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List of Celine Dion records and achievements
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Canadian singer Celine Dion, throughout her career spanning four decades, has obtained numerous achievements, setting and breaking world records for her musical work. Her first appearance in the Guinness Book of World Records was in 1998 for being the female artist with the highest annual earnings, a record she held until 2013. She has since earned multiple appearances, including her title as the top selling album act in Europe in 2003 and the most Juno Awards nominations for any artist in 2024 among many others.
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Dion has achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s. Following the success of her album The Colour of My Love (1993), she released the best-selling French album in history, D'eux (1995). Her next two releases, Falling into You (1996) and Let's Talk about Love (1997), were worldwide successes, each selling more than 30 million copies around the world. She continued to gain success with the release of These are Special Times (1998), which is the second best-selling holiday album by a woman and All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999), which is the second best-selling compilation album by a woman ever. With record sales estimated to be around 200 to 250 million worldwide, Dion is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2000, the Canadian Recording Industry Association named Dion the best-selling Canadian recording artist of the century.[1] In 2017, Billboard named her the most successful Canadian artist in the Nielsen Music Canada era.
Since her career's inception in 1981, Dion has received numerous honorary accolades and was named by publications, such as music trade magazines and newspapers for her commercial and cultural significance. In 1999, Dion was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. In 2003, Dion was included in VH1's list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons". In 2008, Dion was conferred with the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit, and was elevated to the Companion of the Order of Canada in 2013. The same year, ABC listed Dion among the "30 Greatest Women in Music". In 2023, Rolling Stone named Dion the 10th greatest Canadian artist of all time. Her contributions to music have earned her two honorary doctorate degrees from Université Laval (2008) and Berklee College of Music (2021).