Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya is a 1997 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 Enya

Enya

Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

 featuring a selection of her best known material plus two previously unreleased tracks: "Paint the Sky with Stars" and "Only If...".

Track listing

All songs composed by Enya with lyrics by Roma Ryan

Roma Ryan

Roma Shane Ryan is an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, currently living in Artane, Ireland, with her husband Nicky....

, except for "Marble Halls"

1. "Orinoco Flow
   Orinoco Flow
   "Orinoco Flow " is a 1988 single written and recorded by Enya. It also featured on her second studio album, Watermark.-Background:...
   
   " – 4:26
2. "Caribbean Blue
   Caribbean Blue
   "Caribbean Blue" is a hit song by Irish musician Enya originally released as the second track on her 1991 album Shepherd Moons."Caribbean Blue" got to Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart...
   
   " – 3:58
3. "Book of Days
   Book of Days (song)
   "Book of Days" is a hit song released in two versions, both composed and recorded by Irish musician Enya. The original version, included on the 1991 album Shepherd Moons, was sung in Irish Gaelic. The subsequent 1992 single version was bilingual, with new English lyrics; this version was recorded...
   
   " – 2:56
4. "Anywhere Is
   Anywhere Is
   "Anywhere Is" is a hit single by Enya. It is the second song in the album The Memory of Trees and it peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1995. The lyrics of the song are in English. The additional tracks were Boadicea and Oriel Window. The song was used by rapper Nicki Minaj on her...
   
   " – 3:46
5. "Only If..." – 3:19
6. "The Celts
   The Celts (song)
   "The Celts" is a hit song by Irish musician Enya. Sung entirely in Irish, it is the theme song to the 1986 BBC documentary The Celts, and was first released in the 1987 album Enya. When the album was re-issued in 1992 and re-titled The Celts, the title song was released as the accompanying single,...
   
   " – 2:57
7. "China Roses" – 4:40
8. "Shepherd Moons" – 3:40
9. "Ebudæ" – 1:52
10. "Storms in Africa
    Storms in Africa
    "Storms in Africa" is a song by the Irish singer Enya, featured on her 1988 album Watermark. The song was released as a single in the UK in June 1989 and reached #41....
    
    " – 4:11
11. "Watermark" – 2:26
12. "Paint the Sky with Stars" – 4:15
13. "Marble Halls
    I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
    I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls or "The Gipsy Girl's Dream" is a popular aria from The Bohemian Girl, an 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe, with lyrics by Alfred Bunn. It is sung in the opera by the character Arline, who is in love with Thaddeus, a Polish nobleman and political exile. It has...
    
    " – 3:55
14. "On My Way Home
    On My Way Home (song)
    "On My Way Home" is a single by Irish New Age artist Enya from the album The Memory of Trees. The song achieved considerable success, but less than other singles by Enya...
    
    " – 3:38
15. "The Memory of Trees" – 4:19
16. "Boadicea" – 3:28

Singles

"Only If..." was also released as a single the same year with the previously unreleased "Willows on the Water" along with the Oíche Chiúin ("Silent Night") as accompanying tracks.

"Boadicea" was sampled by The Fugees

The Fugees

Fugees were a Haitian American hip hop group who rose to fame in the mid-1990s. Their repertoire included elements of Hip hop, soul and Caribbean music, particularly reggae. The members of the group were rapper/singer/producer Wyclef Jean, rapper/singer/producer Lauryn Hill, and rapper Pras Michel...

 on their UK #1 hit "Ready or Not"; it was also sampled by Mario Winans

Mario Winans

Mario Winans is an American R&B singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin...

 on his UK #1 and US #2 hit "I Don't Wanna Know

I Don't Wanna Know (Mario Winans song)

"I Don't Wanna Know" is a 2004 song by Mario Winans, featuring a rap by P. Diddy and sampling from Enya's song "Boadicea". It reached #1 in the United Kingdom and in Netherlands, also it reached #2 in the United States, and remains Winans' only major success to date...

".

Charts

Country	Position
Australia	10
Austria	3
Belgium (Flanders)	9
Belgium (Wallonia)	13
Finland	12
Hungary	12
Italy	1
Japan	4
Netherlands	10
New Zealand	6
Norway	2
Spain	48
Sweden	1
Switzerland	7
Taiwan	1
United Kingdom	4
United States	30

Certifications and sales

Production

• Produced by Nicky Ryan
• Arranged by Enya and Nicky Ryan
• Lyrics by Roma Ryan
• Marble Halls (Traditional) arranged by Enya and Nicky Ryan
• All tracks published by EMI Songs Ltd
• Principal photography: David Scheinmann
• Calligraphy and Design: Brody Neuenschwander
• Mastered by Arun