Fields Of Gold,” a No. 2 hit on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, won a BMI Pop Song Award in 1994. The album as a whole had six Grammy nominations, winning three, also including Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Best Music Video, Long Form. It was nominated for three BPI BRIT Awards, including Best British Album and Best British Video, with Sting winning the NRIT Award for Best British Male Artist as a performer. Ten Summoner’s Tales was also nominated for 1993’s Mercury Music Prize. A digital expanded edition of Sting’s fourth solo album, Ten Summoner’s Tales is released today (24) by A&M/UMe to mark its 30th anniversary.

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The album, produced by the artist with his longtime collaborator Hugh Padgham, included many of Sting’s best-loved songs, including such hit singles as “It’s Probably Me,” “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” “Fields of Gold,” and “Shape of My Heart.” Its title was a lighthearted combination of Sting’s given surname, Sumner, and the summoner, a character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 15th-century literary staple The Canterbury Tales. The album was recorded at the Elizabethan country property Lake House in Wiltshire, England. Sting himself played bass, double bass, harmonica, and saxophone, created the arrangements and sang all of the album’s lead vocals.Ten Summoner’s Tales has been certified 3x platinum by the RIAA, reached No.1 in Australia, and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200. “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You” was a No.1 single in Australia, went Top 10 in many other countries and Top 20 in both the US and UK. It won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and was further nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year.