria" has 16 million plays, "Lying Down" has over 15 million and "Somebody Loves Somebody" has more than 10 million!

 

Top 5 "deep cuts"/fan favorite songs on BOTH Spotify and YouTube appear to be:

1. "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" - combined streams/plays: 332 million!
   
2. "I Love You" - combined streams/plays: 186.9 million!
   
3. "Just Walk Away" - combined streams/plays: 157 millon!
   
4. "I Surrender" - combined streams/plays: 116.1 million!
   
5. "When I Need You" - combined streams/plays: 72.1 million!
   

I love all of these timeless songs! Several of the fan favorites here are Christmas songs that have gained more streams and radio airplay even without being released as an official single, such as "O Holy Night" and "Happy Xmas", and not too surprisingly both "I Surrender" and "I Love You" both are in the top 5 on Spotify and YouTube! Two songs that could have achieved incredible chart and sales success had they been officially released as singles!

 

What are your favorite "deep cuts"/fan favorite songs by Celine? Did they makes these lists?

[Abodi2002]

Surprise to see when I need you so high on the list.

[tomantha]

Love this thread !!! Could you maybe do it for every album too? I feel like that way it might be more relevant by era.

[Derek F.]

Surprise to see when I need you so high on the list.

 

I agree! but, Celine does serve some incredible vocals on her cover of the song!

[Derek F.]

Love this thread !!! Could you maybe do it for every album too? I feel like that way it might be more relevant by era.

 

Thank you! I can try to research the most streamed songs from each of Celine's English language albums and post the results soon.

 

I forgot to list my personal "deep track" favorites, it's difficult to narrow down all of my favorites, but here's my favorite (in no particular order) "deep track" songs of Celine that weren't wide released singles in her career...

• "Just Walk Away" What a truly great, underrated ballad in Celine's career! The production and vocals are stunning!
  
• "I Surrender" The biggest missed opportunity in Celine's iconic career! If this would've been released as a single in 2002/2003, it would have been HUGE on the charts!
  
• "Have a Heart"
  
• Show Some Emotion"
  
• "With This Tear" Written by Prince for Celine, and the vocal delivery was one of Celine's best ever!
  
• "Love Doesn't Ask Why" I listen to this banger often! One of Celine's best songs!
  
• "Seduces Me" Just a phenomenal song!
  
• "I Love You" Great lyrics, and even better vocals!
  
• "Fly" This song is one of the most meaningful, inspiring, comforting songs! Celine truly sounds like an angel on this!
  
• "I Don't Know" one of my all time favorites
  
• "Us" The emotion and ache that Celine sings with is stunning!
  
• "Right in front of You"
  
• "Ten Days" Such a cool, rock vibe and different style for Celine, but still her classic vocal sound!
  
• "Prayer" Celine sings with so much heart, beauty and passion and the lyrics and music and production are all amazing!
  
• "Faith" Such a soothing, refreshing, beautiful uplifting song!
  
• "I Know What Love Is" One of Celine's most unknown, under appreciated songs! It's classic Celine is every way!
  
• "Miracle" This song is absolutely a masterpiece! I wish it would have been released as a single from the Miracle album instead of "Beatiful Boy"!
  
• "Fade Away" This song is a perfect pop/rock song with great music, lyrics, and shows a variety of tones and styles in Celine's voice! This song could've been a big hit on the radio if it would have been a single in 2007/2008!
  
• "Somebody Loves Somebody" One of the best songs on the "Loved Me Back to Life" album! Very upbeat and funky and cool, really fun to jam out to!
  
• "Lying Down" I listen to this song very often, still such a banger! the production and vocals are soooo good!
  
• "Love of My Life" like the song "Courage" the lyrics are so important to Celine, and she sings with such smooth, passionate, emotional vocals
  

And, I know "Is Nothing Sacred Anymore" is an unreleased song, but WOW! I love this song! The vocals are stunning!!!

 

 

Please share/post your all time favorite Celine "deep track" songs

[ryba]

I think that if I Surrender would have been released in 2002/2003 it would flop miserably. At that time, power ballads were totally out. Therefore they released IA and the remix of ANDHC which sounded current Edited February 2, 2024 at 08:56 AM by ryba

[Crazy for Celine]

If that’s the case then i think they should’ve released Sorry for Love as a single along with remixes.

[tomantha]

My Favorite english deep cut tracks from oldest to newest are:

If You Could See Me Now

Love Doesn't Ask You Why

Dreamin Of You

Us - The only acceptable response on LTAL

Another Year Has gone by

I Surrender DUH

Could woulda Shoulda

I Ain't Gon Look The Other Way (Everyone always forgets about this one but I LOOOVE it !)

Surprise Surprise

Always Be Your Girl

Perfect Goodbye

 

Trying to keep to 1 per album lol

 

French Version:

 

Comme Un Coeur Froid

Le Monde Est Stone

Regarde Moi

Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi

Rien N'est Vraiment Fini

Je Cherche L'ombre

Si Je N'ai rien De Toi

Je Nous Veux

[CelinesDIVO5]

If that’s the case then i think they should’ve released Sorry for Love as a single along with remixes.

 

Agreed. I believe this was a bigger missed opportunity.

[Davey84]

If that’s the case then i think they should’ve released Sorry for Love as a single along with remixes.

Yeah i think they should have gone with SFL with remixes after IA. Maybe after that they could have released IS. With remixes too. Kinda like ANDHC album version vs radio mix. Right in Front of You could have been a great last single.

 

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[ryba]

There were so many songs on ANDHC that were single material. Such a shame this album had such a short life

[Derek F.]

My Favorite english deep cut tracks from oldest to newest are:

If You Could See Me Now

Love Doesn't Ask You Why

Dreamin Of You

Us - The only acceptable response on LTAL

Another Year Has gone by

I Surrender DUH

Could woulda Shoulda

I Ain't Gon Look The Other Way (Everyone always forgets about this one but I LOOOVE it !)

Surprise Surprise

Always Be Your Girl

Perfect Goodbye

 

Trying to keep to 1 per album lol

 

French Version:

 

Comme Un Coeur Froid

Le Monde Est Stone

Regarde Moi

Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi

Rien N'est Vraiment Fini

Je Cherche L'ombre

Si Je N'ai rien De Toi

Je Nous Veux

 

Thank you for sharing your favorite "deep tracks" from Celine! "Dreamin' of you", "Another Year Has Gone By" and "Always Be Your Girl" are amazing songs! I love those too!

 

Hope to see more fans here on the forum post their favorites also!

Edited February 4, 2024 at 02:23 AM by Derek F.

[Crazy for Celine]

Some of my favorites were released as a single but they are pretty underrated, some of them are not deep tracks but i hope you don’t mind me including them on my list:

 

English (long list):

 

- Have a Heart

- If We Could Start Over

- If You Could See Me Now

- Nothing Broken But My Heart

- With This Tear

- Only One Road

- Next Plane Out

- Love Doesn’t Ask Why

- The Colour of My Love

- Dreamin’ of You

- I Love You

- Call the Man

- Fly

- Let’s Talk About Love

- Us

- Christmas Eve

- The Magic of Christmas Day

- I Surrender

- Right In Front of You

- I Know What Love Is

- Stand by Your Side

- Surprise Surprise

- Thank You

- Somebody Loves Somebody

- Best of All

- Boundaries

- Heart of Glass

 

French;

 

- Oxygene

- Cherche encore

- J’attendais

- Regarde-moi

- En attendant ses pas

- L’abandon

- Sur le même bateau

- Apprends-moi

- Rien n’est vraiment fini

- Contre nature

- Femme comme chacune

- Immensite

- Qui peut vivre sans amour

- Tu sauras

Edited February 4, 2024 at 05:06 AM by Crazy for Celine

[Critiaslux]

Funnily, I created for myself a "deep cuts" playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify...83e84262bb34f80

Songs with streams between 700.000 and 1 million (knowing there are many more below 700k streams though). Since then, some have just crossed the 1 m threshold

 

Nonetheless, if I had to choose one track (non single) per album since Incognito (studios only, excl. live, compilations, soundtracks, standalone), I believe that would be the following (in bold all time favorites):

- Comme un coeur froid

- If love is out of the question

- Piaf chanterait du rock

- With this tear

- Love doesn't ask why

- La mémoire d'Abraham

- Dreaming of you

- Where is the love

- En attendant ses pas

- Another year has gone by

- I surrender

- Reveal

- Des milliers de baisers

- My precious one

- Je cherche l'ombre

- This time

- Que toi au monde

- Thankful

- Toutes ces choses

- Perfect goodbye

 

Notable other tracks: Wicked games, La mer et l'enfant (live from Une seule fois), I knew I loved you, River deep mountain high (live from Live à Paris), Elle (live from A l'Olympia).

Edited February 25, 2024 at 10:51 AM by Critiaslux

[PuraVida]

Some of the deep cuts that I've noticed have notable popularity and that people have really connected with are the following:

 

1. I Love You Goodbye

2. Love Doesn't Ask You Why

3. I Remember LA

4. Just Walk Away

 

Also people seem particularly attached to some of the lesser-known songs on the LTAL album like Miles To Go, Where Is The Love, and more. And speaking of deep cuts, thought I'd share this here too -- look what this contestant on The Voice France chose as their audition song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0T3P1gCKSU

[Davey84]

Some of the deep cuts that I've noticed have notable popularity and that people have really connected with are the following:

 

1. I Love You Goodbye

2. Love Doesn't Ask You Why

3. I Remember LA

4. Just Walk Away

 

Also people seem particularly attached to some of the lesser-known songs on the LTAL album like Miles To Go, Where Is The Love, and more. And speaking of deep cuts, thought I'd share this here too -- look what this contestant on The Voice France chose as their audition song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0T3P1gCKSU

 

wow!! that IS a very deep cut! LOL Interesting song choice alright! And I like how Mika knew the lyrics (anticipating the notes to "Comme nous nous aimons")