These Are Special Times
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These Are Special Times is a Christmas album
by Canadian singer Céline Dion
, released on October 30, 1998 through Epic
subsidiary 550 Music
. It was her first English-language Christmas album (and third Christmas album overall), her sixth English-language album, and her twenty-fifth in total.
The album was re-released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in September 2007, under the title Ihre Schönsten Weihnachtslieder, including the same tracklist as the original version, but a different cover picture. These Are Special Times was also re-released worldwide between October and December 2007 as a collector's edition. This 2-disc digipak
contains the original CD and previously unreleased DVD of Dion's 1998 CBS
TV special. The CD/DVD Tin Box Gold Edition was also released between October and November 2008 in Australia and selected European countries. On October 6, 2009 the Yule Edition of These Are Special Times was released on DVD. It includes classic holiday scenes with the music from the album in the background. These Are Special Times is one of the best-selling Christmas albums, with sales of over twelve million copies worldwide.
", "Blue Christmas
", "Feliz Navidad
") with new songs ("Don't Save It All for Christmas Day
", the R. Kelly
duet "I'm Your Angel
"), hymns ("Ave Maria
", "Adeste Fideles
"), and Christmas songs with a distinct religious theme ("O Holy Night
", the Andrea Bocelli
duet "The Prayer"). Dion is joined by her family on "Feliz Navidad" and "Les cloches du hameau". The album was produced mostly by the singer's longtime partners: David Foster
and Ric Wake
. One of the songs, called "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" was co-written by Céline Dion
. Another, "The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)", was written by ex-Twisted Sister
frontman Dee Snider
.
These Are Special Times was recorded with help of few other artists, including Diana Krall
(piano on "Blue Christmas") and Bryan Adams
(guitars, bass and backing vocals on "Another Year Has Gone By").
Two songs from These Are Special Times were previously available: "The Christmas Song" (recorded in 1993 for The Christmas Album by David Foster) and "Brahms' Lullaby
" (recorded in 1996 for the compilation For Our Children Too to benefit Pediatric AIDS Foundation). French version of "The Christmas Song" appeared on Dion's first two Christmas albums: Céline Dion chante Noël
(1981) and Chants et contes de Noël
(1983).
On November 25, 1998, one-hour CBS
TV special, dedicated to Céline Dion's Christmas album, was broadcasted all across the United States. Dion performed songs from These Are Special Times, as well as few other tracks, including duet with Rosie O'Donnell
on "Do You Hear What I Hear?
". The TV special received two Emmy Award
nominations. One year later, O'Donnell added her vocals to Dion's song "The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)," and included this duet version on her A Rosie Christmas album.
Céline Dion was nominated for two Grammy Award
s in Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
category for "I'm Your Angel" (1999) and "The Prayer" (2000). The last one was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song
and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
from the Quest for Camelot
movie in 1999. Dion performed it with Andrea Bocelli at the Grammys and Oscars.
The album has spawned two international top 10 hits with the duets "I'm Your Angel" and "The Prayer". Other unreleased songs have proven to become highly popular later on, notably the title song "These Are the Special Times" which was covered in 2000 by Christina Aguilera
for her album My Kind of Christmas
, "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" which appeared in the multi-million selling 2001 collection Now That's What I Call Christmas!
and was covered in 2000 by Avalon
for their album Joy: A Christmas Collection
and in 2004 by Clay Aiken
, who made it his signature Christmas song, for his album Merry Christmas with Love
, and Dion's version of "O Holy Night" which was voted as the 3rd favourite Christmas song of all time in a 2004 poll.
Over the years, Céline Dion recorded few other Christmas songs, not included on These Are Special Times. In December 1994, A Very Merry Chipmunk
by The Chipmunks
was released, containing "Petit Papa Noël" with Céline Dion on lead vocal. The latter recorded her own version of this song back in 1981 on Céline Dion chante Noël.
In December 1999, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
" was used as the lead track to the Target TV special called "And So This Is Christmas". The special featured an instrumental track of the song accompanied by a choir to the introduction to the show and also featured Dion's new Christmas recording "I Met an Angel (On Christmas Day)". The final track of the show used Dion's version of "Happy Xmas" accompanied by Charlotte Church
and Gloria Estefan
. "I Met an Angel (On Christmas Day)" was included as a B-side to the "That's the Way It Is" single, and appeared on various Christmas compilations in the following years.
Besides being the overall best-selling Christmas album in the U.S.
for 1998, it is the third best-selling Christmas album of the entire Nielsen/SoundScan
era. These Are Special Times also became the first holiday album by a female artist to top the 5 million mark in SoundScan history, and has sold a total of 5.17 million copies in the U.S. according to SoundScan. On December 6, 2005, the album was certified Quintuple Platinum
by the Recording Industry Association of America
for shipments of five million copes in the U.S. These Are Special Times is also the highest selling Christmas album by an artist born outside the U.S.
In Canada, These Are Special Times has shipped over one million copies and has since been certified diamond. After selling over one million copies in Europe, the album was certified platinum by the IFPI.
These Are Special Times went to number-one for two weeks in Canada, and for four weeks in Switzerland and Norway, while also reaching the top ten across the world. Although number-two on the Billboard 200
, These Are Special Times reached number-one for nine consecutive weeks on the Billboard
Top Holiday Albums chart. The next year it went to number-one for seven consecutive weeks on the Top Pop Catalog Albums
. Following a change in the rules of the Billboard 200, the album re-entered the chart in December 2009, as well as in November 2010.
1Most certifications are under old criteria, with higher certifications levels than the current ones.
Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.-Early:...
by Canadian singer Céline Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
, released on October 30, 1998 through Epic
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
subsidiary 550 Music
550 Music
550 Music was a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity. Launched in 1992, the "550" name was inspired by the address of the Sony building, located at 550 Madison Avenue in New York...
. It was her first English-language Christmas album (and third Christmas album overall), her sixth English-language album, and her twenty-fifth in total.
The album was re-released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in September 2007, under the title Ihre Schönsten Weihnachtslieder, including the same tracklist as the original version, but a different cover picture. These Are Special Times was also re-released worldwide between October and December 2007 as a collector's edition. This 2-disc digipak
Digipak
Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...
contains the original CD and previously unreleased DVD of Dion's 1998 CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
TV special. The CD/DVD Tin Box Gold Edition was also released between October and November 2008 in Australia and selected European countries. On October 6, 2009 the Yule Edition of These Are Special Times was released on DVD. It includes classic holiday scenes with the music from the album in the background. These Are Special Times is one of the best-selling Christmas albums, with sales of over twelve million copies worldwide.
Album information
On These Are Special Times Dion balances popular carols ("The Christmas SongThe Christmas Song
"The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
", "Blue Christmas
Blue Christmas
"Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson. The heart-broken tale of unrequited love during the holidays had long been considered a Christmas staple of country music, having been recorded first by Doye O'Dell in 1948 and popularised by Ernest Tubb the next year...
", "Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad (song)
"Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano. With its simple Spanish chorus "Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano. With its simple Spanish chorus "Feliz Navidad" is a...
") with new songs ("Don't Save It All for Christmas Day
Don't Save It All for Christmas Day
"Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" is the third and last single from Céline Dion's album These Are Special Times. The song was issued as a promotional single on December 4, 2000, two years after album's release....
", the R. Kelly
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...
duet "I'm Your Angel
I'm Your Angel
"I'm Your Angel" is a duet by Céline Dion and R. Kelly from Dion's These Are Special Times album and Kelly's R. album. It was released on November 9, 1998. The song was written and produced by R. Kelly. The single was very successful, reaching number 1 in the United States and was certified...
"), hymns ("Ave Maria
Ellens dritter Gesang
Ellens dritter Gesang , in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Opus 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German.It has become one of Schubert's most popular works under the...
", "Adeste Fideles
Adeste Fideles
"Adeste Fideles" is a hymn tune attributed to English hymnist John Francis Wade . The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century by John of Reading, though it has been concluded that Wade was probably the author.The original four verses of the hymn were...
"), and Christmas songs with a distinct religious theme ("O Holy Night
O Holy Night
"O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
", the Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
duet "The Prayer"). Dion is joined by her family on "Feliz Navidad" and "Les cloches du hameau". The album was produced mostly by the singer's longtime partners: David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
and Ric Wake
Ric Wake
Ric Wake is a record producer who has won an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards. During his tenure as staff producer with Sony Music Entertainment he has worked with vocalists such as Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Barry Manilow, and Marc Anthony...
. One of the songs, called "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" was co-written by Céline Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
. Another, "The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)", was written by ex-Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from Long Island. Musically, the band implements elements of traditional heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, along with a style that is similar to early glam metal bands...
frontman Dee Snider
Dee Snider
Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister...
.
These Are Special Times was recorded with help of few other artists, including Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...
(piano on "Blue Christmas") and Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
(guitars, bass and backing vocals on "Another Year Has Gone By").
Two songs from These Are Special Times were previously available: "The Christmas Song" (recorded in 1993 for The Christmas Album by David Foster) and "Brahms' Lullaby
Brahms' Lullaby
Cradle Song is the common name for a number of children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht , Op. 49, No. 4, published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby...
" (recorded in 1996 for the compilation For Our Children Too to benefit Pediatric AIDS Foundation). French version of "The Christmas Song" appeared on Dion's first two Christmas albums: Céline Dion chante Noël
Celine Dion Chante Noel
Céline Dion chante Noël is a French Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released in Quebec, Canada in early December 1981. It is her second French album and first Christmas album....
(1981) and Chants et contes de Noël
Chants Et Contes De Noel
Chants et contes de Noël is a French Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released in Quebec, Canada on December 5, 1983...
(1983).
On November 25, 1998, one-hour CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
TV special, dedicated to Céline Dion's Christmas album, was broadcasted all across the United States. Dion performed songs from These Are Special Times, as well as few other tracks, including duet with Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author and television personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family...
on "Do You Hear What I Hear?
Do You Hear What I Hear?
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
". The TV special received two Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
nominations. One year later, O'Donnell added her vocals to Dion's song "The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)," and included this duet version on her A Rosie Christmas album.
Céline Dion was nominated for two Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s in Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate...
category for "I'm Your Angel" (1999) and "The Prayer" (2000). The last one was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
from the Quest for Camelot
Quest for Camelot
Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...
movie in 1999. Dion performed it with Andrea Bocelli at the Grammys and Oscars.
The album has spawned two international top 10 hits with the duets "I'm Your Angel" and "The Prayer". Other unreleased songs have proven to become highly popular later on, notably the title song "These Are the Special Times" which was covered in 2000 by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
for her album My Kind of Christmas
My Kind of Christmas
My Kind of Christmas is the first Christmas album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera. It was released on October 24, 2000.- Background :...
, "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" which appeared in the multi-million selling 2001 collection Now That's What I Call Christmas!
Now That's What I Call Christmas!
Now That's What I Call Christmas! is a two-disc holiday music compilation that was released on October 23, 2001 by Universal Music Group. The album is part of the Now! series, and the first holiday-themed album in the series....
and was covered in 2000 by Avalon
Avalon (band)
Avalon is an American contemporary Christian vocal quartet who has earned multiple RIAA-certified gold records, sold four million albums, and released 22 number one Christian hits.- 1995–1997: Formation of Avalon and A Maze of Grace :...
for their album Joy: A Christmas Collection
Joy: A Christmas Collection
Joy: A Christmas Collection is Avalon's fourth release, and their first Christmas album. In addition to standard Christmas songs, the album also includes covers of Celine Dion's "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day", Mariah Carey's "Jesus, Born on This Day", and David Meece's "We Are The...
and in 2004 by Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken
Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and author who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released...
, who made it his signature Christmas song, for his album Merry Christmas with Love
Merry Christmas with Love
Merry Christmas with Love is Clay Aiken's first Christmas album, released by RCA Records on November 16, 2004. It was certified platinum and was recognized by Billboard as the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of 2004 and the best-selling Christian album of 2005.The album was re-released on...
, and Dion's version of "O Holy Night" which was voted as the 3rd favourite Christmas song of all time in a 2004 poll.
Over the years, Céline Dion recorded few other Christmas songs, not included on These Are Special Times. In December 1994, A Very Merry Chipmunk
A Very Merry Chipmunk
A Very Merry Chipmunk is a 1994 music album by Alvin and the Chipmunks, released by Sony Wonder. It is their fourth Christmas album. The album reached #147 on the Billboard 200. It was the first in a series of 25 Christmas compilation albums put forth by Turner Broadcasting company...
by The Chipmunks
The Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
was released, containing "Petit Papa Noël" with Céline Dion on lead vocal. The latter recorded her own version of this song back in 1981 on Céline Dion chante Noël.
In December 1999, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
"Happy Xmas " is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir....
" was used as the lead track to the Target TV special called "And So This Is Christmas". The special featured an instrumental track of the song accompanied by a choir to the introduction to the show and also featured Dion's new Christmas recording "I Met an Angel (On Christmas Day)". The final track of the show used Dion's version of "Happy Xmas" accompanied by Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...
and Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
. "I Met an Angel (On Christmas Day)" was included as a B-side to the "That's the Way It Is" single, and appeared on various Christmas compilations in the following years.
Chart success
These Are Special Times became one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time, racking up sales of over twelve million copies worldwide.Besides being the overall best-selling Christmas album in the U.S.
Best-selling Christmas/Holiday albums in the United States
This page shows the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States. It includes artists from all over the world, but it only includes sales in the United States of America....
for 1998, it is the third best-selling Christmas album of the entire Nielsen/SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
era. These Are Special Times also became the first holiday album by a female artist to top the 5 million mark in SoundScan history, and has sold a total of 5.17 million copies in the U.S. according to SoundScan. On December 6, 2005, the album was certified Quintuple Platinum
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
by the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
for shipments of five million copes in the U.S. These Are Special Times is also the highest selling Christmas album by an artist born outside the U.S.
In Canada, These Are Special Times has shipped over one million copies and has since been certified diamond. After selling over one million copies in Europe, the album was certified platinum by the IFPI.
These Are Special Times went to number-one for two weeks in Canada, and for four weeks in Switzerland and Norway, while also reaching the top ten across the world. Although number-two on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, These Are Special Times reached number-one for nine consecutive weeks on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Holiday Albums chart. The next year it went to number-one for seven consecutive weeks on the Top Pop Catalog Albums
Top Pop Catalog Albums
Top Pop Catalog Albums is a fifty-position weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine which ranks the best selling catalog titles, regardless of genre. Billboard defines a catalog title as one that is more than eighteen months old and that has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200...
. Following a change in the rules of the Billboard 200, the album re-entered the chart in December 2009, as well as in November 2010.
Track listing
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
6 |
| Austrian Albums Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann... |
2 |
| Belgian Flanders Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
16 |
| Belgian Wallonia Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
12 |
| Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
1 |
| Canadian RPM Albums Chart RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
1 |
| Danish Albums Chart Tracklisten Tracklisten is a Danish top 40 record chart that is presented every Thursday midnight at .The weekly Danish Singles Chart also known as Track Top-40 combines the 40 best selling tracks from legal music downloads and the sales of music singles on either CD or vinyl... |
6 |
| Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
3 |
| European Albums Chart European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100... |
3 |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 4 |
| French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
23 |
| German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
3 |
| Hungarian Albums Chart Mahasz Mahasz is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992. Mahasz hands out the Hungarian Music Awards and maintains the music charts for Hungary.... |
14 |
| Italian Albums Chart Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.... |
7 |
| Japanese Albums Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... |
4 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
4 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by... |
1 |
| Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
3 |
| Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75... |
1 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
20 |
| US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
2 |
| US Billboard Top Holiday Albums Billboard charts The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine... |
1 |
Certifications
| Country | Certifications1 |
|---|---|
| Australia Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
2x Platinum |
| Austria | Platinum |
| Belgium Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
Platinum |
| Canada Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
Diamond |
| Europe | Platinum |
| Finland | Gold |
| Germany | Gold |
| Japan Recording Industry Association of Japan The Recording Industry Association of Japan is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved the music industry... |
2x Platinum |
| Netherlands NVPI The NVPI is the Dutch tradeassociation of the entertainment industry... |
Gold |
| New Zealand Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
2x Platinum |
| Norway | 2x Platinum |
| Sweden | Platinum |
| Switzerland | 2x Platinum |
| United Kingdom British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
Gold |
| United States Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... |
5x Platinum |
1Most certifications are under old criteria, with higher certifications levels than the current ones.
Awards
| Year | Award show | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Golden Globe Award Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign... s |
Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:... – "The Prayer" |
| 1999 | Japan Gold Disc Award Japan Gold Disc Award The Japan Gold Disc Awards for Music sales in the Recording Industry Association of Japan, is major music awards held annually in Japan also released as a CD.- List of the Artists of the Year :************... s |
International Pop Album of the Year – These Are Special Times |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | October 30, 1998 | Sony Music, Columbia Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... |
CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
4927302 |
| Japan | October 31, 1998 | Sony Music Japan, Epic Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A... , 550 550 Music 550 Music was a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity. Launched in 1992, the "550" name was inspired by the address of the Sony building, located at 550 Madison Avenue in New York... |
ESCA 7390 | |
| United States | November 3, 1998 | Epic Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A... , 550 550 Music 550 Music was a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity. Launched in 1992, the "550" name was inspired by the address of the Sony building, located at 550 Madison Avenue in New York... |
69523 | |
| Canada | Sony Music, Columbia | |||
| Australia | November 6, 1998 | Sony Music, Epic, 550 | 4926512 | |
| Korea | September 28, 2007 | Sony Music, Columbia | CPK 1967 (4926512) | |
| Asia | 492651 2 | |||
| Europe | 82876860572 | |||
| United States | October 2, 2007 | Epic, 550 | CD/DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... |
88697155752 |
| Canada | Sony Music, Columbia | |||
| Europe | November 2, 2007 | |||
| Japan | November 21, 2007 | Sony Music Japan, Epic, 550 | ||
| Australia | December 8, 2007 | Sony Music, Epic, 550 | ||
| Europe | October 10, 2008 | Sony Music, Columbia | CD/DVD (Tin Box) | 88697336312 |
| United States | October 6, 2009 | Legacy Recordings | DVD | 88697557469 |