Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)
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{{Infobox song
| name = Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)
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| type = song
| artist = Celine Dion
| album = Let's Talk About Love
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1997|11|14}}
| recorded = 1997
| studio = {{hlist|Sunset Sound (Hollywood)|The Hit Factory (New York)}}
| venue =
| genre = Pop
| length = 4:40
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| writer = Corey Hart
| producer = Corey Hart
| misc = {{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|OOKlcZFPiCM|"Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)"}}|type=song}}
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"Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her fifteenth studio album, Let's Talk About Love (1997). It was written and produced by Canadian singer-songwriter Corey Hart. Despite not being released as a single, "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" became popular on the Adult Contemporary radio in Canada, reaching number 17 on the AC chart in November 1998.
Background and release
"Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" and "Where Is the Love" were both written and produced by Corey Hart for Dion's 1997 album, Let's Talk About Love.{{cite web |title=Let's Talk About Love by Céline Dion |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-talk-about-love/1481507885 |website=Apple Music |access-date=5 June 2023 }} The "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" title is also the closing phrase of the 1923 poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.{{cite book|last=Ingham|first=Michael|title=The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2022|isbn=978-1-5275-8568-3}} In the given phrase the term "sleep" denotes death. Hence, the poem's phrase "miles to go before I sleep" means that the there is a lot to achieve in life before death. However Hart's lyrics are applied methaporically to love: "every breath I take for love, I could never be wrong, the journey is long, with miles to go before I sleep".
Thanks to "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)" and "Where Is the Love", Hart was nominated for the Juno Award for Producer of the Year in 1998.{{cite web |title=Corey Hart - The Juno Awards |url=https://junoawards.ca/artist-profile/corey-hart/ |publisher=Juno Awards |access-date=8 June 2023 }} In 1999, Hart was the opening act for Dion during her Let's Talk About Love World Tour in North America.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Corey Hart |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/corey-hart-emc |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=8 June 2023 }} He also wrote "Prayer" for Dion's 2002 album, A New Day Has Come.{{cite web |title=Corey Hart to be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame at 2019 Junos |url=https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/corey-hart-to-be-inducted-into-canadian-music-hall-of-fame-at-2019-junos-1.4979244 |publisher=CBC.ca |date=1 March 2019 |access-date=8 June 2023 }}
Commercial performance
Charts
=Weekly charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1998)
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| {{single chart|Canadaadultcontemporary|17|chartid=7022|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 September 2014|refname=AC chart}} |
=Year-end charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1998)
! scope="col"| Position |
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| scope="row"| Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM){{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6979&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6979.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6979|title=Adult Contemporary - Volume 68, No. 12, December 14, 1998|work=RPM|date=14 December 1998|accessdate=30 September 2014}}
| 81 |
References
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