My Heart Will Go On

"My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song of the highly popular 1997 film Titanic. Released in 1998, it went to number one in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. It stayed at this position for two weeks in each of the aforementioned countries.

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Theme song - Titanic - United States - United Kingdom

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The song was written by Will Jennings and James Horner. Although James Cameron, the director of Titanic, did not want a song played over the end credits of the film, Jennings and Horner went ahead and recorded the song with Céline Dion regardless. It is said that Cameron was so taken with Dion's voice that he changed his mind about the song and indeed, the song does play over the end credits.

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Will Jennings - James Horner - James Cameron - Céline Dion

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Dion has admitted that when she first heard the song, she didn't want to record it. It was her husband, René Angélil, who convinced her to record it. Also notable is that the recording heard on radio and Dion's albums is the demo for the song. Horner, Dion and Sony Music decided to keep the demo as the official recording because "Dion's voice was perfect".

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René Angélil - Sony Music

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It appears on several albums, including three of Dion's: Let's Talk about Love, All The Way... A Decade of Song and A New Day... Live in Las Vegas. It has also appeared on several compilation albums, and won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Song.

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Album - Let's Talk about Love - All The Way... A Decade of Song - A New Day... Live in Las Vegas - Compilation - Academy Award for Best Song

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