Amarantine (album)

Amarantine
Standard edition cover. The Special Christmas edition includes a starry, dark blue background.
Studio album by Enya
Released	21 November 2005
Recorded	September 2003 – September 2005
Studio	Aigle Studio, Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
Genre	New-age
Length	45:34 (standard edition) 60:32 (special christmas edition)
Label	Warner Bros. (EU) Reprise (US)
Producer	Nicky Ryan
Enya chronology
Only Time – The Collection (2002) Amarantine (2005) Sounds of the Season: The Enya Collection (2006)
Singles from Amarantine
"Amarantine" Released: 5 December 2005 "It's in the Rain" Released: November 2006

Amarantine is the sixth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter and musician Enya, released on 21 November 2005 by Warner Bros. Records internationally and by Reprise Records in the United States the next day. Following the release of her 2002 compilation box set Only Time – The Collection, Enya took a short break before she started work on a new album in September 2003, her first since A Day Without Rain (2000). Amarantine was recorded in Ireland with her longtime recording partners, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. It is Enya's first album not to include a song in Irish and her first to include songs sung in Japanese and Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma.

Amarantine received mixed reviews from critics, but it was a commercial success and reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, where it sold one million copies in its first month of release, and No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart. Enya released two singles from the album, "Amarantine" and "It's in the Rain". A Christmas Special Edition was released on the album's one year anniversary, and a collectors' edition with a book shortly after. To promote the album, Enya did several interviews and televised performances, including the 2006 World Music Awards. In 2007, the album won Enya her fourth Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. According to Nielsen SoundScan, it was the third top-selling new age album of the 2000s in the United States.^[1]