Once (Nightwish album)

Once
Studio album by
Nightwish
Released7 June 2004 (2004-06-07)
RecordedNovember 2003 – March 2004
Studio
GenreSymphonic metal, power metal[1]
Length60:06
Language
  • English
  • Finnish
Label
Producer
Nightwish studio album chronology
Century Child
(2002) 		Once
(2004) 		Dark Passion Play
(2007)
Alternative cover
Special edition cover
Singles from Once
  1. "Nemo"
    Released: 19 April 2004
  2. "Wish I Had an Angel"
    Released: 15 September 2004
  3. "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan"
    Released: 24 November 2004 (Finland and Japan only)
  4. "The Siren"
    Released: 25 June 2005

Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 7 June 2004 by Spinefarm Records in Finland and Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe. It is the fifth and last album to feature Tarja Turunen on lead vocals. The album cost nearly €250,000 to make[2] (1,000,000 including the videos[3]), which made it Finland's most expensive recording ever until the release of Nightwish's next album, Dark Passion Play, which cost over €500,000 to produce.[4] As of 2013, Once had sold 2.3 million copies worldwide, becoming Nightwish's most successful album to date. The remastering of the album was released on 6 August 2021.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Metal Storm was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Interviews at Metal from Finland". Metalfromfinland.com. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  3. ^ Everley, Dave (8 December 2015). "How Nightwish became a modern metal phenomenon". Metal Hammer. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  4. ^ Ahlroth, Jussi (24 September 2007). "Nightwish release Finland's costliest-ever album". Helsingin Sanomat. Archived from the original on 23 December 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  5. ^ Ewing, Jerry (11 June 2021). "Nightwish announce remastered reissue of Once". Prog Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2021.