Records & Achievements
- At 86,457,000 equivalent album sales, Enya is the most successful New Age artist of all-time.
- Shepherd Moons spent 238 weeks inside the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart.
- Watermark spent 141 weeks inside the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Catalog Album Chart.
- From 1989 to 1995, Watermark reached the Australian Top 25 Album Chart in 5 distinct years.
- At 86,457,000 equivalent album sales, Enya is the most successful non-North American female artist of all-time.
- Enya is one of the rare international artists with 3 million selling albums in Japan, one of which is past 2 million.
- Enya owns albums with sales over half a million units in various markets difficult to break like Brazil, Italy and Spain.
- At 12 years (1988-2000), Enya has the longest period among all female artists of consecutive major albums selling over 10 million units. Among all artists only Michael Jackson did better at 16 years (1979-1995).
- At 19,336,000 equivalent album sales, Watermark is among the three most successful albums from 1988.
- At 9,340,000 equivalent album sales, Orinoco Flow is among the three most successful songs from 1988.
Hi MJD!
I was just looking over all the estimates and found a calculation error in the album sales total concerning her Asian sales.
Adding all her studio album plus PTSWS compilation, the total for Japan adds for a little over 6m, while sales outside Japan in Asia is over 5m. But in the page where the total album sales listed, her Japanese sales total a 7,26m, leaving just over 4m for the rest of Asia! I hope you’ll correct this soon!
Hi Raffi!
I have some identified Asian sales in my sheet (Shepherd Moons 320k in SK, 225k in Taiwan, The Memory of Trees 250k there, etc), they got ignored from the total! Now fixed 🙂
Did you include the frog prince (French Lesson) soundtrack from 1984?
I looked it up and it was Enyas first project. She wrote 9 instrumentals for the soundtrack.
I would think that should be included
Hi Nathan!
Actually, I didn’t even wonder if that should be included or not for her since I found no sales at all about it. The album wasn’t even released outside Europe and then it was reissued on CD in 1999 on budget label Spectrum in the UK / Germany and both times it had no impact at all – at best it sold a few thousands!
Not a fan of Carribean Blue. Orinoco Flow should outsell it someday, soon
Damned she’s sexy too!
Never in a million years, would I have thought she would’ve had a higher album sales than Britney Spears. But unsurprisingly she have lower CSPC than Britney.
I knew she had great sales, but I didn’t expect her to be this global! She’s one of the few females who truly made it big everywhere – North America, Europe, Oceania, South America and Asia, with the last two being quite hard to crack for most artists!