CSPC: Enya Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Enya (The Celts) (1987) – 69,000 equivalent albums
The Celts – 100,000
Boadicea – 300,000
Remaining tracks – 60,000
Watermark (1988) – 225,000 equivalent albums
Watermark – 250,000
Orinoco Flow – 800,000
Storms in Africa – 300,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000
Shepherd Moons (1991) – 120,000 equivalent albums
Caribbean Blue – 600,000
Remaining tracks – 200,000
The Memory of Trees (1995) – 90,000 equivalent albums
Anywhere Is – 200,000
Remaining tracks – 400,000
A Day Without Rain (2000) – 330,000 equivalent albums
Wild Child – 200,000
Only Time – 1,500,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000
Amarantine (2005) – 210,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 1,400,000
And Winter Came… (2008) – 203,000 equivalent albums
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – 250,000
Trains and Winter Rains – 200,000
Remaining tracks – 900,000
Dark Sky Island (2015) – 15,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 100,000
Orphan – 180,000 equivalent albums
May It Be – 400,000
OÃche Chiúin – Silent Night – 200,000
I Don’t Wanna Know – 400,000
Remaining tracks – 200,000
Just like she doesn’t belong to the era of massive physical singles sales, one could argue that she doesn’t completely fall into the most modern day and age of digital downloads which started to penetrate the audiences almost at the same time she began losing ground in the music business. She is at the end of the day a straightforward album selling act.
In spite of that some would possibly be surprised by her final digital downloads tally. In fact, Enya‘s cumulative digital sales are as high as 21 million overall, a quantity that compares very well with other acts such as Abba or Pink Floyd, both of which one would have expected to rank much higher.
And to prove her enduring appeal one more time this digital tally is boosted mostly by her oldest content, with Watermark‘s songs coming out on top, and not so much by her most recent studio albums.