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Canadian singer Celine Dion has released 137 singles in both English and French discography as a lead artist (including promotional singles). According to Billboard magazine, Dion is the world's best-selling contemporary female artist of all time.[1] As of 2021, she has reportedly sold around 200 to 250 million records worldwide.[2][3] Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads",[4][5] Dion has released a string of worldwide hits, with "My Heart Will Go On" (love theme from the blockbuster film Titanic) being her career's biggest hit, with estimated physical sales of over 18 million worldwide, making it the 2nd best-selling physical single by a woman in history.[6] It reached over 117 million radio impressions during its peak, becoming the most-played radio hit in history (at that time)[7] and became the best-selling single of 1998 worldwide.[8] "Because You Loved Me" is her biggest hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, spending six weeks atop the chart[9] and selling six million copies in its first six months of availability worldwide.[10] "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" (considered as her French signature hit) was the 4th biggest hit of the 1990s in France[11] and has sold over four million copies worldwide.[12]
As of 2018, Billboard ranks Dion as the 25th Greatest Hot 100 Female Artist of all time.[13][14] She also ranks as the 43rd Greatest Adult Pop Songs Artist of all time[15] and the 40th Greatest Pop Songs Artist of all time.[16] "Because You Loved Me" is the 45th Greatest Hot 100 Song by a woman in the United States.[17] Dion also placed seven hits on Billboard's list of Top Songs of the 90s, including: "Because You Loved Me" (No. 27), "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (No. 66) and "The Power of Love" (No. 67).[18] Dion is also recognized as the "Queen of Adult Contemporary". She has scored 11 number one hits on Adult Contemporary chart, the most for any female recording artists in history. Additionally, she has spent a staggering 87 weeks at the top position of the chart, the most for any artists ever.[19]
At age twelve, Dion collaborated with her mother and brother Jacques to compose her first song, "Ce n'tait qu'un rve", which was released as a single in Quebec, Canada on 11 June 1981.[20] During the 1980s, Dion topped the Quebec chart with six of her singles, including "D'amour ou d'amiti", "Mon ami m'a quitte", and four songs from the Incognito album (1987). In 1985, "Une colombe" won two Flix Awards for Song of the Year and Best Selling Single of the Year.[21] Both "D'amour ou d'amiti" and "Une colombe" were certified gold in Canada. Elsewhere, "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" won the Best Song Award at the World Popular Song Festival in Japan in 1982, and in 1983, Dion became the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single "D'amour ou d'amiti".[22][23] Further success in Europe came when she represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi", which later won the contest.[24]
In 1990, Dion made her debut into the American market with Unison. The album included "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", which became her first single to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number four. In 1991, Dion sang with Peabo Bryson in the song "Beauty and the Beast".[25] It became her second top ten Billboard Hot 100 single, first top ten entry in the United Kingdom, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.[26] Her following single from Celine Dion (1992), "If You Asked Me To", peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the chart in Canada. Released in late 1993, The Colour of My Love spawned Dion's first US and Australian, and second Canadian number-one single, "The Power of Love".[27] In the United States, the song was certified platinum and has sold 1.5 million copies.[28] Another single from The Colour of My Love, "Think Twice" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and has sold over 1.3 million copies there.[29][30] It became only the fourth million-selling single ever in the UK by a female artist.[31] "Think Twice" also topped the charts in other European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.[32][33][34]
Keeping to her French roots, Dion continued to release French language recordings between each English album. After Dion chante Plamondon in 1991, D'eux was released in 1995 and amassed huge success with the single, "Pour que tu m'aimes encore". The song reached number one in France and stayed at the top position for twelve weeks. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" topped the charts in Francophone countries and also peaked inside the top ten in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden.[32][35] The next single, "Je sais pas" also reached number one in France and Belgium. In 1995, Dion released "To Love You More" in Japan, where it reached number one, selling 1.5 million copies.[36][37] As a result, she became the first non-Japanese artist in twelve years to garner a number-one hit on the Oricon Singles Chart.[38]
Released in 1996, Falling into You featured the US, Canadian and Australian chart topping single "Because You Loved Me", which has sold over two million copies in the US alone and is Dion's biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit.[28][39] Other successful singles from the album included "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "All by Myself", which both reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" became Dion's third platinum single in the US, with sales of 1.6 million copies.[28] In 1997, she released the most-successful single of her career, "My Heart Will Go On".[40] Serving as the love theme to the 1997 blockbuster motion picture, Titanic (also included on Let's Talk About Love), the single topped the charts across the world, and became Dion's signature song.[41] "My Heart Will Go On" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and it gave Dion two additional Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the most coveted Record of the Year.[42] "My Heart Will Go On" was certified diamond, multi-platinum and gold around the world. It remains Dion's highest seller and one of the best-selling singles of all time, with global sales of over eighteen million, including two million in Germany, 1.8 million in the US, 1.5 million in the UK, and 1.2 million units in France.[28][29][43][44] With "Think Twice" and "My Heart Will Go On", Dion became the first female artist with two million-selling singles in the UK.[45][46] She is also one of the biggest selling female singles artists of all time in the UK.[47]
Leto's performance as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Leto is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health.[1] He is also known to be selective about his film roles.[2]
Jared Joseph Leto was born on December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana, to Constance Leto (ne Metrejon).[5][6] His mother has Cajun ancestry.Template:Sfn "Leto" is the surname of his stepfather. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he and his older brother, Shannon Leto, lived with their mother and their maternal grandparents, Ruby (Russell) and William Lee Metrejon.[5] His father remarried, and committed suicide when Jared was eight.Template:Sfn Leto moved frequently with his family from Louisiana to different cities around the country.[7] "My mom's father was in the Air Force," Leto has explained, "so moving around a lot was a normal way of life."[8] Leto has two younger half-brothers from his father's second marriage.[5]
Constance joined the hippie movement and encouraged her sons to get involved in the arts.Template:Sfn Leto stated he "was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater," adding that "Just having the art communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth."[9] Leto started playing music with his brother at an early age and his first musical instrument was a broken-down piano.Template:Sfn
After dropping out briefly in the 10th grade, Leto decided to return and focus on his education at the private Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.[10] He was interested in large-scale visual art and enrolled at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.[7][11] After developing an interest in filmmaking, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[7] While he was a student there, he wrote and starred in his own short film, Crying Joy.[11] He also attended the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of George Washington University.[12]
In 1992, Leto moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in directing, intending to take acting roles on the side.Template:Sfn He found minor roles on television shows but his first break came in 1994, after he was cast opposite Claire Danes as Jordan Catalano, her love interest, in the short-lived but well-reviewed ABC teen drama My So-Called Life.[6] The show was praised for its portrayal of adolescence and gained a strong cult following, despite being canceled after only one season.Template:Sfn The same year, he made his television film debut starring alongside Alicia Silverstone in Cool and the Crazy, and landed his first film role in the 1995 drama How to Make an American Quilt. He later co-starred with Christina Ricci in The Last of the High Kings (1996) and got a supporting role in Switchback (1997).[11]
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