Winter Songs
Studio album by
Ronan Keating
Released16 November 2009
Recorded2009
GenrePop, folk, folk pop, folk rock
Length41:15
LabelPolydor Records
ProducerStephen Lipson
Ronan Keating chronology
Songs for My Mother
(2009)		 Winter Songs
(2009)		 Duet
(2010)

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 16 November 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.

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

Credits from booklet.[5]

  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" (Ronan Keating/Paul Barry)
  7. "Little Drummer Boy" (Guest vocals by Stephen Gately) (Katherine Davis/Henry Onorati/Harry Simeone)
  8. "Ring Them Bells" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "Caledonia" (Dougie MacLean)[note 1]
  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)

Notes

  1. ↑ The booklet mistakenly credits Fleecy Moore, composer of Caldonia.[5]

Chart

Chart (2009) Peak
position		 Certification Sales/
shipments
Australian Albums Chart 24 10,000
European Albums Chart 4
Irish Albums Chart 12 10,000
New Zealand Albums Chart 25 1,000
UK Albums Chart 16 Gold 100,000
German Albums Chart[6] 73 4,000

References

  1. ↑ Ronan Keating – Stay (CD, Album – Australia) at Discogs
  2. 1 2 Universal Music UK News
  3. 1 2 hmv.com: music: Winter Songs (2009)
  4. 1 2 Stephen Gately's last song was The Little Drummer Boy
  5. 1 2 Winter Songs (booklet). Polydor Ltd. 2009.
  6. ↑ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts". musicline.de. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
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