''Destiny'' is the tenth studio album released by the group Celtic Woman.

Background

On 5 August 2015, Celtic Woman announced that a special unnamed free-to-attend-but-ticketed concert performance would be taking place and recorded in the Round Room at the Mansion House in

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, residence of the

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since 1715 and where the first Dáil proclaimed the

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in 1919, on 13 August 2015. Due to high demand from audiences based in the

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, the group confirmed on 7 August that the performance would be their next concert special for American broadcaster

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. The concert began airing on PBS stations across the United States in late 2015 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in early 2016. ''Destiny'' features vocalists

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, Susan McFadden,

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and fiddler

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, with vocal director and former member

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and German singer

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as guest performers, and vocalist, harpist and member of Irish choral group

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Rebecca Winckworth as an additional guest performer on the PBS special. It is the first album released by the group to feature Carlin and McMahon. The group toured eighty-five cities in North America in support of the album, which was also nominated for

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at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards; the first nomination at the awards for the group.

Track listing

Charts

''Destiny'' opened at No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart, making it Celtic Woman's ninth consecutive album to debut at No. 1. The album spent sixty-four weeks on the Billboard World Music chart, including a total of eleven weeks at the No. 1 spot. The album remained in the chart's top-ten list for forty-one consecutive weeks and forty-eight weeks in total. The album reached No. 60 on the US

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chart.

References

{{Authority control Celtic Woman albums 2015 albums Manhattan Records albums