 | Building a MysterySarah McLachlan |
Writer(s): Sarah McLachlan, Pierre Marchand (see lyrics here) Released: August 19, 1997 First Charted: July 5, 1997 Peak: 13 BB, 12 RR, 28 AC, 4 A40, 110 AA, 3 MR, 18 CN, 97 AU, 10 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 16.3 video, 38.59 streaming |
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About the Song:Sarah McLachlan was born in 1968 in Nova Scotia, Canada. She started music at an early age, playing the ukulele when she was four and later studying classical guitar, classical piano, and voice at the Maritime Conservatory of Music. She fronted the band October Game while still in high school. After their first concert McLachlan was offeed a recording contract with Nettwerk, a Vancouver-based independent record label. WK She wouldn’t sign with them until two years later after finishing high school and a year of school at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design at the insistence of her parents. WK She released her first album, Touch, in 1988. It peaked at #132 on the Billboard album chart and eventually went gold. Her follow-up album, 1991’s Solace, also achieved gold status in the United States and again dented the lower regions of the Billboard album chart (#167). Three singles charted in her native Canada where the album reached #20 and sold 200,000 copies. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, McLachlan’s third album, peaked at #50 and sold three million copies. McLachlan’s next album, Surfacing, was a blockbuster, reaching #2 in the United States and selling 16 million copies worldwide. The album was released as Lilith Fair, a female-artist-driven festival launched by McLachlan, hit the road. “Before this mega-success, it was possible to dismiss Sarah McLachlan as another Enya-influenced peddler of vague mystic allegories. Surfacing changed that. It established the Canadian singer and songwriter as a master of the moody confessional and the soft-focus ethereal atmosphere who knew to put enough backbeat in her tunes to get them on the radio.” TM “There are several fine songs on the album, including the single ‘Building a Mystery.’” AM The album generated a pair of top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits in “Adia” and “Angel,” but it was the album’s first single, “Building a Mystery,” that gave McLachlan her first top-40 Billboard hit and first #1 in Canada. “It might take a couple of spins to pick up on the derision in …her sketch of a lost soul caught up in New Age quackery.” TM The song won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Resources:
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