Stats: Celine Dion's best-selling singles in the US

Hector

HOW WE KNOW IT GOES ON

Hi Gary,

Thank you for honoring Celine Dion on her birthday last Friday (March 30) with a look at her most notable Billboard chart achievements.

With "Titanic" having been re-released in theaters this week in 3D, it's very likely that there will be a renewed public interest in the film's theme song, Dion's Academy- and Grammy-Award winning "My Heart Will Go On." The song spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1998.

I was wondering if you could please provide up-to-date sales for the classic song, as well as Dion's best selling songs overall.

Thanks and God bless,

Derek Fenningdorf
Brighton, Michigan

Hi Derek,

Movie-goers/music fans have actually already begun to rekindle their love for "My Heart Will Go On." The song rises from 6,000 to 8,000 downloads sold this week, according to SoundScan. (That's also four-times the sales of her next-best-seller this week, "Because You Loved Me.")

As for Dion's top-selling songs, since her career covers both the physical and digital singles eras, let's talk about love that fans have given her in each configuration.

First, Dion's top physical singles, in terms of SoundScan sales:

1,343,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,176,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,117,000, "The Power of Love"
658,000, "My Heart Will Go On" (Limited shipment of 700,000 copies)
500,000, "All By Myself"

And, here are Dion's best-selling digital tracks:

1,133,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
704,000, "Because You Loved Me"
498,000, "Taking Chances"
387,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
357,000, "A New Day Has Come"

Overall, Dion's top-selling songs, physical and digital combined, look like this:

2,047,000, "Because You Loved Me"
1,791,000, "My Heart Will Go On"
1,563,000, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
1,471,000, "The Power of Love"
784,000, "Beauty and the Beast," with Peabo Bryson

While "Because" takes overall best-seller honors, that "Heart" is easily Dion's most popular download, the configuration of choice for the last decade, reinforces its appeal more than 14 years after its original release, when "Titanic" first stormed theaters

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/ch...2.story?page=4