The discography of Irish singer and composer Enya consists of eight studio albums, two compilation albums, twenty-one singles as lead artist and a number of other appearances. Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, containing the major hit song "Orinoco Flow" which topped the UK Singles Chart and the European Hot 100 Singles.
Three years later, the similarly successful Shepherd Moons followed, which debuted at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom and featured the moderately successful singles "Caribbean Blue" and "Book of Days", the latter was the theme of the film Far and Away. In 1992, a re-mastered version of the 1987 Enya album was released as The Celts with the title track as a single. Four years after Shepherd Moons, she released The Memory of Trees in 1995, a top five success in several countries around the world, as well as her first top ten album in the United States. Singles released from the album were "Anywhere Is" and "On My Way Home", the first was a top ten hit in the United Kingdom. In November 1997, Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya. The compilation was a huge sales success, especially in the United States and Japan, and featured two new songs: the title track and the single "Only If...". The following month, the limited box set A Box of Dreams was additionally released, containing three discs and some B-sides from previous singles.
Following a five-year break, Enya released her most successful studio album to date, A Day Without Rain. The album peaking at number two on the US Billboard 200 albums chart and became the best selling new-age album in history. The first single, "Only Time", was used in the film Sweet November and reached the top ten in the United States and number one in Germany. The second single, "Wild Child", was included as the main theme of the soundtrack of the film Calmi Cuori Appassionati, which was Enya's second album to sell over a million copies in Japan. In 2001, Enya recorded the acclaimed song "May It Be", which featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film series, The Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one. The following year, she released her third box set titled Only Time: The Collection.
Enya was formally credited on two hit singles in 2004, "I Don't Wanna Know" and "You Should Really Know", which contains a sample of "Boadicea" previously used by the group Fugees in the song "Ready or Not". The following year, she released her sixth studio album Amarantine, another top ten success in several countries. The title track became her highest-charting single in France and "It's in the Rain" became her highest-charting single in Italy. The album also marks the first published use of Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma Ryan inspired by the fictional Elvish languages by author J. R. R. Tolkien that she had used for Enya's songs for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In 2006, Enya released the Christmas-themed extended play Sounds of the Season: The Enya Holiday Collection exclusively in the United States in Target stores. It was edited and renamed Christmas Secrets EP for its Canadian release and was included in the Special Christmas Edition of Amarantine. Two years later, And Winter Came... was released, the Christmas- and Winter-themed album was another sizable hit, reaching the top ten in many countries, an unusual accomplishment for a seasonal album. It featured the single "Trains and Winter Rains" and a chorale version of "Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)". In 2009, Enya released her second compilation The Very Best of Enya, which broke the record for most weeks at number one on the US Billboard New Age Albums, with more than 150 weeks at the top of the chart. Following taking a break from songwriting and recording, she returned to the studio to record Dark Sky Island in 2012 and released it in 2015 accompanied by the single "Echoes in Rain". The album received a mostly positive reception from critics and was a commercial success upon release, within the top ten in sixteen countries worldwide.
Enya has achieved worldwide record sales of more than 80 million, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has sold over 26.5 million albums in the United States alone according to Nielsen Soundscan, making her one of the best-selling artists in the country. Enya is the artist with most cumulative weeks at number one on the US Billboard New Age Albums, she has won four Grammy Awards and seven World Music Awards.
Albums Studio albums + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales CertificationsIREAUSAustralian chart peaks: Top 50 peaks other than specified: "Ready Or Not": Top 100 peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: N.B. "I Want Tomorrow" did not enter the ARIA top 100 until September 1992, and "The Celts" did not enter the top 100 until February 1995. "The Celts": N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached. All ARIA peaks to 24 September 2020: N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column indicates the release's peak on the national chart.AUT CANCanadian peak positions: Watermark: Shepherd Moons: The Memory of Trees: Paint the Sky with Stars: In the 21st century: GERNLDNZSWESWIUKUS Enya Released: 9 February 1987 Label: BBC (UK) Atlantic (US) Formats: CD, cassette, LP — 26 — — — — 15 — — 69 — US: 1,110,641 (as of 2008) ARIA: Platinum RIAA: Platinum Re-released as The Celts: 16 November 1992 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, cassette, LP, DCC, digital download, streaming — 7 — — 70 28 7 39 — 10 — US: 1,070,973 (as of 2008) ARIA: 2× Platinum BPI: Platinum BVMI: Gold RIAA: Platinum RMNZ: Gold Watermark Released: 19 September 1988 Label: WEA (1988, Europe) Geffen (1989, US) Reprise (1991, US) Formats: CD, cassette, LP, DCC, MD, digital download, streaming — 8 15 8 6 4 1 5 1 5 25 US: 3,877,571 (as of 2008) ARIA: 6× Platinum BPI: 4× Platinum BVMI: Platinum IFPI SWI: Platinum MC: 3× Platinum NVPI: Platinum RIAA: 4× Platinum RMNZ: Platinum Shepherd Moons Released: 4 November 1991 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, cassette, LP, DCC, digital download, streaming — 8 31 7 21 7 3 5 13 1 17 US: 4,674,997 (as of 2008) IRMA: Platinum ARIA: 3× Platinum BPI: 4× Platinum BVMI: Gold IFPI SWI: Gold MC: 3× Platinum NVPI: 2× Platinum RIAA: 5× Platinum RMNZ: Platinum The Memory of Trees Released: 20 November 1995 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming, LP — 1 3 4 4 1 3 1 3 5 9 US: 2,397,724 (as of 2008) ARIA: 4× Platinum BPI: 2× Platinum BVMI: Gold GLF: Platinum IFPI AUT: Platinum MC: Platinum NVPI: Platinum RIAA: 3× Platinum RMNZ: Platinum A Day Without Rain Released: 20 November 2000 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, cassette, MD, digital download, streaming, LP 7 4 1 4 1 2 5 4 2 6 2 US: 6,904,025 (as of 2008) ARIA: 3× Platinum BPI: 2× Platinum BVMI: 3× Platinum GLF: Platinum IFPI AUT: Platinum IFPI SWI: 2× Platinum MC: 8× Platinum NVPI: 3× Platinum RIAA: 7× Platinum RMNZ: Platinum Amarantine Released: 21 November 2005 Label: Warner (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, digital download, streaming, LP 15 13 4 4 3 5 10 4 3 8 6 US: 1,344,593 (as of 2008) IRMA: Platinum ARIA: Platinum BPI: Platinum BVMI: 2× Platinum GLF: Gold IFPI SWI: 2× Platinum NVPI: Platinum RIAA: Platinum RMNZ: Platinum And Winter Came... Released: 7 November 2008 Label: Warner (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, digital download, streaming, LP 13 7 6 4 3 2 9 4 3 6 8 US: 920,000 (as of 2015) IRMA: Platinum ARIA: Platinum BPI: Gold BVMI: 3× Gold GLF: Gold IFPI AUT: Gold IFPI SWI: Platinum NVPI: Platinum RIAA: Gold RMNZ: Platinum Dark Sky Island Released: 20 November 2015 Label: Warner (worldwide) Formats: CD, digital download, streaming, LP 7 8 6 6 3 5 8 22 2 4 8 ARIA: Gold BPI: Gold BVMI: Gold GLF: Gold IFPI SWI: Gold MC: Gold RMNZ: Gold
Compilation albums + List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales CertificationsIREAUSAUTCANGERNLDNZSWESWIUKUS Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya Released: 3 November 1997 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming 48 10 3 33 5 10 6 1 7 4 30 US: 3,456,664 (as of 2008) ARIA: 3× Platinum BPI: 2× Platinum BVMI: Platinum GLF: 2× Platinum IFPI AUT: Platinum IFPI SWI: Platinum NVPI: Gold RIAA: 4× Platinum RMNZ: Platinum The Very Best of Enya Release: 23 November 2009 Label: Warner Bros. (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD, digital download, streaming, LP 22 19 18 23 19 11 6 20 8 32 55 IRMA: Gold ARIA: Gold BPI: Platinum BVMI: Gold RMNZ: Platinum
Soundtrack albums + List of soundtrack albums, with selected chart positions and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications JPN The Frog Prince Released: 21 October 1985 Label: Island Visual Arts Formats: LP, CD — Themes from Calmi Cuori Appassionati Released: 30 October 2001 (JPN) Label: WEA Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 2 RIAJ: Million "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Box sets + List of box sets with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positionsAUSGERNLD The Enya Collection Released: 30 November 1996 (JPN) Label: WEA Formats: CD — — — A Box of Dreams Released: 1 December 1997 Label: WEA Formats: CD, digital download, streaming, LP 199 — — Only Time: The Collection Released: 5 November 2002 Label: WEA (Europe) Reprise (US) Formats: CD — 93 37 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Video albums + List of video albums Title Album details Moonshadows Released: 1991 Label: Warner Music Vision (Europe) Warner Reprise Video (US) Formats: VHS, VCD, Laserdisc The Video Collection Released: 2001 Label: Warner Music Vision, WEA Formats: DVD, VHS The Very Best of Enya Released: 23 November 2009 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: CD + DVD
Extended plays
Studio + List of studio extended plays with sales figures Title EP details Sales Sounds of the Season: The Enya Collection Released: 10 October 2006 (US) Label: Rhino Custom Products, NBCUniversal Formats: CD, digital download US: 214,626 (as of 2008) Re-released in Canada as Christmas Secrets: 28 November 2006 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: CD, digital download
Compilation + List of compilation extended playsTitleEP details 6 Tracks Released: 25 May 1989 (JPN) Label: WEA Formats: CD The Christmas EP Released: 4 November 1994 (CAN) Label: WEA Formats: CD, cassette
Singles As lead artist + List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications AlbumIREIrish (IRMA) peak positions: Top 40 peaks: