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
OÃche 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.