CSPC: Enya Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.

Enya (The Celts) (1987) – 12,000 equivalent albums

The Celts – 30,000
I Want Tomorrow – 10,000

Watermark (1988) – 465,000 equivalent albums

Exile – 20,000
Orinoco Flow – 1,430,000
Evening Falls… – 70,000
Storms in Africa – 30,000

Shepherd Moons (1991) – 138,000 equivalent albums

Caribbean Blue – 320,000
How Can I Keep from Singing? – 60,000
Book of Days – 80,000

The Memory of Trees (1995) – 117,000 equivalent albums

Anywhere Is – 340,000
On My Way Home – 50,000

A Day Without Rain (2000) – 318,000 equivalent albums

Wild Child – 10,000
Only Time – 1,050,000

Amarantine (2005) – 23,000 equivalent albums

Amarantine – 70,000
It’s in the Rain / Adeste, Fideles – 5,000

And Winter Came… (2008) – 2,000 equivalent albums

Trains and Winter Rains – 5,000

Orphan – 501,000 equivalent albums

Only If… – 160,000
May It Be – 220,000
Oíche Chiúin – Silent Night – 310,000
I Don’t Wanna Know – 900,000
You Should Really Know – 80,000

As someone who started her career in the late 80s, it is no surprise what you see above: her physical singles sales are anything but impressive, with only a mild 5 million, which, given all circumstances, is still a decent total.

Orinoco Flow, from her Watermark LP, is her greatest seller in this format with 1,4 million, driven far more by strong European sales than anywhere else. Additionally, Only Time is a very predictable one: apart from generating massive albums sales to her name, this physical single is another million selling one after its usage for the media coverage of the September 11 attacks back in 2001.