''Yhden Enkelin Unelma'' ("One Angel's Dream") is a
Christmas single by Finnish singer
Tarja Turunen, released as Turunen's first solo project ever, when she was still part of the
symphonic metal
Symphonic metal is a cross-generic style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements. The style features the heavy drums and guitar ...
band
Nightwish
Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Neva ...
, back in December 2004; it was also released as an
Extended Play in limited edition.
Right after the release it debuted at number 2, and ended 2004 after more three weeks at number 1;
it started 2005 as number 4, and reached number 1 again in December 2005, after spending 10 weeks on
the official Finnish charts.
The single has reached
Gold Disc status in Finland with more than 7 thousand copies sold.
The single is sung entirely in the
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish ...
, and Turunen promoted it with a mini tour holding concerts in
Finland,
Germany,
Spain and
Romania, in late 2005.
Track listing
Standard edition
Personnel
References
External links
Turunen's official website
{{Tarja Turunen
2004 singles
Tarja Turunen songs
Finnish songs
2004 songs
Universal Music Group singles