This article delves into the remarkable 40-year career of Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell, highlighting his impressive sales figures, chart success, and enduring popularity. It explores his new compilation album 'Through The Years', which features a collection of hits from his illustrious career.
You can measure Daniel O’Donnell’s incredible 40-year career through his impressive sales feats if you like: here’s a singer who’s achieved 12 gold-selling albums and another seven which have gone silver. Daniel has scored 16 Top 10 albums and 11 Top 30 singles, including the gorgeous Top 10 hit Give A Little Love.
READ MORE: Daniel O'Donnell on Majella's grief and son's wedding, his growing grandkids and 20 years of marriage These 40 songs exemplify how Daniel has an instinct for knowing how to make his music sound just right. Whatever style a song is in, he’s able to give every word in a lyric its own life. Growing up in the Donegal fishing village of Kincasslagh helped foster the community spirit key to Daniel’s closeness with his audience. “What I do now is an extension of the community feeling I had growing up,” he reflects. “After a show, there are only so many people who want to wait to meet you. Some people only want to meet you once. The others – when I go onstage, I see lots of people I recognise, who I’d never have met if I don’t meet people after a show.
Such modest aims have helped Daniel stay strong in making the music he wants to make, rather than chase hits. “There hasn’t been a period where I’ve thought: ‘Oh no, I didn’t achieve that,’” he laughs. “Instead, one thing has led to another. That’s made for a lovely journey. The success I’ve had in America, Australia, New Zealand, I never envisaged going there.”
For people who recognised the variety and hope at the centre of Daniel’s music, the audiences kept growing. International success in North America soon followed, with Daniel revealing: “As I had in the UK, I started in Irish community places like Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. But now I mainly play the Midwest in America. I’d have to look for Irish people at my American shows now.”
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