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Falling into You is the fourth English-language album and fourteenth studio album overall by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was released on 11 March 1996 by Sony Music. The follow-up to her commercially successful album The Colour of My Love (1993) and French-language release D'eux (1995), Falling into You showed a further progression of Dion's music. Throughout the project she collaborated with Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", among others. Several songs were produced by David Foster, including Diane Warren's "Because You Loved Me". In total, Dion worked on the album with fourteen producers and a variety of songwriters and musicians.
Falling into You won many awards around the world, including two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, during which Dion performed live. In April 1997, Dion also won three World Music Awards for World's Best Selling Artist of the Year, World's Best Selling Pop Artist of the Year and World's Best Selling Canadian Artist of the Year. Falling into You is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list.
Falling into You became Dion's best-seller and one of the best-selling albums of all time, with global sales of more than 32 million copies, including 12 million units in the United States, over two million in the United Kingdom, and over one million units in Australia, Canada, France and Germany. In Europe, it has sold over nine million copies. Falling into You topped the record charts around the world, including number one in Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many more. It became one of the world's best-selling albums of 1996 and 1997 in various countries, and also one of the top-selling albums of the decade. Falling into You was certified Diamond, Multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold around the world. It was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in December 1997, and twelve-times Platinum in 2021, for shipments of over 12 million copies in the United States.
Five singles were released from Falling into You in Europe, four in Australia, and three in North America. The major success came with the release of "Because You Loved Me", theme from the 1996 film Up Close & Personal (number one in Australia, Canada and the US Billboard Hot 100), "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (number one in Belgium and Canada, and number two on the Billboard Hot 100), and "All by Myself" (Top 10 in various countries, including number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the UK Singles Chart). To promote the album, Dion embarked on her seventh world concert tour, Falling into You: Around the World. The sold-out tour began on 18 March 1996 in Perth, Australia and continued to major cities around the world. In all, the tour lasted more than a year, with 149 shows in 17 different countries.