Falling into You: Around the World was the eighth concert tour by Canadian singer Celine Dion, launched to support her fourth English‑language studio album, Falling into You (1996). Spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, the tour became the most extensive of Dion's career, comprising 145 performances and attracting large audiences across multiple continents. Designed to present material from Falling into You—an album that would go on to sell more than 32 million copies worldwide—the tour also incorporated selections from Dion's earlier repertoire.
Background
In February 1996, Dion announced a global concert tour in support of her album Falling into You, with performances initially planned across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. The tour ultimately expanded into an international concert venture lasting more than a year, comprising 145 shows in 17 countries—making it the most extensive concert tour of her career in terms of total performances.
The tour began on 18 March 1996 in Perth, Australia, and concluded on 28 June 1997 in Nice, France. During the final European leg in June 1997, Dion performed for some of the largest audiences she had attracted up to that point, with attendance figures ranging from 35,000 to 70,000 people. Total worldwide attendance for the tour is estimated at approximately 1.7 million.
Opening acts
Soul Attorneys (select North American dates, summer 1996)
The concerts held on 14–15 March 1997 at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee were filmed and later broadcast on television. The performance was released on VHS in November 1998. A DVD edition was scheduled for release in Japan on 27 February 2008, but the project was ultimately cancelled.
A 1996 concert in Zurich was recorded for promotional use as a live CD, with only a limited number of copies produced.
Concerts in both Australia and Montreal were also filmed and broadcast as television specials. The Australian program featured four songs along with interview segments in which Dion discussed the album. The Montreal special included six songs, and the performances of "All by Myself" and "To Love You More" were later released as live music videos.
