Blondie discography

Blondie discography
Studio albums 10
Live albums 4
Compilation albums 14
Video albums 7
Music videos 33
Singles 36

This is the discography of American new wave band Blondie. Since 1976 they have released 10 studio albums, 4 live albums, 14 compilation albums, 3 remix albums and 36 singles. The band has sold an estimated 40 million albums.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[4]
GER
[5]
NLD
[6]
NZ
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
Blondie 14 75*
Plastic Letters
  • Released: February 1978
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
72 64 2 38 33 10
Parallel Lines
  • Released: September 1978
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
6 2 24 2 9 7 3 16 9 1
Eat to the Beat
  • Released: October 1979
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP, 8 Track[14]
17 9 19 6 23 16 3 6 2 1
Autoamerican
  • Released: November 1980
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
7 8 18 4 42 16 6 12 11 3
The Hunter
  • Released: May 1982
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
33 15 24 49 19 27 19 18 9
    No Exit
    • Released: February 1999
    • Label: Beyond
    • Formats: Cassette, CD
    18 72 20 34 18 80 36 3
    The Curse of Blondie
    • Released: October 2003
    • Label: Sanctuary (US), Epic (UK)
    • Formats: Cassette, CD
    160 83 84 36
      Panic of Girls 62 73
      Ghosts of Download
      (Blondie 4(0) Ever)
      • Released: May 2014
      • Label: Five Seven, Noble ID, Caroline
      • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
      109 72 44 16
      "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

      * The debut album Blondie did not chart in the UK during its original release, but charted in March 1979 after it was re-released by Chrysalis Records.
      Ghosts of Download was released as part of a 2-disc set titled Blondie 4(0) Ever, which included the album along with a disc titled Deluxe Redux: Greatest Hits which contains new re-recordings of the band's biggest hits.

      Live albums

      Title Album details
      Picture This Live
      • Released: October 7, 1997
      • Label: EMI/Capitol
      • Format: CD
      Live (US) / Livid (UK)
      • Released: November 23, 1999
      • Label: Beyond Music
      • Format: CD
      Live by Request
      • Released: September 14, 2004
      • Label: Sanctuary
      • Format: CD, CD+DVD
      At the BBC
      • Released: October 4, 2010
      • Label: Chrysalis
      • Format: CD+DVD

      Compilation albums

      Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
      US
      [1]
      AUS
      [2]
      CAN
      [4]
      NLD
      [6]
      NZ
      [7]
      NOR
      [8]
      SWE
      [9]
      UK
      [10]
      The Best of Blondie
      • Released: October 1981
      • Label: Chrysalis
      • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
      30 1 15 46 1 4
      • US: 2× Platinum[12]
      • UK: 2× Platinum[11]
      The Complete Picture:
      The Very Best of Deborah
      Harry and Blondie

      (Blondie and Debbie Harry)
      • Released: March 1991
      • Label: Chrysalis
      • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
      6 42 1 3
      Blonde and Beyond
      • Released: November 16, 1993
      • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
      • Formats: Cassette, CD
        The Platinum Collection
        • Released: November 1994
        • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
        • Formats: Cassette, CD
          Denis
          • Released: November 11, 1996
          • Label: Disky Communications/EMI
          • Formats: Cassette, CD
          Picture This – The Essential Blondie Collection
          • Released: April 6, 1998
          • Label: EMI
          • Formats: Cassette, CD
          Atomic: The Very Best
          of Blondie
          • Released: July 13, 1998
          • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
          • Formats: Cassette, CD
          48 18 12
          Greatest Hits
          • Released: September 19, 2002
          • Label: EMI/Capitol
          • Formats: Cassette, CD
          15 30 38
          Greatest Hits:
          Sight + Sound
          • Released: November 8, 2005
          • Label: EMI/Capitol
          • Formats: CD+DVD
          23 48
          Singles Collection:
          1977–1982
          • Released: 16 October 2009
          • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
          • Formats: CD
            Essential
            • Released: 31 October 2011
            • Label: Chrysalis/EMI Gold
            • Formats: CD
            Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux
            (Blondie 4(0) Ever)
            • Released: May 12, 2014 (as part of "Blondie 4(0) Ever")
            • Label: Five Seven Music, Noble ID, Caroline Records
            • Formats: CD, digital download
            109 72 16
            "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

            Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux was released as part of a 2-disc set titled Blondie 4(0) Ever which included the band's 10th studio album Ghosts of Download.

            Remix albums

            Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
            US
            [1]
            AUS
            [2]
            CAN
            [4]
            NLD
            [6]
            NZ
            [7]
            NOR
            [8]
            SWE
            [9]
            UK
            [10]
            Once More into the Bleach
            (Blondie and Debbie Harry)
            • Released: 1988
            • Label: Chrysalis
            • Formats: Cassette, CD, LP
            47 50
              Beautiful: The Remix Album
              • Released: June 18, 1995
              • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
              • Formats: Cassette, CD
              25
                Remixed Remade Remodeled:
                The Remix Project
                • Released: July 18, 1995
                • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
                • Formats: Cassette, CD
                  "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

                  Box sets

                  Year Album details Notes
                  Singles Box
                  • Released: 14 June 2004
                  • Label: EMI
                  • Format: 15 CDs
                  • The box set includes 15 CD singles featuring albums from Blondie to The Hunter
                  Original Era
                  • Released: 2016
                  • Label: Universal
                  • Format: 6 LPs
                  • The box set includes 6 LP studio albums from Blondie to The Hunter with reproductions of the original album artworks and packed within a Parallel Lines themed slipcase box

                  Singles

                  Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications Album
                  US
                  [1]
                  US Dance
                  [1]
                  AUS
                  [2]
                  AUT
                  [3]
                  BEL
                  [15]
                  CAN
                  [16]
                  GER
                  [5]
                  IRL
                  [17]
                  NLD
                  [6]
                  NZ
                  [18]
                  NOR
                  [8]
                  SWE
                  [9]
                  SWI
                  [19]
                  UK
                  [10]
                  1976 "X Offender" Blondie
                  "In the Flesh" 2 40
                  1977 "Rip Her to Shreds" 81
                  "Kidnapper"[F] Plastic Letters
                  1978 "Denis" 12 10 1 9 3 1 19 2
                  "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" 14 8 10
                  "Picture This" 88 13 15 12 Parallel Lines
                  "I'm Gonna Love You Too" 3 6
                  "Hanging on the Telephone" 39 19 16 20 43 5
                  1979 "Heart of Glass"[A][B] 1 58 1 1 5 1 1 2 8 1 5 3 1 1
                  "Sunday Girl" 5 23 6 1 13 48 5 18 5 1
                  "One Way or Another"[B] 24 7 98*
                  "Dreaming" 27 53 18 16 4 26 3 12 9 6 19 2 Eat to the Beat
                  "Union City Blue" 54 17 47 13
                  1980 "The Hardest Part" 84 86
                  "Call Me" 1 2 4 5 9 1 14 2 12 6 2 3 3 1 American Gigolo (soundtrack)
                  "Atomic" 39 12 5 8 57 20 3 17 7 5 1 Eat to the Beat
                  "Heroes"[F] Non-album single
                  "The Tide Is High"[A] 1 1 4 6 4 1 15 2 5 1 7 19 5 1 Autoamerican
                  1981 "Rapture"[A] 1 1 5 8 3 40 4 20 4 8 13 5
                  1982 "Island of Lost Souls"[B] 37 13 8 66 15 21 18 11 The Hunter
                  "War Child" 96 21 39
                  "Danceway"
                  1988 "Denis" (remix) 139 30 50 Once More into the Bleach
                  "Heart of Glass" (remix)[F]
                  1989 "Call Me" (remix) 61
                  1994 "Atomic" (remix) 1 98 19 Beautiful: The Remix Album
                  "Rapture" (remix)[A] 8
                  1995 "Heart of Glass" (remix)[A] 7 15
                  "Union City Blue" (remix)[A] 31
                  1999 "Maria"[A][B] 82 9 59 2 3 46 3 3 19 16 7 3 1 No Exit
                  "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" 89 26
                  "No Exit" (featuring Coolio)
                  2003 "Good Boys" 124 7 37 93 12 The Curse of Blondie
                  2005 "Rapture Riders" (Blondie vs. The Doors) 10 23 21 39 Greatest Hits: Sight + Sound
                  2011 "Mother" Panic of Girls
                  "What I Heard"[21]
                  2013 "A Rose by Any Name" (featuring Beth Ditto) Ghosts of Download
                  "Sugar On the Side" (featuring Systema Solar)
                  2014 "I Want to Drag You Around" 77
                  "—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

                  * "One Way or Another" was not originally released as a single in the UK, but charted from downloads in 2013 after a cover/mash-up of the song was released by One Direction and reached number one.

                  Promotional singles

                  Year Single Album
                  1999 "Screaming Skin"[22] No Exit
                  2004 "Undone"[23] The Curse of Blondie
                  2009 "We Three Kings"[C] Non-album single
                  2011 "Restless"[D]
                  2012[E]
                  "Bride of Infinity"
                  "Dead Air"
                  "Rock On"
                  "Practice Makes Perfect"
                  Notes
                  • A^ "The Tide Is High" charted on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, reaching #3.
                    "Rapture" charted on both the R&B Songs and Mainstream Rock charts, reaching #33 and #35 respectively.
                    The 1994 remix of "Rapture" charted on Hot Dance Singles chart reaching #35.
                    The 1995 remixes of "Heart of Glass" and "Union City Blue" both charted on Hot Dance Singles chart, peaking at #11 and #30 respectively.
                    "Maria" peaked at #14 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart and at #3 on Hot Dance Singles chart.
                  • B^ "Heart of Glass" and "Island of Lost Souls" also both reached #1 on the RPM Adult Contemporary chart. "One Way or Another" and "Maria" reached #7 and #28 in the same chart respectively.
                  • C^ Christmas single made available for free download on Blondie's official website.[24]
                  • D^ An outtake from the Panic of Girls sessions from 2011, posted on Deborah Harry's website as a free download including cover art and credits.[25]
                  • E^ In 2012, the band released several tracks for free download via Amazon and on the band's website. "Bride of Infinity", "Dead Air" and "Rock On" were put online on October 10, in order to coincide with the band's performance on YouTube Presents, while "Practice Makes Perfect" was released in November.
                  • F^ "Kidnapper" is a Japanese only release;[26] "Heroes" (also released as a b-side to the "Atomic" single) is a German 12-inch maxi-only release;[27] "Heart of Glass '88" is an Australian and French only release.[28]

                  Other appearances

                  List of non-single songs by Blondie from non-Blondie releases, showing year released and album name
                  Title Year Album
                  "Ring of Fire"[29] 1980 Roadie: Original Motion Picture Sound Track
                  "Ordinary Bummer"[A][30] 1997 We Will Fall: The Iggy Pop Tribute
                  "More Than This"[B][31] 2006 The New Cars and Blondie: Road Rage
                  Notes

                  Video

                  Video albums

                  Title Album details Certifications
                  Eat to the Beat
                  The Best of Blondie
                  The Complete Picture:
                  The Very Best of Deborah
                  Harry and Blondie
                  • Released: 1991
                  • Label: Chrysalis
                  • Format: VHS
                  Live
                  • Released: 1999 (2005)
                  • Label: Beyond Music, EV Classics
                  • Format: DVD
                  Greatest Video Hits
                  • Released: 2002
                  • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
                  • Format: DVD
                  Live by Request
                  Live at CBGB's 1977
                  • Released: May 12, 2014 (as part of Blondie 4(0) Ever deluxe version)
                  • Label: Five Seven Music, Noble ID, Caroline Records
                  • Format: DVD

                  Music videos

                  Year Title Director
                  1977 "In the Flesh" Richard Robinson & Bob Gruen
                  "In the Sun"
                  "X Offender"
                  "Denis" Keef
                  "Detroit 442"
                  1978 "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear"
                  "Picture This"
                  "Hanging on the Telephone" David Mallet
                  1979 "Heart of Glass" Stanley Dorfman
                  "Dreaming" David Mallet
                  "The Hardest Part"
                  "Union City Blue"
                  "Shayla"
                  "Eat to the Beat"
                  "Accidents Never Happen"
                  "Die Young Stay Pretty"
                  "Slow Motion"
                  "Atomic"
                  "Sound-A-Sleep"
                  "Victor"
                  "Living in the Real World"
                  1980 "Call Me" ?
                  "The Tide Is High" Hart Perry
                  "Rapture" Keith MacMillan & John Weaver
                  1982 "Island of Lost Souls" Keith MacMillan
                  1999 "Maria" Alan Smithee
                  "Nothing Is Real But the Girl" ?
                  2000 "No Exit" ?
                  2003 "Good Boys" Jonas Åkerlund
                  2005 "Rapture Riders" ?
                  2009 "We Three Kings" ?
                  2011 "Mother" Laurent Rejto
                  2014 "Sugar On the Side" Rankin

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