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"Adia" was McLachlan's first top-five song on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three, totalling 14 weeks in the top five, and ending 1998 as the country's 20th-most-successful song. The song also performed well in McLachlan's native Canada, peaking at number three for three non-consecutive weeks on the RPM Top Singles chart.
The lyrics are about the death of musician Jonathan Melvoin (1961–1996) from a heroin overdose, [1] as McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers. It is sometimes mistitled as "In the Arms of an Angel" [2] or "Arms of the Angel". "Angel" was McLachlan's second consecutive top-five hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number
Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. [2] McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing (1997), for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards.
Surfacing is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, released on 15 July 1997.It was produced by McLachlan's frequent collaborator, Pierre Marchand, and its release coincided with the start of McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour.
Afterglow is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan.Released on 4 November 2003, on Nettwerk in Canada and 4 November 2003, on Arista Records in the United States, it was her first album of new material in six years, and since the success of Surfacing and the Lilith Fair festival.
It opens with the claim of having cost $150,000, despite the ensuing low-quality footage of a barefoot McLachlan in a plain room playing her guitar. The video continues to reveal it actually cost $15, then tracking (in animated and videotaped segments) how the remainder went to enriching lives all around the globe through charitable donations.
In 2008, McLachlan issued her first greatest hits album, Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan, which reached number three in Canada and was certified platinum there. It was followed by 2010's Laws of Illusion , 2014's Shine On and 2016's Wonderland .
Consisting mostly of covers, the album was recorded over a seven-day period in January 2014. The album's title comes from the line "you're in the arms of the angel", from the Sarah McLachlan song "Angel", which is one of the songs McDonald covered for the album. The lead single "Answerphone" was released on 16 March 2014, a day before the album ...