Celine Dion albums discography

Canadian singer Celine Dion has released 27 studio albums, 7 live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 25 box sets. Often described as the "Queen of power ballads",^[1][2] Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time and the best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era in Canada (from 1996 to the present).^[3][4][5] She is also the second best-selling female artist of the Nielsen era in the United States, with over 53.2 million albums sold since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991.^[6] Guinness World Records recognises her as the Top Selling Album Act in Europe, with 33 million certified album sales since 1996.^[7] In 2003, Dion was honoured by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling 50 million albums in Europe.^[8] Billboard ranked her the second best-selling female album artist of the 2000s in the United States, with 17.3 million albums sold via SoundScan.^[9] According to Billboard, Dion is the sixth greatest Billboard 200 female solo artist of all time,^[10] as well as the eighth greatest female solo artist of all time in Billboard's overall chart history.^[11]

Studio albums27

Soundtrack albums2

Live albums7

Compilation albums20

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Celine Dion albums discography
Dion performing on the Taking Chances World Tour in August 2008
Studio albums	27
Soundtrack albums	2
Live albums	7
Compilation albums	20

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Her debut album, La voix du bon Dieu, was issued in 1981. In the 1980s, Dion released her French-language albums in Canada, with several compilation albums also issued in France. Her first English-language album, Unison, was released in 1990 and has sold over four million copies worldwide.^[12] It was followed by Dion chante Plamondon in 1991 and Celine Dion in 1992. The latter became one of six of her albums to be certified Diamond in Canada for shipments of at least one million units.^[13] Dion's popularity became firmly established with her 1993 album, The Colour of My Love, which topped charts in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and has sold 20 million copies worldwide.^[14] In the United States, it was certified six-times platinum.^[15] Released in 1995, D'eux became the best-selling French-language album in history, with sales of 12 million copies worldwide.^[16][17] In France alone, D'eux spent 44 weeks at number one and has sold 4.5 million units, becoming the best-selling album of all time.^[18][19] It also became Dion's first of six Diamond-certified albums in France.^[20]

Falling into You (1996) and Let's Talk About Love (1997) were major successes for Dion, both reaching number one in numerous countries and becoming two of the best-selling albums of all time, with sales of over 32 million and 31 million copies, respectively.^[21][22] Both albums were certified Diamond in the United States, with Falling into You later certified twelve-times platinum and Let's Talk About Love certified eleven-times platinum for 11 million units.^[15] Let's Talk About Love became the first album to be certified ten-times platinum by the IFPI for sales of over 10 million copies in Europe.^[23] In 1998, Dion released another French-language album, S'il suffisait d'aimer, and her first English-language holiday album, These Are Special Times, which became the fourth best-selling Christmas album in the United States in the Nielsen SoundScan era, with sales of 5.6 million copies.^{[24][25][26][27][28]} Worldwide, it has sold over 12 million units.^[29] A greatest hits compilation with seven new recordings, All the Way... A Decade of Song was issued in November 1999, topping charts worldwide and selling over 22 million copies globally.^[30] In the United States, All the Way... A Decade of Song became the best-selling greatest hits album by a female artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era, surpassing eight million sales.^[31] In Japan, it was certified two-times Million for shipments of two million copies.^[32]

In March 2002, after a two-year break, Dion returned with the album A New Day Has Come, which topped charts in many countries and has sold 12 million copies worldwide.^[33] During the five-year run of her Las Vegas residency show, A New Day..., Dion released five studio albums: One Heart (2003), 1 fille & 4 types (2003), Miracle (2004), D'elles (2007), and Taking Chances (2007). In 2012, she began recording songs for new French- and English-language albums. Sans attendre was released in November 2012, topped charts in Francophone countries, and became the best-selling album of 2012 in France, where it was certified Diamond.^[20][34] Loved Me Back to Life followed in November 2013 and became Dion's 13th number-one album in the Nielsen SoundScan era in Canada and her 11th to debut at the top.^[35] It also reached number two in the United States and number three in the United Kingdom and France. Loved Me Back to Life was certified four-times platinum in Canada, two-times platinum in France, and platinum in the United Kingdom.^[13][20][36] In August 2016, a few months after the death of her husband and manager René Angélil, Dion released the French-language album Encore un soir, which topped charts in Francophone countries and was certified Diamond in France.^[37][20] In 2019, Dion released her 12th English studio album, Courage, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming her first US number-one album in 17 years.^[38]

Dion has sold an estimated 200 to 250 million records worldwide,^{[39][40][41][42]} and is recognized as one of the world's best-selling music artists.^[43] In 1997–1998, Dion sold more than 60 million albums and was estimated to sell a record once every 1.2 seconds.^[44] She is also recognized as the world's top-selling artist of the 1990s.^[45] In 2004, she received the Chopard Diamond Award at the World Music Awards in recognition of being the best-selling female artist of all time.^[46] In 2007, Dion received the Legend Award at the World Music Awards for her global success and contribution to the music industry.^[46] She is also the first and only female singer to have achieved three 8-million sellers in the United States since 1991.^[47] Her albums Falling into You, Let's Talk About Love, All the Way... A Decade of Song, The Colour of My Love, and These Are Special Times are among the top 100 certified albums according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[48] Four of her albums — Let's Talk About Love, All the Way... A Decade of Song, Falling into You, and These Are Special Times — are among the top 10 best-selling Canadian albums in the SoundScan era in Canada.^[49]