• Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Nov 13, 2007
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. As far as standard Celine fare goes, in fact, Chances is likely her strongest non-French outing since 2002's "A New Day Has Come;" nobody unfolds a lyric with more care or nuance.
  2. Packing an emotional wallop, Chances should quash critics who insist that Dion's voice is stainless steel.
  3. Are chances taken? Not many, but there are rewards if you're willing to enjoy Dion's precise vocalizing and the hooky songs.
  4. It's an album of its time: it offers extravagance in the guise of self-help, which can be alluring in doses--especially those bizarre blues-rockers--but it's just too much of a very expensive yet not particularly tasteful thing.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    58
    It's cool that Dion can mimic everyone from Shakira to Sam Phillips...but her appalling Janis Joplin impression is a Chance too far. [16 Nov 2007, p.76]
  6. The laborious 16-track record purportedly finds the queen of adult contemporary-turned-Vegas attraction taking chances by modernizing her treacly power ballad sound with lots of overdubbed guitars and of-the-moment collaborators.
  7. The album is also comfortably ignorant of the times. With its feathery production and common pop arrangements, it could have come out in 1996.
  8. Alas, her cat-strangling whine is still a remarkably ugly sound, no matter what she's singing.
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 68
  2. Negative: 16 out of 68
  1. May 25, 2012
    8
    This is a great album. Her voice in this album is really good. The tracks are good and I can really connect to it. I don't understand why someThis is a great album. Her voice in this album is really good. The tracks are good and I can really connect to it. I don't understand why some users gave it a 0 or 1. All I know is...this is a great one from Celine Dion............. Full Review »
  2. ManuelP.
    Jan 3, 2008
    10
    Best vocal performance Celine Dion , I use to think she was annoying and cheesy but omg , listen to Taking Chances , all the songs are Best vocal performance Celine Dion , I use to think she was annoying and cheesy but omg , listen to Taking Chances , all the songs are amazing, album of the year. Full Review »
  3. DavidM.
    Dec 19, 2007
    9
    'This Time' is brilliant! Lots of other gens for those willing to give it a good listen.