Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter most known for founding the Lilith Fair women's music festival. She has released a total of six studio albums, being Surfacing her top selling album with more than 8 million copies in the U.S. alone, and another seven compilation and live albums. All of her recordings have been released through the Canadian-based Nettwerk Records and distributed by Arista Records. Her last three studio albums have reached the No. 1 place in the Canadian Albums Chart and the Top 10 on the Billboard 200. She has sold a total of 40 million copies worldwide.

To date McLachlan has received three Grammy Awards, where she's been nominated for all of her releases since 1995, a total of eight Juno Awards from her home country. She's also been awarded by the Billboard Music Awards, MuchMusic Video Awards, and the Western Canadian Music Awards. She also been included in numerous music lists by VH1 and the Rolling Stone magazine. McLachlan has also been appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada.

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.^[1]

The Billboard Music Awards are an annual American awards show sponsored by the Billboard magazine awarding the top charting singles and artists.

The Critics' Choice Award is an awards show presented annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Sarah McLachlan has been nominated once.

The Grammy Awards were established in 1958 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States awarding the best in the music industry.

The Helpmann Awards recognise distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in Australia's live performing arts sectors.

The Winter Music Conference is a weeklong electronic music conference held annually, they host the International Dance Music Awards. Sarah McLachlan has received one nomination.

The Juno Awards, the Canadian Grammys, are awarded annually to Canadian musicians by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

The MTV Video Music Awards were established by MTV in 1984 to award the top videos of the year.

The MVPA Awards are annually presented by a Los Angeles-based music trade organization to honor the year's best music videos.^[3]

The MuchMusic Video Awards are annual awards presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honour the year's best music videos.

The Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to one Canadian album.^[4][5][6]

The Western Canadian Music Awards were established in 2003 by the Western Canada Music Alliance to honour the best of music in Western Canada.

• 1999 – McLachlan ranked No. 69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.
• 1999 – McLachlan was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC).
• 2001 - McLachlan was appointed as a Member of the Order of British Columbia (OBC) ^[7]
• 2002 - Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (Canadian Version).
• 2007 – McLachlan's song "Building A Mystery" ranked No. 91 on the VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's
• 2011 – Canadian Music Week, Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award^[8]
• 2012 - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (Canadian Version).
• 2017 – Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Inducted^[9]