"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 AllMusic, 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.