Foreigner discography

The discography of Foreigner, a British-American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums, 7 live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

Foreigner discography
Studio albums9
Live albums7
Compilation albums20
Singles47

The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, and American vocalist Lou Gramm. Since then, Foreigner has released nine studio albums, seven of which have reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. 4 was the band's only chart-topper in the US, while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieve the same feat on the UK Albums Chart. Overall, Foreigner's albums have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone.

Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3 ("Hot Blooded", "Double Vision", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is"). Despite its British roots, the band achieved only moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20.

In 2014, Rhino released a boxed set of the band's seven albums recorded for Atlantic entitled Foreigner: The Complete Atlantic Studios Albums 1977-1991. The first four albums that were expanded to include bonus tracks in 2002 were included in the set along with the remaining albums by the band. These were housed in cardboard replicas of the original vinyl sleeves.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications[2][3]
(sales threshold)
US
[4]
US Rock
[4]
US R&B
[4]
UK
[5][6]
AUS
[7]
NZ
[8]
AUT
[9]
CAN
[10]
NOR
[11]
GER
[12]
SWI
[13]
1977 Foreigner 4 9 9 1
  • US: 5× Platinum
  • CAN: Platinum
1978 Double Vision
  • Release date: June 20, 1978
  • Label: Atlantic Records
3 32 13 32 3
  • US: 7× Platinum
  • CAN: 2× Platinum
1979 Head Games
  • Release date: September 11, 1979
  • Label: Atlantic Records
5 45 38 5 39
  • US: 5× Platinum
1981 4
  • Release date: July 2, 1981
  • Label: Atlantic Records
1 5 3 19 2 4
  • US: 6× Platinum
  • AUS: Platinum[14]
  • FRA: Gold
  • GER: Gold
  • UK: Platinum
1984 Agent Provocateur
  • Release date: December 7, 1984
  • Label: Atlantic Records
4 49 1 2 4 10 3 1 1 1
  • US: 3× Platinum
  • FRA: Gold
  • GER: Platinum
  • UK: Platinum
1987 Inside Information
  • Release date: December 8, 1987
  • Label: Atlantic Records
15 64 33 23 5 7 7
  • US: Platinum
  • UK: Silver
1991 Unusual Heat
  • Release date: June 14, 1991
  • Label: Atlantic Records
117 56 30 50 18 8
1994 Mr. Moonlight 136 59 69 21 17
2009 Can't Slow Down 29 12 105 58 16 26

Live albums

Year Title Peak chart positions
US UK
1993 Classic Hits Live/Best of Live
2006 Extended Versions 88
2010 Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live!
2012 Alive & Rockin'
2014 The Best of 4 & More 162
2016 In Concert: Unplugged
2018 Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
2019 Live At The Rainbow '78

Compilation albums

Year Title Peak chart position Certifications[2][3]
(sales threshold)
US UK AUS
[7][15]
GER AUT SWI
1982 Records 10 58 26 22
  • US: 7× Platinum
  • UK: Silver
1992 The Very Best of Foreigner 19[5] 23 34 20
  • UK: Silver
The Very Best ... and Beyond 123
  • US: 2× Platinum
  • UK: Silver
1998 The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is 81
1999 The Platinum Collection
2000 Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology
2002 Complete Greatest Hits 80
  • US: Platinum
The Definitive 33[6] 30 48
2004 Hot Blooded and Other Hits
  • US: Gold
2005 The Essentials
2006 Extended Versions 88
The Definitive Collection
2007 The Very Best of Toto & Foreigner (Toto/Foreigner) 84
2008 No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner 132 46 23 64
2011 Acoustique
2012 Juke Box Heroes 109
  • US: Gold
2014 I Want to Know What Love Is – The Ballads 60
The Soundtrack of Summer (Styx/Foreigner (with Don Felder)) 69
The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991
2017 40 108 79 94
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions RIAA[2] Album
US US
Main
US
AC
IRL
[16]
SWE
[17]
CAN NZ UK GER
[18]
SWI NL
[19]
BEL
[20]
AUS
1977 "Feels Like the First Time" 4 7 39 41 Gold (DL) Foreigner
"Cold as Ice" 6 9 24 10 20 32 Gold (DL)
"Long, Long Way from Home" 20 22 70
1978 "Hot Blooded" 3 3 42 46 24 Platinum (ST)
Gold (DL)
Double Vision
"Double Vision" 2 7 97 Gold (ST)
1979 "Blue Morning, Blue Day" 15 21 45
"Dirty White Boy" 12 14 Head Games
"Head Games" 14 14
"Love on the Telephone" 34
1980 "Women" 41 82
"I'll Get Even With You"
1981 "Urgent" 4 1 20 1 45 12 24 4
"Juke Box Hero" 26 3 39 48 24 53 Platinum (DL)
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" 2 1 5 9 2 16 8 29 13 18 3 Platinum (ST)
Gold (DL)
1982 "Night Life" [airplay] 14
"Break It Up" 26
"Luanne" 75
1984 "I Want to Know What Love Is" 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 5 6 1 Platinum (ST)
Platinum (DL)
Agent Provocateur
1985 "That Was Yesterday" 12 4 24 13 24 28 31 29 19 25 55
"Tooth and Nail" [airplay] 47
"Reaction to Action" 54 44
"Growing Up The Hard Way"
"Cold as Ice" (UK remix) 18 64 Non-album single
"Down on Love" 54 Agent Provocateur
1987 "Say You Will" 6 1 41 13 71 22 20 12 24 6 Inside Information
1988 "I Don't Want to Live Without You" 5 18 1 29 18 91 16 25 21
"Heart Turns to Stone" 56 7
"Can't Wait" 18
1991 "Lowdown and Dirty" 4 50 Unusual Heat
"I'll Fight For You" 42
1992 "With Heaven on Our Side" 103 85 The Very Best...and Beyond
1993 "Soul Doctor" 5 48
1994 "White Lie" 58 51 Mr. Moonlight
1995 "Until the End of Time" 42 8 13 86
"Rain" 84
"All I Need To Know" 36
"Under the Gun" 28 55
2009 "When It Comes to Love" [promo] 19 Can't Slow Down
2010 "In Pieces" [promo] 21
2016 "The Flame Still Burns" 40
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

  1. Rhino Newsletter, September 2014
  2. RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Foreigner
  3. The Bpi
  4. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4296/charts-awards
  5. everyHit.com search results Archived October 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "The Official Charts Company - Foreigner". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
  7. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 116. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  8. "charts.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
  9. "austriancharts.at - Austria Top 40". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
  10. "Canadian peaks". Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2013-04-03.
  11. "norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
  12. "Musicline.de - Chartverfolgung - Foreigner". musicline.de. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  13. "hitparade.ch - Foreigner". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  14. "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1997 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  15. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  16. http://www.irishcharts.ie
  17. https://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?search=foreigner&cat=s
  18. https://www.offiziellecharts.de
  19. "Dutch charts".
  20. http://www.ultratop.be/nl/search.asp?search=Foreigner&cat=s
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