"Songs based on actual events" . "Lace (band) songs" . "Arista Records" . "1344" . "Sarah McLachlan songs" . "Songs about suicide" . "108.0"^^ . "Warner Bros. Records" . "Angel" . . "Songs about heroin" . . "Songs written by Sarah McLachlan" . "-0.120152"^^ . "Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles" . "Songs about death" . <2LuGzwNy2ws> . . "Billboard Adult Top 40 number-one singles" . "12"^^ . "CD single" . "Pop ballads" . "CAN110400449" . "%22Angel%22 (sometimes mis-titled in non-specialist sources as %22In the Arms of an Angel%22 or %22Arms of the Angel%22) is a song by Sarah McLachlan that originally appeared on her 1997 album Surfacing. As McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers, the song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996.%22Angel%22 was McLachlan's second consecutive top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, debuting at number twelve, and then jumping to the top ten the following week, before peaking at number four. It remained at the top ten for nineteen weeks, and for twenty-nine weeks in the top 100. %22Angel%22 was the eighteenth most successful song of 1999." . "eng" . "1998-11-24"^^ . "false"^^ . . "1999 singles" . "true"^^ . "0"^^ . . "Jill Johnson songs" . "true"^^ . "Songs inspired by deaths" . . "english" . "Arista Records singles" . "2003-11-04"^^ . . "Sarah McLachlan" . "427968"^^ . "Nettwerk" . "1998 singles" . "Songs about drugs" . "Angel" . "Sanna Nielsen songs" . "331000.0"^^ . . . "TRZCJIF128F42850DF" . . "Songs in memory of deceased persons" . "1997 songs" . "Westlife songs" . "Pierre Marchand" . "-17.1"^^ . "619729" . "-0.54406"^^ . "Reprise Records singles" . . "a10827bf-da62-4896-a808-d56367e71077" . . "5714dee325ac0d8aee507389" .