Songoftheday 4/25/21 - There's no one left to finger there's no one here to blame, there's no one left to talk to honey and there ain't no one to buy our innocence...

 

 

"Adia" - Sarah McLachlan

from the album Surfacing (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 27

 

Today's song of the day comes from Canadian songstress Sarah McLachlan, whose fourth studio album Surfacing had already scored a pair of top-40 pop hits in American with the Grammy-winning "Building A Mystery" along with the followup "Sweet Surrender", which reached that mark in the beginning of 1998. The third release from the record would be the ballad "Adia". Written by Sarah with producer Pierre Marchand, the gentle number has her apologizing for her self-assumed inadequacies with either a departed friend or a lost lover. It was probably more the former, since the tune was originally called "Emily". The song ended up being McLachlan's highest-charting pop hit in this country...

"Adia" became McLachlan's first top ten pop hit in the U.S. in August of 1998. The song was big on "easy listening" radio, reaching the top ten on both the Adult Contemporary (#5) and Adult Top-40 (#6) format charts. Internationally, the single also went to #3 in her native Canada, and made the top-40 in the UK at #18. At the Grammy Awards in 1999, "Adia" was nominated for Best Female Pop Performance, losing out to Celine Dion for her unstoppable "My Heart Will Go On". 

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Here's Sarah performing on her Mirrorball live album from 1999...

 

 and again in concert for her Afterglow show in 2004...

 

 

And finally, an acoustic version from a TV stint in 2012...

Up tomorrow: Rap trio raises a glass.