Where will she rank at the end? We shall find out.Īs usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to relevantly gauge her results. With all of the above this article represents a great opportunity to delve into her catalogue, see how much she has sold and what various formats have brought to her. This is without any doubt a major benefit for her, which she capitalized on amazingly well. Anybody interested in new age will more than likely start with one of her LPs.
For most people she is the absolute reference of new age, a genre of music that has become common in the last 4 decades with Enya as the greatest example. What has helped all this time, though? Arguably her music roots.
Despite all of this Enya has been incredibly successful. In particular, the long breaks are hard to overcome when they occur so early on in an artist’s career and more so when the public isn’t quite as familiar with your face as they are with other pop/rock stars. Not only becoming hugely popular, but also in maintaining a long lasting success that she, no matter what, achieved.
The above are, in general, great handicaps. However, some aspects are weird and unusual: she is quite “faceless” compared to other female acts, she has generally taken long breaks between each effort and, most notably, she never went on tour. Of all the music phenomenons over the past decades Enya is a remarkable one for a number of reasons that set her appeal aside from the norm.īorn in Ireland, she started her music career in the early 80s and put out her first album during 1987, managing a highly solid career with a great average-per-album total.