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The Colour of My Love is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on November 9 1993. It was her third English-language album and eighteenth overall.

Album information

Dion worked with people who helped her on previous albums Unison and Celine Dion: David Foster, Walter Afanasieff or Diane Warren to name a few.

This album represents the internationalisation of Céline Dion. With The Colour of My Love she reached worldwide fame.

Non-U.S. version of the album included additional song "Just Walk Away" (issued as a promotional single in Spain). The Colour of My Love was re-released in Japan on October 21 1995 with a bonus track "To Love You More" (which became a number one smash hit in this country).

The Colour of My Love was noteworthy in that, in the dedication section, it was the first public acknowledgment that Dion had fallen in love with her manager, René Angélil. In the dedication, Dion had named Angélil "the colour of [her] love."

With "When I Fall in Love" and "The Power of Love" Céline Dion got two Grammy Awards nominations for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance respectively.

She won many awards during The Colour of My Love era, including: Ivor Novello Award for "Think Twice," Japan Gold Disc Award for "To Love You More," IRMA Award for The Colour of My Love, and World Music Award for World’s Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year. Dion received also many Juno Awards and Félix Awards, and was nominated for one American Music Award.

She did The Colour of My Love Tour to support the album. The Colour of My Love Concert VHS/DVD was also released.

Chart success

The Colour of My Love to this point was Dion's biggest success. This is more than her two previous English albums and all of her previous French albums together. The Colour of My Love was Dion's first album to reach number 1 on the charts. It featured also her first number 1 singles: "The Power of Love" (United States, Canada, Australia), "Think Twice" (United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and "To Love You More" (Japan).

The Colour of My Love gave Céline Dion big success in the U.S. with sales exceeding more than 6 million copies making the album 6x platinum and peaking at number 4 on the Billboard 200 (149 weeks on the chart).

With very little success at this point in the UK, the main track "Think Twice" slowly moved up the chart to number 1, where the album quickly followed. The Colour of My Love and the single stayed at number 1 for seven weeks both (an achievement not replicated since 1965 with The Beatles). Total album sales in the UK have reached almost two million.

The album went to number 1 in seven countries, including Norway (ten weeks at the top), Australia (eight weeks), UK (seven weeks), Canada (six weeks), Ireland (four weeks), Belgium Flanders (four weeks), and Greece.

Track listing

"The Power of Love" (Candy DeRouge, Gunther Mende, Mary Susan Applegate, Jennifer Rush) – 5:43
"Misled" (Jimmy Bralower, Peter Zizzo) – 3:30
"Think Twice" (Andy Hill, Peter Sinfield) – 4:47
"Only One Road" (Zizzo) – 4:49
"Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" (Arnie Roman, Russ DeSalvo) – 4:01
"Next Plane Out" (Diane Warren) – 4:59
"Real Emotion" (Warren) – 4:26
"When I Fall in Love" (with Clive Griffin) (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 4:20
"Love Doesn't Ask Why" (Phil Galdston, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 4:08
"Refuse to Dance" (Charlie Dore, Danny Schogger) – 3:33
"I Remember L.A." (T. Colton, R. Wold) – 4:22
"No Living Without Loving You" (Warren) – 4:23
"Lovin' Proof" (Warren) – 4:12
"Just Walk Away" (Albert Hammond, Marti Sharron) – 4:58 (non-U.S. bonus track)
"The Colour of My Love" (David Foster, A. Ganov) – 3:25
"To Love You More" (Foster, Junior Miles) – 5:28 (Japanese limited edition bonus track)

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position	Certification	Sales/shipments
Australian Albums Chart^[1]	1	8x platinum	560,000^[2]
Austrian Albums Chart^[3]	18	Gold	25,000^[4]
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart^[5]	1	2x platinum	100,000^[6]
Belgian Wallonie Albums Chart^[7]	13	2x platinum	100,000^[6]
Canadian Albums Chart^[8]	1	Diamond	1,800,000^[9]
Dutch Albums Chart^[10]	2	3x platinum	300,000^[11]
European Albums Chart^[12]		4x platinum	4,000,000^[13]
Finnish Albums Chart^[14]	7	Platinum	45,000^[15]
French Albums Chart^[16]	7	Platinum	300,000^[17]
German Albums Chart^[18]	16	Gold	250,000^[19]
Greek Albums Chart^[20]	1		35,000^[21]
Portugal Chart^[22]		Platinum	+50,000^[23]
Irish Albums Chart^[24]	1		80,000^[25]
Italian Albums Chart^[26]	11	Platinum	150,000^[27]
Japanese Albums Chart^[28]	7	Million	1,000,000^[29]
Mexican Albums Chart^[30]		Platinum	150,000^[31]
New Zealand Albums Chart^[32]	2	6x platinum	90,000^[33]
Norwegian Albums Chart^[34]	1	3x platinum	175,000^[35]
Spanish Albums Chart^[36]	7	Platinum	155,000^[37]
Swedish Albums Chart^[38]	4	Platinum	165,000^[39]
Swiss Albums Chart^[40]	9	Platinum	55,000^[41]
UK Albums Chart^[42]	1	5x platinum¹	1,900,000^[43]
U.S. Billboard 200^[44]	4	6x platinum	6,000,000^[45]

¹ should be certified 6x platinum (1,800,000)

Awards

Year	Award show	Award
1994	Grammy Awards	Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (to David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock) – "When I Fall in Love"
1994	Juno Awards	Female Vocalist of the Year
1994	Félix Awards	Female Artist of the Year
1994	Félix Awards	Quebec Artist Achieving the Most Success in a Language Other Than French
1994	Félix Awards	Quebec Artist Achieving the Most Success Outside the Province Of Quebec
1995	World Music Awards	World’s Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year
1995	Ivor Novello Awards	Song of the Year – "Think Twice"
1995	Juno Awards	Album of the Year – The Colour of My Love
1995	Juno Awards	Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) – The Colour of My Love
1996	MIDEM Awards	Award For Combined European Sales of Over 10 Million Units in 1995
1996	Japan Gold Disc Awards	International Song of the Year – "To Love You More"
1996	IRMA Awards	Best International Female Artist Album – The Colour of My Love
1996	Malta Music Awards	Best Selling International Artist

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
North America	November 9 1993	Epic	CD	57555
Japan	December 2 1993	Epic	CD	4747432
United Kingdom	February 21 1994	Epic	CD	4747432
Australia	March 7 1994	Epic	CD	4747432
France	June 10 1994	Columbia	2CD	4747432

References

Preceded by Carry On up the Charts by Beautiful South Elastica by Elastica	UK number one album January 28, 1995 – March 12, 1995 April 1, 1995 – April 7, 1995	Succeeded by Greatest Hits by Bruce Springsteen Wake Up! by Boo Radleys
Preceded by Three Legged Dog by The Cruel Sea	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album May 14 1995 – June 10 1995 July 30 – August 12 1995 September 10 1995 – September 23 1995	Succeeded by Tuesday Night Music Club by Sheryl Crow

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[2] Australian Albums Chart

[3] Austrian Albums Chart

[4] IFPI Austria

[5] Flandres Albums Chart

[6] IFPI Belgium

[7] Wallonie Albums Chart

[8] Canadian Albums Chart

[9] CRIA

[10] Dutch Albums Chart

[11] NVPI

[12] European Albums Chart

[13] European Albums Chart

[14] Finnish Albums Chart

[15] IFPI Finland

[16] French Albums Chart

[17] SNEP

[18] German Albums Chart

[19] IFPI Germany

[20] Greek Albums Chart

[21] IFPI Greece

[22] Greek Albums Chart

[23] IFPI Greece

[24] Irish Albums Chart

[25] IRMA

[26] Italian Albums Chart

[27] FIMI

[28] Japanese Albums Chart

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[30] Mexican Albums Chart

[31] AMPF

[32] New Zealand Albums Chart

[33] RIANZ

[34] Norwegian Albums Chart

[35] IFPI Norway

[36] Spanish Albums Chart

[37] PROMUSICAE

[38] Swedish Albums Chart

[39] IFPI Sweden

[40] Swiss Albums Chart

[41] IFPI Switzerland

[42] UK Albums Chart

[43] BPI

[44] Billboard 200

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v t e Celine Dion songs
Singles discography
1980s singles	"Ce n'était qu'un rêve" "La voix du bon Dieu" "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" "D'amour ou d'amitié" "Mon ami m'a quittée" "Ne me plaignez pas" "Une colombe" "Mon rêve de toujours" "Un amour pour moi" "Vois comme c'est beau" "C'est pour toi" "C'est pour vivre" "Dans la main d'un magicien" "La ballade de Michel" "L'univers a besoin d'amour" "Fais ce que tu voudras" "On traverse un miroir" "Incognito" "Je ne veux pas" "Lolita (trop jeune pour aimer)" "Comme un cœur froid" "La religieuse" "Ne partez pas sans moi" "Délivre-moi" "Jours de fièvre" "D'abord, c'est quoi l'amour" "Can't Live with You, Can't Live Without You"
1990s singles	"(If There Was) Any Other Way" "Unison" "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" "The Last to Know" "Beauty and the Beast" "Je danse dans ma tête" "If You Asked Me To" "Nothing Broken but My Heart" "Love Can Move Mountains" "Water from the Moon" "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" "When I Fall in Love" "The Power of Love" "L'amour existe encore" "Misled" "Think Twice" "Only One Road" "Calling You" "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" "Je sais pas" "Next Plane Out" "To Love You More" "Falling into You" "Because You Loved Me" "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" "The Power of the Dream" "All by Myself" "Call the Man" "J'attendais" "Tell Him" "Be the Man" "The Reason" "My Heart Will Go On" "Immortality" "Zora sourit" "I'm Your Angel" "S'il suffisait d'aimer" "On ne change pas" "Treat Her Like a Lady" "That's the Way It Is"
2000s singles	"Live (for the One I Love)" "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" "I Want You to Need Me" "Sous le vent" "A New Day Has Come" "I'm Alive" "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" "I Drove All Night" "One Heart" "Tout l'or des hommes" "Have You Ever Been in Love" "Et je t'aime encore" "Je ne vous oublie pas" "Tous les secrets" "Tout près du bonheur" "I Believe in You (Je crois en toi)" "Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)" "Immensité" "Taking Chances" "Eyes on Me" "A World to Believe In" "The Prayer" "Alone" "My Love"
2010s singles	"Parler à mon père" "Le miracle" "Qui peut vivre sans amour?" "Loved Me Back to Life" "Incredible" "The Show Must Go On" "Encore un soir" "Recovering" "L'étoile" "Si c'était à refaire" "Je nous veux" "Les yeux au ciel" "Ashes" "Imperfections" "Lying Down" "Courage"
Promotional singles	"Have a Heart" "Des mots qui sonnent" "Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime" "Did You Give Enough Love" "Plus haut que moi" "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman" "Le ballet" "Les derniers seront les premiers" "You've Got a Friend" "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" "En attendant ses pas" "God Bless America" "At Last" "Stand by Your Side" "Faith" "Contre nature" "You and I" "Beautiful Boy" "Je lui dirai" "Ma Nouvelle-France" "In Some Small Way" "Voler" "Breakaway" "Water and a Flame" "Celle qui m'a tout appris" "L'hymne" "Flying on My Own" "Love Again" "I'll Be"
Other songs	"Destin" "J'irai où tu iras" "Send Me a Lover" "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" "Dans un autre monde" "O Holy Night" "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" "On s'est aimé à cause" "How Does a Moment Last Forever" "The Gift"
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