| Riverdance: Music From the Show | |
|---|---|
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Recorded | Windmill Lane Studios |
| Genre | Irish folk |
| Length | 1:03:13 |
| Label | Celtic Heartbeat/Atlantic |
| Producer | Bill Whelan |
Riverdance: Music from the Show is an album of the music composed by Bill Whelan for the Riverdance theatrical show, and performed by the show's own musicians and singers.
The recording was engineered and mixed at Windmill Lane Studios in 1995. [1] In 1997, it won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album for 1996. [2] [3] The album was released five times: in 1995, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2020, each time with a different cover, sometimes different versions or mixes of the songs, and a slightly different track list. [4] Notably, the "Cloudsong" and "Riverdance" segments are placed under one track going by the name of the latter.
Track listing from the original release in 1995: [5] [6]
The album was re-released four times, with a different cover and a slightly different track list each time. [4]
| Riverdance: Music From the Show | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1997 |
| Recorded | Windmill Lane Studios |
| Genre | Irish folk |
| Length | 1:12:16 |
| Label | Celtic Heartbeat/Decca |
| Producer | Bill Whelan |
Track listing from the second release, in 1997: [1] [7]
| Riverdance: Music From the Show | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2003 |
| Recorded | Windmill Lane Studios |
| Genre | Irish folk |
| Length | 1:20:43 |
| Label | Celtic Heartbeat/Universal |
| Producer | Bill Whelan |
Track listing from the third release, in 2003, which was the Japanese version and included two bonus tracks: [8]
| Riverdance: Music From the Show | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2005 |
| Recorded | Windmill Lane Studios |
| Genre | Irish folk |
| Length | 1:12:25 |
| Label | Celtic Heartbeat/Universal |
| Producer | Bill Whelan |
Track listing from the fourth release, in 2005, labelled as "10th Anniversary Edition, with newly recorded music": [9] [10]
The recording included the following performers and production team: [1] [5] [9]
Musicians
| Singers
Irish dancers
Production
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| Chart (1995–1999) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) [11] | 4 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [12] | 23 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] | 24 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] | 35 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [15] | 20 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [16] | 8 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [17] | 39 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [18] | 15 |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [19] | 3 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [20] | 4 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [21] | 23 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [22] | 31 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA) [23] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) [24] | Gold | 100,000* |
| United States (RIAA) [25] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. | ||
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