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Enya

1961 - Today

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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 80 million albums sold worldwide, Enya is the best-selling solo artist and the second-best-selling music act from Ireland overall after the rock band U2. Enya's music has been widely recognised for its use of multi-layers of her own vocals and instrumentation, lengthened reverb, and interwoven elements of Celtic music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enya has received more than 10,937,845 page views. Her biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 110 in 2019). Enya is the 99th most popular singer (up from 101st in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Irish Singer.

Enya is a singer and songwriter from Ireland. She is most famous for her music, which is often classified as new age, Celtic, or ambient.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 109

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Enya ranks 99 out of 4,381. Before her are Steven Tyler, Harry Belafonte, Roy Orbison, Dieter Bohlen, Glen Campbell, and Robert Plant. After her are Renata Tebaldi, Enrique Iglesias, Art Garfunkel, Renata Scotto, Robin Gibb, and Gilbert Bécaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Enya ranks 12. Before her are George Clooney, Stephen Hillenburg, Nadia Comăneci, Eddie Murphy, Joko Widodo, and Michael J. Fox. After her are Carl Lewis, Julia Gillard, Peter Jackson, Petr Pavel, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and Carlos Valderrama.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Enya ranks 23 out of 549. Before her are Anne Bonny (1702), John Scotus Eriugena (810), W. B. Yeats (1865), Columbanus (540), Michael D. Higgins (1941), and Laurence Sterne (1713). After her are Lola Montez (1821), Michael Collins (1890), Ernest Shackleton (1874), James Ussher (1581), Cillian Murphy (1976), and Causantín mac Cináeda (836).

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Among SINGERS In Ireland

Among singers born in Ireland, Enya ranks 1. After her are Bob Geldof (1951), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Luke Kelly (1940), Barney McKenna (1939), Charlie McGettigan (1950), Stephen Gately (1976), Christy Moore (1945), Róisín Murphy (1973), Nicky Byrne (1978), Damien Rice (1973), and Maria Doyle Kennedy (1964).

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