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''A Day Without Rain'' is the fifth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Enya Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961; anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish singer and composer. With an estimated equivalent of over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Enya is the best-selli ...
, released on 20 November 2000 by
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and on 21 November 2000 by
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in the US. Following a promotional tour in support of her compilation albums '' Paint the Sky with Stars'' and '' A Box of Dreams'' in late 1997, Enya started work on a new studio album in mid-1998 with her longtime recording partners, producer and arranger
Nicky Ryan Nicholas Dominick Ryan (born 14 July 1946) is an Irish music producer, recording engineer, and manager. He is best known as the longtime business and recording partner for the singer, songwriter and musician Enya alongside his wife, poet and lyr ...
and his wife, lyricist
Roma Ryan Roma Shane Ryan (born 20 January 1950) is an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, who lives in Killiney, Ireland, with her husband Nicky Ryan. She is the primary lyricist for the singer Enya, who has stated that the importance of the Ryans' cont ...
. In a musical departure from her keyboard-oriented sound, Enya incorporates a
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in her songs. ''A Day Without Rain'' received mixed reviews from critics; some felt it too derivative of Enya's previous albums whilst others complimented the minimal use of overdubbing that her sound had become known for. It was a commercial success peaking at No. 6 in the United Kingdom and initially, No. 17 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States. Following the
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, sales of the album and its lead single, " Only Time", skyrocketed after it was used by several radio and television networks in their coverage and aftermath of the attacks. As a result, "Only Time" climbed to No. 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and ''A Day Without Rain'' reached a new peak on the ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 2. It became the fifth highest selling album of 2001 in the United States. To date, it remains Enya's best-selling album in the United States, selling over 7 million copies. ''A Day Without Rain'' is the best selling new age album in history as well as Enya's best selling album worldwide, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya supported it with a promotional tour which included live televised performances. In 2002, the album won Enya her third
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for Best New Age Album.


Background and recording

Following a promotional tour in support of her two compilation albums '' Paint the Sky with Stars'' and '' A Box of Dreams'' at the end of 1997, Enya started work on a new studio album in the mid-1998 with her longtime recording partners, producer and arranger
Nicky Ryan Nicholas Dominick Ryan (born 14 July 1946) is an Irish music producer, recording engineer, and manager. He is best known as the longtime business and recording partner for the singer, songwriter and musician Enya alongside his wife, poet and lyr ...
and his wife, lyricist
Roma Ryan Roma Shane Ryan (born 20 January 1950) is an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, who lives in Killiney, Ireland, with her husband Nicky Ryan. She is the primary lyricist for the singer Enya, who has stated that the importance of the Ryans' cont ...
. It marked her first studio album since ''
The Memory of Trees ''The Memory of Trees'' is the fourth studio album by Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Enya, released on 20 November 1995 by Warner Music Group, WEA. After travelling worldwide to promote her previous album ''Shepherd Moons'' (1991), and c ...
'' in 1995. Around the time of starting on ''A Day Without Rain'', Enya questioned some decisions she had made in her life and found herself answering them in the songs she was writing. She compared the album to reading her own diary: "Like in 'Pilgrim' I was asking myself: So many years have passed, am I happy with the way I'm working? And my answer is that I wouldn't change anything. I really love what I do." ''A Day Without Rain'' was written and recorded in a similar way to Enya's previous albums and without a timeline or deadline set by their label. She first spends time alone developing melodies and outlines of songs on the piano, which she then presents to the Ryans: "I'm quite anxious at this point because it really is an act of laying your soul bare". While Roma starts to write lyrics to the melodies, Enya and Nicky develop them into completed arrangements. After two years' work, Enya felt it was time to "step out of the studio ... time for it to have its life out in the world". The album was recorded at Aigle, the Ryan's home studio in
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,
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. Enya adopted a less intensive schedule, working just five days a week and having weekends off instead of working seven days like she had done on ''The Memory of Trees''. The change made her feel happier as a result. In a musical departure from her keyboard-oriented sound, the album features a
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which Enya said was not a conscious decision initially. Nicky Ryan and she were open to exploring all possibilities with the songs, and stick with elements that give the best creative result. Most of the songs were written in the
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, as Enya believed it helped create a more positive and uplifting mood.


Songs

"Flora's Secret" is a song that makes reference to
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, the Roman mythological goddess of flowers. Enya and Roma incorporated some of Enya's experiences from her own love life on " Only Time" and "Fallen Embers". The former alludes to the difficulties and pressures of finding "the perfect love", which Enya has found difficult throughout her career due to her private lifestyle and that her past relationships were not the right ones. ''A Day Without Rain'' opens with an instrumental title track, which Enya had also done on her previous four studio albums. It was named after the high amount of rainfall over Ireland in the course of a year. After one particular stretch of consistent rain over a few days the sun came out, which inspired Enya to write it. She described its meaning as "the mood of a particularly peaceful day". It was planned for the track to be a song and Roma had prepared an incomplete set of lyrics for it, but as the arrangement developed it was decided for it to remain instrumental. "Wild Child" is a song about embracing positivity and finding moments for yourself during difficult days. "Deora Ar Mo Chroí" is Irish for "Tears on My Heart". Enya gave permission for " Only Time" to be included in the soundtrack to the romantic film '' Sweet November'' (2001) where one of the lead characters finds out they are dying of cancer. She agreed in connection with the death of Irish musician
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, co-founder of the Celtic group
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with his wife
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, from bone cancer in 1994. Enya played synthesiser on their album ''
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'' (1983), and found Kennedy's death particularly sad. "Tempus Vernum" is a darker and moody track in comparison to the opening three tracks that Enya said represents the fragility of life and how we are all together as one in its struggles. "Flora's Secret" is about two lovers laying on the grass on a romantic afternoon. Enya singled out "Fallen Embers" as her favourite track on ''A Day Without Rain''. She knew it was a particularly strong track when she presented it to Roma, who understood the emotion that she tried to put across musically. After Roma finished its lyrics, Enya recalled, "It was so moving to actually sing them". ''Billboard'' magazine rated it as Enya's best vocal performance of her career at the time. The song is about the reminiscence of a lost love, "a celebration of that special time and a lament that it is over." According to Roma Ryan, the lyrics to "Pilgrim" were inspired by
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and
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. The song is about a journey of self-discovery on a more broad scale. "The First of Autumn" is an instrumental that gained inspiration from a poem Roma had written as part of a collection of poems about the seasons. Among them was a
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that was first printed in the liner notes to Enya's limited edition box set ''
Only Time – The Collection ''Only Time: The Collection'' is a box set from Irish ethnicity, Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released on 5 November 2002 in the United States and on 2 December 2002 in Europe. The set contains 51 tracks across four discs that span ...
'' (2002). The Japanese edition of the album includes "Isobella", a song that Roma described as a song for "A spirit child. One whom both Enya and myself experienced yet know nothing about", and named it Isobella.


Release

''A Day Without Rain'' received a launch party at
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in London on 19 October 2000, where guests received a promotional CD of the album containing a personal organiser and a handmade frontispiece. It was released in the UK on 20 November 2000 on
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. Its North American release followed on 21 November on
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. In the US, Reprise promoted ''A Day Without Rain'' with an Internet-driven campaign that involved
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s and
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pages with 30-second snippets of "Only Time", exclusive displays offered at select retail stores, and a dedicated section of the label's web page to the album. It went on to reach, before the 11 September attacks, an initial peak of No. 17 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 in December 2000 and No. 6 on the
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. "Only Time" was released as the album's lead single on 6 November 2000 in the United States and on 13 November 2000 in the United Kingdom. A promotional edition was shipped to
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radio stations across the US on 24 October, and the song premiered on the nationally-syndicated radio show ''
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'' on the same day. Its music video, directed by Graham Fink, was distributed to various
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networks from 31 October. The song gained nationwide radio airplay following its use in an episode of the drama series '' Providence'' and the soundtrack to '' Sweet November'' (2001). By October 2001, the single had spent 43 weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' New Age chart. The song, in April 2001, was remixed without authorisation with added electronic dance beats and keyboards by the Swiss American Federation (S.A.F.), a group formed of
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-based radio DJ and producer Christian Burkholder, a longtime Enya fan, and Marc Dold. The song received radio airplay in Los Angeles before it spread to stations across the country. When the song aired on
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in June, other stations followed suit, which led to Burkholder being contacted by Nicky and Enya, who approved his remix. The second single released from ''A Day Without Rain'', "Wild Child", was issued on 19 March 2001. It charted on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart with a peak of No. 12. Its B-side, "Midnight Blue", is originally an instrumental that was extended with added vocals. It was then renamed as the title track for Enya's album '' And Winter Came...'' (2008). In 2001, the album won Best International Pop Albums of the Year at the
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. In 2002, it won a
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for Best New Age Album.


9/11 aftermath

Following the
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, "Only Time" was used in radio and television coverage of the disaster, which led to increased sales and radio airplay of the single and ''A Day Without Rain'', to the point of both records surpassing their initial peak on the US charts.
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and
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, among other networks, played the song with "Fallen Embers" as backdrops of footage of the victims. Its position on the ''Billboard'' 200 climbed from No. 20 prior to the attacks to its all-time peak of No. 2, driven by the increased audience exposure of "Only Time". In the same month, "Only Time" reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart after it already spent 33 weeks on the chart, breaking a seven-year-old record for the longest climb to the top position in the chart's history. In November 2001, the single climbed to its peak of No. 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, making it Enya's highest-charting single in the US. From October 2001 to January 2002, over 3 million
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-certified units of ''A Day Without Rain'' were sold in the US alone, which included a peak of one million copies sold in 19 days. "Only Time" gained further exposure following its use as a sound bed for promos of the comedy series ''
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'' on the first five episodes of the eighth season. Following the media response and increased sales of Enya's records, "Only Time" was reissued as a maxi-CD on 20 November 2001 containing the S.A.F remix and original version, with earnings from its sales donated to the Uniform Firefighters Association's Widows' and Children's Fund in aid of families of fire fighters involved in the attack rescue operations. ''A Day Without Rain'' became the eight highest selling album worldwide in 2001, selling 6.6 million copies. It also was the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to
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. It remains Enya's highest selling album of her career with a total of 16 million copies sold worldwide.


Critical reception

''A Day Without Rain'' received mixed reviews from music critics. In a review for ''
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'', Mario Tarradell gave a rating of "B+". He thought the album was worth the five-year wait since ''The Memory of Trees'' and is "another lovely piece of work" from Enya. The title track is "an elegant piano melody" that is followed by "dark-to-light, chaos-to-peace progression" for the rest of the album. "Lazy Days", he thought, was "an engulfing pop song filled with swooshing flourishes that one-ups the hooky, wall-of-sound pull" of Enya's past singles "
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" and "
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". Tarradell finalises with the album is "quintessential Enya". Fiona Shepherd reviewed the album for ''
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'' and was more critical, writing Enya continues a "policy of releasing the same album over and over again using a different title and cover" with "drab Celtic moods". She thought the album was not on par with her "earlier epic stuff". A critical review appeared from Gavin Martin of '' The Mirror'', who thought that the title track and "Only Time" would please her fans, but the album "still sounds like undistinguished new age fodder ... The rest of us can go back to watching paint dry." R.S. Murthi for ''
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'' gave a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five for Enya's performance and three out of five for the album's sound quality. He wrote that the album is a "ho-hum New Age effort" with "pretty melodies" but, on the other hand, its "dense textures conceal a compositional shallowness". He deemed some of the track titles "pompous" but the more successful songs, such as "Deora Ar Mo Chroi", are so due to their traditional Celtic elements rather than Enya's own compositions. Stephen Thompson of ''
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'' found it too derivative of Enya's previous albums, which he found far superior to ''A Day Without Rain''. In his review for ''
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'',
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panned the album as nonsense, "goopier, more simplistic" than ''
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'' (1988). Steve Morse welcomed the album in a report for ''
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''. He thought the album is "arguably her best work because there is more emphasis on her gorgeous soprano lead vocals rather than the lush, multitracked harmony vocals". ''
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'' complimented the album's production, writing the more experimental songs like "Only Time" and "Lazy Days" "not only freshen a musical formula that still works extremely well but also leave the listener happily curious about Enya's next move". ''
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'' remarked that the album sounded too similar to her previous releases and thought a change in musical direction after ''Paint the Sky with Stars'' would have been better. Her "skill at ephemeral sonic watercolors has grown wearisome, like a relative who tells the same stories every holiday." In ''
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'', J. D. Considine thought the album belonged in "the same lush, contemplative vein" as Enya's previous albums, which he thought were formed of "pretty but unconnected" tracks. ''A Day Without Rain'', however, was more of a unified album that compared to "a suite instead of a pop album". "One by One", he thought, "conveys all the qualities of a pop hit without succumbing to the typical transience of a Top-40 favorite". ''
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'' recommended the "masterful" album for a "rainy day" because of Enya's characteristic sound and tranquil mood.


Track listing

All music by
Enya Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961; anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish singer and composer. With an estimated equivalent of over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Enya is the best-selli ...
, all lyrics by
Roma Ryan Roma Shane Ryan (born 20 January 1950) is an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, who lives in Killiney, Ireland, with her husband Nicky Ryan. She is the primary lyricist for the singer Enya, who has stated that the importance of the Ryans' cont ...
except "Deora Ar Mo Chroí" adapted into Irish lyrics by Enya from Roma Ryan's poem in English. All songs produced by
Nicky Ryan Nicholas Dominick Ryan (born 14 July 1946) is an Irish music producer, recording engineer, and manager. He is best known as the longtime business and recording partner for the singer, songwriter and musician Enya alongside his wife, poet and lyr ...
. ("The First of Autumn" was omitted from the US edition) ("Isobella" replaced "The First of Autumn" on the Japanese edition)


Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's 2000 liner notes. Music *
Enya Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961; anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish singer and composer. With an estimated equivalent of over 80 million albums sold worldwide, Enya is the best-selli ...
 – lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, keyboard, violin, cello, percussion, Irish adaptation *Wired Strings – additional strings Production *Enya – arrangement, mixing *
Nicky Ryan Nicholas Dominick Ryan (born 14 July 1946) is an Irish music producer, recording engineer, and manager. He is best known as the longtime business and recording partner for the singer, songwriter and musician Enya alongside his wife, poet and lyr ...
 – production, arrangement, engineering, mixing *
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 – design, art direction *Sheila Rock – front cover photography, other photography *
Simon Fowler Simon Geoffrey Fowler (born 25 May 1965) is an English singer, best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene. The Fanatics Simon Fowler commenced his music career as the lead singer and songwriter for Birmingham band The Fanatics, which cons ...
 – photography *The Handsome Foundation – costume design *Dick Beetham – mastering at 360 Mastering


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