Afterglow is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan.

Released on 4 November 2003, on Nettwerk in Canada and 4 November 2003, on Arista Records in the United States, it was her first album of new material in six years, and since the success of Surfacing and the Lilith Fair festival.

[1] Afterglow was released on 4 November 2003, and was a success in North America, reaching number two on the Billboard 200, topping the Canadian Albums Chart and selling 361,000 copies in its first week of release.

[9] It reached #33 in the UK (McLachlan's biggest success there thus far) and the top 50 in Australia in 2004.

Afterglow has sold over 2.3 million copies in the US (as of November 2004) and went two times platinum.