Winter Songs (Ronan Keating album)

Winter Songs
Studio album by Ronan Keating
Released November 16, 2009
Recorded 2009
Genre Pop
Length 41:15
Label Polydor Records
Producer Stephen Lipson
Ronan Keating chronology
Songs for My Mother
(2009)		 Winter Songs
(2009)		 Duet
(2010)
Singles from Winter Songs
  1. "Stay"
    Released: November 16, 2009
  2. "It's Only Christmas"
    Released: December 11, 2009

Winter Songs (in Australia and New Zealand titled Stay)[1] is the sixth studio album released by Irish singer/songwriter and Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating. It was released by Polydor Records on November 16, 2009 in the UK and Ireland, debuting at number 16 and 12 in each respective album chart. The first single, a cover of Grammy Award-winning American country music duo Sugarland's hit "Stay", was released digitally on the same day.

Contents

Album information

The album Winter Songs follows the UK number one album Songs for My Mother released six months earlier, this time pulling together a set of 11 songs that evoke special memories of winter and Christmas for Ronan Keating.[2][3] Winter Songs includes traditional Christmas classics such as "Silent Night" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as well as modern festive classics like Joni Mitchell's River and Sugarland's "Stay". Songs originally performed by artists like Simon & Garfunkel ("Homeward Bound") and Bob Dylan ("Ring Them Bells") are also included on the album, which also includes two brand new Ronan Keating songs "It's Only Christmas" and "Scars".[3] Like Keating's previous album, Winter Songs is produced by Stephen Lipson (Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox and Pet Shop Boys). The album also features the last studio recording of Stephen Gately, who died a short while after the album was completed.[4] Ronan told The News Of The World: “What keeps me going is that Stephen is on this album. His vocal on Little Drummer Boy is one of the most beautiful recordings. He is almost angelic – which is truly fitting as I believe my friend is an angel now.”[4] In a press release about the album, Keating said that "some of these songs conjure up some of my favorite Christmas memories".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Winter Song" (Sara Bareilles/Ingrid Michaelson)
  2. "Stay" (Jennifer Nettles)
  3. "Scars" (Steve McEwan/John White)
  4. "Homeward Bound" (Paul Simon)
  5. "River" (Joni Mitchell)
  6. "It's Only Christmas" (Duet with Hayley Westenra) (Ronan Keating/Paul Barry)
  7. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Davis/Henry Onorati/Harry Simeone)
  8. "Ring Them Bells" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "Caledonia" (Fleecy Moore)
  10. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber)
  11. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane/Hugh Martin)
  12. "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (Paul Williams/Roger Nichols)
Australian Alternative Track
6. "It's Only Christmas" (Duet with Kate Ceberano) (Ronan Keating/Paul Barry)

Chart

Chart (2009) Peak
position		 Certification Sales/
shipments
Australian Albums Chart 24
Irish Albums Chart 12
New Zealand Albums Chart 25
UK Albums Chart 16
German Albums Chart[5] 73

References

  1. ^ Ronan Keating - Stay (CD, Album - Australia) at Discogs
  2. ^ a b Universal Music UK News
  3. ^ a b hmv.com: music: Winter Songs (2009)
  4. ^ a b Stephen Gately's last song was The Little Drummer Boy
  5. ^ http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/KEATING%2CRONAN/?type=longplay
Ronan Keating
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Destination
Turn It On
10 Years of Hits
Bring You Home
Songs for My Mother
Winter Songs
Duet
When Ronan Met Burt
Featured singles
"These Days" (With Brian Kennedy)
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