- Quadruple Platinum
Trophy - Secret Garden was recently awarded a Quadruple Platinum
Trophy for their latest Norwegian release titled, Inside I'm Singing.
With 120,000 CDs sold, this represents yet another great moment in Secret
Garden history. The album debuted in the number #1 position of the Norwegian
VG Album Charts and maintained that position for 5 straight weeks.
- ASCAP Award
On the 29th of November 2005, 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 ...
at the time of publication, there are 125 different recordings of the song.
- Grammy 2004
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".
- Josh Groban recorded
the Secret Garden song "You Raise Me Up" where the song reached
#1 on the Billboard A dult Contemporary chart, with the album at no.1 of the
Billboard top-200 album chart. The song was also performed at the Super Bowl
as a special commemoration to the NASA crew that was tragically killed in
the Columbia accident last year to a world TV-audience of an estimated 900
million.
- Secret Garden's Rolf
Lovland and lyricist Brendan Graham's song, "You Raise Me Up", was
nominated for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards
Nominations (formerly Dove Awards).
- Secret Garden's
Cd's have been released in more than 80 countries.
- Their CD releases
have sold four million albums.
- USA Billboard
charts, a record 2 years with "Songs From A Secret Garden" and White
Stones, Dawn Of A New Century over one year and "Once In A Red Moon still
in the Billboard New Age chart for over 30 weeks.
- Ireland:
Gold, Norway: Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum, New Zealand:
Gold, Hong Kong and China: Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum.
(500.000 Albums sold). In total over 25 individual Gold albums around the
world.
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Twice nominated
World Music Awards, Monaco.
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Voted best
International Production, Shanghai.
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PBS-Special
"A Night With Secret Garden" broadcasted throughout the United
States
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Barbra Streisand
used "Heartstrings" in her wedding to James Brolin and recorded
the track, which was released as the first single from the album "A
Love Like Ours".
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Performed
several Live and TV concerts such as The Nobel Peace Price concert with
Sting, Tina Turner, Brian Ferry, and The Corrs.
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Extensive
travelling and performing recently including China, USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Poland, Turkey and Canada.
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Rolf Lovland
(composer and artist) second to only A-HA in terms of copyright revenue
in Norway.