Paint the Sky with Stars

Paint the Sky with Stars
Greatest hits album by Enya
Released 3 November 1997
Genre
Length 57:50
Label
Producer
Enya chronology
The Memory of Trees
(1995)		 Paint the Sky with Stars
(1997)		 A Box of Dreams
(1997)
Singles from Paint the Sky with Stars
  1. "Only If..."
    Released: 3 November 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[2]

Paint the Sky with Stars – The Best of Enya is the first compilation album by Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released on 3 November 1997 by Warner Music internationally and on 11 November 1997 by Reprise Records in the United States. Following her worldwide promotional tour in support of her previous album The Memory of Trees (1995), Enya began selecting tracks for a compilation album in early 1997 as her recording contract with Warner permitted her to do so. The album contains songs from her debut studio album Enya, released in 1987, to The Memory of Trees and two new tracks, "Paint the Sky with Stars" and "Only If...".

Paint the Sky with Stars received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and number thirty on the Billboard 200 in the United States. In the latter territory, the album continued to sell over the next eight years, reaching four million copies shipped in 2005. In Japan, it became the first non-Japanese album under the Warner label to receive a Japan Gold Disc Award in the Grand Prix Album category for selling over one million copies.[3][4]

Critical reception

Paint the Sky with Stars received universal acclaim from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic rated the album five stars out of five and says that Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya is an excellent 16-song overview of Enya's career, containing 14 selections from The Celts, Watermark, Shepherd Moons, and The Memory of Trees -- including "Caribbean Blue", "Anywhere Is", "Marble Halls", "Book of Days" and, of course, "Orinoco Flow" -- as well as two previously unreleased songs ("Only If...", "Paint the Sky with Stars") that fit comfortably with her past work.[5]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Roma Ryan, except for "Marble Halls", all music composed by Enya and all songs produced by Nicky Ryan.

No.TitleFrom the albumLength
1."Orinoco Flow"  Watermark4:26
2."Caribbean Blue"  Shepherd Moons3:58
3."Book of Days"  Shepherd Moons2:56
4."Anywhere Is"  The Memory of Trees3:46
5."Only If..." (previously unreleased) 3:19
6."The Celts"  Enya2:57
7."China Roses"  The Memory of Trees4:40
8."Shepherd Moons"  Shepherd Moons3:40
9."Ebudæ"  Shepherd Moons1:52
10."Storms in Africa"  Watermark4:11
11."Watermark"  Watermark2:26
12."Paint the Sky with Stars" (previously unreleased) 4:15
13."Marble Halls"  Shepherd Moons3:55
14."On My Way Home" (Single Version)The Memory of Trees3:38
15."The Memory of Trees"  The Memory of Trees4:19
16."Boadicea"  Enya3:28

Singles

"Only If..." was also released as a single the same year with the previously unreleased "Willows on the Water" along with the Oíche Chiúin ("Silent Night") as accompanying tracks.

"Boadicea" was sampled by The Fugees on their UK No. 1 hit "Ready or Not"; it was also sampled by Mario Winans on his UK No. 1 and US No. 2 hit "I Don't Wanna Know".

Production

Accolades

Japan Gold Disc Awards

Year Nominee/work Award Result
1998 Paint the Sky with Stars Best International Pop Albums of the Year[4][6]Won

Charts

Peak positions

Chart Position
Australian ARIA Album Chart[7] 10
Austrian Albums Chart[8] 3
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[9] 9
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[10] 13
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[11] 33
Dutch Albums Chart[12] 10
Finnish Albums Chart[13] 12
German Media Control Albums Chart[14] 5
Hungarian Albums Chart[15] 12
Italian Albums Chart[16] 1
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[17] 4
New Zealand Albums Chart[18] 6
Norwegian Albums Chart[19] 2
Spanish Albums Chart[20] 2
Swedish Albums Chart[21] 1
Swiss Albums Chart[22] 7
UK Albums Chart[23] 4
U.S. Billboard 200[24] 30

Year-end charts

Chart (1997) Position
Australian Albums Chart[25] 41
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[26] 33
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[27] 47
Chart (1998) Position
Australian Albums Chart[28] 67
Austrian Albums Chart[29] 50
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[30] 46
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[31] 83
Dutch Albums Chart[32] 57
German Albums Chart[33] 65
Italian Albums Chart[16] 12
Japanese Albums Chart[34] 44
US Billboard 200[35] 83

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[36] 4× Platinum 240,000*
Australia (ARIA)[37] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[38] Gold 25,000*
Belgium (BEA)[39] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Brazil (ABPD)[40] 2× Platinum 500,000*
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[41] Gold 23,900[41]
Germany (BVMI)[42] Platinum 500,000^
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[43] Platinum 20,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[44] Million 1,078,000[45]
Netherlands (NVPI)[46] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[47] Platinum 15,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[48] Platinum 50,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[49] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Sweden (GLF)[50] 2× Platinum 160,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[51] Platinum 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[52] 2× Platinum 600,000^
United States (RIAA)[53] 4× Platinum 4,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[54] 3× Platinum 3,000,000*
Worldwide 12,000,000[55]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Country Date Format Label
Worldwide 3 November 1997
Warner Music
United States 11 November 1997 Reprise Records

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 280. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  3. ↑ Pride, Dominic (11 April 1998). "Global Music Pulse". Billboard. Vol. 110 no. 15. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 "第12回日本ゴールドディスク大賞" [Gold Disc Hall of Fame 12th]. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ↑ AllMusic review
  6. ↑ Lee Tobin. "About Enya". Enya.com. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
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  16. 1 2 "Hit Parade Italia – Gli album più venduti del 1998" (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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  37. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
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  40. ↑ "Brazilian album certifications – Enya – Paint the Sky with Stars" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos.
  41. 1 2 "Enya" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
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