Miracle (Celine Dion album)

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Miracle is the twenty-first studio album and ninth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music on 11 October 2004. It is a concept album credited to Dion and Australian photographer Anne Geddes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The songs were produced by David Foster. Miracle topped the chart in Canada and Wallonia (Belgium) and reached top five in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. It was certified platinum in the US and Canada, and gold in various countries.

Content and release

Miracle is a part of a CD-and-book multimedia collection, with Dion's music providing the soundtrack to Geddes's pictorial book celebrating the joy of babies. The songs were produced by David Foster, who had not worked with Dion since 1999.

Among tracks on the album are cover versions of John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy", Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World", Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", Johannes Brahms's "Brahms' Lullaby", Nancy Wilson's "If I Could", Henri Salvador's "Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce)", and Carol Welsman's "Baby Close Your Eyes".

All other tracks are original songs such as the title track, which was written in 2001 for A New Day Has Come to celebrate the birth of Dion's son René-Charles, but the song was never published on that album.

Some tracks were previously released on Dion's albums, including "Brahms's Lullaby" on These Are Special Times and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" on All the Way... A Decade of Song. Live performances of "If I Could" and "What a Wonderful World" were available on A New Day... Live in Las Vegas. "A Mother's Prayer" is a solo version of "The Prayer", a duet with Andrea Bocelli from These Are Special Times. "Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce)" was performed live by Dion and Henri Salvador in October 2003, during the taping of 1 fille & 4 types TV special. However, this duet version was not included on any album.

Miracle was released in three different formats: CD; CD/DVD plus 60-page booklet; and 180-page hardcover book plus CD/DVD. "Je lui dirai", available previously on 1 fille & 4 types, was included as a bonus track in Francophone countries.

Singles

"Beautiful Boy" was released as the first single in North America and some parts of Europe. It was followed by "In Some Small Way" in the United States and Canada. "Je lui dirai" was released as a single in Francophone countries, while the title track was issued as a single in the United Kingdom and parts of Asia. All these songs were released as radio singles without accompanying music videos.

Critical reception

Miracle was met with mixed reviews. AllMusic said that "it's the quietest record Dion has recorded in a while, an unabashed adult contemporary album that keeps its gentle mood from start to finish, as if it were a prolonged lullaby. Dion tempers her vocal histrionics considerably — she still soars to the high notes, but there are no pyrotechnics, no showboating here — which serves this collection of standards and new songs quite well".<ref name=Allmusic/>

Commercial performance

Miracle debuted inside top 10 in many countries, reaching number one in Canada, Belgium Wallonia. It debuted at number four in the United States with 107,000 copies sold.<ref>Strait Arrow: '50 Number Ones' On Top Again</ref> It also debuted in the fourth position in France and the Netherlands, number five in the United Kingdom, number six in Switzerland and number 9 in Greece. Miracle set a record in the United States, spending 18 consecutive weeks at the top position on the Billboard Top Kid Audio chart.

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Accolades

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Track listing

All tracks produced by David Foster, except "Je lui dirai" by Erick Benzi. Template:Track listing

Notes

• The French edition includes "Je lui dirai" as a bonus track.

Charts

Weekly charts

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Chart (2004)	Peak position
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	51
European Albums (Music & Media)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	6
Greek Foreign Albums (IFPI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	9
Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	168
Quebec (ADISQ)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	77
US Top Kid Audio (Billboard)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)	Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	72
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	26
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	66
French Albums (SNEP)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	96
US Top Kid Audio (Billboard)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	3

Chart (2005)	Position
US Billboard 200<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	151
US Top Kid Audio (Billboard)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)	Position
US Top Kid Audio (Billboard)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	11

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Europe	11 October 2004	Columbia	CD	Template:Hlist
			CD/DVD	Template:Hlist
United States<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	12 October 2004	Epic	CD	93453
	CD/DVD	93454
Canada	Columbia	CD		5187482
		CD/DVD		5187487
Australia	15 October 2004	Epic	CD	5187482
			CD/DVD	5187487
Japan<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	22 December 2004	SMEJ	CD	EICP-464

See also

• List of number-one albums of 2004 (Canada)

External links

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