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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 ...

's album '' Tellement j'ai d'amour...''. It was released on 13 December 1982 in Quebec, Canada.

Background

On 31 October 1982, with this track Dion won a gold medal for Outstanding Song Award at the

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, Japan and the Yamaha Symphony Orchestra Award for Best Artist. Dion performed "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" in front of 115 million of TV viewers and 12,000 in the audience. There were 1907 contestants and 30 finalists. Dion received also 4

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s the following year and one of them in category: Quebec Artist Achieving the Most Success Outside the Province of Quebec. The single was a hit in Quebec. It entered the chart on 25 December 1982, peaking at number 3. "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" re-entered the chart on 22 October 1983 and stayed there through 14 January 1984, peaking this time at number 17. It spent forty four weeks on the chart. The B-side of that release was another album track called "Écoutez-moi". "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" appeared on Dion's 2005 French best of album ''

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''.

Track listings and formats

*Canadian 7" single #"Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" – 2:56 #"Écoutez-moi" – 3:03

Charts

References

{{Celine Dion French singles 1982 singles 1982 songs Celine Dion songs French-language songs Song recordings produced by Eddy Marnay Songs written by Eddy Marnay Songs written by Hubert Giraud