Century Child

Century Child
Nightwish studio album
Publication (s)	2002
Label (s)	Drakkar ( D ); Spinefarm Records ( FI ); Toys Factory ( JP ); XIII bis ( F ); Universal Music (Rest of Europe and Asia )
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Symphonic metal , power metal
Title (number)	10 (exclusive online tracks)
running time	50 min 11 sec
occupation	Singing : Tarja Turunen E-bass / vocals : Marco Hietala guitar : Emppu Vuorinen drums : Jukka Nevalainen keyboard : Tuomas Holopainen
production	Tuomas Holopainen and Tee Cee Kinnunen
Studio (s)	Finnvox Studios / Caverock Studios
chronology Over the Hills and Far Away (2001) Century Child Once (2004)

Century Child [ ˈsɛntʃəɹi ˈtʃaɪld ] is the fourth album by the Finnish metal band Nightwish . It was released on June 24, 2002 and was the first Nightwish album in which Marco Hietala participated as bassist and as a vocal counterpart to singer Tarja Turunen . Century Child is seen as a concept album by a lot of people , which keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen says in a way it is.

Track listing

1. Bless the Child (6:12)
2. End of All Hope (3:55)
3. Dead to the World (4:19)
4. Ever Dream (4:43)
5. Slaying the Dreamer (4:31)
6. Forever Yours (3:50)
7. Ocean Soul (4:14)
8. Feel for You (3:55)
9. The Phantom of the Opera (4:10) ( cover version of the play of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber )
10. Beauty of the Beast (10:21)
    1. Long Lost Love
    2. One more night to live
    3. Christabel
11. The Wayfarer * (3:22)

* Only included on the Japanese version.

Singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Century Child   DE 5 07/08/2002 (14 weeks)   AT 15th 07/07/2002 (10 weeks)   CH 50 07/07/2002 (7 weeks)   FI 1 22/2002 (20 weeks)

Singles

Ever dream   FI 1 19/2002 (18 weeks) Bless the Child   DE 63 09/02/2002 (6 weeks)   FI 1 30/2002 (14 weeks)

Ever dream

Ever Dream , the first single from Century Child, reached number 1 and went platinum in Finland .

Track listing

1. Ever dream
2. The Phantom of the Opera
3. The Wayfarer

Bless the Child

Bless the Child was released on August 26, 2002 in Germany. In addition to the normal single, a DVD- Plus was released, which also contains the videos for Bless The Child and Over The Hills And Far Away as well as a 30-minute interview with Tuomas Holopainen and Tarja Turunen.

Track listing

1. Bless the Child (Single Edit)
2. The Wayfarer
3. Come Cover Me
4. Dead Boys Poem
5. Once upon a troubadour
6. A return to the sea
7. Sleepwalker
8. Nightquest

Other versions

Finland

Century Child's limited edition, only available in Finland, includes a bonus CD with the video clip for Over The Hills And Far Away and a text code with which you can download three songs ( Nightwish , The Forever Moments and Etiäinen ) from the first Nightwish demo can, at.

Japan

The Japanese version contains The Wayfarer as an additional eleventh track .

success

• Finland : double platinum
• Germany : No. 5 in the album charts , was gold plated on September 6, 2007.

Web links

• Century Child lyrics
• Review at laut.de
• Detailed information , especially on the different versions (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ musicline.de: Nightwish in the German album charts ( memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ musicline.de: Nightwish in the German single charts ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ austriancharts.at: Nightwish in the Austrian charts
4. ^ Hitparade.ch: Nightwish in the Swiss hit parade
5. ↑ finnishcharts.com: Nightwish in the Finnish charts