Complete Best (Celine Dion album)

Complete Best
Greatest hits album by Céline Dion
Released	February 27, 2008 (2008-02-27) (see release history)
Recorded	1990-2007
Genre	Pop, soft rock, pop rock, dance
Length	76:18
Label	Sony Music Japan, Epic
Producer	Walter Afanasieff, Peer Åström, Christian B, Babyface, Roy Bittan, Marc Dold, David Foster, James Horner, Richie Jones, R. Kelly, Kristian Lundin, Vito Luprano, Max Martin, Christopher Neil, Aldo Nova, Steven Rinkoff, John Shanks, Jim Steinman, Kenji Tamai, Ric Wake
Céline Dion chronology
Taking Chances (2007) Complete Best (2008) Ultimate Box (2008)

Complete Best is a greatest hits album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on February 27, 2008 in Japan.^[1] It's her 14th English language album and 36th in total. On July 22, 2009 the album was reissued in Blu-spec CD format in Japan.^[2]

Background

Complete Best was released few days before Dion's concerts in Japan, which were a part of the Taking Chances Tour.^[3] It contains one new track "A World to Believe In" (U.S.A. mix), recorded as an English-Japanese duet with Yuna Ito, which wasn't available on Dion's previous album. Taking Chances includes English version of that song, performed by Céline Dion alone. "A World to Believe In" was released as a single in January 2008 and peaked at number 8 on the Oricon Singles Chart.^[4] It was Dion's first appearance on that chart, since "To Love You More" (dance mixes) entered it in April 1999. Complete Best also includes "To Love You More," which was originally released in October 1995 and became Céline Dion's biggest hit in Japan, topping the singles chart for 4 weeks and selling almost 1.3 million copies. It contains also two others Japan only released singles: "The Power of the Dream" and "Be the Man." In the rest of the world, a greatest hits album called My Love: Essential Collection was released in October 2008 instead.

Chart success

The album was certified gold in March 2008 and has sold 173,100 copies during 2008 in Japan.^[5] It debuted at number 3 on the Oricon Albums Chart with 34,223 copies sold. Complete Best is Dion's second best position on this chart, after All the Way… A Decade of Song. The album reached also number 1 on the Oricon Daily Chart. However, it went down to number 6 on the weekly chart in its second week, selling 27,281 copies. The following week, right after the Japanese leg of the Taking Chances Tour, Complete Best jumped from number 6 to number 4 with 34,724 sold. The album topped also the Oricon International Albums Chart for 6 consecutive weeks.^[6]

Track listing

1. "A World to Believe In" (U.S.A. mix) (with Yuna Ito) (Tino Izzo, Rosanna Ciciola, Natsumi Kobayashi) – 4:08
2. "My Heart Will Go On" (James Horner, Will Jennings) – 4:41
3. "To Love You More" (David Foster, Junior Miles) – 4:39
4. "The Power of Love" (Candy DeRouge, Gunther Mende, Mary Susan Applegate, Jennifer Rush) – 4:46
5. "Beauty and the Beast" (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman) – 4:03
6. "Because You Loved Me" (Diane Warren) – 4:33
7. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Jim Steinman) – 5:29
8. "Be the Man" (Foster, Miles) – 4:38
9. "I'm Your Angel" (with R. Kelly) (R. Kelly) – 5:29
10. "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" (Robert White Johnson, Taylor Rhodes) – 4:33
11. "The Power of the Dream" (Linda Thompson, Foster, Babyface) – 4:30
12. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 4:20
13. "That's the Way It Is" (Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson) – 4:01
14. "A New Day Has Come" (radio remix) (Aldo Nova, Stephan Moccio) – 4:19
15. "I'm Alive" (Lundin, Carlsson) – 3:30
16. "I Drove All Night" (Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly) – 4:00
17. "Taking Chances" (Kara DioGuardi, Dave Stewart) – 4:02

Charts and certifications

Charts Chart Peak position Japanese Albums Chart[7] 3 Japanese International Albums Chart[6] 1 Japanese Daily Albums Chart[6] 1

Certifications Country Certifications Japan Gold[8]

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Japan	February 27, 2008	Sony Music Japan, Epic	CD	EICP-953
	July 22, 2009		Blu-spec CD	EICP-20055

References

1. ^ Celine Dion - Complete Best. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
2. ^ Blue-spec CD Complete Best. Retrieved April 30, 2009.
3. ^ Concert Dates. Retrieved November 7, 2007.
4. ^ Oricon Style Weekly Ranking. Retrieved January 22, 2008.
5. ^ Phisical Unit Sales For The Top 5 Best Selling Albums in Japan By Internacional Acts During 2008
6. ^ ^{a b c} Oricon Albums Chart
7. ^ "Celine Dion album sales ranking" (in Japanese). Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/98172/ranking/cd_album/. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
8. ^ "RIAJ". Recording Industry Association of Japan. http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/200803.html. Retrieved 2008-03-31.