Decades (Nightwish album)

Not to be confused with Decades: Live in Buenos Aires.

Decades is the seventh compilation album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, and contains remastered versions of the original material. It was released on March 9, 2018, which is the same day that they began touring for the Decades: World Tour.^[1] The track listing is presented in reverse chronological order.

Decades
Compilation album by Nightwish
Released	March 9, 2018 (2018-03-09)
Recorded	1996–2015
Genre	Symphonic metal power metal
Length	141:31
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Tuomas Holopainen Tero Kinnunen Nightwish
Nightwish chronology
Walking in the Air: The Greatest Ballads (2011) Decades (2018)

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tuomas Holopainen; all music is composed by Holopainen, except where noted.

Disc one

No.	Title	Music	Original release	Length
1.	"The Greatest Show on Earth"	Holopainen Marko Hietala	Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)	23:59
2.	"Élan"		Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)	4:47
3.	"My Walden"	Holopainen Hietala	Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)	4:41
4.	"Storytime"		Imaginaerum (2011)	5:30
5.	"I Want My Tears Back"		Imaginaerum (2011)	5:11
6.	"Amaranth"		Dark Passion Play (2007)	3:57
7.	"The Poet and the Pendulum"		Dark Passion Play (2007)	13:54
8.	"Nemo"		Once (2004)	4:36
9.	"Wish I Had an Angel"		Once (2004)	4:02
Total length:				70:37

Disc two

No.	Title	Music	Original release	Length
1.	"Ghost Love Score"		Once (2004)	10:02
2.	"Slaying the Dreamer"	Holopainen Emppu Vuorinen	Century Child (2002)	4:34
3.	"End of All Hope"		Century Child (2002)	4:23
4.	"10th Man Down"		Over the Hills and Far Away (2001)	5:29
5.	"The Kinslayer"		Wishmaster (2000)	4:09
6.	"Dead Boy's Poem"		Wishmaster (2000)	6:52
7.	"Gethsemane"		Oceanborn (1998)	5:22
8.	"Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean"		Oceanborn (1998)	4:46
9.	"Sacrament of Wilderness"	Vuorinen Holopainen	Oceanborn (1998)	4:14
10.	"Sleeping Sun"		Oceanborn (1998)	4:33
11.	"Elvenpath"		Angels Fall First (1997)	4:42
12.	"The Carpenter"		Angels Fall First (1997)	6:00
13.	"Nightwish" (demo)		Nightwish Demo (1996)	5:48
Total length:				70:54

Personnel

• Floor Jansen – lead vocals (tracks 1–3 on CD 1)
• Anette Olzon – lead vocals (tracks 4–7 on CD 1)
• Tarja Turunen – lead vocals (tracks 8 and 9 on CD 1, all tracks on CD 2)
• Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards, male vocals (track 12 on CD 2)
• Emppu Vuorinen – guitars, bass (tracks 11 and 12 on CD 2)
• Marko Hietala – bass (all tracks on CD 1, tracks 1–3 on CD 2), male vocals (tracks 1, 5, 7, and 9 on CD 1, track 2 on CD 2), backing vocals (track 2 and 3 on CD 1, track 3 on CD 2)
• Sami Vänskä – bass (on CD 2, tracks 4–10)
• Troy Donockley – Uilleann pipes, low whistle, bodhrán, bouzouki, male vocals (track 3 on CD 1), backing vocals (track 2 on CD 1)
• Kai Hahto – drums (tracks 1–3 on CD 1)
• Jukka Nevalainen – drums (tracks 4–9 on CD 1, all tracks on CD 2)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2018) Peak position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[2] 19 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[3] 25 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[4] 59 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[5] 11 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[6] 68 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[7] 1 French Albums (SNEP)[8] 55 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 5 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[10] 24 Italian Albums (FIMI)[11] 76 Polish Albums (ZPAV)[12] 43 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[13] 25 Scottish Albums (OCC)[14] 34 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] 7 UK Albums (OCC)[16] 62 US Billboard 200[17] 119 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[18] 22

Year-end charts Chart (2018) Position Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19] 87 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[20] 97