


Nightwish has also received 2 nominations from the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards but has not received an award Nightwish already won awards from MTV Europe Music Awards and from World Music Awards. Nightwish has received eleven awards from both the Emma-gaala Awards, from thirteen nominations, and one Echo Awards from two nominations. A new E.P./live album, Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), was released in March 2009 as a MCD/DVD. The supporting tour started on 6 October 2007 and ended on 19 September 2009. In May 2007, former Alyson Avenue frontwoman, Anette Olzon, was revealed as Turunen’s replacement, and in the autumn, the band released a new album – Dark Passion Play, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies. The band produced three more singles and two music videos for the album, as well as " Sleeping Sun", from the 2005 " best of" compilation album, Highest Hopes, prior to vocalist Tarja Turunen’s dismissal. Their biggest US hit single, " Wish I Had an Angel" (2004), made it onto three US film soundtracks as a means to promote their North American tour.
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Their 2004 album, Once, which has sold more than 1.2 million copies, led to Nightwish video clips being shown on MTV in the United States and inclusion of their music in US movie soundtracks. Nightwish is Finland's most successful band with more than 7 million sold albums worldwide, 1 silver award, 11 gold awards and 30 platinum awards.Īlthough Nightwish has been prominent in their home country since the release of their first single, " The Carpenter" (1997) and debut album Angels Fall First, they did not achieve worldwide fame until the release of the albums Oceanborn, Wishmaster and Century Child, which were released in 1998, 20 respectively. This is the line-up of Nightwish, an Echo-winning band from Kitee, Finland, formed in 1996 by songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen.

From left to right: Marko Hietala, Floor Jansen, Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley, Kai Hahto and Emppu Vuorinen Dawkins was even a guest star on the album, lending his voice to the very beginning of Shudder Before the Beautiful and in The Greatest Show on Earth.The band Nightwish at a concert in Esch Sur Alzette in Luxembourg on 16 December 2015.The latter half of the album, with the exception of The Eyes of Sharbat Gula, was reportedly inspired by the works of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins, with lyrics that cite passages from these works.It remains the longest Nightwish song with sung lyrical content.:II: Nature., which includes the nearly 31-minute instrumental All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World. The Greatest Show on Earth was the longest Nightwish song to date for five years before the 2020 release of Human.Three songs from this album have been released as singles. The Greatest Show on Earth (Orchestrated) Shudder Before the Beautiful (Orchestrated)Įndless Forms Most Beautiful (Orchestrated) The Greatest Show on Earth (Instrumental) Shudder Before the Beautiful (Instrumental)Įndless Forms Most Beautiful (Instrumental) The deluxe edition of the album as well as the 2-CD Earbook features instrumental versions of the songs above, while the 3-CD Earbook features the instrumental tracks as well as orchestral versions of the songs-except for My Walden and Edema Ruh.
