Chris De Burgh - 50 Years Of Music

50 Years Of Music is a compilation album by Irish singer songwriter Chris de Burgh, released in October 2024 via Rockwave, Telamo and BMG.

Chris de Burgh celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone during 2024; half a century as a recording artist. Yet when he signed his first recording contract in 1974 and his debut album, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was released by A&M Records that same year, Chris did not look beyond the immediate future.

"As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further," he recalls. "I was incredibly naive about the music business but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, they came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!"

Over the course of five decades, Chris has achieved worldwide album sales in excess of 45 million, performed approaching 4,000 concerts globally and, perhaps more remarkably than anything else, continued to make his music, his way for his loyal followers.

"Without the love and support of my audience I would never have had such a long career," Chris acknowledges. To celebrate that relationship and his musical longevity, Chris releases a new album, 50, in 2024 and embarking on a solo tour throughout Europe and beyond.

This triple album 3LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a wide spine single pocket sleeve with printed inner sleeves, pressed in Europe via Rockwave and BMG.