Jim didn’t want to end the film with a pop song. Randy Gerston ( music supervisor, Titanic): We had done a record deal with Sony to do the soundtrack - just the Horner score - and I think the label imagined that they would get an end-title song into the film. The movie was meant to come out July 3 in April, it was still almost five hours long. Titanic was the film that was going to bring down two studios, Fox and Paramount. Simon Franglen ( co-producer, “My Heart Will Go On” ): The buzz was terrible. Billboard spoke with her - as well as the song’s producers, Titanic team members and actor Billy Zane - about tales of tension at the Grammy Awards, Kate Winslet’s real feelings about the song and even menstrual cramps in the studio.

In honor of the song’s 20th anniversary, Dion, 49, will perform “My Heart Will Go On” at the Billboard Music Awards. In 2016, according to Nielsen Music, “My Heart Will Go On” garnered 60 million on-demand audio and video streams, making it Dion’s most streamed song of the year, and the Titanic soundtrack is one of only seven soundtracks to be certified diamond by the RIAA. After Titanic’s release, it was memorably spoofed on Saturday Night Live (on Ana Gasteyer’s “The Céline Dion Show”) and South Park, and it continues to inspire countless memes (recently, “Titanic Hoops,” which sets basketball clips to the song’s climax). Twenty years later, the anthem’s global influence shows no sign of abating. Horner with his Oscars for best original song and best original dramatic score.

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