The Very Best of Enya received mostly positive reviews from music critics. It spent over 100 weeks at number one on the Billboard New Age Albums chart. It peaked at number 32 on the UK Albums Chart and number 55 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album was released on 23 November 2009 by Warner Music internationally and on 1 December 2009 by Reprise Records in the United States.
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Release and reception Professional ratings Review scores The DVD included in the album's Limited and Deluxe Editions marks the first release of Enya's music videos in North America, following the cancellation of the proposed The Video Collection in 2001. It includes a previously unreleased version of " Aníron" a song Enya wrote for the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). It is Enya's first greatest hits release since Paint the Sky with Stars (1997), but unlike the first collection, Enya did not record new tracks for the release. She agreed to the project, and chose a selection with her longtime collaborators, producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. (2008), Enya's label Warner Music requested that she release a new greatest hits album of her favourite songs of her career. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).Ĭontinue reading at Wikipedia.After promoting her seventh studio album And Winter Came. Enya has won numerous awards, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Her discography has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. (2008), Enya took a four-year career hiatus before she resumed in 2012 and released her eighth studio album, Dark Sky Island (2015).Įnya is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling overall behind U2. Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came. Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995), and A Day Without Rain (2000). The commercial and critical success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single "Orinoco Flow". She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label.
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Thus far, she has sung in ten languages, most notably English, Irish Gaelic ( Gaeilge), Latin, and Welsh.Įnya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince (1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya (1987). Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, world, pop, and Irish folk. She left the group in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore, County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. Regarded as the "Queen of New Age", Enya is the best-selling Irish solo artist in history. Enya Patricia Brennan (Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin born ) is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician, known for pioneering modern Celtic and New-age music.
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