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(April 15 2002 News) For Italian fans, Celine will visit Spain tomorrow. She will first do an interview on Los 40 Principales, then she'll go to the taping for Musicasi at TVE. At 4:00pm, she'll have a press conference at Hotel Villamagna. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) On Celine's Maniacs, you can see some pictures they took with Celine when Celine visit Italy. Thanks Estevam again for the info! =) Results for yesterday's TV rating are out. In Quebec alone 2,174,000 viewers watched La Fureur de Celine last night! That's a very good rating, it even surpassed Juno Music Awards' rating. On the national Top 10 result for yesterday (for some reasons, La Fureur isn't eligible for this national Top 10 chart), Juno is #1 with 1,323,000 viewers.Celine's on the cover of the Next Magazine. Thanks Joseph for these scans! =) At the moment with 49.74%, Ashanti's album has sold 135,340 copies so far in this week, and Celine's album has sold 92,540 copies. Goo Goo Dolls has sold 61,188 copies so far at #3. On S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can download the interview Celine gave to Plus Vite Que La Musique. On Sweet Celine, you can see the scans of the Us Magazine. On Queen Celine, you can now listen to another remix of ANDHC. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) According to this Billboard article, Celine's album is also #1 on the European Top 100 album chart for the second week. On this Rock Detente page, you can watch video clips of the La Fureur special. It was a great show. In the TV version, Celine sang ANDHC, Sous Le Vent, At Last, Have You Ever Been In Love, Ten Days (with a guitar on her body), and she ended the show with Right In Front Of You, and this is the only number that she lip-sync. It was a great show, all the people were having fun and Celine was hilarious of course. ANDHC album remains at the #1 position in UK for the 3rd consecutive week! And in Poland, the single has also reached #1! On this Le Derniere Heure page, you can see an article that has some more info about Celine moving to Belgium in fall. Thanks Lorena for translating the info for me and here it is: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Céline will stay in Brabant Wallon for 1 month and half, in September. Franco Dragone was the one who found a house for Céline, which will be rented and it was reformed specially for her, they also said that no one have never lived in the house. Céline will start rehearsing in La Louvière in the Hall de Expositions de La Louvière in June 22th. And probably Céline will perform in La Louvière too, but it won't be such a big concert like what the rumour has spread out earlier, it'll be just for the population of the city. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Lorena (Sweet Celine) for the info! =) Celine's on the cover of 7 Jours again. I guess this time it's about the "Le Grand" special which will air on TVA next Sunday. You can see the pic on Celine Fall. Thanks Estevam! =) (April 14 2002 News)
Celine's on the cover of the current issue of Us magazine. It is the article that talks about the bad debt and shoplifting history of the Korean woman. (April 13 2002 News) According to IFPI.org, Celine's new album has been certified platinum in Europe in the month of March. In addition to her previous 33 platinum awards, Celine now has 34 in total. The La Fureur special will be air tomorrow on SRC channel, and on this page for the special, you can find a photo album and also watch the commercial for the special. Click here to watch the commercial. According to the official site, the Vivement Dimanche that Celine recorded will be air on April 28th on France 2 and other guests will include Luc Plamondon and Eddy Marnay. On Rosie's next week guest listing, Celine isn't listed for April 16th, so I guess USA micro-Celine site has made a mistake on that, and I assume Celine will appear on the Rosie show on May 16th as the date Epic has listed. You can see an article from OH LA! on Celine Fall. Thanks Tatiana! =) On Celine, Star, Planetaire, you can download Celine performance on the Hit Machine. On A Canadian Way of Life, you can pics of Celine playing with RC on a playground in Rome. =) Received the following info from Phil (Phil's Celine Site). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Céline was on the German Top of the Pops today - she sang A new day has come (not I'm Alive). When the presenters announced her they mentioned that her new album makes the computers crash but then they sad that her performance wasn't a crash. Then he said: "Here's Miss Hush Hush, here's Céline Dion". --------------------------------------------------------------------- You can see some screen caps of the performance on his site now too. And a video file will be available soon! Thanks Phil for the info! =) On Celine Dion In Pauline's Eyes, you can see scans of a Polish magazine "Na Zywo". Thanks Pauline for the info! =) (April 12 2002 News) On Queen Celine, you can now download the CBS special in Windows media format. On TOTP page, they have a collection of music video clips of many singers, and for Celine, they have video clips of Think Twice and Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. But the Think Twice video isn't the one that I've seen before. The one that I've watched is Celine having a tower wrapped around her and arguing with her man, but this one is just another version. A reminder for Swedish fan, Celine will be on the TV-show Bingolotto tomorrow (April 13th). Here's an update on the album chart position around the world in the 2nd week. Last week position in brackets: # 1: UK(1), Sweden(1), Norway(22), France(1), Belgium French region(47) Canada(1) # 2: Finland(1), Denmark(3), Netherland(10), Germany(2), Austria(1), Italy(1), Ireland(1), Belgium(20), US(1), Australia(1), Poland(8) # 3: NewZealand(1) #15: Japan(24) #18: Brazil(23) For the single, it is steadily falling in many countries, but in Norway the single rises from #5 to #3 this week, in Austria it rises from #14 to #10, and in Ireland it rises to #12 from #14. On Billboard Hot 100 singles, it rises to #27, and remains at #1 on AC chart. On R&R, it climbs back to #1 from #2 this week. On MTV Asia, it jumps from #19 to #11. On MTV European, it falls down 1 spot to #5. On the European chart, the single drops to #6 this week. Thanks Kervin, Colin, and Seb for giving me some of the info above! =) On this globalCeline page, you can see pics of Celine taken during the taping of the Dutch TV show. Thanks Dennis! =) According to this Billboard's article, Celine among few others has confirmed to perform at the Billboard Latin Awards which will be held on May 9th, and air on May 12th on Telemundo. (April 11 2002 News) You can find Celine or Rene on the cover of the Lundi, Echos Vedettes, and 7 Jours. You can see the cover pics on Celine Fall. Thanks Tatiana for the info! =) There is also an article of Rene on Derniere Heure! Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for the info! =) Thanks Adam (Hungarian Celine Fan Site) for the following European TV appearances. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Celine will again on Top Of The Pops in Germany on Saturday, on RTL at 17.45 CET, she will probably sing "I'm Alive" or "A New Day Has Come" again! On this day she will also on French TV: on TF1 Garou's concert from Bercy is shown (Sous Les Vent, Ten Days) from 20.50. CET, on M6 from 20.10: Plus vite que la musique Celine will also be a guest on the David Letterman Show on June 4, which is also shown on June 11 in Denmark on TV2 Zulu & ZTV in Sweden!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- On this page, you can watch an interview of Celine in French and a little bit Dutch. In the interview, you can see some footages of Celine's recording session and photo shooting. Thanks Kasper for the info! =) For Portuguese fans, Celine is in the "TV 7 Dias" magazine! Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the info! =) A bit more info about the Divas Vegas show can be found in this Billboard's article. On S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can download the video of Celine's performance on the Celine Dion special that was air in France on TF1 channel. It's in the "Emissions de television Speciales Celine Dion (TVSP" section of the Multimedia section. (April 10 2002 News) Now you can download Celine's interview with Sonia (Duo Benezra) on Queen Celine. The entire interview is in French. Jam! also has an article about the Korean woman who is suing Rene. The articles says that woman has a bad debt history, and have been found quilty in shoplifting twice. Click here to read the article. Here's what the Infinit's article (updates on Rene's lawsuit) that I linked earlier today mainly talks about: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The news is that the woman sueing René has a lot of debts in Las Vegas herself. Her lawyer has refused to take the case to a private arbitrator in Los Angeles and also demands the annulation of the arrangement René and the woman had come to, two years ago. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Phil (Phil's Celine Site) for the translation! =) Here are some more info about the Dutch TV I received from Dennis: The show was recorded yesterday (April 9th) and will be broadcasted April 19. Céline sang two songs, ANDHC and I'm alive. She was verry friendly to us (I and many other Celine fans where in the audience) Thanks Dennis for the info! =) According to Kurt who's in the Destin group, he said they also gave Celine a fan book and an Elmo too at the end, and Celine also met and hug and took a picture with a girl in the audience who has cystic fibrosis. Thanks Kurt! =) Here's an article that talks about Celine moving to Belgium for 3 months for rehearsing her shows in Vegas. In Canada, the album remains at #1 selling 62,900 this week. #2 is Shakira's album with 10,500 copies sold. Too see the Top 10, click here! Since quite a few countries' 2nd week chart results still haven't come out, I think I'll wait for few more days before I put the chart summary for the 2nd week up on the site. By the way, I heard that SoundScan US sales figure is a little different from the sales figure compiled by Hits. For Soundscan, it says Tweet's album is #3 instead of #4. Anyway, Celine will be #2 this week for sure in the US. Here's an article that talk about this year's Divas Las Vegas. Performers that are confirmed to appear are Celine, Mary J Blige, and Cher. More performers will be announced soon. Celine appeared on a Dutch TV today, and Celine also received her platinum award there for ANDHC. You can see some pics on Sweet Celine. Now on Queen Celine, you can listen to audio files of I'm Alive remix and ANDHC remix. Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the info! =) According to Epic, Celine will be on David Letterman on June 4th. That's around the time when "I'm Alive" will hit radio stations in the US. Thanks Lorena (Sweet Celine) for the info! =) Infinit has an update on Rene's lawsuit, but I'm not sure what it means. Anyway, here's the article: Click here! Thanks Tatiana for the link! =) (April 9 2002 News) On S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can see some cap shots of Celine recording session for the ANDHC album. It's in the April 8th's news update. For the ranking of TV rating for the entire week (April 1-7), Celine's special ranks #18. To see the full ranking, click here! Now in final, Ashanti will debut on this week's Billboard Top 200 album chart at #1 with 503,178 copies sold. Celine will be #2 with 248,544 copies sold. Now Vol 9 will be #3 with 191,618 copies sold. All of the album in the top 50 except 2 albums and all new entries have decreased in sales compare to last week. Celine's sales dropped 55%. For Now Vol 9, it has even dropped 61%. Celine's special had the highest rating in Canada for Sunday according to Jam! TV. It attracted 1,635,000 viewers, while the show in the 2nd (Parkinson's Enigma) attracted 1, 280,000 viewers. To see the full chart, click here! Right now at 84.70%, Ashanti's album is at #1 with 468,645 copies sold, while Celine's ANDHC is at #2 with 207,783 copies sold. #3 is Now Vol9 with 156,071 copies sold. 7 Jours has Garou on the cover this week, and in this article, of course Celine and Rene are also mentioned. Click here to read the report in French. Thanks Estevam and Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the info! =) (April 8 2002 News) On April 21th, World Music Awards which was held earlier will be air. During this year's presentation, they had a "restrospective look" back at some of the best performances of the past and a footage of Celine's past performance would be included. Thanks Leif for the info! =) Here's an article that talks about US's rating. Now at 67.52%, Ashanti's album is still #1 with 423,795 copies sold, Celine's album moves up to #2 with 140,029 copies sold while Tweet's album moves down one spot to #2 with 130,020 copies sold. Base on these results, Ashanti's album maybe able to break Celine's last week first week sales record of 2002. I heard that Ashanti's album is being discounted in many stores in the US, a strategy that record companies like to use to boost sales. Sony has also used this method for Celine in Japan for her TLYM and the latest ANDHC single. On Celine Dion Rare Videoclips, you can watch a clip of Celine's "I'm Alive" performance on The Early Show. A reminder for UK fans, Celine will be on Top Of The Top 2 tomorrow performing "I'm Alive". globalCeline has been launched today. I would like to thank them for their invitation of an interview in the first issue of their magazine. On Phil's Celine Site, you can download more footages from the Fiorello show including Celine meeting the hosts, and they gave her a gift...etc. Now at 50.14% reporting, Celine's new album is selling at #3 in the US this week so far, with 96.452 copies. #1 is Ashanti's album (332,091) and #2 is Tweet's album (105,432). Let's hope last night's special would boost Celine's sales. Talking about last night's special, according to Queen Celine the special had the highest rating at the same time slot. In addition, it was the 4th highest rating show for yesterday behind "60 minutes", "The Practice", and "50 Years of NBC Late Night". Now on Queen Celine, Andre has also put up the entire Oprah show divided in serveral segments on his site. So for those who didn't watch the show can watch it there now!
You can now download Celine's performance on Fiorello and Dom & Nika In on S'il Suffisait D'aimer. Celine looked so elegant on Fiorello! She performed ANDHC and MHWGO on Fiorello, and ANDHC & At Last on Dom & Nika IN. Go to the multimedia section, and go to the Prestations Televisees section. You'll find them there. On Celine Fall, you can see some cap shots of a Celine program that was air on Brazilian TV. Thanks Estevam! =) Instead of posting them up today, I will post up the 2nd week chart positions for ANDHC around when the results for US and Canada are out. So, they'll probably be up on Wednesday or Thursday. But a good news is despite the fact that Darren Hayes was #1 on UK's midweek sales info last week, Celine still remains at #1 for the second week, while Darren's album debuts at #2. I guess Celine's sales caught up after the midweek. =) (April 6 2002 News) Remember those Radio Energie hosts who tricked Celine by pretending as Prime Minister of Canada? On April 1st, they played with their trick again, but this time on Bill Gates. And they did mention Celine and Rene during their conversation. Click here to listen! The conversation starts at 2:20, so you can skip those hosts chat at the beginning. On the Celine More site, you can see some Celine pics taken at the Garou concert in France where Celine appeared as the guest performer. Thanks Estevam! (Celine Fall)! =)
That's a scan of a Dutch magazine. Thanks Estevam and Anouk! =) Here's this week's Jam! chart talk column. According to this, ANDHC is Celine's 15th chart album, and her 7th #1 album in Canada, tieing with The Tragically Hip with the most #1 album in Canada. It also has some chart info of ANDHC around the world and but he used the stat compiled by SoundScan Japan, that's why he has a different debut position from mine. The one I used is Japan's Oricon chart, which is as far as I know the most concerned chart for Japanese artists. Instead of 33, the album debuted at #24 on the Oricon chart. However, still it's a quite a disappointing position compare to ATW debut position. It debuted at #3 in Japan when it came out. Now on Queen Celine, you can download 3 video files. Two of them are video files for yesterday's "The View", and the other one is the video file of the Flash program, which contains footages of the La Fureur taping and the press conference. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Here on this page, you'll find a pic of Celine with a clown from the "O" show. Thanks Estevam again! =) For people who have the channel Rai Uno, watch for Celine on "Stasera pago io" tonight and "Dom & Nika In" tomorrow. Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for the info! =) (April 5 2002 News) According to Queen Celine, Celine will perform "I'm Alive" on Top of the Pop 2 on April 9th. You can see the schedule here. Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) for the info! =) According to Sony Music US new release schedule, a 7 inch Vinyl Single of "A New Day Has Come/I'm Alive" (EPIC 79740) will come out on April 16th. On the same day, mini disc and SACD of the ANDHC album will also come out. On MTV, there's an article that talks about Celine's sales in the US with much details including sales of her French albums in the US. According to the article, Celine's TAST album is the 3rd best selling Christmas album in the SoundScan era, and she's also the 5th best selling artist in the US. However, in a few months, she has a chance to climb to #2, surpassing Beatles, Mariah, Metallica. Thanks Peter for the link! =) On this Rock Detente page, you can see some great pics from the La Fureur taping, and pics from the interview Celine gave to the station in New York in March. Thanks Nicole from the Destin group for the link! =) For fans in Germany, Celine will be on Stern TV on April 17th. Thanks Kurt from the Destin group for the info! =) An article that rate/preview the CBS special by USA today. Click here to read! The "most expensive" plague Celine was presented with in the UK and went aution, was sold with $70,000 pounds. All will be donated to charity. For more info, visit the official site. Celine will be on next issue of the Canadian version of TV Guide, it'll be the one with Michael J Fox on the cover. Received the following info from Estevam (Celine Fall) -------------------------------------------------------------------- For fans in Labanon, a Celine Dion Special Report will be aired on the lebanese Television Station "MTV Lebanon" ( www.mtv.com.lb ) on April 6th at 6:45 PM ( local Beirut Time ) and will be broadcast at the same time on the satellite station of MTV at 4.45 GMT. The report was done during Celine's promotional tour in France 2 weeks ago.
Quebec's TV guide.
An Australian mag, NW. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Estevam! =) (April 4 2002 News) Reminder: Catch Celine on The Early Show and The View tomorrow! On Hits Daily Double, base on the first day sales of this week, they are predicting Ashanti and Tweet will debut at #1 and #2 while Celine will move to #3. According to Ananova.com, base on looking at UK midweek sales figure, Darren Hayes' solo album is marginally outselling Celine's ANDHC. So the album may move to #2 next week on UK's album chart. On this week's Canada Hits (Airplay chart), ANDHC jumps to #2, and remains at #4 on the Single (sales) chart. In Alaska, the single climbs up to #7. (Thanks Kervin for this info!) A reminder, Celine will be on "The View" tomorrow.
There are two more articles (one in French, one in English) about the taping of La Fureur. Both of them have more info about show. The French one also has some more info about the press conference. English: Divas Bright New Day French: Céline plus populaire que Dieu? According to these articles, Celine performed ANDHC, Ten Days, Have You Ever Been In Love, At Last, I'm Alive, The Greatest Reward, and Right In Front Of You. The guest-stars that were participating the game show include Éric Lapointe, Nanette Workman, Karine Vanasse, Isabelle Brossard, Gabrielle, Jacynthe, Elyse Marquis, Maxim Roy, Judith Bérard, Marie-Chantal Toupin, Marc Dupré, René Simard, Sylvain Cossette, Stéphane Rousseau, and Marc Déry. You can see view more pics of the press conference at London Features Internationl. Have just added two countries to #1 at the list below, they are Egypt, and Italy! (Thanks Tom!) Here's a little summary for ANDHC album chart performance around the world in its first week: #01: UK, US, Canada, Finland, Austria, Australia, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Egypt, Italy. #02: Germany #08: Poland (chart cut off day was 3 days after the album release) #10: Netherland #20: Belgium #22: Norway #23: Brazil #24: Japan #47: Belgium (French region) For Netherland and Norway, the second week result has just came out already too. In Norway, the album jumps all the way to #1 and in Netherland, it jumps up to #2. Of course the album must've charted in many other countries also, but these are the only info I could found at the moment. According to Sony, the album has landed on the top of the chart in 18 countries. You can see few more pics of the press conference at Wire Image This week's R&R chart results have came out: (last week position in brackets) AC: #2 (1) Hot AC: #26 (25) CHR/POP: #33 (33) Smooth Jazz: #13 (15) On the AC chart, ANDHC is just one spin behind "Hero". If ANDHC can maintain the #1 on Mediabase AC mainstream format, it will definitely climb back to #1 on next week's R&R AC chart. Here's an article from Canada.com about the press conference and taping. Although some parts are identical to the Jam! article, there are still some more info including a few quotes of Celine from the press conference. Click here to read! (April 3 2002 News) Here's another article about the press conference, but in French. On this page, you can also find a video report in French too. Here's an Jam! article about the taping! Click here to read! This "La Fureur" special will air on April 14th.
Here are few more pics.
Celine taped the "La Fureur" special tonight at Molson center. She and Rene held a press conference right before the taping. The picture of the left was taken during the press conference, while others were taken during the taping. I caught part of the press conference on TV (RDI channel) but I couldn't understand a word cuz they mostly spoke in French, and whenever there is a reporter asking question in English, a translator would have his voice over translating all English conversation in French. Anyway, at the bottom of the screen it pop up from time to time some messages such as telling this is a Celine press conference, her new album came out...etc. Although I can't understand French, base on the English words in one of the messages and my very limited French vocabulary, I think one message said that the new album has sold 2 million copies around the world in its first week. Yeah! According to Mike Gauthier (Musique Plus VJ/Radio energie DJ), in Quebec alone, the new album sold 75,000 copies in the first week. Here's Infinit Entertainment section's Question of the day: Do you think Rene Angelil is: Guilty Innocent I don't know much Click here for result! Today's Jam! Music's question of the day is also related to Celine. The question is "Nickelback are headlining Edgefest this summer. What other Canadian artists would you like to see perform in a 2002 Cdn. summer music festival?" Click here for result! Here's an article that talks about the first week sales of the album in the US and Canada. The figure (86,000) that was in the Canada.com article yesterday isn't correct. The final first week sales of the new album in Canada is 151,600 copies. In the article, you can see how they compare this sales to the sales figure in the US, and also get a sense how huge 151,600 is compare to other recent #1 album in Canada. An update on the Mediabase daily monitor, ANDHC today has again climbs back to #1 in AC mainstream format, with 62 spins ahead of "Hero". Feel like voting for Celine today? Here's a list of video stations' sites where you can vote: USA: VH1 Fresh Canada: Musique Plus Much More Music Italy: MTV TRL Thanks Pascal for the above list! =) Got the following info from two members in the Destin group: Celine will visit these countries: Apr. 6 Italy Apr. 9 Holland Apr.13 Sweden At the Holland stop, Celine will record a 30 mins interview and perform 2 songs from the new album including ANDHC. Thanks Katrin and Kurt for these info! =) In Poland, the album debuts at #8. However, only sales in 3 days of the album has been counted in this week's chart due to the date of the album came out and the cut-off day for the chart compilation. In Japan, the album debuts at #24 on weekly national Sales Chart while it rises from #15 to #13 today on the daily national Sales chart. Thanks Seb for Poland's chart info! =) Here's an article that talks about the heated discussion on the internet about the new album will not play in PC/Mac. It says that some people even complain the CD has crashed their computer and making permanent damages. However, Sony denies that the CD would cause permanent damage though it can crash a computer. Click here to read the article. (April 2 2002 News) If you are having Real One Player and couldn't watch those CBS preview footages, you can click on the links below: ANDHC footage MHWGO footage Beauty & the Beast footage Thanks Sophoan (CelineBEAT)! =) On Celine Fall, you can see scans of the Dutch magazine, TV Weekend. Thanks Estevam! =) Here's what Kevin Hawkins of Amazon.com has said about Celine's first week sales: "It was an incredible week for Celine. It’s clear her fan base not only maintained its size but actually grew during her hiatus. Celine’s debut really boosted overall sales this week. It looks like the economy may finally be returning to normal." Source: Hits Daily Double For fans in Japan, Sony Japan has announced on April 5th, "Celine Dion Welcome Back Special" will air on TVK. Click here for more info! Here's another article on Celine. The reporter of this article interviewed Celine last week in Toronto. Go on, make fun of her-she loves that kind of thing In this article, you'll find out Celine is currently concerned on the health of her Montreal-based production manager who was diagnosed with brain cancer last week, she'll be doing this year's VH1 Divas called "Diva Las Vegas", and of course you'll see her talk about her new album, baby, SNL skits...etc. Also, this article reports that in Canada, the album has sold 86,000 copies in the first week. Celine will enter Billboard Top 200 album chart at #1. She's sold an outstanding 553,354 units of her new album. This is the biggest first week sales for Celine in her career, and this will also be the first time for to have an album debute at #1 on Billboard's Ablum chart. Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) for the info! =) Now on CBS, they're showing some clips of the upcoming Celine special. Click here to watch those clips. If you have Real-One player installed as me, you won't be able to watch those clips, cuz we're missing a plug-in which is unavailable yet. Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) for the info! =) In this article, you can find more info about the diamond necklace Celine wore on her TV special. The diamond weighs over 76 carats! I wonder if it came with few bodyguards again! CTV has put up a 7 mins video clip of the interview Celine had with Canada AM's Lisa LaFlamme. Click here to watch! It's a pretty interesting interview, and at the end you can see a clip of Celine's recording session for "I'm Alive". On the latest Mediabase monitor result (12:20pm PT), Enrique's Hero bump Celine's ANDHC down to #2 again. What a musical chair... On today's Hits Daily Double, it says as predicted, sales (for Celine) look to cross the 500k mark. According to VH1, the necklace Celine wore at the CBS special when she had the red-dress on, worths $25 million dollars! Thanks Jaime for the info! =) Hope it's not too late, a three part Celine interview with Lisa LaFlamme will be air on Canada AM today morning. On today's Japan daily album sales chart, ANDHC debuts at #15. In Taiwan, due to serious bootleg problems, IFPI had stop collecting sales data in Taiwan few years ago, so there isn't a national sales chart for Taiwan, but on the sales chart (foreign language) of a local big chain record store, this week ANDHC debuts at #1. By the way, yesterday on US mediabase daily monitor, ANDHC climbs back up to the #1 spot in AC mainstream format. Better stay there from now on! On this Chinese Celine site, Celine More, you can download two audio files from the CBS special. ANDHC album has debuted #1 on Australia's album chart even with little promotion. It has already been certified gold too. A fan in Australia went to a big record store, and the store was sold out of the new album. Thanks Kervin and Sean for the info! =) Celine is the Artist of the Month for MTV Asia, so Asian fans can look forward to many Celine programs to be shown on MTV Asia this month! Thanks TyTho, Kervin, and Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) (April 1 2002 News) Got the following info from a fan in Destin Group: --------------------------------------------------------------------- When Celine hit #1 on the Billboard Chart last week, she stopped "Hero" at 15 weeks. Celine's six week rise to the top is the quickest since Faith Hill's "There You'll Be" six-week journey last June. Celine now has #11 number one hits on the a/c chart, moving her in first place among female vocalist. Until ANDHC reached #1, she was in a two-way tie with Whitney Houston with ten #1's. Celine has a total of 66 weeks at number one on the ac charts, putting her at #1 in that genre above all performers (male, female, duo, group, etc). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Derek for the info! =) On The Early Show site, it says that their next show includes a special performance of Celine. So Celine may be on The Early Show tomorrow again, although Sony says she'll be on the show on Friday. Jam! question of the day is "CBC's "Trudeau" aired last night. What other contemporary Canadian figure deserves a mini series? Jean Chretien, Celine Dion, William Shatner, Stockwell Day, Leonard Cohen.
This is an ad for the CBS special that can be found in the people magazine. Thanks Kathy (Celine's Music Will Go On and On) for this pic! =) Found two articles (interviews) from a China's television station site. Although there are many "already knew" info, there are still some new things, such as "Rain, Tax" is one of the Celine's favourites on the new album. And don't worry if you can't read Chinese, cuz they are in English. First article Second article (interview) Here's the chart result that came out over the weekend: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ANDHC Single: (last week's position in brackets) UK: #15 (13) Norway: #5 (7) Denmark: #7 (3) Switzerland: #4 (4) Germany: #17 (9) Austria: #14 (10) Ireland: #10 (11) Belgium: #14 (14) Belgium (french region): #13 (15) Switzerland: #4 (4) Sweden: #8 (3) New Zealand: #34 (39) Brazil Airplay: #45 (52) Eurochart: #4 (10) ANDHC Album: # 1: UK, Finland, Ireland. #10: Netherland #20: Belgium (non-French region) #22: Norway #23: Brazil #47: Belgium (French region) Although the chart for Canada won't come out til next week, but Celine is locked at #1 for sure. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Right now on Celine, Star, Planetaire, you can watch video clips of Celine's performance on the TF1 special. The clips include "I'm Alive", "Ten days", "The Greatest Reward", "Sous Le Vent", and "ANDHC". Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Got the following info from a fan in the Destin group: On this page, Celine is listed as one of the performer for a Charity concert. Prince will be headlining the event, and other performers include Destiny's Child, and Harry Connick Jr. The event will take place on April 20th in Kodak Theatre. Tickets are $20 each. Thanks Anna! =) On Japan's Celine Dion page, there's a game to test how fast you can recognize a Celine song. Click here to play the game! A song will be played and you have to click on the correct title as fast as possible. (Mar 30 2002 News) Happy 34th Birthday Celine! Just a reminder for the fans in France, TF1 will air the 140 mins Celine special tonight. Special guests include Garou, JJ Goldman...etc. For Italian fans, Celine will be on "Stasera Fiorello" on April 6th and on "Dom&Nika" on April 7th. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Right now on CELINEbeat, you can find watch video clips of Celine's ANDHC special commercial, her "I'm Alive" performance on The Early show, and a clip of the audience singing "Happy birthday" to her. Also in the photo section, you can see pics of her appearances on Top of the Pop, Revealed with Jules Asner, Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Today Show, and VH1's TV Moments. Thanks Sophoan! =)
A fan from the US found the above item being sell in Costco for $11.99 USD. It's like a box-set. Inside that box, there's the album. Thanks Melanie for the pic and info! =) (Mar 29 2002 News) HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!! There are three fans from Germany, Florida, and Brazil who all would want to watch Celine's MuchMoreMusic program, and they would pay for of the expenses. If you have taped the show and willing to make them or even one copy, please email me so that I can put you in touch with them. Thank you very much! Right now on Celine, Star, Planetaire, you can see the scans of the Oh LA! magazine. On this page, you can see lots of pics taken by the media during Celine's arrival to MuchMoreMusic. On Billboard this week, ANDHC single remains at #38 on Hot 100, and #1 on Hot Adult Contemporary. On Mediabase daily monitor, ANDHC is still at #2 today for AC mainstream format. Let's hope it'll climb back up to #1 again.
MuchMoreMusic has made a special site for Celine's yesterday visit. On that page, you can also find the full transcript! Click here! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall)! =) You can find scans of the Gala magazine on S'il Suffisait D'aimer". Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall)! Here are two more articles from Jam!: Celine gaging on court order Celine talks about LP, life with baby (Mar 28 2002 News) This site will be closed on Sunday again, and will be back on Monday. Celine and Garou are on the French version of the Hello Magazine. OH LA! has put up an article on their site. Click here to read! There's one more article on Infinit that has an update on the lawsuit. It says that it was actually the lawyer of Rene that caused the gag order to happen. On last Tuesday, the lawyer represented Rene in court to request to make the procedure of the case be confidential. However, the judge refused but accepted to have both sides held silence. You can click here to read the article in French. There's also a video report too. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the link! =) Before Celine went to MuchMoreMusic, she had an interview with Lisa LaFlamme, and the interview will be air on Monday during Canada AM. CTV has put up a clip. Click here!
These three pics were taken outside the MuchMusic/MuchMoreMusic building. The crowds inside and outside the building were wild, and Celine tried her best to sign their cds, pics...etc. During the interview, they talked about the baby, the new album, the vegas show...etc. Not many things that are really new. Celine did also talk about the lawsuit a bit. She said they're frustrated that they can't talk about it, and Rene is so eager to talk about it that he even wants to go on a world tour to talk about it. She said they'll probably be able to discuss this freely in about 3 weeks. When they were talking about the new album, Celine said her record company people told her that the music industry has changed and ballads are no longer highly demanded..etc. Then Celine replied, "why are you telling me about this? "Can you imagine me doing a rap album?" Then Celine made those raping gesture, and tried to rap, and the crowd cheered big time again. When she was asked about sharing those family pics in her album booklet, she said it was her idea. They were picking pictures to put in the booklet, then Celine thought I've been sharing my life with the people, and why don't I share some of the most important moments in these past two years, so that how those pictures got to appear in the booklet. When they were talking about the Vegas show, Celine said a bad thing for this is that she can't go around the world to see her fans, instead they have to come. That's why they are now trying their best to make contests, arrange buses and stuff and have the people to come and see the show. Celine has said few times during the show that she felt like singing, but too bad the program weren't prepared/arranged for Celine to sing. However, Celine did sing a few lines of "I'm Alive". Also, during one commercial, the audience sang "Happy Birthday" to Celine. An email question for Celine was how is she planning to celebrate her birthday this Saturday, and Celine said she never has any plan for her own birthday. Then she said, after the show, she'll fly back to Montreal to see her parents, and she'll have 3 days break. After Celine said this, she suddenly realize her family may be planning something since she'll be having a 3 days break. After the break, Celine will continue her promotion tour and fly back to Paris. One last comment about the show is that the crowd were sooo hot. The host and Celine could hardly communicate at some points. And you could see how wide Celine's fan base is, there were people as young as less than 10 years old, and as old as over 60. Okay, Jam! already has an article about the visit. Click here! And you can see one more pic there. Btw, Stephan Moccio came up to Celine at the end of the show when Celine came out from the building and he gave Celine a huge frame. Inside the frame, there is the original score of ANDHC, a pic he took with Celine 10 years ago, and two album covers. On this week Canada's Hits (Airplay) chart, ANDHC drops down 1 spot to #4, Enrique's Escape slips into #2. (It's Enrique again, but different song!) On the single (sales) chart, ANDHC drops down 2 spots to #4. On this page, you can find some pics of Celine taken during her performance of the CBS early show. Her performance will air tomorrow! Thanks Jackie for the info! =) The CHUMFM radio stations in Toronto will also simulcast Celine's visit to MMM live at 7:30pm ET. You can listen to the show live online too. Click here to go to their site. Mike Gauthier (MusiquePlus VJ/Radio DJ) went to New York to meet Celine yesterday, and he has put up the info he got on his news page at Radio Energie's site. He says Celine confirmed that she knew about the story of that woman for 14 months now, since R.C was born. Right now, the only thing that worries her is that they can't defense themselves and tell the truth publicly right now because of the gag order. For another info, yesterday the employees of Virgin Mega Stores compared the sales of ANDHC with U2's album. They are predicting the album may sell between 600,000-700,000 by the end of its first week. In Canada, it is approaching 150,000. Also, as mentioned earlier the next single will be "I'm Alive". According to UK's midweek album sales, ANDHC is #1 with 18319 copies sold. The current #2 is Nickleback's album with 9107 copies. Hey, they are both Canadian! On Infinit, it has an article on Rene's case. I'm not sure what it means since I don't understand French, but it seems to be something like the woman who claims Rene have raped her is a mother of a child who has Cystic Fibrosis, that's why Rene followed her to her room to get some documents. You can read the article by clicking here. You can also find another video report in French there. Celine and Rene are on the cover of Derniere Heure, 7 Jours and Echos Vedette. You can see the cover on Celine Fall. Thanks Tatiana! =) This week's R & R charts have come out, and here's the result: AC: #1 (2) Hot AC: #25 (25) CHR/POP: #33 (36) Smooth Jazz: #15 (15) Yesterday, Mediabase daily monitor shows that on AC's mainstream format, Enrique's Hero has switched position with ANDHC and reaching #1 again, while ANDHC drops to #2. Let's hope this trend won't hold for long.
The three pictures from the left were taken in New York on Monday, when Celine and Rene met the press. The one on the right is a pic taken at "Live with Regis & Kelly" yesterday. Celine is in an Italian Magazine, Sorrisi e Canzoni TV. You can see the scans on Celine Fall. Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for making the scans! =) There is a large article of Celine in Polish edition of Newsweek. You can see the scan on Celine Dion in Pauline's Eyes. Thanks Pauline for the info! =) Don't forget, Celine will be live at MuchMoreMusic at 4:30pm PT/ 7:30pm ET. If weather allows, they'll roll out the red-carpet, and Celine will first make a visit to MuchMusic at 4:20pm PT/7:20pm ET at MuchMusic for 10 minutes. And to celebrate the event, MuchMoreMusic will have a countdown to the arrival of Celine 1 hour prior her arrival. So, at 3:30pm PT/ 6:30pm ET, they are going to show some Celine greatest TV moments and some of Celine best videos! Jam! has an article with the title "Celine's album sales 'rocking'". Base on looking at the title alone, we can know that it's good news. The article recaps "Hits Daily Double" info on Celine may well sell over 500K in its first week. They then say that usually, Canada's sales is 1/10 of the US, but they are predicting the album will even sell more than 50,000 by the end of its first week. A guy who is a head of a big chain record stores in Southern Ontario says that he is very pleased with the sales it is having, and he says if there weren't snow, the sales would have been even stronger. The Good Friday may lower the first week sales figure a bit. (Mar 27 2002 News) E! Online has put up a Celine quiz on their "Revealed" page. Click here!
Celine has devoted today to do interviews for all of the electronic media in New York. In this 3 mins long video footage provided by TVA, you can see Celine talks about her album, and both Rene. The interview is in French. Billboard has put up a review for the new album on their site. Apparently, it's an excerpt from the article written by Chuck Taylor that was published last month, because the review still mentions the track "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" which has been pulled off at the last minute. You can see some cap-shots of last night's Larry King Live on A Canadian Way of Life. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Celine and Rene are on the Gala magazine. You can now see scans on Celine, Star, Planetaire. You can also see the scans of the TV Guide on Sweet Celine now. Good news for U.S album sales. On Hits Daily Double, it says base on the first day sales of the new album, it's likely to have a first week sales over 500K, and if that's the case, it will be Celine first album to debute #1. Celine's biggest first week sales was 334K, and when ATW came out, its first week sales was 302K. For this week Jam! Music chart-battle, Celine's new album is up against Jay-Z & R. Kelly album. Click here to vote! You can also see Jam! photo of the day is a pic of Celine and Rene that was taken yesterday in New York. Celine did appear on Live at Regis & Kelly, and they first chat a bit (mostly about R.C) then Celine performed ANDHC live. In this video footage of CTV, you can watch an interview with Stephan Moccio, once again talking about his reaction of knowing Celine has recorded the song he co-wrote with Aldo Nova . Although there isn't any press report on this yet, but I think many Oprah had a pretty high rating on Monday, at least in Canada. Compare to last week's rating, the highest position the show reached for last week's daily rating was #9. For this Monday's program, it has reached #5. Last Monday, the show was #10 in Canada. On Infinit's main page, the question of the day is "Are you happy with Celine coming back?", and so far 49% of the people said yes, and 51% of the people said no. Although there are lesser people saying yes than people saying no, if you think, when you walk on the street, in every two people, one person is happy with Celine's coming back, that's not bad at all. Anyway, you can vote there on the main site too. Click here! (Mar 26 2002 News) ANDHC single has jumped to #2 on this week's Eurochart (single)! Thanks Kervin for the info! =) In this video footage provided by CTV News-net, you can see a huge line up in Montreal waiting to get their copy of the new album outside the record store. Just a reminder, Celine will be on the following program tomorrow: Regis and Kelly, Today Show and E! 1 hour Special on Celine. Celine was on Larry King Live today. The show was taped around two weeks ago, so they didn't talk about Rene's lawsuit. However, before they had the first commercial, a message screen pops up saying that Rene and Celine will go on Larry King Live again to talk about the charges as soon as the gag order is taken off. In the show, they've talked about quite many things, although not all of the stuff are new. Celine ended the show with her performance of ANDHC live. On this article, it says that today as Celine and Rene entered a New York hotel for a round of interviews, Celine said firmly "You're asking me if I support him? Look into my eyes and tell me if you think I'm behind him." She also said that they are frustrated that they can't defend themselves publicly because Las Vegas District Judge has issued a gag order last week. I have just finished listen to the new album! And WOW!!! What an adventure that was!!! I'm so glad that I didn't listen to any full- length version (except Prayer and ANDHC) before buying the album. It's great! In many of Celine previous albums, there were always one or few songs that I would skip, but this album, I wouldn't skip any. Right now it's hard to tell you which song is my favourite, but when I listened to the songs one by one, the "magic" started rapidly when I got to track #6 (Ten Days), and the magic built up more and more from there. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike the first 5 tracks, but I don't know why the magic suddenly increased a lot from "Ten Days". And the ballads on this album are very powerful both emotionally and vocally, but not over-done. "I surrender" is a tornado, "Prayer" and "Goodbye's (the saddest word)" are onions, and "Nature Boy" just show how pure, flawless Celine's voice is. For the up-tempo songs, they're all so fresh and modern, and fun! This album simply plays with your emotions, turn you bright and happy, then suddenly make you wanna cry, and cheer you up again, and after hearing this album you can be all exhausted. If the psychiatrists suddenly find themselves so busy with many customers, they can blame this album. I would say this album is from now on my favourite Celine album. If you haven't listened to the album yet, I suggest you to turn up the volume, and have the lyrics in your hands. Btw, we all now know that Shania Twain sings backup on "Goodbye...", and actually, Chantal Kreviazuk sings in the backgound for "I surrender" too. There's an article on USA Today. Click here to read! Here's an article that has a little update on Rene's lawsuit. The Las Vegas police has started their investigation, and they'll talk to everyone who is involved. The lady who claimed Rene has raped her has finally filed a police report on March 19th 2002. I didn't catch Celine on Today today, cuz I was too tired to wake up til 8:30am, but I happened to catch a clip of the video, and they said that she'll be back tomorrow to discuss the new album, baby...etc. The webmasters of Celine Fall want to let their visitors know that the site will be down today for the entire day due to maintenance. It should be back tomorrow. (Mar 25 2002 News) Need to make an correction that Celine will be on Larry King Live on Tuesday March 26th, instead of Wednesday March 27th as posted by Epic. Thanks Gil for the info! =)
Two more pics of Celine taken in Paris. Again, if you want to see a larger size, please go to All Over Press, and login with the login name "guest". Now on this page, you can find the entire transcript of today's chat in MSN chat room. At this link, you can find a larger size of TV guide's cover pic. Found this news on Queen Celine, for Canadian fans, Celine will give an interview on the TVA station at 5:00pm ET and TQS station at 6:30pm ET all live from New York. Thanks Andre! =)
Celine's on the cover of the US TV guide. Click here to read the article. You can find two more pics there! On the Oprah Site, you can already see a gallery and transcript for Celine's show. S'il Suffisait D'aimer has put up a special page as a report for Celine's visit in Paris. On that page, you can see pics, and even self-shot video footage. Simply go to the main page, then scroll down a bit you'll see a section called Reportage. That's the page! Thanks Estevam for the info! =)
I found these two pics from the International Forum. Thank you to the one who put up the pic! =) Remember that Celine will be chatting in the MSN chat room. The chat will take place at 5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT For Taiwan and HK, that's 6:00am. Sorry, I have no idea what time that is for European countries. For Taiwan fans, as a celebration for the new album, MSN Taiwan is going to play all of the songs in full length continuously on Taiwan's MSN site on both March 25 and 26 between 12:00pm-12:00am. The full-length ANDHC video is also already there. They are also having a giveaway contest for Celine CD library, but only open for Taiwanese fans. Also, Sony Music HK has lauched HK Celine's site, it's pretty cool. Click hereto take a look. Also don't forget that Celine will be on Oprah today. On the Oprah site (www.oprah.com), they often have some "after the show" footages for their shows, so we may get to see some "after the show" footages for Celine's episode tomorrow on the site too. Check it out! Talking about TV appearances, here's the list for this week's Celine TV appearances: For North America: March 25 Oprah Winfrey show March 26 Today Show March 26 Larry King Live March 27 Regis and Kelly March 27 Today Show March 27 E! 1 hour Special on Celine (10pm) March 28 Early Show (7am on CBS) March 28 MuchMusic LIVE interview (10 mins) and MuchMoreMusic 1 hour LIVE interview For Europe: (Thanks Adam (Hungarian Celine Dion Fansite) for this info!) March 30 German edition of TOTP on RTL 17:45 CET March 30 VH1 UK & Export will show Greatest Hits & Behind the Music April 1 Denmark: TV2 Zulu airs "Behind the Music 22.45 CET According to this article, there are contrasts between Montreal's newspaper Le Journal de Montreal and La Presse in their reports on whether Celine will comment on the case on this Wednesday. Journal de Montreal quoting on Celine's publicist Francine Chaloult, "(The suit) is not relevant to Celine the singer and her gigantic promotional tour will continue as planned." However, La Presse also quoting on Francine saying that Celine would discuss her feelings about the Las Vegas suit this week as well as reaffirming her support for Angelil, but she won't get into details about the case. Here are the news that I've received from Estevam (Celine Fall): -------------------------------------------------------------------- On this page, you can watch an interview in English which was taken at the backstage after Celine's Wetten Dass performance. The interviewer reaction at the end is pretty funny! =) Celine is in the Tele 7 Jours magagzine. You can see the scans of the magazine on S'il Suffisait D'aimer. You can read the transcript of Celine's Parkinson interview here. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Estevam! =) Here are the chart results of that came out over the weekend for the ANDHC Single. (last week position in brackets) UK: #13 (7) Sweden: #3 Debute Finland: #17 Debute Norway: #7 Debute Norway Airplay: #6 (7) Germany: #9 Debute Austria: #10 Debute Ireland: #11 (10) Belgium: #14 (38) Belgium (french region) #15 Debute Switzerland: #4 Debute Australia: #23 Debute New Zealand: #39 (39) Brazil Airplay #52 (61) Canadian Hot 20: #6 (4) Here are this week's US radio programmers comments for ANDHC single: -------------------------------------------------------------------- BILL SHAKESPEARE, MD, KNEV, Reno "This is a multi-format record and will be a good Adult female song!" ROB WEAVER, PD, WKPK, Northwest MI "This is a no-brainer for us!" BRIAN STOLL, MD, WLVY, Elmira "Performing well during the day!" JIM KELLY, MD, WRAL, Raleigh "This sounds good on the air." STEW SCHANTZ, OM/PD, WSKS, Utica-Rome "Pulling midday phones." -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Jam! Music, you can find a review of the new album written by the a Toronto Sun's writer. He only have 3/5 for the album in his review, but my point isn't this. The thing is although he gave 3/5, Jam! Music gave 5/5 for the album, which is so rare and great! Jam! doesn't have its own review, but they do put up their rating. Click here to see! (Mar 23 2002 News) Reminder: Due to bandwidth limit, this site will be closed on this Sunday, and will return on Monday. Sorry for any inconvenience. Just a reminder that Celine will appear on the Parkinson show tonight for the UK fans. And she'll perform 2 songs. On Phil's Celine Site, and A Canadian Way of Life, you can see screen caps of Celine's Wetten Dass appearance. On A Canadian Way of Life, you can also download a short clip of Celine arriving. Later on, Phil is going to upload a video of her performance too. Thanks Phil and Estevam for the info! =) On the International Forum, you can see all full scans (with the article) of The Times Magazine. Click here! Celine is also in a Brazillian magazine and an Italian magazine IODONA. You can see the scans of these mags on Celine Fall. Thanks Tatiana and Estevam! =)
These are the pics from UK's The Times Magazine. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) By the way, if you wanna see some scans of the new album photo art, you can see them on various site such as S'il Suffisait D'aimer, and Celine Fall . Sorry for not putting them up here, cuz I am trying my best not to look at those pics until I get the album on Tuesday. Don't wanna spoil anything!! 3 more days! And 2 more days til Oprah!!! We all will have a busy week next week catching Celine on TV. =) For those of you with who have BBC America, it will air the Top of the Pops with Celine on it tonight (Saturday) at 7pm est. Thanks Molly from the Destin group for the info! =) For the fans in Philippines, the music channel VID-OK will make March 31st a Celine day, and they'll play Celine's videos, interview, concert ...etc non-stop for the entire day. Thanks Mark and Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) This week on Brazil Airplay chart, ANDHC rises up to #52 from #61. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) The Colour Of My Love video has been certified Gold and Platinum by US's RIAA on Feb 20th 2002. Thanks Queen Celine for the info! =) On CTV news-net, you can find a video report of the lawsuit in English. In the video, you can also see Musique Plus VJ, Mike Gauthier, and a DJ commenting on the issue. Click here to watch! According to the report, Rene will meet the press on Monday. (Mar 22 2002 News) Once again, due to bandwidth limit, this site will be closed on this Sunday, and will return on Monday. Sorry for any inconvenience. MuchMoreMusic are having a wristband giveaway. If you want to win a pair of wristband to watch Celine's interview at MMM, click here to enter! On this BBC page, you can watch a clip of Celine's performance on Top of the Pops! Thanks Lorena (Sweet Celine) for the info! =) For the US fans who still haven't been able to catch the new video on VH1, it's at #20 on this week's countdown. So you can try to catch it on the countdown show. Please check for your local listing. Thanks Jennifer for the info! =) You can now listen to all of the new songs on S'il Suffisait D'aimer. Celine among few others are on the cover of the current issue of the People magazine. The cover story talks about which celebrities have stopped their careers to put family first. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) You can find some updates on the lawsuit against Rene in this article. This article says that today the lawyer of Rene has represented him to deny the charge in court. The lawyer also said to the reporters that "Celine and everyone close to Rene have been aware of this con game for a long time and understand perfectly Rene's reaction to the first threat of a lawsuit." Hope Celine isn't too upset with this matter, and hope it won't put too big a shadow over the album release. If I were Rene, I wouldn't reached for a settlment agreement two years ago if I haven't do it. And to me it looks like that the lawyer of the plantiff is trying to build a clean image for her by pointing out she's an ordained minister of the Full Gospel World Church. But you know, I don't think I'll ever see the Pope playing video poker in a casino. Found a large article from a HK newspaper that talks about the press conference that was held few days ago in Paris. It says that when Celine was asked whether she still want to act in a movie, she said she still really wanna do that, and she wants to a movie that has a family theme. As long as there a good script, even if it's only a minor role, she will love to do it, cuz all she wants is to be in a good movie. ANDHC is #1 this week on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary chart! According to various fans, the new album is already out in Netherlands, Ireland, and Holland.
Here's an article that talks about Celine was presented with the most expensive disc ever made. Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) Now on A Canadian Way of Life, you can see photos that were taken during the Vivement Dimanche taping. Go to the photo section of the site, then click on "photo in Paris". Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Here are two other articles that talks about the lawsuit, one in English and one in French. On the page of the French article, you can also find a 9 mins video report of the case. Infinit's Article (in French) Jam! Music Article (in English) Pauline, one of the lucky winners who was invited to attend a listening part in Poland last Tuesday, and here are the pics for her invitation:
Thanks Pauline (Celine Dion in Pauline's Eyes)! =) Here's another pretty nice review written by a writer of UK's Times Newspaper. It's rare to read something nice from the critics. Click here to read! Talking about UK, Celine was presented with the most expensive disc ever made with gold and diamonds yesterday. To read more, go to the official site now!
Once again, if you wanna see larger size of the above pics, go to All Over Press. You will be able to login with the login name "guest". Be aware that the site goes down from time to time, so keep on trying if it's down when you visit it. (Mar 21 News) Here, you can see a review for the new album done by Vancouver Sun (Canada's newspaper) Kerry Gold. Rene is being sued by a woman who claims he fondled her in the elevator of a Las Vegas casino two years ago and then sexually assaulted her in her hotel room. And Rene's lawyer has said that Rene is going to fight back this time, unlike of trying to reach a monetary settlement like what he did two years ago. It's a long story, and looks pretty serious too. What a bad timing to have this news come out at this moment. Click here to read more about the story. Right now on CDNow, you can also hear song clips from the new album. Click here! R & R chart has come out earlier this week, here's ANDHC performance: AC: #2 (with 2501 spins) Enrique's Hero is #1 with 2555 spins. Hot AC: #25 (last week #25) Pop: #36 (last week #41) Smooth Jazz: #15 (last week #19) ANDHC single debuted at #2 on Canada's Single chart (Sales). On the Hits Chart (Airplay), ANDHC once again remains at #3. With the album coming out next week, let's hope it'll climb up to a higher spot next week. E-K7 has just made a new E-card for Celine's new album. The company also made one for Tout En Amour when the album came out. E-K7 are currently sending out the e-cards. If you've received an email from e-k7, and you don't know what it means because it's in French, simply click the first "ici" that appears on the email. Then the e-card will be sent to you automatically in less than a minute. Don't click the "ici" at the bottom, that's what I did before I translated the email into English. That "ici" means you don't wanna receive anymore emails from them. If you haven't received their email, don't worry, cuz Celine Fall has put the e-card up for people to download. Or you can visit the site of E-K7. You can request the e-card there, and you can also find their e-card for Tout En Amour there too. They are pretty neat. Btw, it's not the same e-card that you can find on the official site. On TF1's Video site, you can watch a Celine interview in French. Click here to go the page! By the way, don't know why there are many banners with naked woman on that page... Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) According to Allaccess.com, Celine's next single in the US will be "I'm Alive". The impact date for this single to radio stations is June 4th. One more special TV appearance for the Canadian fans to look forward to!!!! Next Thursday, Celine will be making a red carpet entrance to the MuchMoreMusic headquarters in Toronto, ON for a one-hour exclusive LIVE interview on Thursday, March 28. Celine will engage in candid conversation, and offer fans the rare opportunity to ask questions via phone, fax, email and Speakers Corner. This MuchMoreMusic event will be hosted by Bill Welychka and broadcast LIVE across Canada from 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET (with an encore presentation at 10:00 p.m. ET) on Thursday, March 28. Céline will also stop by MuchMusic and chat with VJ Bradford How during a LIVE ten minute interview at 7:20 p.m. ET. Wow! Celine hasn't done something like this for MuchMusic/MuchMoreMusic for a long time already!!! It'll be great! For teamceline fans, you can win passes to see Celine there! Details will be out soon. On the official site, it says that this afternoon, they'll have a breaking news regarding Celine's Toronto appearance. On this week's Billboard Hot 100, ANDHC rises to #38 from #45.
Two more pics as Celine leaves her hotel. This woman really does have lots of different outfit to wear. Thanks Karla (That's The Way Celine Is) for the pics! =) Sony Music Holland has announced today that Celine's new album is already certified platinum, even before it's in stores. Many stores in Holland have also confirmed that they already have the new album in stock, and they are allowed to sell them as soon as tomorrow! And a little chart updates on Holland's charts: Wanadoo top 40: debutes at #31 Mega Top 100: debutes at #29 Skyradio top 30 Airplay chart: #11 (last week # 17) Thanks Dennis for these info! =) Today on Rosie, Celine has been mentioned. Rosie announced that they were going to try to auction off something every week until the show ends. Today's item was a Celine Dion plaque with her gold records placed down the side. It looks pretty big, a few feet tall. Rosie said Celine sent that to her with a note saying "Thanks for making it happen". Thanks Ashley for the info! =) After many days remaining at #2 behind Enrique's Hero, today on Mediabase 7 days report (daily chart that ranks songs by airplay in the U.S) of the AC format, ANDHC finally surpassed "Hero" and reached the #1 spot. So it's likely that on next week's AC chart compiled by Billboard or R & R (may not be the coming one, but the week after), ANDHC will finally reach #1. Here's an article titled "Celine Dion considers moving to Vegas" from Jam! Music, below you can also find a poll regarding her move. Now on S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can see scans of the TeleMoustique and Tele Poche magazine. During her press conference in Paris, Celine announced that a French album will come out in March 2003. Jean-Jacques Goldman will once again in charge of the work. However, if I remember it right, Jean-Jacques said sometimes ago during an interview that he doesn't think he will/can write another album entirely by himself for Celine. So I GUESS this time it will include songs that are written by other writers. If I haven't misunderstood, at the surprise performance Celine gave at Garou's concert, Celine also sang "Ten Days" with him. Right now on Wire Image, you can see 6 more pics taken from the press conference in Paris. Simply click on the above link, and then search for "Celine Dion". For HK fans, the video ANDHC will air on Sony Music Television Signal on the ATV World channel at 8:30pm-9:00pm this coming Sunday. For Taiwan fans, watch out for the commercial of ANDHC album done by the popular group S.H.E. Selina, Hebe, and Ella said that they are very surprised, excited and feel very honour to be chosen as the ones to announce the release of the album in Taiwan. Despite of their hectic schedule, they've spent 5 hours shooting for the commercial. In the commercial, people can see them listening to the headphones, say one by one "It's good! Very good! It's excellent!" After the shooting, Hebe told the reporters that the new single is very good, even though they've continuously played the single during the shooting, they don't feel tired of the song at all. The reporters then asked them why do they like Celine, then Ella said she finds Celine sings each word very clearly, and each time she listens to her sing, she gets goosebump and very moved. It's the same funny feeling she got when she did my concert/autograph party. By the way, they weren't paid anything for the shooting. For Germany fans, remember to catch Celine on Wetten Dass this coming Saturday March 23 on ZDF. Right now on Queen Celine, you can find 4 different Celine-related video files, including TV commercial for the "Le Grand Blonde..." contest, Celine and Rene birthday message to Luc Plamondon...etc. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) Now on Celine, Star Planetaire, you can see some "fuller" scans of the Elle Magazine. It's been 3 days in a row for ANDHC to Top MuchMoreMusic Top 5 video countdown! Way to go! Thanks Scott (Celine Canada) for the info! =) Right now on The Colour Of My Love, you can see a pic of the box-set which will come out next Tuesday, and a pic for the ANDHC poster. Thanks Bryan! =) (Mar 20 News)
One more picture as she leaves her hotel! For UK fans, Celine will be on "Parkinson" this Saturday Mar 23rd on BBC1 at 22:20. She'll be singing 2 songs from the new album, with an interview! Next Tuesday and Wednesday, GMTV will be showing a 2 part interview with Celine! Thanks Neil in the Destin group for the info! =) On Germany's Top 100 single chart, ANDHC has entered at #8. If the source remember it correctly, this could be the Celine single with highest entry on the Germany's Single chart. On the sales chart of Amazon.de, the album is already #1. Stephan for the info! =) Also, on a radio chart of one of the biggest radio stations in HK, ANDHC has also reached #1 this week.
Celine shops around in Paris again! You can see even larger size of these pictures on All Over Press. You simply put "guest" as your login name, and type in any password, then you'll be able to log-in.
Celine say hello and bid farewell to the reporters before and after her press conference in Paris. Found a French news article on Cyberpresse. There are quite many info from the article. First of all, Celine once again gave a surprise performance in Garou's concert in Paris. The rumour came out in last few days saying that Celine will appear on Garou's concert since Celine is also in Paris, and Garou's concert will be taped for airing on TV later. However, no official announcement was made. And it ended up Celine did really perform "Sous Le Vent" with Garou in his concert. The article also talks about Celine's busy schedule in Paris. She arrived over the weekend, and she has been staying in Habitu¨¦e du Bristol (one of the largest Parisian hotel). She has recorded a TV special for TV1, which will broadcast on March 30. On Tuesday, Celine taped Vivement Dimanche with Michel Drucker, which will air over the next weekend. In the evening, she was then on NRJ, the first French musical radio. The article then goes on talking about Celine being on the cover of Elle magazine. It says how the reporters of that magazine found the new Celine during their interview. A softer, more serene, more feminent Celine. By the way, you can now see some pics from the Elle magazine on S'il Suffisait D'aimer. On this page, you can see a 5 mins 06 secs video of Celine's NRJ interview. (Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) for the info!) You can still enjoy the footage even if you don't understand a word what she says like me, cuz you can see how people are excited there, and Celine also sang Ten Days (without music) with the host, and you'll be entertained, and amazed how nice Celine sounds even singing with those mics. (Mar 19 News) A fan in the Destin group, Anna, called the Virgin store in Times Sqaure, and they told her that the in-store appearance was cancelled. For French fans, here's a link to watch an video file of tonight's RAI news. At the end of the news, it mentions Celine, and played clips of Celine's MHWGO video, Tribute to Heroes performance, and ANDHC video. Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for the info! =)
Celine's on the cover of the French version of Elle magazine. She's also in the current issue of Tele Loisirs and Tele Poche. Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for the pic and info! =) On this week's UK singles midweek chart, ANDHC has fallen out of the Top 10. On Declaration of Celine, there is now a full-length version of "When the wrong one loves you right", "Prayer", "Ten days", "Goodbye's the saddest word", and "At last" to download. These songs were aired on Radio Capital. Thanks Katherin, and Alexandria for the info! =) Geez...I have to control myself, and not downloading any full-length version, cuz I want to wait til I get the album. Just one more week! Celine will be on Top of the Pop this Friday March 22. Stay tune! Thanks Jackie, Celine Fall, and Queen Celine for the info! =) About a week ago, I've sent an email to MuchMoreMusic asking when they'll premier the ANDHC video, and today they replied back telling me that the video is the "choice-cut" video for this week. Forgot to mention this yesterday, when I was listening to the Canadian Hot 20 countdown, ANDHC came up at #4. And before the song came up, the DJ had this intro: "So, here's a Celine song that everyone loves, 'A new day has come'". You can now download the full-length of "I'm Alive" on Sweet Celine. The song was aired during today's NRJ's interview. (Mar 18 News) Today on MuchMoreMusic Top 5 video countdown, ANDHC was #1! Thanks Kirstin (Celine Dion Collector's Series) for the info! =) On New Zealand Top 50 Single chart, although the single hasn't been release yet, ANDHC has already debuted at #39. Thanks John for the info! =) For Belgium fans, the radio station 4fm is going to play one new song from the new album every hour on this Friday March 22nd, starting at 7am til 7pm. You can also listen the station online! The site address for the radio station is www.4fm.be Thanks Kurt from the Destin newsgroup for the info! =) Received the following info from an UK fan, Paula, in the Destin newsgroup: -------------------------------------------------------------------- On March 21st at 16:00 @ HMV, 150 Oxford Street, London, UK's Epic will be unveilling a special display dedicated to Celine. In the window will be a special disc to commemorate Celine's massive albums sales. She could not tell me too much about the event but basically this is the most expensive disc ever presented for record sales and will later be auctioned off. Epic Records has asked that as many fans be there as possible as I think a number of newspapers will be present also. The event will last approximately 30 mins and they are hoping for a big crowd. So if you are in the area or would just like a special trip down there then it sounds like fun. You never know there may also be some free goodies going. Although Celine is actually in the country on this day it is highly unlikely that she will be at the presentation. When I enquired about this they said she would not be there. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the info Paula! =) Celine will appear on a Dutch TV show, hosted by Ivo Niehe on april 9th. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the info! =) On Sweet Celine, you can now find some pictures of Celine in Paris, taken by All over press. You can see Celine is busy signing autographs! Thanks Lorena (Sweet Celine) for the info! =) Today, all Italian fans can listen to all of the new songs from the new album in full-length on Radio capital. They will play a song from the album throughout the day. You can listen to the radio ONLINE now! Good luck! =) Thanks Leila (Celiniana) for the info! =) Here is a chart update on the chart results that came out over the weekend: (last week's position in brackets) UK National Single Chart (Sales): #7 (Debute) Norway Airplay: #7 (9) Germany Airplay: #10 (15) Belgium Single chart: #38 (Debute) Japan: Tokio Hot 100: #26 (20 Osakan Hot 100: #32 (20) Lebanon: Radio 1: #8 (?) Brazil Airplay: #61 (78) Eurochart: #14 (Debute) US: R & R charts: AC: #2 (2) Hot AC: #25 (26) Smooth Jazz #19 (24) Celine is receiving a warm "welcome back" from Taiwan. A news article that was published in a Taiwan newspaper, and now has been put up on Taiwan's Sony Music site, talked about many DJs in Taiwan are anxiously waiting for Celine's new album to come out. And even more so after they've heard her first single. A DJ said, "Love is very important for Celine, it's also a force that pushes her foward. I believe her new songs will deliver a sense of peace, freedom and sacrifice to many people. Nowadays, there are many music that have imported new technologies to make some special effects, make it more "full", but may not be able to touch people. However, for Celine, she uses her emotions and feeling to make those special effects. Thus, you can hear it when someone has music and love." Another DJ who attended the L.A taping said that despite of the size of the theatre and few thousands of people, Celine with her humour and generosity could make the whole thing so intimate, and everything was like happening in the family room. Some other DJs said how they were blown by Celine's performance when they saw her live in concerts, and how beautiful her voice is. Thanks Queen Celine for the following info: -------------------------------------------------------------------- On this page, you can find an application form to win one of the 25 pairs of tickets to watch Celine taping for the TV show "Le Grand Blond recoit Celine" and her new album. The drawing will take place on March 28th. Celine is scheduled to chat with her fans on March 25 at 5:00pm (ET)/ 2:00pm (PT) at the link below: http://chat.msn.com/msnlive_feature.msnw?id=artist/celinedion On March 27th at 10pm, Celine will be featured/interviewed on E!Channel's "Revealed". Celine is in the 7 Jours magazine. The article talks about Celine's wealth, how she is the artist from Quebec who have earned the most money. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sony Australia has taken those 30 sec clips off from their site. However, if your real-player has memorized the links (address of those files), those links are still working. Celine Fall has also put up one sound file that includes all of those clips. You can find the file on their site. Tomorrow (Mar 19th Tuesday), VH1 will premier the show, "Greatest TV Moments: C¹Èline Dion". ANDHC video will also be premiered on VH1's "Jumpstart" program. For Italian fans, C¹Èline will participate on an new Italian TV program presented by "Fiorello", on April 6th on the RaiUno channel. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) and Leila (Celiniana) for the info! =) Last week, on The Review, there was another article that talked about how Stephan Moccio got to co-write a song for Celine which ended up being the title track of her album. In this article, Moccio said that he finally got to meet Celine at the Grammy 2002, and he brought the autographed picture Celine signed for him 10 years ago. If you remember from previous articles, Stephan told Celine 10 years ago when she signed him the picture that one day he'll be a successful songwriter, and they will probably work together. Stephan said at the Grammy, Celine had no idea it was him, until she saw the picture, and she got emotional. Celine said, "I can't believe it! What a story. The fact you would say something like that 10 years ago, and here we are and you've written my big comeback song about my child." To read the full article, click here! (Mar 15 News) On this week's Billboard Hot AC chart, ANDHC remains at #2. For Canadian fans, MuchMoreMusic has now put ANDHC on their Top 5 selection. So, if you still haven't watched the video on TV and if the song gets enough vote, you'll be able to watch it on this program. Click here to go to MMM Top 5 page. There is a large article of Celine on the Madame Figaro magazine. Thanks Pauline (Pauline's Celine Dion Site) for the info! =) Great news!!! Now on Sony Australia, you can listen 30 seconds clip of every single song on the new album including Superlove!! Click here to go to the page!! Thanks John for the info!! =) Btw, I think I'm Alive sounds like a World Cup soccer theme. Anyway, I love many of the songs base on those 30 secs clips. Too bad North American don't get "Superlove". The official site says that a live interview from Paris with CûÌine will be broadcast on NRJ National FM Network. The interview will come on air on Monday, March 18 at 9:10 p.m. Just a reminder, to prevent from shutting down due to excess usage of the bandwidth, this site will be closed on this Saturday and Sunday, and will come back on Monday! Sorry for all the inconvenience! (Mar 14 2002 News)
Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for this pic! =) On S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can now see scans of the Gala magazine. There are three pics that were taken in the same occassion as the one above. A fan who is in Edmonton found out that HMV will be carrying the single tomorrow, so Canada fans may get the single as soon as tomorrow. Thanks Kirstin (Celine Dion Collector's Series) for the info! =) On this week's Billboard Hot 100, ANDHC moves up 10 more spots to #45. On Canada's Hits (Airplay) charts, ANDHC stays at #3 for the second week. On this France Sony site, you can see a picture that shows the entire dress Celine wears on the album cover. Celine is inside the April issue of Reader's digest. You can read an interview on the site! Click here! On Celine Fall, you can see two pics of Celine and both Rene which can be found in the latest issue of Portugal´s Nova Gente magazine. Thanks Estevam! =) Thanks Colin for sending me this week's radio programmers comments on ANDHC: -------------------------------------------------------------------- DYLAN SPRAGUE, OM, Q100, Atlanta A good midday record with good balance. MARK 'The Shark' RICHARDS, APD, WBHV, State College, PA This is a huge Adult record! ROB WEAVER, PD, WKPK, Northwest MI We like it. This has a little Enya flavor to it. MIKE STROBEL, PD, WLVY, Elmira This is a great day record! JIM KELLY, MD, WRAL, Raleigh This sounds good on the radio. JOE WADE FORMICOLA, OM/PD, WRAL, Raleigh This is a no-brainer! JOHN SHOMBY, OM, WWCK, Flint This picked up immediate adult female response! JONATHAN REED, MD, WZEE, Madison Working well in middays! -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Mar 13 News) Again, due to the bandwidth limit, I'm planning to close down this site during the weekend (both Saturday and Sunday), and the site will come back on Monday.
Beautiful pic, don't you think?! Thanks Mohsin (Yahoo! Music: Celine Dion) for the pic! =) According to Queen Celine, Musique Plus has set March 25th to be Celine day, so set your VCR! On Sweet Celine, you can now see some scans of the Voici magazines. It has few R.C pics! (Mar 12 News)
This is and ad for the ANDHC single. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) I just caught ANDHC video on MuchMoreMusic during the video flow!!! I noticed that when Celine sang "Hush now, I see a light in the sky", for the second time, she had teary eyes. This video is really colourful, and great to see scenes in different countries (including Hong Kong, the place where I was born!). And you can really see that they've spent much time making the video, although Celine physically didn't need to do much in the video. A shot that really touched me was the scene of the Korean girl (maybe Chinese, but she looked more like a Korean girl to me) crying in the shower, and it's the part where Celine sings "let the rain come down and wash away my tears". That girl's acting was pretty real! Okay, enough of my BS. Right now, Epic is running a contest giving away 5 copies of the ANDHC album. You can find the application form at www.epiccenter.com Found this midweek UK single Sales Chart on dotmusic forum: 1 Will Young - 31023 2 Ali G and Shaggy - Me Julie - 16079 3 Shakira - Whenever Wherever - 12724 4 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny - 10589 5 Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come - 7727 6 Nickelback - How You Remind Me - 6582 7 Enrique Iglesias - Hero - 6274 8 Lasgo - something - 6270 9 Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills - 6065 10 Natalie Imbruglia - Wrong Impression - 4179 Since it's a midweek chart, the position may change when the end of week sales result comes out. Everyone in the forum are so surprised that Celine is up there at #5. Cuz many of them thought it would flop bigtime due to lack of promotion and airplay. Some people there said that they still even haven't heard of the song yet. So let's hope the single will continue to sell well and able to remain in the top 10 by the end of the week. For UK fans, the video is now playing on VH1, Magic, The Box, and even MTV! Watch out! For fans in Germany, the video-premiere of ANDHC has now postponed to March 13th(or 14th) on the program Leute Heute at 17:40. (But to be sure, it's better to check with www.sonymusic.de) You can't find ANDHC video onQueen Celine now because Sony has asked the site-owner to remove the video. But now, you can find the video on S'il Suffisait D'amier! According to Queen Celine, Quebec radio station Rock-Detente will a special for Celine's return on Mar 27th. Host Veronique Cloutier will be flying to New York and meet up with Celine and do the show there. Also Celine will be singing on the show Bingolotto on April 13th (Sat) on the Swedish TV. (Mar 11 News) A correction about the video premiering on Freshly Pressed. It wasn't premiered in the program Freshly Pressed, instead it premiered during the video flow.
Found this pic on Infinit.com There's an short article that talks about Celine's new video in French. Here's the article.
For fans in Poland, Sony Music Poland is now running a contest for people to win for a listening party which will be held on March 19th. In that party, people will be able to hear Celine's new songs, and a short movie. The video of ANDHC hits Canada and UK. Someone in the UK saw the video today on the channel Magic. And another fan in Canada saw the video today on MuchMoreMusic during the video flow. You can now watch a clip of the ANDHC video on Celine Dion Rare Videoclips!! Thanks Davey for the info! =) As many of you may know already, the official site is putting up a 55 secs clip of "I'm Alive" in the teamCeline area. The bishop who baptized R.C drowned in the ocean while he was on vacation in Florida. The bishop arrived in Florida on Saturday for a vacation before the busy Easter season. He was found floating, blue-faced, and unconcious near the shore yesterday. For more info, click here! On the Passion site, you can now find a song by song review by the webmaster. (Mar 10 News) On S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can now listen to a short clip of Ten Days. It was aired as part of a commercial for Celine on NRJ station. You can see few scans of a French and Chinese magazine. For the fans in Denmark, the Grammy will be shown on TV2 Zulu first on this coming Wednesday (March 13th) at 20.25-23.30 CET, and it'll re-air on Saturday at 09.30 CET. For the fans in Finland, the Grammy will also be broadcasted on TV1 on Friday (March 15th) 22.45-00.25 CET. Thanks Adam (Hungarian Celine Dion fansite) for the info! =) Found the following news in the International forums. Sous Le Vent won "Best Original Song" at the Victoires de la Musique. This is the first time for Garou to win this award, and it's Celine's 2nd time. She won it with "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" in 1996. They're also the only two Quebecer artists to win this award. Here's a brief summary for this week's ANDHC chart performance: (#)=last week's position Canada: Hits chart (Airplay): #3 (#4) US: Billboard: Hot 100: #55 (#61) Hot AC: #2 (f#4) R&R: AC: #2 (#5) Hot AC: #26 (#29) Smooth Jazz: #24 (#28) Norway: National Airplay: #9 (#9) Germany: #2 (#5) Japan: Tokio hot 100: #37 (71) Zip FM77.8 HOt 100: #25 (#50) Osaka hot 100: #27 (#28) Kiss FM Kobe: #26 (#29) Brazil: Hot 100 Airplay: #78 (New) Hong Kong: 997 Top 20 Foreign: #5 (#7) (Mar 8 News) Just a reminder, unless some very important news come out tomorrow, this site will be closed for one day tomorrow. After 16 weeks on the chart, Sous Le Vent finally reached #1 last week on Belgium's Top 20 French single chart. On Queen Celine, you can now listen to the full-length of "Prayer"! Compare to "Where is the love", and "Miles to go, before I sleep" which were also written by Corey Hart, I love this one the best! On this week's Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, ANDHC moves up to #2 already! On Sweet Celine Site, you can now find 3 video captures for the ANDHC video and scans from the Hello Magazine! Celine and Rene are on the cover of 7 Jours again, and you can see the pic on Celine Fall! On Jam! Music, it has an article titled "Celine sets up shop in Vegas", but in the article, it doesn't mention anything about Celine setting up shop in Vegas. It talks about how she was so fascinated by Franco's shows and really wanted to come back with those types of shows. It also says that a listening party for the new album was held last night at their digs on Leslie St. Click here for the article! The singles for ANDHC are in stores now in Belgium. On the official site's Germany microsite, they are now giving away tickets to the Las Vegas shows. Thanks Phil (Phil's Celine Site) for the info! =) (Mar 7 News) On Billboard Hot 100, ANDHC moves up to #55 from #61 this week. Thanks Kervin! =) Sorry that I forgot to put a link for The Heart Of Celine yesterday. The Heart Of Celine is currently having bandwidth problems too, but you can try http://celines.co.uk/index.htm, it's a mirror site for The Heart of Celine. On this week's Canada Hits (Airplay) chart, ANDHC moves up one more spot to #3! One more European TV appearance addition to yesterday's list. On March 16th, Grammy Music Awards will also air in Denmark on Saturday, the 16th of March at 09.30 CET on the channel TV2 Zulu! Thanks Adam (Hungarian Celine Dion Web Site for the info! =) This week's radio programmers' comments on ANDHC: -------------------------------------------------------------------- STORM BENNETT, MD, WVMX, Cincinnati CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - This is doing very well for us! STEW SCHANTZ, OM/PD, WSKS, Utica-Rome CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - Early interest. Good to have her back. SHAUN VINCENT, MD, WMMX, Dayto CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - This sounds great on our station! DYLAN MacKENZIE, PD, WILN, Panama City CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - We hit it this week and it's sounding good. LAURA ST. JAMES, APD, WAEB, Allentown CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - I think she sounds better than ever! BRENT ACKERMAN, PD, KROC, Rochester, MN CELINE DION A New Day Has Come (EPIC) - We really like this. It has real potential. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Colin for the info! =) Now on The Heart Of Celine, you can see more pics and some AUDIO files of a few songs that Celine sang during the taping. They include ANDHC, I'v Alive, At last, Have you ever been in love, Aun Existe Amor! =) On this week's Billboard AC chart, ANDHC moves up to #4! Thanks Kervin for the info! =) According to Sony Australia, the proceed from the Kodak Theatre ticket sales will be donated to charity. On Sony Denmark's site, it says something like on March 25th 18:00- 19:00, there will be a Celine Dion online chat. Since I don't understand Danish, that's all I could understand. Click here to read! (Mar 6 News) This site is slowly approaching the bandwidth limit again, so I am planning to put this site on "vacation"(closed) on this coming Saturday and bring it back up on Sunday, in order to lower its bandwidth usage. So unless there is any very important news coming out on Saturday, this site will be closed on Saturday. Geez... When can I bring my original front page up again? Sorry for all the inconvenience! Got the following info from a fan in the Destin newsgroup, who've attended the Oprah taping. She said Celine was asked by an audience during the commercial break about her building a new house in Las Vegas. Celine said that she is building an extremely small home! Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen, one dining room, and one living room. She added that she wants R.C to be brought up in a normal home, and Showbizz life is not going to be for her son. I didn't know that during taping, they also have commercial breaks too! =) Thanks Adam (Hungarian Celine Dion Web Site) for the revised Celine Europe TV appearances below: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Europe TV appearances: March 3 (Sun), 20.45 CET Spécial Les Premiéres Fois - the first music videos of stars (including Celine). on MCM (french music channel in Europe) March 8 (Fri), 19.00 CET Celine guest starrs in Touched By An Angel (100th episode) on the Polish TV channel TV Puls (available everywhere in Europe via sat) (repeat: Sunday at 10.00 CET) March 9 (Sat), 20.15 CET: Grammy Awards 2002 on NRK2, Norway March 9 (Sat), "Victoires de la Musique". Sous Le Vent has been nominated for Best Original Song. It will be air on France 2 and TV5 Europe. March 16th "Grammy Music Awards" 09.30 CET on the channel TV2 Zulu! (Denmark) May ?? "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" European fans will likely be able to watch this show about a week after North American fans see it. Check out CNBC Europe and Swedish Kanal 5 at that time. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A fan in the UK has just seen a commercial on TV for the ANDHC single which will come out on Mar 11th. Inside the commercial, he saw the cover art for the single, and a clip of the video. He says Celine looks a bit like the way she looked in the If Walls Could Talk video. Thanks Daniel (GodBlessCeline) for the info! =) Found part of the following news from the S'il Suffisait D'aimer site. SRC (Canada's French national TV network) aired "Au Coeur Du Stade" on last Sunday, and the program had a disappointing rating. It ranked #6 on that day's ranking for the French region, and it only attracted roughly 650,000 viewers. Usually, Celine's program can easily cross the million mark. Her interview with Michel Jasmin that was aired on TVA about a month before the birth of R.C attracted an estimated 2,206,000 viewers. The comment of Celine's spoke-person, Francine Chaloult, on this rating is "Rene must be disappointed." There are few explanation for this rating including confusion in air-time/date, and not enough advertisment. And embarassingly (although I don't want to use this word), the program that was aired immediately after the concert attrated 759,000 viewers. I am no showbizz expert, but in my own opinion, I don't understand why they would want to air this concert (2 years old) at this time, especially since the CBS and two separate French TV specials will air in April. I guess now there is even more pressure for the rating of those specials now. You can now read the report written by the site-owner of Celine Fall, who've also attended the taping. You can also see some more pics there too! You can find his report on his site. Just simply click on the link above. The person who played the violin for Celine in the special is called Roddy Chiong. He has also played for Celine in the past in Celine's LTAL tour in the US. You can read his incredible story of how he got to play/meet Celine on his site. You can also see a few pics of him when he was playing for Celine during that tour. The video fo ANDHC will premier in Germany on the program, "Leute Heute" at 17.45u this Friday. (Mar 5 News) Steven Cojocaru, who has a column on the People site, has made this comment on Celine's grammy hair on the Today Show: "Celine Dion's hair (at the Grammys) was mega, mega hair. It was like beauty contestant hair. There was an escalator in there." Thanks Theresa for the info! =) And today on the People site, there is also an article that talks about Celine's Vegas deal. It's basically a recap of the L.A Times article. According to a fan in the Destin newsgroup, Celine has taped her Oprah appearance today. And that fan was lucky enough to get in without any tickets by waiting outside the studio before the taping, trying to see if they let people in to fill up extra-seats. Celine sang a medley of BYLM, TTWII, and MHWGO in the beginning. Both Rene did also appear during the show. That fan said the R.C part will crack us up! The taping ended with a full-length of ANDHC and At Last. All the audience received the ANDHC single as a gift. Now on Celine Dion Rare Videoclips, you can download her most recent interview on KOST 103.5 FM. She talked about Rene's health, R.C, and a bit on her deal with Caesars Palace. Click on the above link, then you'll find where you can download it. There's one more article from Jam! Music talking about Celine's taping. Click here to read. Today Jam! Music question of the day is "Are you excited about Celine coming out of retirement?" You will find where to vote in the article above. So far the result is: 36% Yes, I am excited. 46% No, please go away Celine. 18% I don't care either way. The result for yesterday's question (Which spring release are you most excited?), Celine got a tie with Neil Young, each got 15%. You can also see a French article about the taping from Infinit. Click here to read.
Here's an article from a German magazine named "Neue Woche". The title of the article means "Hey, that's my seat belt!" haha~ R.C stuck his head out from the window trying to tell his mom, "hey, you got my seat-belt!" Thanks Stephi for the pic! =) According to the official site, Celine will be on the Mar 31st issue of the TV guide. There is an article on L.A times that talks about Celine's show in Vegas starting next year. Celine says in that interview that when they decided to go to Vegas, she wasn't even pregnant yet. The reason they wanted to do shows there because they want to give her fans the #1 show, a show that is so wonderful that it's technically impossible to bring the show around the world as how they used to tour. You can also see one more pic from the taping in that article. Click here to read! (Mar 4 News) You can find few more pics of the TV special on the S'il Suffisait D'aimer site now! Here's one more great review by another fan who also attended the taping. It's very interesting, and you can read how Celine made so many funny comments during the taping. Click here to read!
One more pic from the special. Thanks Khiem for the pic! =) Again, one more article on last night's taping, and this time is from Jam! Music. Don't worry, this one isn't identical to the previous ones, it has a bit more details. Pretty interesting! Click here to read! Here's one more article from Reuters about last night's taping. Click here to read it!
Two pics from last night's taping! The site-owner of Queen Celine, Andre, attended the taping of the CBS special last night. He has sent out a report of last night's show to the Destin newsgroup. If you don't mind getting spoil and want to read the report, you can click here! Thanks Andre for the wonderful report! =) There's also one more article on People's site that talks about last night's taping. Click here to read. On Jam! Music, that question of the day is "Which spring CD are you looking forward to the most?", and Celine's new album is listed as one of the choice. You can click here to vote. It's at the lower right hand column. This week on the Passion Site, the site-owner has put up lyrics for "I Surrender". He describes this song as an up-tempo ballad, and closer to pop. You can find the lyrics in the Discography section. In that section, simply click on the album title ANDHC. I've received another info from another fan who is also living in Philippines regarding the first single being released in the country. He has just heard a radio station there playing ANDHC and the DJ introduced it as the first single that will come out in the country. On Philippines Sony Music Site, it only tells people to go to the official site to hear a clip of the title track (ANDHC). (Mar 3 News) The official site says that Celine will be featured in the Hello Magazine that will come out tomorrow. She will be in the "7 Days" section. While Celine is taping her CBS special, Canada's SRC station (CBC's French version) has just finish airing Au Coeur Du Stade concert. In between each song, they have some new footages of Celine talking about what those songs mean to her. Those footages were recorded last month in Florida. Thanks Kirstin (Celine Dion: Collector's Series) for the info! =) On this week's Billboard Hot 100, ANDHC jumps to #61 from #73. Let's hope once the single comes out commercially(if Sony decides to release it), it'll jump into the Top 10. Thanks Kervin for the info! =) Today is the taping of the CBS special. Can't wait to read reports from the people who are attending the taping!! (Mar 2 News) I've received some info from a fan who is from Philippines. He said currently in his country, radio stations are playing "Have you ever been in love" (track #3 on the album) instead of ANDHC. So Sony Philippines may release this song as the first single instead. This is what he said about the song: "The song is so beautiful. You can really sense Celine's vocal power and range. No back-up vocals or anything so you can really hear the depth and emotion of her voice." He also sent me the lyrics. Since he wrote out the lyrics by what he heard on his tape (he recorded the song on to a tape), so some words may not be correct. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever been in love You could touch the moonlight When your heart is shooting stars You're holding heaven in your arms Have you ever been so in love Have you ever walked on air Ever felt like you were dreamin' When you never thought it could But it will, it feels that good Have you ever been so in love Have you ever been in love You could touch the moonlight When your heart is shooting stars You're holding heaven in your arms Have you ever been in love, have you... The time I spent waiting For something that was heaven sent When you find it, don't let go I know... Have you ever said a prayer And found that it was answered All my hope has been restored And I ain't looking anymore Have you ever been so in love, have you... So please put you in living Somewhere you're gonna stay When you finally found the meaning Have you ever felt this way The time I spent waiting For something that was heaven sent When you find it, don't let go, I know... Coz have you ever been so in love, so in love You could touch the moonlight You can even reach the stars Doesn't matter near or far Have you ever been so in love 'Cause Have you ever been in love Have you ever been in love so in...love..... -------------------------------------------------------------------- You can now see scans of the Redbook magazine on Sweet Celine Site!! Bit more chart update. This time is for this week's Radio & Record: A/C chart: Jumps from #12 to #5 Hot A/C chart: Debutes at #29 Smooth Jazz: Debutes at #28 Great news for Italian fans! On Mar 18th, the entire album ANDHC will be played on Radio Capital in Rome-Italy. Starting at 6:00am, the station will play one song from the album in every hour. And in Italy, the album will come out on March 22nd. Thanks Leila (Celiniana Site) for the info! =) Thanks Adam (www.extra.hu/celinedion) for the following info: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Europe TV appearances: March 3 (Sun), 20.45 CET Spécial Les Premiéres Fois - the first music videos of stars (including Celine). on MCM (french music channel in Europe) March 5 (Tue), 19.00 CET Celine guest starrs in Touched By An Angel (100th episode) on the Polish TV channel TV Puls (available everywhere in Europe via sat) (repeat: wednesday at 11.10 CET) March 9 (Sat), 20.15 CET: Grammy Awards 2002 on NRK2, Norway -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Radio 2, this week ANDHC moves up from #84 to #52 on UK Airplay chart. (Mar 1 News) This came out today on Sony Music Europe site. There will be 3 different ANDHC single coming out in Europe: CD1 1. A New Day Has Come (Radio Remix) 2. A New Day Has Come (Humberto Gatica Album Mix Edit) 3. Prayer CD2 1. A New Day Has Come (Album Version) 2. Sous Le Vent - Performed by Garou & Celine Dion 3. Misled (Video) MC 1. A New Day Has Come (Radio Remix) 2. A New Day Has Come (Humberto Gatica Album Mix Edit) 3. Prayer
Celine and Rene are on the cover of Echos Vedettes again! Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) I got the Redbook magazine today. Again due to legal issues, I won't scan it and put it up on the site. And the two previous pics that were shown here are the only new pics in the magazine, while there are 3 more old pics. One from the Montreal 9-11 concert, one from Rene-Charles baptism, and one from the Sony convention that celebrated Celine's sales surpassing 100 million in 1999. It's a pretty interesting and funny article. So, it's not a waste of money to buy the magazine, and don't need to worry that you'll be reading stuff that you already knew. The article is in the format of an interview. There's a question, and there's the answer from Celine on that question. They talk about why Celine is coming back instead of going to get another embryo now, was it difficult for Celine to start working on the album when R.C was only 6 months old, is Celine really ready for her comeback, how R.C has affected Celine, Rene, their normal life, their sex life (oww, Celine talks about that topic again!), what Celine thinks about the hot/sexy singers out there such as Britney, her thoughts on poop (yep, you read it right, poop.)...etc. Here's a funny quote about Celine's thought on R.C poop: "For me, poop says it all. When you want to know the truth, look to the poop. You know if he digests well, if he's constipated, if he's not getting enough water, if the milk is doing fine. The answer is in the poop. Once Rene-Charles was playing with a vitamin bottle and he ate a little of the paper label off it. You can't see everything your child is doing, you make mistakes sometimes; but thank God that wasn't a bad one. I swear to you, the next morning that paper was in his poop. And I thought, "If I don't watch this kid close enough, one day he's going to send me a fax in his poop!" -Taken from RedBook magazine, April Issue, Vol 198, No.4, P.102. Article written by Claire Connors. According to a fan from the Destin Newsgroup, Rock Detente (107.3 FM Montreal) will be giving away tickets for Celine's La Fureur taping in Molson Center soon. So Montreal fans stay tune! Some more chart info for this week: On Billboard's Hot AC chart, ANDHC has moved up to #4 this week! I missed these yesterday on Gavin's chart: -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP 40: #9 on the top 40 Hyperactive list #14 on the top 40 Chartbound list TOP 40 G2 #7 on Chartbound list for top 40 G2 chart. #5 on Hyperactive lists for top 40 G2 chart. A/C: #1 on the Hyperactive list ( pretty good) #7 on recurrent with TTWII (but I guess thats not important) HOT A/C: #6 on the Hyperactive list for Hot A/C HOT A/C G2: She is actually ON the Hot A/C G2 chart at number #30 #2 on the HOT A/C G2 spincrease #2 on the Hot A/C G2 most added list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Colin for the info! =) According to Queen Celine, Amazon.de has just put up a cover art for the Maxi single of ANDHC. Click here to see!
Two more pics from the Grammy! On Real Radio's (Scottish Radio Station) news update, there was a clip of Celine talking about singing to Rene-Charles it went like this: "He has got a lot of guts and every time I sing to him he cries, it can't be too sensitive, it has to be lullabys or kids songs, but he's a wonderful kid" Thanks Alison for the info! =)
Here's one more pic from Grammy's red-carpet. And on ET last night, Celine was picked #1 best dressed!!! Actually this look reminds me a bit of her If Walls Could Talk video look. Thanks Kirstin (Celine Dion Collector Series) for the pic! =)
Here's a larger version of the album cover! Thanks Dorn and Kirstin (Celine Dion Collector Series) for the pic! =)
Here's a another pic from Redbook magazine. Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) and Estevam (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) (Feb 28 News) On Canada's Hits Chart (Airplay) this week, ANDHC moves up one spot to #4 this week! Stay tune to ET tonight, I think they'll mention Celine for sure. They say on their website that Celine is one of their fashion favourites last night at the Grammy with her Dior dress. On this week's Gavin A/C chart, ANDHC jumps to #3 from #7!! But it still hasn't charted on Hot AC and Top 40 chart. For her A/C chart performance in the last week: Reports: 93 Adds: 2 Spins: 1679 Trend: +329 Right now on S'il Suffisait D'aimer, you can see a video file of last night presentation by Celine, Bonnie, and Stevie!!
This is the new album cover. The site-owner of Queen Celine found this pic on Barnes and Nobles. And today on the official site, TeamCeline exclusive also shows this new album cover too. For me, if the sky is brighter and less cloudy, I would like this cover more. Thanks Phil (Phil's Celine site) for the info! =)
Here's the cover of the current issue of Redbook!!! She looks great! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the pic! =) Reminder: Access Hollywood (Star TV) 8:30AM in the morning
One more pic! After awards show, one of the most talked about topic is best and worst dressed celebrity. Now you can be a fashion police and vote for best and worst dress for last night Grammy. The vote is conducted by Eonline and result will be revealed in 2002 Grammys Fashion Police, premiering Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m. ET/PT. Click here to vote! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall) for the link! =) (Feb 27 News) For the Canadian who receive Star channel, they will show the Access Hollywood that has the Celine interview tomorrow morning at 8:30am. I caught Celine being interviewed by a guy from VH1 at the red-carpet and they talked about the gift bags that are handed out to presenters. Celine said there are really many wonderful stuff in the basket, but she has no idea what are really there. She said her sister is in the hotel unpacking the basket and will put everything on her bed, so that Celine will be able to look at each of the gift when she returns. She also said that she will enjoy the show and she knows U2 and Alicia Keys will be talked about a lot after tonight's show. Someone in the newsgroup also caught Celine being interview at the red-carpet but this time by Joan Rivers. Celine said she feeds Rene-Charles Cheerios and plays with Elmo. And she said she's been doing Yoga to help her body back into shape. Isn't Celine fitter than ever?? She doesn't look like she had just deliver a baby a year ago. And her accent sounded pretty strong again too. Maybe she didn't speak too much English during her break. But Celine was really gorgeous.
Two more pics! Got this from Eonline! Celine has presented/will be presenting the award of "Record of the year" with Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder. You can now see a transcript of the Celine interview on Access Hollywood on the show's site. Click here!
Celine arrives at the red-carpet! Cool outfit!! You can now see some cap shots of Celine at the Grammy on the S'il Suffisait D'aimer site now!! The show hasn't ended yet! For those of us who'll be watching the show in less than 2 hours, someone said that we'll be able to see a shot of Celine and Rene right after U2's performance. There are now some more info on the official that talks about the CBS special. It confirms that Destiny's Child will be the guest and Celine will perform "Emotion" (sound clip) and "When the wrong one loves you right" (from ANDHC) with them. Celine will also perform some of her greatest hit songs including a movie medley of ¡§Because You Loved Me,E ¡§Beauty and the Beast,E¡§My Heart Will Go On,Eas well songs from her new album ¡¥A New Day Has Come.E In my area, the new issue of Redbook isn't out yet. So I guess some places have them earlier than others. On the Top of the Pops site, they are now voting for "All time favourite Top of the Pops moment", and Celine performance of MHWGO is listed as one of the contender. You can also see a video file of that performance in 1998 too. Thanks Wahaj for the info! =) Although Epic took off Celine and Shakira's VH1 Divas Live appearance yesterday, 3 new TV appearances have been added for Celine today!! May 16 2002 ROSIE O'DONNELL SHOW May 17 2002 THE TODAY SHOW May 21 2002 TONIGHT SHOW W/ JAY LENO I'm so happy that she'll be on Rosie again! It's the last season for Rosie, and this may be the last time for Celine to be on the show. So the most updated list of appearances from Epic's site is this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 27 2002 GRAMMY AWARDS Mar 19 2002 GREATEST TV MOMENTS Mar 25 2002 OPRAH WINFREY SHOW Mar 26 2002 THE TODAY SHOW Mar 27 2002 LARRY KING LIVE! Mar 27 2002 LIVE! WITH REGIS AND KELLY Mar 27 2002 THE TODAY SHOW Mar 28 2002 CBS EARLY SHOW Apr 05 2002 CBS EARLY SHOW Apr 05 2002 THE VIEW Apr 07 2002 CBS SPECIAL May 16 2002 ROSIE O'DONNELL SHOW May 17 2002 THE TODAY SHOW May 21 2002 TONIGHT SHOW W/ JAY LENO -------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, don't forget about the AccessHollywood appearance tomorrow, and for Canadian, don't forget about the Stade de Frence concert tomorrow night at 8:00pm (CBC's French version), La Fureur (April 14th) and Le Grand Blond Avec Un Show Surnois (date unknown) appearances. On the official site, there were 3 microsites for UK, Holland, and Germany. Now there is one more for the U.S. I thought the official site is already pretty much for North America. Anyway, there's a pretty cool intro for the U.S. microsites. Click here to go to the site! Here's this week's comments on ANDHC from the radio directors who have added the song to their playlist this week: --------------------------------------------------------------------- JIMMY OLSEN, APD/MD, 93Q, Syracuse "This is an automatic!" TOM MITCHELL, PD, 93Q, Syracuse "This has a good sound. It's nice to have her back on the radio." MIKE O'DONNELL, OM/PD, WERZ, Portsmouth "This is a great record!" DYLAN MacKENZIE, PD, WILN, Panama City "This sounds like another great Celine record!" BRIAN STOLL, MD, WLVY, Elmira "She's back in a big way!" MIKE STROBEL, PD, WLVY, Elmira "Spiking middays and it's nice to have her back." DEREK WRIGHT, PD/MD, WMGB, Macon "Top40 must remember how she sells! This is a fantastic song and the females still love her!" ALLAN FEE, PD, WQAL, Cleveland "Cool record. She's back and women love her!!!" JOE WADE FORMICOLA, OM/PD, WRAL, Raleigh "This is a no-brainer!" JOHN SHOMBY, OM, WWCK, Flint "It's Celine Dion, so it's easily recognizable! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Right now there are quite many tickets for Celine's CBS taping selling on Ebay. If you really wanna get one and don't bother paying a very high price, you can try to find it there. (Feb 26 News)
Oh my! New pics of Celine. She talks to Larry King during the taping of "Larry King Live" today in Los Angeles. According to Yahoo, Celine discussed her new baby, her upcoming Las Vegas performances, and her new album "A New Day Has Come." I've heard that the issue of Redbook that has Celine on the cover is out on the newstand now. And someone says Celine looks different on the cover pic. Journal De Montreal has an article on Celine's La Fureur special. It talks about how the show was proposed, and what plans do they have for the show. It looks like they're trying to make this show as big as they can. You can read the article in English or in French on the Queen Celine site now. Don't know why, but Epic's site has taken down Celine and Shakira's VH1 Divas Live appearance off from their appearance list. They were still there yesterday. It has finally confirmed on Grammy.com that Celine will be a presenter on tomorrow's Grammy. Someone in the Destin Newsgroup said that she was listening to the radio station Kost 103.5 FM (Los Angeles) and they said they will be giving away tickets to Celine's taping soon. So L.A people stay tune! Here is their number: 800-929-KOST (5678) Mike Gauthier says on his Radio Energie News Updates that Destiny's Child has been invited to be a guest on Celine's CBS special. (Feb 25 News) According to this article from Jam! Music, Celine will make one more TV special for CBC's French station. Celine will perform six songs from the ANDHC album on the popular variety show La Fureur. The 90- minute special will be pre-taped April 3 at Montreal's Molson Centre, one week after the album's scheduled March 26 release. A total of 12,000 tickets will be made available for the show, which will feature a number of surprise guests. Found this news from the Destin Newsgroup. If you go to Ticket Master site, and search for Celine Dion, you'll find a listing for the CBS taping, but tickets aren't available online. It says one needs to call to the center for tickets. Click here to see! Received a whole bunch of info from Lorena, the site owner of Sweet Celine Site. Here they are: -Céline will be on Access Hollywood on thursday (28th), they said it's going to be a 1-1 with her. -On the French channel Paris Premiere they'll present a documentary about Céline's life, called Les Lumières du music hall-Céline Dion. On March 2nd at 5:45 (French time). -On MCM channel they'll present a special only with old videoclips of great singers, including Céline's clips. Spécial Les Premières Fois, on March 3th. -On Oprah Winfrey's website there's a link with the following question: Are you or someone you know a Celine Dion fan? All you have to do is go to the link, and answer some questions like 'what makes you her biggest fan?' 'Why do you like Celine Dion?' Do you have a special story about why you relate to her music?' and then maybe you'll have the chance to go to Oprah's show in the day Céline will be there (March 25). The program is taped in Chicago and broadcasted by ABC channel. Click here! Thanks Lorena for all the info! =) (Feb 24 News) On Taiwan's Sony Music main page, there's a voting for the Chinese name of Celine's new album. The choices are: БÙÛÊÀ?E (New loving generation) äеÄÒ»?E (A brand new day) ÕäÛÿһ?E (Cherish everyday) ÛµÄÉú™C (New life of love/"Livelyness" of love) ÕæÛ½µÅR (Real love arrives) So far majority of the people have voted for "A brand new day". If you understand Chinese, you can vote here! There's another polling for "Best Quebec female singer" and this time held by the Echos Vedettes. You can vote here! Thanks Celine Fall and S'il Suffisait D'aimer. =) As far as I know, besides the site-owner of Queen Celine has won tickets to the taping, so does the site-owner of The Heart of Celine. So we can all look forward to their reports/summary of the taping and the new songs!!! (Feb 23 News) On Jam! Music this week's Chart Talk, it says that by jumping to #5, ANDHC has become the 12th top 10 single for Celine on Canada's Hits (airplay) Chart. That will make her the second artist with the most Top 10 hits on the chart. Bryan Adams is number one with 17 top 10 hits. If ANDHC reaches #1, this will be her 3rd #1 on the chart. Her previous #1s are The Power Of Love and My Heart Will Go On. The site-owner of Queen Celine has won tickets to the taping of the CBS special, so we can look forward to his summary of the show later! Remember few days ago, I put up an info from the Queen Celine Site on the song "Shoulda woulda coulda". I still can't confirm whether the song of the same title by Beverley Knight is really the one that would've been on the new album if Celine and her team didn't drop it. But I just wanna mention here that after few days listening to the song, not only I really love this song, I personally think the lyrics of this song fits Celine perfectly. I am the kind of the people that can listen to a song for a long time without noticing what the lyrics is about. And today, I finally forced myself to search for the lyrics of this song, and after reading it, I really do think it fits Celine perfectly, her relationship with Rene, how show-bizz had prevented her to realize her dream of becoming a mother...etc. You'll know what I mean once you've read the lyrics. You can find the video, audio, and lyrics of this song on the official site of Beverley Knight. (Feb 22 News) According to the S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, Celine will appear on TVA's Le Grand Blond Avec Un Show Surnois to promote the new album, and the taping will take place on April 2nd. You can call 514-990-4113 to reserve tickets for the taping. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall)for the info! =) On this week's R&R A/C chart, ANDHC jumps to #12 from #21. "God Bless America" drops to #30 from #27. According to this article, Celine will attend Sony's Grammy after-party. You can now see scans of the Gala Magazine on the S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site. Here's this week's comments on ANDHC by radio directors that have added the song into their playlist in the past week: --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOM MITCHELL, PD, 93Q, Syracuse "She has updated her sound and this will be a hit!" RICK VAUGHN, APD, KHTS, San Diego "She's baaaaaaack!!!" GARY ROBINSON, PD, KQAR, Little Rock "This will be a good midday record for us." BOBBY RAMOS, PD, KZII, Lubbock "This is a no-brainer midday record!" MARK 'The Shark' RICHARDS, APD, WBHV, State College, PA "We're adding this right away to all dayparts!" JIM ALLEN, APD/MD, WDJX, Louisville "The Celine Dion record we've all been waiting on has arrived. Fresh -sounding, with trademark Celine vocals - a sure thing!" KEVIN WALKER, MD, WHTS, Quad Cities "She's sold so many records and she's had so many hits. She sings the songs women want to hear!" TONY WAITEKUS, OM/PD, WHTS, Quad Cities "It looks like this may bring her back as a big Mainstream star just like she used to be!" DAVE B. GOODE, PD, WHZZ, Lansing "She's a core artist for our upper-demo and one of the biggest stars ever. Who doesn't like Celine Dion?" DYLAN MacKENZIE, PD, WILN, Panama City "It's Celine Dion! How can you go wrong?" RON PRITCHARD, PD, WKHQ, Northwest MI "We played this song today for the first time and it's almost like she never left. Celine sounds better than ever!" ROB WEAVER, PD, WKPK, Northwest MI "It's a must-play on this station!" BRIAN WILDE, MD, WKSE, Buffalo "This will be a big adult record!" STEVE SMITH, PD, WMGI, Terre Haute "Looks like Celine's back!" SHAUN VINCENT, MD, WMMX, Dayton "It's a gimme! And it's actually a good song!" JOE KELLY, APD/MD, WNCI, Columbus "Good at-work record for the upper-demos!" SHAWN MURPHY, APD/MD, WQGN, New London "This is a perfect at-work song!" STEW SCHANTZ, OM/PD, WSKS, Utica-Rome "Ya gotta play it! Quintessential Celine!" STORM BENNETT, MD, WVMX, Cincinnati "Huge!" WALLY B., PD, WWXM, Myrtle Beach "What can you say? We're going to do our best to get this on in the daytime." JONATHAN REED, MD, WZEE, Madison "Already on and getting massive daytime reaction!" JOE LIMARDI, PD, WZOK, Rockford "Don't let your audience wait for Celine Dion any longer. Put her on now!" PETE DeGRAAFF, APD/MD, XL106.7, Orlando "This is a relevant song for right now. Hopefully people will deal with sooner than later." --------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the Queen Celine Site, the taping of the CBS special in Los Angeles will be done at the new Kodak Theatre, the new home for the Academy Awards. It is a 3000+ seating venue... a lot of those tickets are given away at several radio stations in Los Angeles and around the world. Thanks Queen Celine for the info! =) (Feb 21 News) On Canada's Hits (Airplay) chart, ANDHC shoots up to #5 from #21 this week! ANDHC enters Billboard Hot 100 chart at #73. Thanks Queen Celine for the info! On UK Top 100 airplay, ANDHC enters at #84. Not only Canada uses Celine to promote tourism, France now turns to Celine too. France Tourism Minister Jacques Brunhes said Wednesday that celebrities including Celine will say the words - in French - in a television commercial to be aired in Europe, Japan, the United States and Canada. Fore more info, click here! Found this on Hitmakers site regarding the radio performance of ANDHC in the last week: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Building upon her huge pre-impact adds last week at Z100, KIIS, Y100 & WXKS among others, Celine is once again among the most added. #3 Most Disc-overed with new adds at WKTU, WPLJ, CHANNEL955, KDWB, WFLZ, WQAL, WVMX, KMXV, WKTI, WNCI, PRO-FM, KQMB, WLNK, KMXB, B97.1, WBBO and many, many more! This one is perfect for your upper at-work demos! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's this week Gavin's chart results: A/C chart: This week: #7 Last week: 20 Reports: 91 Adds: 12 Spins: 1350 Trend: +641 Hot A/C chart: This week: #37 (debute) Reports: 23 Adds: 7 Spins: 369 (Feb 20 News) There was a small article on Scotland's national newspaper "Scotsman" that talks about Celine's return. Here's a quote: "The break was great and I needed to empty myself and have a bit of a normal life. Now I am coming back. Thank you Caesar's. It's my gift for having a child." "I feel like i've grown.... I will still sing the ballads I love but I've also tried things more modern, which was great." Thanks Alison for the info! =) On eil.com, it says that ANDHC single will come out in UK on Mar 18th. And it'll be a 6-track enhanced 2-CD set. Here's the tracklisting: CD1 1. A New Day Has Come (Radio Mix) 2. A New Day Has Come (Humberto Gatica Album Mix Edit) 3. Prayer CD2 1. A New Day Has Come (Album Mix) 2. Sous Le Vent (feauring Garou) 3. My Heart Will Go On (enhanced video) On today's MediaBase's AC mainstream chart, ANDHC moves up one spot to #8. It was #19 on last Wednesday. Epic has added one more Celine TV appearance on their site. Mar 19 2002 GREATEST TV MOMENTS Apparently, the song "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" has been dropped for Celine's new album since it's not appearing on the official tracklisting, unless the title has been changed. According to Queen Celine, the song could be another cover. That's because a song named "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" will be released in the UK next week by Beverley Knight. You can now download a real-audio file of the song on Queen Celine now. It's a pretty nice song. Thanks Andre (Queen Celine) for the info! =)
Celine's on the cover of the Gala magazine. Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall!) for the pic! =) On this Ebay page, you can see an industry trade ad that was published in a trade by Epic Records. On the ad you can read it says the following: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusiver TV and Press to support the release: Week of release: Oprah - Entire program dedicated to Celine The View The Today Show CBS This morning Regis & Kelly Upcoming: Celine CBS Network Special The Tonight Show Kicks off the Today Show Outdoor Concert Series -------------------------------------------------------------------- It also says that the video directed by Dave Meyers will debute in early March. And the official site has just announced today that the video was shot recently in West Palm Beach, Florida. On HMV.com, you can now pre-order ANDHC's single which will come out on Mar 12th. The tracklisting is as followed: 1. A New Day Has Come (Ric Wake Radio Remix) 2. A New Day Has Come (Humberto Gatica Album Mix) 3. Prayer On HMV's page, the single is listed as "New Day Has Come", so if you wanna find the page where you can pre-order it, you can either search for Celine Dion on the site, or search for "New Day Has Come" in the title category. VH1 and Sony Music are now having another contest to win a pair of exclusive passes to see Celine perform for a special TV taping in L.A. on March 3rd and Celine's CD library. If you are legal US residents, you are eligible to enter the contest. Same as the one exclusive for TeamCeline members, you'll have to provide your own transportation. Click here for more info! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) (Feb 19 News) Today is the official impact day for ANDHC to US radio stations, and the results are in. Today, 31 mainstream stations and 14 Adult Top 40 stations added the song. On the mainstream added chart, ANDHC is behind Pink's "Don't let me let go" (80 adds), and Vanessa Carlton's "A thousand miles" (61). On the Adult Top 40 added chart, the song is behind Train's "She's on fire" (15 adds). According to some chart watchers, 31 adds on the mainstream stations is a disappointing number for Celine. One possible explanation is because Celine had quite a few number of adds last week already, and let's hope this is the reason. The song seems to be doing quite good on AC stations, but on mainstream/pop stations, it's not as good. Let's hope more stations will add the song later. Mike Gauthier, a DJ of radio energie and VJ of Musique Plus, has put down on his radio energie's page that Celine will be presenting an award at the Grammy, but she won't perform. He also mentions that for the song The Greatest Reward, which is an English adaptation to a song called L'envie d'aimer from the musical Les Dix Commandements (The Ten Commandments), the Dion-Angelil clan had asked some successful Swedish writers to compose the English lyrics. On today's AC chart compiled by the MediaBase, ANDHC moves up to #9. This chart is compiled everyday, and rank the songs by how many times the song has been played in the last 7 days. On last Tuesday, ANDHC was at #20, and today it is at #9. (Feb 18 News)
On page 14 of the current issue of Voici magazine, there's an article on Rene-Charles. You can see the scans of this magazine on the Celine, Star Planetaire Site! You can also see scans of another magazine Tél?loisirs too. Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) On the AC chart compiled by MediaBase, ANDHC has moved from #21 to #11 on the chart. It had 568 spins last week, and this week it has 1341. There are now 108 Top 40 AC stations and 28 Hot AC stations playing the song. stations playing it. The official site has also confirmed that Celine will make an appearance on the Grammy Awards. However, it didn't say whether she will perform or not. The site-owners of Celine Fall! want to let the visitors know that the site is currently down because the hoster is fixing some problems. (Feb 16 News) Here's an interesting article from Montreal Gazette questioning whether Celine can make a successful return. The writer suggests how people's music taste has changed over the past few years, and adult contemporary are no longer much demanded with evident of the flop of Mariah and Whitney. He also points out that when we look at the Top 10 Billboard's album chart, there's isn't a ballad or AC album there. I agree with some of his comments, but not really for the two comments above. Both Mariah and Whitney have already changed their music genre, one to more hip-hop sound, and the latter one to a heavier R & B genre. And the reason why there isn't any Ballad/AC album on Billboard's album chart is because no Ballad/AC album has been released recently. As someone commented sometimes ago, there isn't any singer out there now that really sings the same genre as Celine. (Well, I guess maybe except Lara Fabian.) It will be very interesting to see how Celine's album will do on the Billboard chart, and how long it can maintain in the Top portion of the chart. Found an article on New York Post's page six page where Celine comments on the controversial Olympic pair skate scandal. I'm surprised that they could get a hold on Celine and ask her to share her view on the incident. Click here to read what she has said. On this week's Jam! Music chart talk column, Nanda mentions how well the new single is doing in Canada's airwave, especially on Adult Contemporary radios. Click here to read! Billboard's Chuck Taylor has written a review for Celine's new single. You can read it on the Queen Celine Site now! From Radio & Record: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Celine Celebrates Huge Comeback! After some time away, Epic Records superstar Celine Dion has made a thundering return -- one week ahead of her official add date -- by racking up adds at 78 of R&R's AC reporters with her latest single and the title track to her upcoming album, "A New Day Has Come." Dion was also Most Added at Hot AC and picked up 31 adds at CHR/Pop. -------------------------------------------------------------------- On R&R AC chart, ANDHC also debutes on #21! According to All Access, the official add date should be Feb 19th. (Feb 15 News) On the Queen Celine Site, you can see a video done by a Quebec TV station mixing some previous Celine footages with ANDHC being played at the back. According to the official site, Celine will be featured in the April issue of Redbook magazine. It will be available March 5 in some US cities and March 12 nationwide. There's also an exclusive contest for Team Celine members now. The winners will receive tickets to watch the taping of Celine's TV special in L.A! Thanks Pauline (Celine Dion in Pauline's eyes) for the following info :) Celine is being featured in the France Dimanche magazine now. And on the first day when ANDHC hit radio stations in Poland, it already reached #1 on the RMF FM station. Celine also has a small pic on the cover of the TV Guide. I'm not sure, but I think it's the TV Guide for Quebec. Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) (Feb 14 News) Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Thanks Estevam Celine Fall! for the following info and Andre (Queen Celine) for gathering the radio adds/commentary info: -------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all, on official site's ANDHC page, there's now the tracklisting for the album. And here's are info regarding how ANDHC has done in its first week in the US radio stations. There were 31 adds to mainstream radio and 10 add to Top 40 format last week in the USA. Here's a list of what the program directors have to say: TOM MITCHELL, PD, 93Q, Syracuse - I love her new sound. Welcome back, Celine! JUST PLAIN DAVE, PD, KCHZ, Kansas City - I thought she promised she was retiring! What happened? But the chicks love her and she's got another tune that could possibly find a daytime home here at Z95.7. MR. ED LAMBERT, PD, Q100, Atlanta - Welcome home, Celine! This is a great record! MARK JACOBS, APD/MD, WAZO, Wilmington - What a pleasant surprise! JIM ALLEN, APD/MD, WDJX, Louisville - A true diva knows what time it is and when the 21st century came knockin', Celine was ready to answer the door! SUPER STEVE, APD, WFMF, Baton Rouge - You can't argue with the power of Celine Dion! DAVE B. GOODE, PD, WHZZ, Lansing - She's picking up where she left off! This will be another big time hit for Celine at all formats! JIM DAVIS, PD, WKEE, Huntington, W. VA - Looks like Celine is back. Did she really ever leave? RON PRITCHARD, PD, WKHQ, Northwest MI - She has totally updated her sound and she's still relevant after being gone for a while! HOLLY LOVE, MD, WLAN, Lancaster - I really, really like this...and I'm not lying to you! DEREK JAMES, MD, WLNK, Charlotte - An obvious smash! It's been a while since everyone had their Celine fix! SHAUN VINCENT, MD, WMMX, Dayton - This is surprisingly good! We played it yesterday and got a great response. It's definitely a MIX song...we can't get around it! TIM BALDWIN, PD, WMXB, Richmond - This will be a hit without a doubt. Don't even bother fighting it! DAVID EDGAR, PD, WNOU, Indianapolis - I was pleasantly surprised and I liked it. TONY MASCARO, MD, WPLJ, New York - Celine is back and what a smash! STEW SCHANTZ, OM/PD, WSKS, Utica-Rome - Quintessential Celine! You gotta throw it out there! BILL MICHAELS, PD, WVKS, Toledo - Another top 10 record! STORM BENNETT, MD, WVMX, Cincinnati - This is a smash! Get on it quick! JONATHAN REED, MD, WZEE, Madison - We're bangin' the crap out of this song during middays! -------------------------------------------------------------------- For those who are interested, Josh Groban and Charlotte Church will be performing "The Prayer" at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics on Feb 24th. On Canadian Airplay chart, ANDHC also is the highest debute of the week, and it debutes at #21. Celine's in the Cine Tele Revue Magazine. You can see the scans of the magazine on the Celine, Star Planetaire Site! On Gavin's AC airplay chart, ANDHC debutes at #20, which is also the highest debute of the week. Reports: 76 Adds: 74 Spins: 709 According to the official site, Celine has done an additional photo session in late January for the new album. This time, she worked with another famous photographer, Patrick De Marchelier. In the past, Patrick has created adversting campaigns for Revlon, Chanel, Calvin Klein, The Gap, Gianni Versace...etc. For a little biography of Patrick, click here! (Feb 13 News) Epic is now running a contest, and 5 lucky winners will receive Celine's new album. Click here for more info! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =) After the Jam! Music article, here's another article from canada.com on how Stephan Moccio successfully landed a song he co-wrote on Celine's album. Some information in this article are a bit similar to the Jam! article from last week, but there are some differences too. And from this article, we get to know that ANDHC was the #1 most added song to radio stations in Canada last week!! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the article! =) (Feb 12 News) On the current issue of US weekly magazine, there's a small article inside that mentions about Celine's upcoming CBS concert special. Although the magazine says that the TV special will be in March, but Sony has already confirmed that it will be shown on April 7th instead. Cristie has scanned that little article and put it up on to her site Let's Talk about Celine. You can take a look there. Also on VH1's site, there's an article that mentions about the current status of the single "What more can I give". It says that representatives of Epics haven't replied any calls regarding the single. Here's the link to the article! Thanks Cristie (Let's Talk about Celine for the above information! =) Valentine is coming, and voting time is now. TV5's Valentine's Vote ChannelOne's Valentine's Vote Thanks S'il Suffisait D'aimer and Celine Fall! for the link! =) The Passion Site will publish the lyrics of a song from the new album each week starting next Monday. (Feb 11 News) HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR to those who celebrate it! =) Celine and Rene-Charles has a small pic on the cover of Echos Vedettes. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =) (Feb 10 News) On the S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, there are scans of the 7 Jours Magazine. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) (Feb 9 News) The pics of the promo single that were posted up yesterday can be found on Ebay. Here's the link! And it has already bid up to $130.18! (Feb 8 News) Found this link on the newsgroup. You can now download the full-length original version of ANDHC by clicking here! Thanks Marc (www.savie.cjb.net) for providing the file for us to download! =)
This are pics of the promo single of ANDHC for radio stations. Thanks Celine Dion: A Canadian Way of Life, and Estevam! =) Manager of Lara Fabian has denied that Lara and Celine are doing a duet together. It was just a rumour. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) Here's an article on Jam! Music talking about how Stephan Moccio got to work with Aldo Nova on "A New Day Has Come" and how it successfully landed on Celine's album. It's an interesting story, and you can really see what impact Celine can make to someone's (especially to a song- writer) career. There are lots of TV appearances that we won't want to miss, and these appearances are listed on Epic's Site. Here's the list of appearances: Celine Dion Feb 27 2002 GRAMMY AWARDS Celine Dion Mar 25 2002 OPRAH WINFREY SHOW Celine Dion Mar 26 2002 THE TODAY SHOW Celine Dion Mar 27 2002 LARRY KING LIVE! Celine Dion Mar 27 2002 LIVE! WITH REGIS AND KELLY Celine Dion Mar 27 2002 THE TODAY SHOW Celine Dion Mar 28 2002 CBS EARLY SHOW Celine Dion Apr 04 2002 THE VIEW Celine Dion Apr 05 2002 CBS EARLY SHOW Celine Dion Apr 07 2002 CBS SPECIAL Celine Dion May 23 2002 VH1 DIVAS I really wanna see Celine going on the Rosie O'Donnell show again. Now when you click into HK Sony Music Site, you can hear a clip of the album version of ANDHC. It's the first chorus of the song. (Feb 7 News)
Celine's on the cover of the current issue of 7 Jours! Thanks Celine Fall! =) Sous Le Vent has received a nomination for "Best original song" for the Victoires Awards. The webmaster of Phil's Celine Site wants to leave a message here to let the visitors of his site know that his site is down and will be up again on next Wednesday (Feb 18th), because Tripod.de is doing the maintenence. (Feb 6 News) All of us like to know what other people especially those people who aren't Celine fans think of the new single. On Rock Detente, it's running a survey asking people whether they like Celine's new song, and so far 62.5% of the people has said yes, and 37.5% of the people has said no. Infinit has a video file of a news coverage on the premier of ANDHC. In the footage, you can also see them asking some people to comment on the song. Since I don't understand French, I have no idea what they are talking about. You can click here to watch! Remember to request Celine's new single on your local radio stations! Just minutes ago, I was listening to my local radio staion, and I heard two different listeners calling to the station requesting "A New Day Has Come". And when the song ended, the DJs said something like "Oh my, she thinks she's Enya." And then the DJs talked about Celine's deal with Caesars Palace, brought up the camel thing at her 2nd wedding again, and joked about Celine singing at Caesars 5 nights a week to pay for Rene's debt. Anyway, I think this song does grow on people. For me, the first time I heard the remix version, I found it a bit weird, but now I like it more. On the S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, you can now hear sound clips of the original French version of "Ten Days" and "The greatest reward". Celine Dion has recorded a congratulatory messages to Britney Spears for receiving the award of "Fun Fearless Female Award". Click here to know more! According to S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, there are two more covers on the album. They are covers of 2 French classics. As far as I know, Ten Days is one of the French cover adapted into English. On this Infinit site, you can also see the song-writers for each of the song on the album. Last night I emailed my local radio station z95.3 asking when they'll premier Celine's new song, and I received their email today saying they have already premiered the song today morning, and they'll be playing it in heavy rotation throughout the day! Alright! And just at the moment I was reading their reply, the song also came up on their station! On Showbizz, today it has an article about Lara Fabian recording a duet with Celine Dion. It says that the duet will appear on Lara's next English album which will be titled "Encore", and the title of the duet is "That man in my life". No dates has yet been announced for the release of Lara's next English album. Lara is still currently recording for the album. There's an article on Hello Magazine. It's about the Barbara interview and the return of Celine. There isn't really any new info on the article. Now on S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, you can listen to full length Ric Wake's verson of ANDHC! According to Yahoo article, Swiss American Federation will be doing a remix for Celine's ANDHC. Wow, do we need all these remixes? (Feb 5 News) Found this from CTVNews: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sony Music Canada announced that it will release three different mixes of a new single Celine Dion on Wednesday morning. All three mixes of A New Day Has Come will be playing on radio across Canada by 7 a.m. ET. It will be followed by her first new studio album in five years, also titled A New Day Has Come, to be released to stores on March 26. -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Rock Detente's site (Quebec's radio station), it has sample clips for both version of the song. Click here! There are more info about the release on the official site now. It says the first single "A New Day Has Come" will hit radio stations tomorrow Feb 6th. And the CBS TV special will be on air on April 7th in North America, while other countries will also be albe to watch the show in the weeks following. You can also hear a short clip of Ric Wake's remix version on the site too, but not as long as Poland's Sony Music's clip. I'm a little bit surprise that David Foster hasn't been mentioned in the list of producers for the album. Although it was said on the Billboard magazine that David is the producer for the song "I surrender", on the official site, it says Simon Franglen produced it. For those who are interested in sales figures, the site also says that Celine has now sold more than 140 million copies of albums world wide. Two years ago, they said she has sold more than 130, now it's more than 140 million. No wonder why the sales manager or something like that of HMV said that Celine's records haven't stop selling even during her break. Poland's Sony Music has put up a 1 min 54 secs of Ric Wake's remix version of ANDHC in the club member's area. To be a member, you can sign up the form where you can find here! It's free and easy. If you don't understand Polish as me, and need help, this translator would be helpful! (Feb 4 News) Poland's Sony Music Site has put up tracklisting for Celine's new album. Here's the site: http://www.sonymusic.pl/aktualnosci/id/755 On the tracklisting, the song "Coulda Would Shoulda" isnt' there. It's can be either they took out the song, or they have renamed it. It's weird that Poland's Sony Music gets to announce it prior than Celine's official site. Anyway, it also says that tomorrow, Poland's Sony Music will have an online premier of the song. And only members have access to the premier, but it's free to be a member. The radio station RMF will also have a radio premier of the song on Feb 6th at around 8:15. US TV ratings are in, and 20/20 achieved ABC's highest 18-49 rating in the hour in almost two years. And 20/20 also had the highest rating on Friday among other ABC's programs. Click here to read more! (Feb 3 News) According to this Epic Record's Site, there will be an online premier of ANDHC on Feb 8th at celinedion.com. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the info! =) On the Queen Celine Site now, you can find the entire 20/20 interview in windows media video format. (50 MB, approximately 15 mins long, and commercial free!) If you want a copy of the interview, this site may help you! (Feb 2 News) On the site Sweet Celine Site!, you can listen a 47 secs audio clip of the last portion of the interview where Celine sang the first few lines of "A New Day Has Come", then merge into the chorus of song. Nearly at the end when Celine says "bye bye tout mon (spelling?)", you can hear Rene-Charles making a small sound. The last question of Barbara was do you sing lullaby to Rene-Charles, then Celine said there are certain songs that she can, but certain songs that she can't, cuz some songs would make him cry. Then Barbara asked her to sing the lullaby. According to Queen Celine Site, Ric Wake's remix version of ANDHC will be included in the album. On the site Re: Celine, in the sound section, you can find an audio file (22MB) of last night's interview! Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall!) =) It was such an enchanting moment watching the 20/20 interview. In my own humble opinion, it may not be the best Celine interview I've ever watched, but still I was so happy, and I couldn't stop smiling while I was watching it. I personally think the best part is to be able to watch Celine and Rene playing with Rene-Charles, and also able to hear more portion of "A New Day Has Come". Basically, the aritcle on 20/20's site has covered pretty well on what they talked about in the interview. But if you want a bit more, you can also go and read this Jam! Music article. Rene-Charles is soooo cute. There were few shots of him that were so cute. One shot was seeing him sitting on a small swing, and looking up to Rene with a serious but a bit confusing glare. Another shot was Rene(Dad) holding him in his arms, and Rene-Charles again had a little serious look, then he looked at Celine who was beside him, and he winked his eyebrow (like how a guy winks at a girl in a club) with a smile and putting out his hands toward Celine. The last shot of him was seeing him in Celine's arms, and he looked at whoever the person was beside the camera with a shy smile, then quickly turned his head around, like trying to escape from that person's eye-contact. And before I get to hear these other piece and bits of "A New Day Has Come", I liked Ric Wake's remix version better. But now, I prefer the original version. I think the original arrangement can deliver the emotions better. I guess Sony will send all the original and remix versions to radio stations, and let them pick which one they want to play, since AC stations may like the ballad version, while Top 40 stations may prefer the remix version which has more beats. It is really a beautiful song! Great job, Aldo Nova! (Feb 1 News) Just want to inform you that this site will continue having the bandwidth problem for about 23 more days. Thank you for your patience! =) Found an interesting news from Infinit.net. The article says that some people in UK have launched a campaign, sending emails, asking people to send $1.40 to Sony Music, demanding Sony Music to end their contract with Celine Dion. In the email, it says something like "I thought that if we all went ourselves there, we could also make conceal Céline Dion. Usually, I do not like e-mail sent to the chain like that, but this time, it is really important!" My comment for this people, GET A LIFE! Why don't you send those money to a charity instead. You can read the article in French by clicking here! Here's an article about Celine's interview from Reuters. Click here to read!
Two fellow Celine fans, Abbey and Jimena, have just started running an email Celine Newsletter. You can join by sending a blank email to: celinedionnews@hotmail.com On 20/20's site, they a page up for the Celine interview now. You can go to there by clicking here! But beware that this page can be a spoiler page for the interview. (Jan 31 News) Celine will be on Entertainment Tonight tomorrow night (Feb 1st). It will probably be about the interview of 20/20. Thanks Sophoan (CELINEbeat) for the info! =)
Here's a possible cover for the new album. You can find this pic on Amazon.com This cover contrasts from what the Billboard article says, but Celine and her team can always change their mind. So, we'll just have to wait and see. Thanks Marc (Sa Vie, Mon Reve) for the pic! =) On the official site, in the teamCeline member area, there's a 55 secs clip of the new song "A New Day Has Come". (Jan 30 News) Last week, I signed up 20/20 email list, and today I received an email supposingly written by Barbara Walers, talking about what will be featured in this coming Friday. There will be 3 stories, and here's what she wrote about Celine's interview: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Two years ago, I did an interview with superstar Celine Dion in which she startled the entertainment world with news that she was taking time off from her singing career, that she wanted to have a baby. On Friday's program, you'll meet that baby, now a year old, as Celine sits down with me for her first television interview since stepping off the public stage. She talks with me in Palm Beach about her sabbatical, her family and her future. Celine faced some powerful challenges during her extended timeout. Her son, Rene-Charles, was born through in vitro fertilization. And while she was trying to have the baby, her husband, Rene, was diagnosed with throat cancer, and was treated with radiation and chemotherapy. Rene is now recovering well, and the baby is thriving. Celine's happiness is obvious, and she shares some surprising news about her professional life. She has just signed an unprecedented new contract, providing her with an opportunity to perform regularly while maintaining a normal family life. You will hear her sing for the first time ?even before it is played on the radio ?her new song, "A New Day Has Come." ------------------------------------------------------------------ On Jam! Music, there's an article talking about the interview on 20/20. It says the will also talk about Rene's cancer, his alleged gambling problem, and the invitation to Celine (a Canadian) to sing God Bless America on the Tribute to Heroes special. Click here to read the article! There's an small article on France Dimanche about Celine and Rene-Charles. Thanks Pauline for the info! =) On 20/20's site, it says "Barbara Walters talks to Celine Dion about her sabbatical, her family and her future. Plus, hear her new song for the first time!" This interview won't take the entire hour, because there are other stories that will be featured. (Jan 29 News)
A new pic found on the official site! Thanks Davey! =) (Jan 28 News) VH1's question of the day is "What is going to be the best track Celine Dion's new album". The current result is: The classy standard 52% The schmaltzy ballad 26% The uptempo anthem 22% You can find a 15 seconds real-audio file of the 20/20 commercial on Declaration of Celine Site. You can hear a small clip of a new song playing at the back! Just a word for those who are following the poll at www.infinit.net on "which diva do you most prefer?" You probably must've noticed that the result fluctuates a lot, one day Celine is leading then the next hour Jennifer Lopez is leading, and now Lara is leading. And the number of "votes" also fluctuates too. One time it had more than 10,000 votes, then the next day, the number suddenly dropped to less than 2000 and it kept changing from time to time. The reason why this happens is because people working at Infinit delete duplicated votes apparently from the same person. So my two cents is don't waste time voting for more than 1 time each time you go to that site, cuz no matter how many times you've voted during that visit, all those duplicated votes will end up being deleted. German Celine fans TV alert! According to CelineDionMagazine.com, Celine will appear on "Wetten Das" on March 23rd on Channel ZDF at 10:30pm. Also tomorrow on Jan 29th, the episode of "Touched by an Angel"(Ein Hauch von Himmel) that have Celine as a special guest will re-air on VOX at 11:25-12:10am. Please check your local listing! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =) I am sure many of you should also have received an email sent out from Celinedion.com It tells how the official site has changed, and what exclusive surprises you can get if you join TeamCeline (the fan club) by paying annual fee. It also says that TeamCeline members will have the privilege of being the very first to sample the first single from the new album, A New Day Has Come. Hmm...when LTAL came out, all Teamceline (free email list) members could get to preview every single song of the album day by day, but this time, we have to pay for it. (Jan 27 News) On the S'il Suffisait D'aimer Site, you can find the scans of the 7 Jours magazine. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =) (Jan 26 News) The webmaster of Queen Celine, Andre, has translated the article below (25 most influential people) into English. You can read it in the news section of the Queen Celine Site. On Cyperpresse.ca, they've selected Quebec's version of 25 Most Influential people. Celine and Rene are of course listed. Click here to read the article. At the same time, the site is also running a poll asking "Do you think Celine and Rene are the most influential people to Quebec's Entertainment? You can find the poll and vote here! Just scroll down to the bottom of the page. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) for the info! Received the following info from a fellow Celine fan. On last night's Barbara Walters' 20/20, Barbara announced that on next Friday night, she will be sitting down with Celine to discuss her new album and her new baby. They also showed clips of the interview and Celine was even singing one of the songs on the album which she dedicated to Rene-Charles. The lyrics was something like "I have been waiting for a long time for a miracle to come my way" and they showed pictures of Rene Charles while Celine was singing. Barbara Walters also mentioned that the come back preparations are very massive and that Celine is set to dazzle like never before. So tune in next Friday night on ABC at at 10pm EST. Please check your local listing! Thanks Rebecca for the info! =) Canoe is running a poll right now asking this question: (current result in brackets) Among these diva, which one do your prefer? Celine Dion (27.4%) Lara Fabian (0.8%) Jennifer Lopez (15.8%) Britney Spears (53.7%) Whitney Houston (1.5%) Mariah Carey (0.9%) So far, 914 people have voted. Click here to vote! (Jan 25 News) HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENE-CHARLES!!! Celine's on the cover of the 7 Jours magazine again. The article talks about Celine's new album. It seems like it has translated Billboard's article into French. (Jan 24 News) The votes are in, and results are out! On Hello Magazine Annual Most elegant Woman polling, although Celine isn't in the first place, but she is second. Queen Rania of Jordan is in the first place with 21% of the votes, Celine is second with 19.8%, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is third with 16%. Click here to see all the rankings. (Updated on Jan 22 2002) The Celine Dion International Forum is working in 5 languages now. French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuges. You can go to the forum by clicking the banner at the bottom, or the link on the left side.
Billboard has put an excerpt from the article online. Click here to read1 Thanks Tatiana (Celine Fall!) Celine and Rene are scheduled to make an appearance in court via Satellite on Wednesday. A 62-year-old French chef has sued Donald Trump's Mar-a- Lago resort, saying he got fired because of his age. And because Rene and Celine has hired him as their personal chef in their home since then, so they are scheduled to give videotaped depositions tomorrow in their West Palm Beach home for the case. (I thought they are still in Montreal now.) Anyway, for more info about the case, click here! Queen Celine Site has now put up scans of the Billboard magazine on the site. If you haven't got the magazine yet, you can read it there! This is the latest set of release dates from Austria's Sony Music site: 04.03.2002 - A New Day Has Come / COL 672393-2 25.03.2002 - A New Day Has Come / COL 506226-2 (Updated on Jan 21 2002) Another great honour for Celine! Over the six years studied, IFPI have found out that Celine is the most popular act in Europe. She has achieved platinum 33 times with her records during the period. Madonna is second with 17. You can click here to read more! Another article in French: Click here! (Updated on Jan 20 2002) Found a midi file for "At Last" on the net! Click here to listen! (Updated on Jan 19 2002) Today, I've searched all over my city (Vancouver) trying to find a copy of the Billboard Magazine, but sadly returned home empty-handed. Even big bookstores or newstands such as Chapters and International News no longer carry the magazine. I was also surprised that even Virgin mega store don't carry the magazine. Fortunately, thanks someone, I got to read the article somehow. Of course due to legal restriction, I can't simply type out the entire article here, but I think I can tell you some of the highlights of the article. In order not to spoil those who will be buying the magazine soon, I've put the highlights on another page. If you want to read the highlights, click here! "Sous Le Vent" has won the award for "Best French Duet of the year" at the NRJ music award. Garou also won for best French male artist and best artist voted by Wanadoo Web site clients. The Billboard magazine is pretty hard to find, I'm still looking for one. Anyway, found the following info about the Billboard's article on the Passion Site. The tracks that will be on the album includes A new day has come, I'm Alive, Nature Boy, Surrender, Goodbye's the hardest word, Sorry for love, and At last. For more info about each of these tracks, and about the article, please go to the Passion site. Let's hope I'll find a copy of the magazine today! =)
Rene's daugther Anne Marie and her husband is on the cover of the 7 Jours magazine. Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =) On Austria's Sony Music site, they've changed the release date of the album to March 25th already, but another release with the same name (the single, I guess) remains with the release date of Feb 25th. Here's the page! (Updated on Jan 18 2002) Let's wish Celine and Garou luck that their Sous Le Vent will win an award tomorrow at the NRJ Music Award. The song is nominated for the "Duet" category. Another great contender for the award is the duet of Axel Bauer and Zazie, A ma place. The award will be given tomorrow and TF1 and NRJ will be airing the show. Please check your local listing. For more info, click here! Thanks Estevam (Celine Fall!) =)
Celine's on the cover of the Billboard Magazine.
Rene Charles is on the cover of Derniere Heure Magazine, and so is his father (on the top of the page). The article talks about Rene-Charles is starting to walk, and how he is going to have his birthday party. Thanks Tatiana for the pic and info! =) (Updated on Jan 17 2002) The webmaster of Declaration of Celine is running a Write Celine program to celebrate Celine's return. You can find more info about this program at this page! The official site has confirmed that the new album is titled "A New Day Has Come" and instead of coming out on March 11th, it will come out internationally on March 25th (Monday), and on March 26th (Tues) for North America. I've received the following info regarding the Grammy performance from the webmaster of CelineBEAT! The webmaster has sent an email regarding that news to Ron Roecker, the Director of Communications for the Grammy Awards, and he has replied saying "Just a rumour. We have not booked the show yet and will not be confirming anything for a couple of weeks." So we'll just have to wait and see. More News Archive
