Angel

About Angel

"Angel" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. The song first appeared on Surfacing, the Canadian singer's 1997 album. The lyrics are about the death of Jonathan Melvoin (1961–1996), the Smashing Pumpkins' touring keyboard player, from a heroin overdose, as McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers. It is sometimes mistitled as "In the Arms of an Angel" or "Arms of the Angel". "Angel" was McLachlan's second consecutive top-five hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number four and remaining in the top ten for nineteen weeks. In McLachlan's native Canada, the song reached number seven on the RPM Top Singles Chart and was the forty-eighth best-selling single of the year. Outside North America, the song has charted in several countries in the years following its release, including reaching number seven in Ireland (in 2002) and number nine in Norway (in 2008). more »