Все хиты Селин Дион: Десятилетие успеха

All the Way A Decade of Song is the first English language greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. Released by Sony Music on 12 November 1999, it features nine previously released songs on most editions and seven new recordings on all editions. Dion worked on new tracks mainly with David Foster. Other producers include Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, James Horner, and Matt Serletic. It is the best selling greatest hits album in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. All the Way A Decade of Song has sold over 22 million copies worldwide, including over nine million in the United States, five million in Europe, two million in Japan and one million units in Canada. All the Way A Decade of Song garnered mostly positive reviews from music critics. Out of all of the new recordings, they especially praised the first uptempo single "That's the Way It Is" and a ballad "If Walls Could Talk". The album became a commercial success throughout the world and peaked at number one in every major music market around the globe. It placed at No. 7 on the US Billboard 200 Year End Chart in the year 2000 and placed at No. 26 on the US Billboard 200 Decade End chart.

After ten years of standing in the spotlight, Celine Dion decided to go on vacation. "I'm looking forward to having no schedule, no pressure, to not caring about whether it's raining or not, just visiting with family and friends, cooking at home, trying to seriously have a child. I want no pressure for a while," she said. Before Dion embarked on her two year respite from the music industry beginning 1 January 2000, she prepared All the Way A Decade of Song to cap a ten year period in which she had sold over 100 million records worldwide. In the '90s, Dion transformed herself from a regional Canadian success into one of the world's most successful pop artists. In that time, she released six English language albums, from 1990's Unison to All the Way A Decade of Song, and six newly recorded French albums, picking up numerous awards, including five Grammys. Collaborators include Max Martin; Robert John "Mutt" Lange; James Horner and Will Jennings, who wrote "My Heart Will Go On"; French songwriter/producer Luc Plamondon; Diane Warren; and David Foster. The Jennings/Horner track "Then You Look at Me" was also placed in December 1999 on the film soundtrack Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams; and Plamondon's "Live (for the One I Love)", which has been translated from its original French version "Vivre", appeared in February 2000 on the French stage show album Notre Dame de Paris. It includes music videos for "If Walls Could Talk" and "Then You Look at Me", which weren't released as singles. It also contains two videos from the 1999 CBS television special, "All the Way" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and music videos for All the Way A Decade of Song singles: "That's the Way It Is", "Live (for the One I Love)" and "I Want You to Need Me" The DVD also includes previous hits, some of them in live versions from the Live in Memphis concert.

On 7 October 1999, Celine Dion taped her second CBS television special at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Dion also performed "That's the Way It Is" in various television and award shows in late 1999, before taking a two year break from the music industry.

"That's the Way It Is" was released as the first single from the album in November 1999. It reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 and became a top ten hit around the world. In February 2000, "Live (for the One I Love)" was released as the second single in selected European countries and in March 2000, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was issued as the next single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number nineteen. The second North American single, "I Want You to Need Me", was released in April 2000 and reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart.

All the Way A Decade of Song garnered generally positive reviews from music critics. Michael Paoletta from Billboard gave it a very positive review, calling the album a reminder of why the decade has been Dion's signature era – and why the future looks bright for her. According to him, regarding seven new songs, All the Way A Decade of Song is Dion's most focused album yet, drawing on a team of collaborators that understands this artists's strengths. Among the highlights Paoletta mentioned: the first single "That's the Way It Is", a welcome up tempo number; "I Want You to Need Me", a consummate love song ripe for a second single; "If Walls Could Talk;" "Then You Look at Me", a characteristically "roof raising, fan stoking" Dion anthem; her "beyond the pale" duet with Frank Sinatra on "All the Way"; and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", a remake that "affirms Dion's ability to lay low and still scintillate". Chuck Taylor also reviewed "I Want You to Need Me" and wrote that linking Dion and Diane Warren has always been about "as fine a fit as a trusty pair of Thom McAn's". Between Warren's "heart drenched" words and dramatic melody writing and Dion's "potent vocals straight from soulside, divadom has never sounded so mighty". According to him, for fans of Dion's "high caliber" power ballads, this is truly among the best ever and a highlight on All the Way A Decade of Song. Longing for romantic attention, Dion sings, "I want you to need me, like the air you breathe/I want you to feel me, in everything/I want you to see me, in your every dream/The way that I taste you, feel you, breathe you, need you". Taylor stated that Warren's trusty melody is wholly natural and free flowing, while production from the usually rock oriented Matt Serletic is "sheer perfection". It all peaks from the glorious midsection through to the end, where Dion delivers exactly what we've come to expect: a crescendo as "spine tingling" as those first few times we heard "My Heart Will Go On". Although Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, he criticized it for including seven new songs and just nine hits. According to him, if it had been a straight hits collection, with "That's the Way It Is" and "If Walls Could Talk" added to the end, it would have been fine, but padding it with nearly a full album worth of new material hurts it. He also noticed that Dion's first American hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", isn't here, nor is her duet with Barbra Streisand, "Tell Him". Erlewine stated that the best of the hits, like the Meat Loaf ian epic "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "My Heart Will Go On", are certainly among the best adult contemporary songs of the decade. In comparison to the new material, he felt that the danceable "That's the Way It Is" and the "pretty" ballad "If Walls Could Talk" work, but he did not like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "All the Way". According to him, the remaining three new songs "aren't bad", but they're not particularly memorable, especially compared to the hits. To date, the album has sold over 22 million copies worldwide, becoming the fifteenth best selling album by a woman in history.

+ Weekly chart performance for All the Way A Decade of Song Chart (1999–2002) Peakposition Argentine Albums (CAPIF) 5 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) 12 Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 2 European Albums (Music & Media) 1 French Compilations (SNEP) 1 Greek Albums (IFPI) 1 Icelandic Albums (Tónlist) 1 Japanese Albums (Oricon) 1 Malaysian Albums (RIM) 3 Portuguese Albums (AFP) 1 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) 1

+ Monthly chart performance for All the Way A Decade of Song Chart (2000) Peakposition South Korean Albums (RIAK) 6

+ Decade end chart performance for All the Way A Decade of Song Chart (2000–2009) Position US Billboard 200 38

+ All time chart performance for All the Way A Decade of Song Chart Position Canadian Artists Albums (SoundScan) 6 Irish Albums Female Artists (OCC) 19