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Celine Dion videography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4919760 ↗
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Canadian singer Celine Dion was only 12 years old when she wrote her debut single, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve", with the help of her mother and her brother Jacques. It was promoted with her first music video in 1981. Her DVDs/videos found considerable commercial success, mostly filmed from her concerts.

In 1996, Dion released arguably the biggest music video of her career "It's All Coming Back to Me Now". Today called it "one of her biggest videos in the 90s".

In 2008, Live in Las Vegas: A New Day... became the only music DVD to be certified Triple Diamond in Canada, selling over 300,000 units and garnered the largest debut in Nielsen SoundScan history for a DVD-only release, with over 70,000 copies sold in its first week, which is something that has never occurred before in Canadian music history.

In 2018, Dion released "Ashes" (from Deadpool 2) accompanied by a music video. Time magazine called it "pure artistry", complimenting the interpretative dance routine and the chemistry. Paste magazine called it "fabulous".

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