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Miracle (2004)

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The title track of this album was written in 2001 for a different album, and it was not included on that album.

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Miracle: twenty-first studio album and ninth English-language album by Canadian singer Celine Dion
Released 11 October 2004 by Columbia Records and Epic Records
Concept album created in collaboration with Australian photographer Anne Geddes
Songs produced by David Foster
Part of a CD-and-book multimedia collection
Dion's music serves as the soundtrack to Geddes's pictorial book celebrating the joy of babies
Released in three formats: CD; CD/DVD with a 60-page booklet; 180-page hardcover book with CD/DVD

David Foster had not collaborated with Dion since 1999
Album includes cover versions of songs by John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, Roberta Flack, Johannes Brahms, Nancy Wilson, Henri Salvador and Carol Welsman
Title track written in 2001 for A New Day Has Come to celebrate the birth of Dion's son René-Charles, but not included on that album
Some tracks were previously released on Dion's albums, such as "Brahms's Lullaby" on These Are Special Times
"A Mother's Prayer" is a solo version of "The Prayer", a duet with Andrea Bocelli from These Are Special Times
"Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce)" was performed live by Dion and Henri Salvador in October 2003 for the 1 fille & 4 types TV special, but this duet version was not included on any album

Songs produced by David Foster
"Je lui dirai" was previously available on 1 fille & 4 types and included as a bonus track in Francophone countries

1	Miracle	3:39
2	Brahms' Lullaby	3:33
3	If I Could	4:48
4	Sleep Tight	4:41
5	What a Wonderful World	3:49
6	My Precious One	3:53
7	A Mother's Prayer	3:43
8	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	4:10
9	Baby Close Your Eyes	3:26
10	Come to Me	4:36
11	Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (Une chanson douce)	3:14
12	Beautiful Boy	3:54
13	In Some Small Way	5:07

Born 30 March 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children.
Discovered by future manager and husband René Angélil after her brother sent him a demo recording of her first song "Ce n'était qu'un rêve".
Angélil mortgaged his home in 1981 to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu, which became a No. 1 hit in Quebec.
Won the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1982.
Won the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 for Switzerland with "Ne partez pas sans moi".

Debuted in the Anglophone market with Unison (1990), followed by Celine Dion (1992).
Breakthrough with "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) with Peabo Bryson, winning her first Grammy.
The Colour of My Love (1993) and Falling into You (1996) became major international successes.
"My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (1997) became her signature song and one of the best-selling singles.
D'eux (1995) became the best-selling French-language album.
Held the A New Day... residency at Caesars Palace (2003–2007), the highest-grossing concert residency; the Los Angeles Times ranked her the top-earning artist of the 2000s.
Announced in 2022 a diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome, cancelling tours; returned to performing at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

Allmusic: Miracle is the quietest record Dion has recorded in a while, an unabashed adult contemporary album that keeps its gentle mood from start to finish
Allmusic: Dion tempers her vocal histrionics considerably, with no pyrotechnics or showboating, which serves this collection of standards and new songs quite well

Canada: number one
Belgium (Wallonia): number one
United States: debuted at number four with 107,000 copies sold
France: debuted at number four
Netherlands: debuted at number four
United Kingdom: number five
Switzerland: number six
Greece: number nine
United States: 18 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Top Kid Audio chart, a record
United States: platinum certification
Canada: platinum certification
United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium: gold certification
Three months after release, the Miracle CD had sold more than two million copies worldwide
Book/CD/DVD package reached 500,000 copies sold

The title track was written in 2001 for A New Day Has Come to celebrate the birth of Dion's son René-Charles, but it was not included on that album.
"Brahms's Lullaby" had been released earlier on These Are Special Times.
"Le loup, la biche et le chevalier" was performed live by Dion and Henri Salvador in October 2003, but the duet version was not included on any album.
The French edition also includes "Je lui dirai".
The limited edition includes a bonus DVD with The Making of Miracle.