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Falling into You garnered career-best reviews for Dion.

While Dan Leroy wrote that it was not very different from her previous work, and Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Natalie Nichols of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the album was formulaic, other critics, such as Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AMG and Daniel Durchholz, lavished the album as " compelling ", " passionate ", " stylish ", " elegant " and " remarkably well-crafted ".

Falling Into You became Dion's most critically and commercially successful album: it topped the charts in many countries and became one of the best-selling albums of all time.

In the United States, the album reached number-one, and was later certified 11x Platinum for over 11 million copies shipped.

In Canada, the album was certified diamond for over one million copies shipped.

The IFPI certified Falling into You 9x Platinum, an accolade that has been given to only two other albums in history, with one of the two being Dion's own album, Let's Talk About Love.

The album also won Grammy Awards for Best Pop Album, and the academy's highest honor Album of the Year.

Dion's status on the world stage was further solidified when she was asked to perform " The Power of the Dream " at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

In March 1996, Dion launched the Falling into You Tour in support of her new album, giving concerts around the world for over a year.