Claim: Singer Celine Dion’s song “My Heart Will Go On” from the 1997 epic film “Titanic” hit number 12 on the Billboard 100 charts and got more than 7 million streams on Spotify in the week after the Titan submersible event. Internet rumormongers began drawing links between the submersible accident and the famed 1997 movie depiction of the Titanic shipwreck, with its popular song "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. On June 22, 2023, a Twitter user @TheKing0f_Pop claimed, "My Heart Will Go On" "received (7.8M) streams on Spotify, and [entered] the billboard top 100 at #12 after the submarine mishap." We looked at the Billboard Global 200 dated for June 22, 2023, and found Dion's song did not even make the list. Dion has 13,399,297 monthly listeners according to Spotify and "My Heart Will Go On" is the most highly streamed song as of this writing.

Source: New York Times June 24, 2023 16:02 UTC