''The Collector's Series, Volume One'' is a primarily English-language

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by Canadian singer

Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion ( ; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her ...

, released by

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on 20 October 2000. The album was renamed ''Tout en amour'' (meaning ''All in Love'') in France. It features " The Power of the Dream", the song that Dion performed during the opening ceremony of the

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. The album has sold over three million copies worldwide.

Content

''The Collector's Series, Volume One'' is a compilation of some of Dion's biggest hits and few rare tracks. The album features " The Power of the Dream" from the opening ceremony of the

, duets with

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and

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, and few rarely heard non-English language songs. It also includes singles which were not issued on Dion's previous greatest hits album '' All the Way… A Decade of Song'': "

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", "

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", " Tell Him", and " The Reason". ''Tout en amour'' was released in France also as a limited edition, including twelve colour postcards with previously unreleased photos of Dion. The album was re-released in October 2004 in few European countries, as part of the ''Best of the Best Gold'' series. The gold-disc pressing was housed in a die-cut

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, exposing the gold disc and featured the same tracks that graced the standard pressing.

Critical reception

According to

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from

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, ''The Collector's Series, Volume One'' filled the gaps left by Dion's hits collection, '' All the Way... A Decade of Song'' - the many duets, French and Spanish songs, and previously unheard in the US tracks. He wondered why it couldn't be nothing but rarities, which would have served them better than this "mixed bag".

Commercial performance

''The Collector's Series, Volume One'' has sold over three million copies worldwide and topped chart in France, and reached top ten in Canada and Portugal. In the United States, the album debuted at No. 28 on

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, selling 36,000 copies in its first week. According to

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, it has sold 914,000 copies in the US.

Track listing

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

References

External links

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