Celine Dion has amassed a huge multimillion-dollar fortune since bursting onto the music scene.
The singer, often referred to as the “Queen of Power Ballads,” began performing in the 1980s when she was still in high school after she was discovered by her future manager and husband, René Angélil, who was 26 years her senior.
While still a teenager, she released a series of French-language albums that did moderately well in her home country of Canada. In 1988, at the age of 20, she gained international recognition by winning the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Switzerland.
Dion’s international breakthrough came when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track to Disney’s animated film “Beauty and the Beast” in 1991. By the end of the 1990s, Dion had several certified diamond albums in the US and a number of international No. 1 hits.
According to a Forbes report published in January 2023, Dion — who now resides in Nevada — has an estimated net worth of $480 million, making her one of the richest self-made women in America.
Here’s a breakdown of how the superstar makes and spends her fortune.
In total, she has released 27 studio albums, seven live albums, 19 compilation albums, and 25 box sets across the span of her career.
Her albums “D’eux” and “S’il suffisait d’aimer” are the top two best-selling French-language albums of all time.
Her English-language albums “Falling into You” and “Let’s Talk About Love” made her the first female artist to have two of her albums sell over 30 million copies worldwide. The former sold 32 million copies while the latter sold 31 million copies.
Across her career, Dion has set and shattered a number of world records, including the record for the all-time best-selling Canadian artist worldwide and the best-selling French-language artist in history.
Recorded as the theme song to the movie “Titanic,” the four-time Grammy award-winning song topped the charts in more than 25 countries and sold over 18 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time, and the second highest-selling single by a woman.
Only Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” has sold more copies.
Dion’s Taking Chances World Tour, which she embarked on between 2008 and 2009, was one of the highest-grossing concert tours of the 2000s, bringing in $279.2 million at the time.
Her most successful tour during the 1990s was her Let’s Talk About Love World Tour, which made $133 million.
More recently, Dion’s sold-out 2018 tour in support of her greatest hits album, “The Best So Far… 2018 Tour Edition,” grossed $56.5 million.
According to Pollstar, the Courage World Tour — her latest tour — sold 646,346 tickets across 52 shows in the US and Canada in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, grossing $104 million.
Dion initially rescheduled her remaining international dates as a result of the worldwide lockdown. She postponed them again in late 2022, after sharing her diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome.
According to her website, in 2019, the entertainer entered into a partnership with cosmetics brand L’Oréal and was named the company’s global spokesperson.
Dion has also made deals with other cosmetics companies in the past, releasing her fragrance line, Celine Dion Parfums, in collaboration with Coty Inc., which has generated over $850 million in retail sales since its launch in 2003, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In 2004, she partnered with Air Canada for an undisclosed sum to help promote their new in-flight service products and new aircraft livery, even lending her voice to “You and I,” the theme of the airline’s new advertising campaign.
In 2018, she partnered with the children’s boutique brand NUNUNU, to create CELINUNUNU, a gender-neutral clothing line for kids. The collection featured more than 70 unisex designs and styles for kids aged 0 to 14 years.
Before he died in 2016, the singer and her husband and manager, René Angélil, owned Les Productions Feeling Inc., also known as Feeling Inc., which is a Canadian artist management company.
The couple — and then latterly just Dion — also owned Le Mirage Golf Club in Quebec, before they sold it to a group headed up by hockey player Serge Savard in 2020.
Dion also invested in the nightclub Pure, located at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, with former basketball pro Shaquille O’Neal and tennis champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.
Dion still co-owns Schwartz’s, a delicatessen restaurant and take-out located in Montreal, in partnership with several other owners.
In 2017, she launched an eponymous bag and accessories line, Céline Dion Collection, with the Bugatti Group. Less than a year later, partners for the brand boasted that it had been a huge success, with the collection bringing in $10 million in sales in just a matter of months.
Nickels Grill & Bar, which Dion founded with four of her friends, began with just one location in 1990. At one point in the last few years, it was acquired by Foodtastic, a restaurant franchisor company owned by Peter Mammas.
Today, there are nine locations spread across Quebec and Ontario. It is not known how much Dion is still involved in the business or whether she still profits from it.
Dion’s two Las Vegas residencies at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, A New Day and Celine, which ran between 2003 and 2007 and 2011 and 2019 respectively, made a combined $681.3 million, according to figures reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
The two residencies, which saw Dion take to the stage for 1,141 performances, sold over 4.5 million tickets.
During her second outing at the Colosseum, Dion actually fit time into her schedule to tour internationally, allowing her to simultaneously bring in money from the residency and her tour.
According to Architectural Digest, Dion owns an estate in the Vegas suburb of Henderson, which she purchased for $5 million in 2003 shortly after launching her first Las Vegas residency.
It is believed that that is the singer’s primary property.
Per the same outlet, Dion previously owned several impressive homes around the world.
In 2010, she commissioned a sprawling six-building compound to be built in Florida as a getaway for her family. The impressive Bahamian-style home featured two guesthouses, a tennis court, a beach house, and its own water park.
She first put it on the market in 2013, with an asking price of $72 million. The oceanfront home sold in 2017 for a reduced price of $28 million.
The same year, Dion also listed her 8,000-square-foot Parisian home for €9 million, or almost $9.5 million, according to Variety. It is not known when or if the property was ever sold.
According to reports, up until April of this year, Dion also owned a second home in Las Vegas. Located in the affluent private community called The Summit Club, the 31,000-square-foot property, which Dion bought in 2017 for $9.2 million and reportedly renovated, sold for $30 million, tripling her initial investment in the property.
The 56-year-old star made her feature film debut in the rom-com “Love Again,” alongside Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Sam Heughan. In the film, she portrayed a fictionalized version of herself and recorded five new songs for the soundtrack.
