Daniel O'Donnell: How Lucky I Must Be

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Daniel O’Donnell’s recording career has now spanned almost 35 years and he continues to delight fans around the world by his recording and touring activities. I’m not a million miles from 40 years ago, really, I am still singing My Donegal Shore, it sits in there along with Down at The La De Dah, you know. It will be 40 years in February 2023 since I released My Donegal Shore, that was the first record,” he explained. The country music legend’s recording career has now spanned more than 35 years and he continues to delight fans around the world by his recording and touring activities. The album also features two songs by P J Murrihy, who has written for Daniel in the past, and who penned I’m Grateful and Plains Of Old Kildare.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Daniel will support the album with a number of TV/Radio interviews, as well as embarking on an Autumn tour. His last release, Daniel, hit number 3 in the UK Charts last year, making it his highest ever Top 40 placing in Britain. Daniel O'Donnell 60 is at number 4 in the UK charts With a recording career spanning more than 35 years, Daniel O'Donnell continues to delight fans around the world by recording and touring, with over 50 albums under his belt. In 2022, he broke his own world record, by becoming the first recording artist to chart at least one new album every year in the Artist Albums Chart for 35 consecutive years.Daniel O'Donnell 60 has shot into the UK Album Chart at number 4 behind Coldplay, The Beatles and Adele. Read more: Louise Morrissey on home life with husband Johnny, their wedding and his recent cancer battle Ireland’s best-loved singing sensation was born Daniel Francis Noel O’Donnell on December 12, 1961. He was born in Dungloe, Co. Donegal to mother Julia O’Donnell (nee McGonagle) and Francis O’Donnell.

In 2021, he broke his own world record by becoming the first recording artist to chart at least one new album each year in the Artist Albums Chart for 34 consecutive years. He added: “And I don’t know what that is, you know, but last night, at my show, I read out a message for a mother, daughter, granddaughter in the audience together and that is very common. And next year O’Donnell will celebrate his anniversary with a series of tours, which will include a stint in the UK. In a statement he commented: "I'm thrilled to be in the UK charts yet again after all these years recording. I think that would go for any artist at the moment, and the understanding that this is how we have to deal with it.A mix of up-tempo songs and ballads, I Wish you Well includes two ‘Buble-esque’ tunes - Under A Spell of Loving You, written by Fergal Flaherty and Always There written especially for Daniel by Brendan Graham and Rolf Loevland, who wrote You Raise Me Up. During his career, in the UK Daniel has amassed forty-eight Top 75 albums, including nineteen Top 10 albums, with seventeen of them this century, a feat not achieved by any other recording artist. You find somebody might come along whose mother or grandmother really loved the music and they come just out of a memory for them, and they realise that they really enjoyed the show, and they stay coming. Irish country music star Daniel O'Donnell is celebrating after his latest album has become a top five chart hit in the UK.