Imaginaerum

This article is about the album by Nightwish. For the motion picture of the same name, see Imaginaerum (film).
Imaginaerum
Studio album by
Nightwish
Released30 November 2011 (2011-11-30)
RecordedOctober 2010 – April 2011
Studio
GenreSymphonic metal
Length74:26
Language
Label
ProducerTuomas Holopainen
Nightwish studio album chronology
Dark Passion Play
(2007) 		Imaginaerum
(2011) 		Endless Forms Most Beautiful
(2015)
Singles from Imaginaerum
  1. "Storytime"
    Released: 9 November 2011
  2. "The Crow, the Owl and the Dove"
    Released: 2 March 2012

Imaginaerum is the seventh studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released on 30 November 2011 by Scene Nation Oy and Sony Music in Finland, then on 2 December in Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe and Roadrunner Records worldwide.[1] According to Nightwish songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, the album is a concept album that tells the story of an old composer who is reminiscing of his youth on his deathbed. The album was produced alongside the movie of the same name, directed by Stobe Harju, who previously directed Nightwish's "The Islander" music video, and the album and the film share the same themes and general story.[2] It is their second and last album with vocalist Anette Olzon, as well as the last with drummer Jukka Nevalainen.[a]

The first single off the album, "Storytime", was released on 9 November 2011[3] and quickly topped the Finnish single charts.[4][5] According to Iltasanomat, Imaginaerum sold more than 50,000 copies in Finland on its first day of release.[6] It has been described as Nightwish's best album by Sonic Seducer and was chosen as the album of the month by Dutch metal magazine Aardschok Magazine.[not verified in body]

  1. ^ "NIGHTWISH: "Imaginaerum" - release date ... - Nuclear Blast". Nuclearblast.de. 2011-09-09. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Nightwish.com - Imaginaerum Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference storytime was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference storytime-top was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Suomen virallinen lista - Singlet 46/2011". IFPI.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Hurjat myyntiluvut Nightwishin uutukaiselle". Iltasanomat (in Finnish). Sanoma News. Suomen Tietotoimisto. 1 December 2011. Archived from the original on December 1, 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.


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