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''A Day Without Rain'' is an album by Irish musician Enya, released on 20 September 2000 in the United Kingdom and 21 September 2000 in the United States. It won the Grammy Award for "Best New Age Album" of 2002. It is best known for the song "Only Time" which became a major success in 2000, and again in 2001 when it became identified with the 11 September 2001 attacks through extensive media use. ''A Day Without Rain'' went on to become Enya's biggest selling release of her career and the fifth highest selling album worldwide of 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 50 Global Best Selling Albums for 2001 )〕 It has sold over 15 million copies. It is the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Age Albums | Billboard.com )〕 ==Critical reception== 〕 | rev2 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev2Score = D | rev3 = ''Los Angeles Times'' | rev3score = | rev4 = ''Q'' | rev4Score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Critic Reviews for A Day Without Rain )〕 | rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev5Score = | rev6 = ''The Village Voice'' | rev6Score = D− }} ''A Day Without Rain'' received mixed to negative reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 41, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 8 reviews. Stephen Thompson of ''The A.V. Club'' found it too derivative of Enya's previous albums, which he found far superior to ''A Day Without Rain''. In his review for ''The Village Voice'', Robert Christgau panned the album as nonsense, "goopier, more simplistic" than her breakthrough 1988 album ''Watermark''.〔 In a positive review, ''Billboard'' magazine complimented the album's production and said that the more experimental songs such as "Only Time" and "Lazy Days" "not only freshen a musical formula that still works extremely well but also leave the listener happily curious about Enya's next move. ''People'' recommended the "masterful" album for a "rainy day" because of Enya's characteristic sound and tranquil mood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Day Without Rain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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