Ĭhristian group Selah's version, included in their 2004 album Hiding Place, peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs and Christian Airplay in June 2004. Brian Kennedy released his own solo recording of the song in the same month, reaching #91. Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell's version reached #22 in the UK in December 2003. Despite this modest initial success, the song has since become a major hit around the world, having been covered more than 125 times. When issued as a CD single, the Secret Garden version of "You Raise Me Up" charted at #103 in the UK Singles Chart in May 2002. In April 2019 the United States District Court of the Central District of California granted summary judgment in favor of Løvland and Graham, "finding that it is not substantially similar to Icelandic song Soknudur as a matter of law, and excluding plaintiff's expert musicologist's reports as unreliable, unhelpful, and inadmissible." The court acknowledged that the songs have similarities, but accepted the argument that those similar parts were not necessarily Helgason's own work in the first place substantially the same material is in Londonderry Air (the melody of Danny Boy) and other old public-domain songs. Later, singer Edgar Smári performed "Söknuður" in English to outline the similarities. He then admitted that the two songs were similar and he didn't know where the inspiration came from. It was disclosed at a press conference that Groban had "Söknuður" played for him in 2007, who reacted in an 'alarmed' fashion. The Performing Rights Society of Iceland analyzed both songs and found a 97% similarity between them, stating that the songs are "musically identical" except for just two notes. In April 2018 Icelandic composer Jóhann Helgason claimed the song infringed the copyright of his 1977 work "Söknuður," meaning "Into the light" sung by Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, stating that Løvland would have A demo version of this recording was released in 2010, on Danielsen's posthumous compilation album One More Time - The Very Best Of, which included several previously unpublished recordings. He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen, who also later recorded the song together with Secret Garden. Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow Secret Garden on their Asian tour in 2002, but Curb Records couldn't come to an agreement with Universal to release Brian, and he reluctantly could not attend the tour. The album sold well in both Ireland and Norway. The middle eight is performed by Tracey Campbell-Nation, and backing vocals are by London Community Gospel Choir and Anúna. In 2002, it was released on the Secret Garden album Once in a Red Moon, with the lead vocals recorded by Irish singer Brian Kennedy. However, the vocalist was changed due to a desire to distance the album from the Eurovision Song Contest, in which all three men were known for their success: Logan had won twice as a performer and twice as a composer Løvland had won once as a performer and twice as a composer: and Graham had won twice as a composer.
The original designated vocalist was Johnny Logan, who recorded a demo with an orchestra. The song was performed for the very first time at the funeral of Løvland's mother. He later approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody, after reading Graham's novels.
Løvland composed an instrumental piece in 2001 and titled it "Silent Story". Welsh singer Aled Jones and female Irish ensemble Celtic Woman have also recorded successful covers. Although the original version was not a major hit, the song has since been recorded by more than a hundred other artists, most notably American singer Josh Groban in 2003 and Irish group Westlife in 2005. It was first recorded by Secret Garden, in collaboration with Brian Kennedy. " You Raise Me Up" is a song composed by Rolf Løvland and written by Brendan Graham.
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