A New Day Has Come is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, which marked her return after two-year hiatus to have a child. It was released on March 22, 2002. A New Day Has Come is Dion's 9th English album and 28th in total. The limited edition, containing bonus DVD with two audio and two video tracks, was released in November 2002.

Let's Talk About Love / Falling into You / A New Day Has Come 3CD set was released in October 2007. Later, it was repacked and released in a reusable gift box on September 29, 2009, titled The Collection. Also on October 2, 2009 Let's Talk About Love / A New Day Has Come 2CD set was released.

Album information

The album includes many highlights, like Dion's renditions of Etta James classic, "At Last" and Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy."

Few French accents can be found here too, as Dion recorded "The Greatest Reward," an adaptation of "L'envie d'aimer" from the French musical The Ten Commandments, performed originally by Daniel Lévi. The song was co-written by Pascal Obispo, a popular French singer and composer. Another track called "Ten Days" is an adaptation of a French hit song, "Tomber" by Gérald De Palmas. Dion recorded also a Spanish version of "L'amour existe encore" from her 1991 Dion chante Plamondon album, called "Aún Existe Amor."

The album included two successful singles: the title track and "I'm Alive," featured also in the Stuart Little 2 movie. On "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)," released as the last commercial single, Shania Twain did the background vocals. "At Last" was released as a radio single in the United States only.

"Super Love" was available as a bonus track outside North America.

On April 7, 2002, CBS aired one-hour TV special dedicated to A New Day Has Come. Beside songs from the album, Dion performed two duets: "Emotion/When the Wrong One Loves You Right" with Destiny's Child and "Beauty and the Beast" with Brian McKnight.

For further promotion, Céline Dion joined on May 23, 2002 the VH1 Divas Las Vegas along with Cher, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Anastacia, Dixie Chicks, Cyndi Lauper, Stevie Nicks and Whitney Houston. She sang "A New Day Has Come," "I'm Alive," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and a duet with Anastacia on AC/DC song "You Shook Me All Night Long."

On November 18, 2002 A New Day Has Come was released as a special limited edition with bonus DVD, featuring two unreleased audio tracks: "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" and "All Because of You," the music video for "I'm Alive" and a teaser for Dion's Las Vegas show A New Day.... In the U.S., limited edition included longer version of "The Greatest Reward" lasting 4:04, instead of original 3:28. After this re-release the album made a big jump on the charts around the world.

"All Because of You" was later released as "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" B-side. As well as a ballad version of "Sorry for Love," which is actually the original version of said song, "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" and "Have You Ever Been in Love" were re-included on Dion's next album One Heart. "Have You Ever Been in Love" was then released from that album as a single in 2003.

Céline Dion won an American Music Award for Favorite Artist in the Adult Contemporary category in February 2003.

The track "I Surrender," while not released as a single, has become a popular song choice for contestants on reality TV singing competitions around the world. It has been performed by Kelly Clarkson, Anthony Fedorov and Lil Rounds on American Idol, David Archuleta on Star Search, Craig Sharpe on Canadian Idol, and Lorena Gomez on Operación Triunfo to name a few. Polish singer Edyta Górniak recorded Polish-language version of this song, called "List." "I Surrender" was also performed by Dion for five years during A New Day..., becoming one of show's highlights.

On January 29, 2008, Legacy Recordings released A New Day Has Come as a new collector's edition with bonus DVD. The CD contains 16 tracks from the North American version of the album (including extended version of "The Greatest Reward") and the DVD features four music videos, and behind the scenes footage from the making of the album and the "A New Day Has Come" video.

Chart success

A New Day Has Come was very successful, debuting at number 1 in over twenty countries and selling over 12 million copies worldwide. . RFI Musique. Retrieved 2010-07-21. The IFPI announced that it was the fifth best selling album in 2002 around the world.

In the United States, A New Day Has Come debuted at number 1, selling 558,000 copies in its first week. It was Dion's first number 1 debut in the U.S., and her fourth number 1 overall. In the following week, A New Day Has Come has sold 263,000 copies and slipped to number 2. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 3,307,000 copies in the U.S. and was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA. In Canada, it debuted at number 1 with 152,000 copies sold in the first week and stayed at number 1 for seven consecutive weeks. It was certified 6x platinum.

After selling over 3 million copies in Europe and spending 7 weeks at number 1 on the European Top 100 Albums, A New Day Has Come was certified 3x platinum by the IFPI. It reached number 1 in most European countries. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at the top with 89,000 copies sold and stayed at number 1 for four weeks in a row. It was certified platinum. A New Day Has Come entered also at number 1 in France and stayed there for four non-consecutive weeks. Later it was certified 3x platinum. In Australia, A New Day Has Come entered the chart at the top and stayed there for five non-consecutive weeks. After selling 160,000 copies, it was certified 2x platinum.

In Hong Kong, A New Day Has Come became the 9th best selling foreign album in 2002.

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

1Most certifications are under old criteria, with higher certifications levels than the current ones.

Awards

Release history

References

Category:Celine Dion albums

Category:2002 albums

Category:Albums produced by Walter Afanasieff

Category:Albums produced by Humberto Gatica

Category:Albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange

Category:Albums produced by Christopher Neil

Category:Albums produced by Aldo Nova

Category:Albums produced by Guy Roche

Category:Albums produced by Ric Wake

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Artist/Band Information

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC, OQ (Fr-Celine-Dion.ogg