My Winter Storm

My Winter Storm is the second solo album by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, and the first to consist mainly of new and original songs specifically written by or for Turunen. The album was released by Universal Music on 19 November 2007 in Finland, on 2 January 2008 in South America and on February 26 in North America and in the United Kingdom was also released a special version limited in 300 copies.

The album was recorded with the collaboration of various artists, including cellist Martin Tillman, guitarist Kiko Loureiro and composer James Dooley, with Turunen also playing additional keyboards. The album contains several music styles including alternative rock and classical music, and it was recorded in different studios in Finland, Brazil, Ireland, USA, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic.[6]

My Winter Storm has sold Platinum in Finland and Double Platinum in Russia, and also reached Tarja's first gold disc in her entire career in the Czech Republic; the album spent two and a half months on the Official Finnish Albums Chart, reaching the highest position right during the first week,[7]  also spending four months on German Top 100, two months on Swiss Top 100 and also a full month on the Austrian Top 40,[7]  ending 2007 at 11th position onBillboard's Top 100 European albums with more than 500,000 copies sold.[8]

To promote the album, Tarja played the Storm World Tour, that took place from Berlin on November 25, 2007, to London on October 19, 2009.[9]



Contents
[hide]  *1 Track listings  ==Track listings[ edit] == ===Deluxe Edition bonus DVD[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Special Extended Edition<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">My Winter Storm - Special Extended Edition was released on January 2, 2009, as a double CD, bringing a new cover art, some live tracks and mixes and also the new songs "Enough", "Wisdom of Wind" and "The Seer" (featuring Doro Pesch) released as the The Seer EP.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ==Personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Credits for My Winter Storm adapted from liner notes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]
 * 1.1 Deluxe Edition bonus DVD
 * 1.2 Special Extended Edition
 * 2 Personnel
 * 2.1 Musicians
 * 2.2 Production
 * 3 Charts performance
 * 3.1 Peak positions
 * 3.2 Sales certifications
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
 * Photo Gallery
 * I Walk Alone (Single Version Video)
 * I Walk Alone (Artist Version Video)
 * I Walk Alone (Making of the Video)
 * My Winter Storm (Making of the Album)