heet Music For "You Raise Me Up" Surpasses 20,000 Downloads Musicnotes.com, the online leader in digital sheet music, announced today that it has sold over 20,000 downloads of sheet music for the song "You Raise Me Up." Written by Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland and made popular by a performance by Josh Groban, "You Raise Me Up" is the first song to break the 20,000 download mark for Musicnotes. Sheet music for the song was first made available for download in October of 2003. Musicnotes.com now offers the song in over 30 different downloadable arrangements, the most popular of which is a piano/vocal/guitar arrangement that sells for $4.95 a download. This is yet another amazing milestone for this timeless song.
IL DIVO Il Divo entered the Billboard list at No.1 this week with their album Ancora. They have recorded "You Raise Me Up" in Spanish (Por Ti Seré) for the American edition of the album.
ECRET GARDEN performed You Raise Me Up with Westlife on the internationally televised Nobel Peace Prize Concert from Oslo, Norway.
ESTLIFE's recording of You Raise Me Up won the prestigious RECORD OF THE YEAR in the UK last Saturday. Secret Garden warmly congratulates the group.
GEORGE BEST The family of football legend George Best requested You Raise Me Up to be performed at the funeral in Belfast on Saturday December 3rd. Brian Kennedy, who first recorded the song with Secret Garden and who is a fellow native of Belfast, sang the song at the ceremony. The performance at the funeral was recorded and released on CD and consequently reached the #4 position in the UK charts. We're deeply honored that our song was used for this sad, but very special event.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE On December the 11th Secret Garden appeared with Westlife performing You Raise Me Up on the special Nobel Piece Prize concert from Oslo. The TV program was transmitted throughout the world - some places live, others as a recorded version - i.e. in the States.
ASCAP AWARD On the 29th of November Rolf received an ASCAP award (American Copyright organization) recognizing the success of You Raise Me Up. The hit song, co-written by Brendan Graham, has been performed on American radio 660.000 times, which makes it one of the most popular songs in the US for 2004. The incredible list of cover versions increases by the week... now there are 125 different recordings of the song.
WESTLIFE The most recent recording of You Raise Me Up is by the Irish pop-band WESTLIFE. For those of you outside Europe who are not familiar with the group they are the most successful pop band in the UK by their 14 no 1 singles in the UK-chart. They chose You Raise Me Up for their new single and went straight into the top position in the UK yet again. In Ireland the band has held the top position for an impressive 5 weeks now. Rolf says in a comment: 'We´re very impressed with Westlife's version. The are the first pop-group to cover the song, and they bring it out to a new generation of listeners. It's a great performance. Congratulations from us!
SELAH The American Chistian group SELAH has recently achieved official Platinum award for album sales 1 million in the US. Their single and CMA nominated song is You Raise Me Up. Secret Garden would like to congratulate on their success!
CELTIC WOMAN The new Irish show Celtic Woman has just completed a very successful tour in the US. The show concludes with their own version of You Raise Me Up. They have already sold half a million albums which qualifies them for the Golden Disc Award. It's only the beginning...!
ESTLIFE Releases Single of Rolf Lovland’s ”You Raise Me Up”' Westlife has announced on their website that they will release Rolf Lovland’s “You Raise Me Up” as the band’s first single from their new CD-album, “Face to Face”. The worldwide release is scheduled for October 24th. Rolf Lovland wrote and recorded “You Raise Me Up” in 2001 with lyricist Brendan Graham for Secret Garden’s release of the same year, “Once in Red Moon” with the voice of the Irish vocalist Brian Kennedy gracing the song. Since then “You Raise Me Up” has been recorded by 100 different artists worldwide and has sold an estimated 15 million copies even before Westlife’s coming release. needless to say, Rolf is totally thrilled!
NCE AGAIN, "YOU RAISE ME UP" NOMINATED Secret Garden's Rolf Lovland and lyricist Brendan Graham's song, "You Raise Me Up", was recently nominated for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards Nominations to take place April 13, 2005 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. This song seems to have rare ability to cross musical genres and touch so many. It goes without saying that they are honoured!
NCE AGAIN, "YOU RAISE ME UP" IS IN THE NEWS - WITH A GRAMMY NOMINATION! Josh Groban was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance of Rolf Lovland's melody and Brendan Graham's words for the song "You Raise Me Up". The very fact that the song was nominated is a tremendous honor for both Brendan and Rolf.