Solo Artist
Holds writing credit on 84 of 108 tracks
She is credited on 84 of her 108 studio tracks and is the only writer on 53. Almost all of the tracks she is not on are carols and standards from her two Christmas albums.
Across all 108 tracks: how many Sarah McLachlan wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Share of all 108 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Sarah McLachlan's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Sarah McLachlan sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Ten studio albums, two of them Christmas records. She founded the Lilith Fair touring festival in 1997.
Nettwerk
Nettwerk / Arista
Nettwerk / Arista
Nettwerk / Arista
Nettwerk / Arista
Nettwerk / Arista
Nettwerk / Arista
Verve
Verve
Concord
No albums from this decade.
Sarah McLachlan108 tracks
88Pierre Marchand, 88 tracks
11Bob Rock, 11 tracks
VJ11Vincent Jones, 11 tracks
11Tony Berg, 11 tracks
WM11Will Maclellan, 11 tracks
GR8Greg Reely, 8 tracks
LD3Luke Doucet, 3 tracks
TD2Tom Douglas, 2 tracks
MM2Matt Morris, 2 tracks
TD2Thomas Doucet, 2 tracks
AP2Anne Preven, 2 tracks
DP1Darren Phillips, 1 track
CW1Colleen Wolstenholme, 1 track
JL1John Lennon, 1 track on The Beatles's page
YO1Yoko Ono, 1 track
WC1William Chatterton Dix, 1 track
JM1Joni Mitchell, 1 track
WK1Walter Kent, 1 track
KG1Kim Gannon, 1 track
PB1Phillips Brooks, 1 track
LR1Lewis Redner, 1 track
JM1Josef Mohr, 1 track
FG1Franz Gruber, 1 track
FX1Franz X. Gruber, 1 track
GL1Gordon Lightfoot, 1 track
HM1Hugh Martin, 1 track
RB1Ralph Blane, 1 track
CR1Christina Rossetti, 1 track
GH1Gustav Holst, 1 track
VG1Vince Guaraldi, 1 track
LM1Lee Mendelson, 1 track
DK1Diana Krall, 1 track
SE1Susan Enan, 1 track
BD1Blair Dally, 1 track
HL1Hillary Lindsay, 1 track
DF1Don Felder, 1 track on Eagles's page
[L1[http://www.allmusic.com/song/love-beside-me-mt0049054620 Love Beside Me - Sarah McLachlan, 1 track
RW1Robert Wells, 1 track
MT1Mel Tormé, 1 track
SC1Sammy Cahn, 1 track
JS1Jule Styne, 1 track
IB1Irving Berlin, 1 track
FB1Felix Bernard, 1 track
RB1Richard Bernhard Smith, 1 track
RB1Richard B. Smith, 1 track
JL1Jay Livingston, 1 track
RE1Ray Evans, 1 track
BB1Benjamin Bock, 1 track
MM1Matthew Morris, 1 track
KG1Katie Gavin, 1 track
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. VJ Vincent Jones · WM Will Maclellan · GR Greg Reely
Data Insight
She is credited on 84 of her 108 studio tracks and is the only writer on 53. Almost every track she is not on comes from the two Christmas albums, which are carols and standards. Where she writes, Pierre Marchand is the name most often beside hers, and on four albums nobody else appears at all.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
A writer on everything she made from scratch, working with one producer for thirty-five years.
The Story
Sarah McLachlan signed to Nettwerk out of Halifax at nineteen and made three albums before Surfacing sold eight times platinum in 1997. She founded Lilith Fair the same year. Ten studio albums have followed, two of them Christmas records, and Pierre Marchand has produced nearly all of them.