"The Reason" is a single from Céline Dion's Let's Talk About Love album. It was released on December 8 1997 in selected European countries.

"The Reason" was co-written by Carole King and produced by Sir George Martin - famous The Beatles producer. King did also the background vocals. It was released in the UK, Ireland and Belgium only. In France, it was issued as a double A-side single with "My Heart Will Go On."

The song peaked at #11 in the United Kingdom and #13 in Ireland. In France, thanks to "My Heart Will Go On" it was #1 for 13 weeks and became a million selling single certified with diamond award (1,197,000 copies sold).

The music video was directed by Scott Floyd Lochmus and released in December 1997.

Dion promoted "The Reason" singing it live in various TV shows in the UK and France. She performed it also during her Let's Talk About Love Tour.

Céline Dion sang it as a duet with Carole King during the VH1 Divas 1998 concert. Carole King recorded also her own version of this song for her 2001 album Love Makes the World (this time with Céline Dion on backing vocals).

Dion included later her version on The Collector's Series, Volume One compilation.

The recording of this song was included as a part of the Au cœur du stade DVD bonus.

"Reason" is a pop song written by Thorsten Brötzmann and Alexander Geringas for the No Angels' debut studio album Elle'ments (2001). Originally entitled "That's the Reason", a Brötzmann and Geringas produced and partially re-written version of the song was released as the band's farewell single on November 24, 2003 (see 2003 in music) before their disbandment in December 2003. While "Reason" peaked at number 9 in Germany, number 12 in Austria and number 28 in Switzerland, the song failed to enter the top 40 of the European charts.

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