Tina Arena

Tina Arena (2017)

Tina Arena (born November 1, 1967 in Melbourne ), bourgeois Filippina Lydia Arena , is an Australian singer and songwriter who is said to have sold around ten million records over the course of her career, which has been going on since 1974, making her one of the most successful artists in the country. In 2008 she was the first Australian woman to be appointed Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite .

Career

Tina Arena (2013)

Tina Arena's career began at the age of seven on the TV show Young Talent Time . As a teenager, Arena recorded her first solo single, Turn up the Beat, in 1985 . Her breakthrough as a singer came in Australia in 1990 when the dance-pop title I Need Your Body reached number three on the Australian singles charts. The song comes from her solo debut Strong As Steel , which was released that same year.

In 1995, Arena had its international breakthrough with the title Chains , which was a top 10 hit in the UK and also hit the charts in the US and Germany. Less successful hits like Heaven Help My Heart , Show Me Heaven and Sorrento Moon followed. In 1998 she sang in a duet with Marc Anthony the song I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You from the pen of producer James Horner , the theme music for the movie The Mask of Zorro , which was a very big hit, especially in France. As a result, Arena recorded songs in French that sold millions of copies. This includes the platinum single Aller plus hau t, which landed at number two in the French charts in 1999. Hits like Les 3 cloches (2000), Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible (2005), Je m'appelle Badgdad (2006) and Entends-tu le monde? (2008), all top 10 successes in France.

From the mid-1990s, three songs written by Arena reached the US country hit lists through cover versions . Wynonna Judd reached the top 15 with Heaven Help My Heart in 1996 , Terri Clark had a small success with Unsung Hero and Jo Dee Messina even landed at number two on the C&W charts with Burn . In the following decade, other country singers such as Pam Tillis ( If I Didn't Love You , 2001), LeAnn Rimes ( You Made Me Find Myself , 2002) or Kellie Coffey ( Love's Funny That Way , 2002) recorded songs by Arena . In Europe, Barbara Dex ( Closer to You , 2000) and Jill Johnson ( Only in Your Dreams , 2000) followed the example of their American colleagues and recorded titles from Arena.

Arena sang the song The Flame at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . In Paris , she sang in 2011 at the podium of the Tour de France after the total victory of their compatriot Cadel Evans , the Australian national anthem .

Her autobiography Now I Can Dance was published in October 2013, named after the 1998 hit of the same name and heralded its 40th anniversary in the music industry. Her tenth studio album Reset was released at the same time .

In 2015 Arena was honored with the induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame .

In April 2018, Arena released their twelfth studio album Quand Tout Recommence in France. At the end of the same year she appeared in the title role of the musical Evita at the Sydney Opera House .

Private

Tina Arena was married to her former manager and producer Ralph Carr from 1995 to 1999. She has been in a relationship with the French Vincent Mancini since 2000. They have one son. They lived together in Paris for a few years before Arena moved back to Melbourne with her family in 2017.

Discography

Tina Arena (2012)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	UK	US	AU
1990	Strong As Steel	-	-	-	AU17 (6 weeks) AU
1994	Don't ask	DE65 (9 weeks) DE	UK11 gold (19 weeks)UK	US101 (8 weeks) US	AU1 × 10 Tenfold platinum (83 weeks)AU
1997	In Deep	-	-	-	AU1 × 3 Triple platinum (45 weeks)AU
2000	Souvenirs	-	-	-	AU37 gold (5 weeks)AU	compilation
2001	Just me	-	-	-	AU7th gold (4 weeks)AU
2004	Greatest Hits 1994-2004	-	-	-	AU10 gold (9 weeks)AU	Best of album
2007	Songs of Love & Loss	-	-	-	AU3 platinum (12 weeks)AU
2008	Songs of Love & Loss 2	-	-	-	AU12 gold (9 weeks)AU
2010	Live: The Onstage Collection	-	-	-	AU22 (1 week) AU
2013	Reset	-	-	-	AU4th platinum (19 weeks)AU
2015	Eleven	-	-	-	AU2 gold (11 weeks)AU
2017	Greatest hits & interpretations	-	-	-	AU2 gold (14 weeks)AU

France, Belgium, Switzerland

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		CH	BE W	FR
1995	Don't ask	CH32 (6 weeks) CH	-	-
1999	In Deep	CH31 gold (30 weeks)CH	BE6th gold (31 weeks)BE	FR3 × 3 Triple platinum (88 weeks)FR
2001	Just me	CH67 (3 weeks) CH	-	FR47 gold (44 weeks)FR
2003	Vous êtes toujours là	-	-	FR31 (9 weeks) FR	Live album
2005	Un autre univers	CH69 (8 weeks) CH	BE24 (53 weeks) BE	FR9 platinum (78 weeks)FR
2008	7 vies	CH56 (4 weeks) CH	BE16 (21 weeks) BE	FR12 (15 weeks) FR
2009	The Best & Le meilleur	-	BE11 (23 weeks) BE	-	Best of album
2015	Love and Loss	-	-	FR31 (6 weeks) FR
2018	Quand tout Recommence	-	BE46 (11 weeks) BE	FR62 (4 weeks) FR

More albums

• 1977: Tiny Tina and Little John (Pisces, with Johnny Bowles)
• 2005: Greatest Hits Live (Columbia, CD + DVD)
• 2009: The Peel Me Sessions 2003 (only available on Tina Arena's website)
• 2010: Tina Arena Live: The Onstage Collection (Liberation, CD + DVD)
• 2012: Symphony of Life (Ambition, 2CD + 1DVD)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	UK	US	AU
1990	I need your body	-	-	-	-	AU3 (17 weeks) AU
	The Machine's Breaking Down	-	-	-	-	AU23 (9 weeks) AU
	Strong As Steel	-	-	-	-	AU30 (5 weeks) AU
1994	Chains	DE68 (9 weeks) DE	-	UK6th silver (11 weeks)UK	US38 (12 weeks) US	AU4 (21 weeks) AU
1995	Sorrento Moon (I Remember)	DE86 (10 weeks) DE	AT20 (9 weeks) AT	UK22 (4 weeks) UK	-	AU7 (18 weeks) AU
	Heaven Help My Heart	DE77 (10 weeks) DE	-	UK25 (5 weeks) UK	-	AU22 (15 weeks) AU
	Wasn't It Good ...	-	-	-	-	AU11 (16 weeks) AU
1996	Show Me Heaven	DE78 (9 weeks) DE	-	UK29 (5 weeks) UK	-	-
	That's the way a woman feels	-	-	-	-	AU31 (6 weeks) AU
1997	Burn	-	-	UK47 (2 weeks) UK	-	AU2 gold (16 weeks)AU	in the UK only in the charts in 1999
	If I Didn't Love You	-	-	-	-	AU41 (8 weeks) AU
1998	Now I Can Dance	-	-	-	-	AU13 (16 weeks) AU
	Whistle down the wind	-	-	UK24 (5 weeks) UK	-	-
	I want to know what love is	-	-	-	-	AU36 (2 weeks) AU
	If I Was a River	-	-	UK43 (2 weeks) UK	-	-
	I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You	-	AT38 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Tina Arena & Marc Anthony
2000	Live for the One I Love	-	-	-	-	AU63 (2 weeks) AU
2001	Soul Mate # 9	-	-	-	-	AU22 (7 weeks) AU
2002	Dare you to be happy	-	-	-	-	AU43 (1 week) AU
	Symphony of Life	-	-	-	-	AU8 (7 weeks) AU
2003	Never (Past Tense)	-	-	UK42 (2 weeks) UK	US97 (5 weeks) US	-	The Roc Project featuring Tina Arena
2004	Italian Love Song	-	-	-	-	AU33 (2 weeks) AU
2013	You Set Fire to My Life	-	-	-	-	AU38 (1 week) AU
	Only lonely	-	-	-	-	AU32 (3 weeks) AU
2015	Chains	-	-	-	-	AU14 (1 week) AU	Tina Arena, Jessica Mauboy & the Veronicas Original: 1994

France, Belgium, Switzerland

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		CH	BE W	FR
1998	I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You	CH34 (7 weeks) CH	BE9 gold (13 weeks)BE	FR3 gold (27 weeks)FR	Tina Arena & Marc Anthony
1999	I want to know what love is	-	BE39 (1 week) BE	FR13 gold (21 weeks)FR
	All plus skin	CH96 (1 week) CH	BE1 gold (21 weeks)BE	FR2 platinum (40 weeks)FR
2000	Les 3 cloches	CH49 (2 weeks) CH	BE1 platinum (20 weeks)BE	FR4th gold (19 weeks)FR
	Segnali di fumo	-	-	FR78 (3 weeks) FR	Tina Arena & Luca Barbarossa
2001	Soul Mate # 9	CH77 (2 weeks) CH	-	-
2002	Do it toujours là	-	BE15 (11 weeks) BE	FR11 gold (19 weeks)FR
	Symphony de l'âme	-	-	FR48 (5 weeks) FR
2003	Je te retrouve un peu	-	-	FR44 (9 weeks) FR	Tina Arena & Jay
2005	Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible	CH16 (25 weeks) CH	BE1 gold (28 weeks)BE	FR3 platinum (30 weeks)FR
2006	Je m'appelle Baghdad	-	BE8 (22 weeks) BE	FR6th gold (23 weeks)FR
	Tu aurais dû me dire (Oser parler d'amour)	CH44 (15 weeks) CH	BE36 (1 week) BE	FR37 (19 weeks) FR
2008	Entends-tu le monde?	-	BE32 (6 weeks) BE	FR10 (18 weeks) FR

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	7 × gold7th	15 × platinum15th	1,295,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	150,000	ultratop.be
France (SNEP)	-	6 × gold6th	6 × platinum6th	2,950,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	-	300,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	19 × gold19th	22 × platinum22nd

swell

1. ↑ Brigid Delaney: Tina Arena: 'I hated the fact I hit 40 and radio wouldn't play me' . In: The Guardian . September 5, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 20, 2020]).
2. ↑ Tina Arena receives Ordre national du Mérite , The Australian , December 24, 2008 (accessed June 16, 2013, English)
3. ↑ Interview with Peter Thompson ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 16, 2009 at abc.net.au (accessed June 16, 2013, English) 
4. ↑ Tina Arena - hitparade.ch. Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Tina Arena ••• Top Songs as Performer and / or Writer ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts. Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Tina Arena - hitparade.ch. Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Now I Can Dance. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (Australian English). 
8. ↑ 2013 reset. Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
9. ^ ARIA Hall of Fame. Australian Recording Industry Association , accessed August 6, 2017 . 
10. ^ Luke Dennehy: Tina Arena returns home to Melbourne to perform the iconic role of Eva Peron in Evita. November 28, 2018, Retrieved April 20, 2020 (Australian English). 
11. ^ Tina Arena: "My first experience with marriage was disgraceful." Retrieved June 26, 2017, April 20, 2020 (Australian English). 
12. ↑ Tina Arena says she's faced discrimination. August 29, 2017, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU FR BE (Wallonia)
14. ↑ Gold / platinum awards: AU (from 1997) FR FR2 BE UK (database search)

Web links

Commons : Tina Arena  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tina Arena at Discogs (English)
• Tina Arena website