To Love You More

"To Love You More"
1995 retail Japanese mini CD single
Single by Celine Dion
from the album The Colour of My Love
Released21 October 1995 (1995-10-21)
StudioChartmarker, Record Plant
GenrePop
Length
  • 5:28
  • 4:39 (edit)
Label
Songwriters
ProducerDavid Foster
Celine Dion singles chronology
"Next Plane Out"
(1995) 		"To Love You More"
(1995) 		"Falling into You"
(1996)
Audio video
"To Love You More" on YouTube

"To Love You More" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion, written by David Foster and Edgar Bronfman Jr., who used the pen name Junior Miles. Issued as a single in Japan on 21 October 1995, it became a major commercial success, reaching number one on the Oricon Singles Chart and selling 1.5 million copies. The lyrics depict a woman imploring her partner not to leave her for someone else.

Background and release

"To Love You More" was recorded for the Japanese television drama Koibito yo (My Dear Lover) and included on the 1995 Japanese reissue of Dion's album The Colour of My Love. The track later appeared on the Asian edition of Falling into You, on Live à Paris—where it served as a radio single in Canada—and on the US edition of Let's Talk About Love, from which it was released as a promotional single. Commercial physical releases were limited to Japan, first as a mini CD single in 1995 and later as a maxi-single featuring remixes by Tony Moran in 1999.[1]

In 1995, Sony Music Entertainment Japan issued a promotional video showing Dion performing the studio version. A second promotional video, released in 1996, featured a live performance from the Falling Into You Around the World Tour with violinist Taro Hakase.

"To Love You More" became one of Dion's most frequently performed songs. It appeared in the setlists of the Falling Into You Around the World Tour, Let's Talk About Love World Tour, A New Day..., the Taking Chances World Tour, the 2018 tour, and the final year of her Las Vegas residency Celine. Dion also performed the song at BST Hyde Park in London on 5 July 2019 and during the Courage World Tour. Live versions appear on several of her DVDs, including Live in Las Vegas - A New Day.... The track was included on all editions of her 1999 greatest hits album All the Way... A Decade of Song and on My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection in 2008.

The song received multiple awards, including the International Single Grand Prix at the Japan Gold Disc Awards,[2] an ASCAP Pop Award, and two BMI Pop Awards for Most Performed Song in the United States.

Commercial performance

"To Love You More" became a major hit in Japan, topping the Oricon Singles Chart for five weeks and selling 1.5 million copies.[3] Dion was the first international artist to reach number one on the chart since Irene Cara with "Flashdance... What a Feeling" in 1983. The song remains the third best-selling single by an international artist in Japan and the best-selling single by an international female artist. It is also one of only three international singles to have sold more than one million copies in the country. Dion is the most recent North American artist to reach number one on the chart.

In July 2010, a full-length realtone version was certified gold for 100,000 downloads.[4][5]

In the United States, the edited radio version—omitting the violin bridge and part of the ending—received substantial airplay. It spent eight weeks at number one on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. In Canada, the song peaked at number four on the Quebec Airplay Chart and number five on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.

Formats and track listings

Japanese 1995 mini CD single[6]

  1. "To Love You More" – 5:29
  2. "To Love You More" (instrumental) – 5:29

Japanese 1999 CD single (dance mixes)[7]

  1. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's crossover edit) – 4:53
  2. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's pop edit) – 5:53
  3. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's I'll be... waiting vocal mix) – 10:08
  4. "To Love You More" – 5:30

Japanese 1995 promotional CD single[8]

  1. "To Love You More" (radio edit) – 3:55

US 1998 promotional CD single[9]

  1. "To Love You More" (radio edit) – 4:39
  2. "To Love You More" (album version) – 5:28

US 1998 promotional CD and UK promotional 12-inch single[10][11]

  1. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's pop edit) – 4:53
  2. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's crossover edit) – 4:53
  3. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's I'll be... waiting vocal) – 10:07

US 1998 promotional 12-inch single[12]

  1. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's I'll be... waiting vocal mix) – 10:10
  2. "To Love You More" (Tony Moran's dubbing you more mix) – 9:35

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)[32]
Mini CD single 		Million 1,500,000[31][3]
Japan (RIAJ)[4]
Full-length ringtone 		Gold 100,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref(s).
Japan 21 October 1995 Mini CD SMEJ [33][34]
United States 12 May 1998 All radio formats
[35][36]
Japan 7 April 1999 CD SMEJ [37]

See also

References

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