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The Very Best of Enya is the second greatest hits album by the Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released on 23 November 2009 by Warner Bros. Records.. The album received mostly positive reviews from music critics and peaked at number 32 on the UK Albums Chart and number 55 on the Billboard 200 in the United States.
Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya is the first greatest hits album by Irish singer-songwriter Enya, released on 3 November 1997 by WEA.Following her worldwide promotional tour in support of her previous album The Memory of Trees (1995), Enya began selecting tracks for a compilation album in early 1997, as her recording contract with WEA permitted her to do so.
In 2009, Enya released her second compilation The Very Best of Enya, which broke the record for most weeks at number one on the US Billboard New Age Albums, with more than 150 weeks at the top of the chart.
Irish singer-songwriter Enya of Celtic and New Age music has received various accolades throughout her career spanning five decades. She is the best-selling solo Irish artist—second only behind U2— and one of the best-selling artists of all-time.
[70] [100] [101] [102] Her second compilation album, The Very Best of Enya, was released in November 2009 and featured songs from 1987 to 2008, including a previously unreleased version of "Aníron" and a DVD compiling most of her music videos to date. In 2012, Enya returned to the studio to record her eighth album, Dark Sky Island.
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Taken from her new best-of collection, "Paint The Sky with Stars", Enya delivers yet another great single. "Only If" is as peaceful and memorably melodic as any other of her inspirational, soul-purifying songs, which traditionally are etched with a unique combination of background voices with drums and violin lines.
The music video was directed by Rob O'Connor, and first became available on Enya's official website on 22 October 2008. As well as Enya surrounded by neon light screens and her looking at the city night through a window as a passenger on the train, a few passengers are shown, waiting and moving around a quiet train station.
After Enya sang it and was pleased with it, Ryan developed the language further and used it for two other tracks on Amarantine—"Less Than a Pearl" and "The River Sings". In the liner notes to the 2009 compilation album The Very Best of Enya, "It has been a truly unique journey ...