CSPC: Enya Popularity Analysis

Enya Career CSPC Results

So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each album by Enya achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	1		Enya (The Celts)	6,190,000	25.02.18	1,804,000	9,000 (30,000)	69,000 (460,000)	182,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 60 LD: 90	8,257,000	20,231,207	182,000	909
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	2		Watermark	13,130,000	25.02.18	6,007,000	459,000 (1,530,000)	225,000 (1,500,000)	462,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 170 LD: 240	20,289,000	20,231,207	462,000	910
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	3		Shepherd Moons	13,270,000	25.02.18	5,214,000	120,000 (400,000)	120,000 (800,000)	405,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 150 LD: 260	19,147,000	20,231,207	405,000	911
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	4		The Memory of Trees	10,030,000	25.02.18	2,420,000	117,000 (390,000)	90,000 (600,000)	241,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 80 LD: 110	12,898,000	20,231,207	241,000	912
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	5		A Day Without Rain	14,430,000	25.02.18	760,000	318,000 (1,060,000)	330,000 (2,200,000)	765,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 270 LD: 380	16,603,000	20,231,207	765,000	913
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	6		Amarantine	4,760,000	25.02.18	297,000	21,000 (70,000)	210,000 (1,400,000)	299,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 90 LD: 160	5,589,000	20,231,207	299,000	914
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	7		And Winter Came...	2,710,000	25.02.18	66,000	2,000 (5,000)	203,000 (1,350,000)	163,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 40 LD: 110	3,144,000	20,231,207	163,000	915
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	8		Dark Sky Island	960,000	25.02.18	0	0 (0)	15,000 (100,000)	433,000 (12/07/23)	Av.: 160 LD: 180	1,408,000	20,231,207	433,000	916
6uothxMWeLWIhsGeF7cyo4	9		Orphan	0	25.02.18	501,000	501,000 (1,670,000)	180,000 (1,200,000)	117,000 (02/25/18)	N/A	1,299,000	20,231,207	117,000	1,662

As a reminder:

• Studio Album: sales of the original album
• Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
• Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
• Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
• Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Artist career totals

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

So, apart from selling more than 65 million studio albums we have seen how Enya added further sales through other releases and formats. All the totals slightly increase, although the final order doesn’t alter the initial picture very much.

If A Day Without Rain was the biggest in terms of pure albums, we can now find both Watermark and Shepherd Moons coming on top of that one largely thanks to their respective biggest tracks, Orinoco Flow and Caribbean Blue. This is how Watermark gets almost 20 million CSPC’s sales and Shepherd Moons follows it just behind at 18,8 million CSPC’s sales. A Day Without Rain gained far less additional sales but it also gets up to 16 million from its original 14,4 million “pure” albums sales.

The Memory Of Trees equally achieved major benefits from other releases jumping from 10 million to 12,7 million CSPC’s sales. At the same time her self-titled debut album adds almost 2 million, and this enables it to pass from almost 6,2 million to 8,1 million CSPC’s sales.

As usual in cases like this her most recent albums don’t gain many extra sales, partially due to their lack of representation in compilations and box sets. At least these additional sales help Dark Sky Island reach 1 million CSPC’s sales, up from its 960,000 pure albums sales.

Overall, Enya has accumulated 86,5 million equivalent albums sales, an enormous total, although it seems it will take quite some time before she hits 100 million. Whatever the case, a very big figure from all possible points of view.

The following pages list her most successful songs as well as her records and achievements. Do not forget to check our amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge her position in the history of the music industry.

As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!

Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Chartmasters.org.