Love Again (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) | ||||
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Released | 12 May 2023 | |||
Length | 56:00 | |||
Label | Sony Music | |||
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Love Again is the soundtrack album to the 2023 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James C. Strouse, Love Again. It was released on 12 May 2023. The album features five new songs by Celine Dion and six of her past hits. The first song, "Love Again" was released on 13 April 2023. The second track, "I'll Be" was released on 5 May 2023. Other new songs include "Waiting on You", "Love of My Life" and "The Gift". Love Again debuted at numbers one in Quebec, two on the UK Soundtrack Albums chart, six in Swiss Romandy and ten in Belgium Wallonia.
In October 2020, Priyanka Chopra, Sam Heughan and Celine Dion joined the cast of the film, tentatively titled Text for You.[1] Principal photography began in October 2020 and ended in early 2021.[2] In April 2022, it was announced that the film had been retitled It's All Coming Back to Me, after the song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", which Dion covered on her 1996 album Falling into You.[3] In November 2022, it was announced that the film was retitled to Love Again.[4] It was released theatrically on 5 May 2023.[5]
Love Again features 11 songs by Celine Dion that are woven into the narrative of the film and its characters.[6] The album features five new Dion songs and six of her past hits, including "It's All Coming Back to Me Now', "All by Myself" and "That's the Way It Is", as well as three of the film's score selections.[6]
On 13 April 2023, Dion released "Love Again", the first song from the soundtrack, and her first new music since her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis in December 2022.[7] Gil Kaufman from Billboard described it as a moving ballad and a gentle piano and acoustic guitar track in which Dion softly sings emotional lyrics: "Cuz you don’t have to move a mountain, just keep moving/ Every move is a new emotion/ And you don’t have to find the answers, just keep trying/ The sun will rise again/ The storms subside again/ This is not the end/ And you will love again".[7] The lyric video with scenes from the movie, was also released on YouTube on the same day.[8][9] The second song, "I'll Be" was released on 5 May 2023.[10]
Entertainment Focus named "Love of My Life" as the finest out of the new songs and gave the album four out of five stars saying: "Dion's music has stood, and will continue to stand, the test of time. She's without a doubt one of the greatest vocalists there has ever been and that's evident across this soundtrack".[11] The Rolling Stone also gave the album a positive review and called it a "killer soundtrack" saying: "it is of course Dion's overwhelming voice and music that flood your heart".[12]
Love Again debuted at number one in Quebec[13] and number 77 on the Canadian Albums Chart.[14] It spent first three weeks at the top of the chart in Quebec.[15][16] In the United States, it reached number 20 on the Top Soundtracks chart,[17] and peaked at numbers 42 on Top Current Album Sales[18] and 71 on Top Album Sales.[19]
In the United Kingdom, Love Again entered the UK Soundtrack Albums chart at number two.[20] It also debuted on other UK albums charts: number 16 on UK Downloads,[21] number 22 on UK Sales[22] and number 24 on UK Physical.[23] Love Again also peaked at number 32 on the Scottish Albums Chart.[24] Other European chart entries include numbers 10 in Belgium Wallonia,[25] 19 in Switzerland[26] (number six in Romandy),[27] 24 in Belgium Flanders[28] and Portugal,[29] and 32 on the Polish Physical Albums chart.[30] In France, Love Again peaked at number 11 on the Physical Albums chart[31] and number 43 on the main chart.[32]
All songs performed by Celine Dion, except three scores by Keegan DeWitt.[33]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Love Again" |
| 3:32 | |
2. | "I'll Be" | 3:03 | ||
3. | "Waiting on You" |
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| 3:11 |
4. | "Love of My Life" | Moccio | 4:24 | |
5. | "The Gift" | The Elev3n | 3:24 | |
6. | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (edit) | Jim Steinman |
| 5:49 |
7. | "Orpheus and Eurydice" (score) | Keegan DeWitt | DeWitt | 3:57 |
8. | "All by Myself" | David Foster | 5:10 | |
9. | "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" | Christopher Neil | 4:34 | |
10. | "Celine Wisdom" (score) | DeWitt | DeWitt | 0:58 |
11. | "A New Day Has Come" |
| 5:41 | |
12. | "Courage" |
| 4:13 | |
13. | "That's the Way It Is" |
| 4:02 | |
14. | "Love Takes Courage" (score) | DeWitt | DeWitt | 4:36 |
Total length: | 56:00 |
Notes
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[28] | 24 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[25] | 10 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[14] | 77 |
French Albums (SNEP)[32] | 43 |
Polish Physical Albums (ZPAV)[30] | 32 |
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[29] | 24 |
Quebec Albums (ADISQ)[13] | 1 |
Scottish Albums (OCC)[24] | 32 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[26] | 19 |
Swiss Romandy Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[27] | 6 |
UK Album Downloads (OCC)[21] | 16 |
UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC)[20] | 2 |
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[17] | 20 |
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[19] | 71 |
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[18] | 42 |
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Various | 12 May 2023 | Sony Music | [34][33] |