Blur discography

The discography of English Britpop band Blur consists of eight studio albums, five live albums, five compilation albums, one remix album, two video albums, four extended plays, thirty-four singles, ten promotional singles and thirty-seven music videos. Formed in London in 1988, the group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Three years later, their debut release, the Madchester and shoegazing-tinged Leisure (1991), peaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart. Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) inaugurated the Britpop phase of their career. Its multi-Platinum follow-ups Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helped the band achieve mainstream popularity in Britain; every Blur studio album from Parklife onwards has topped the British charts.

Blur discography
Blur performing at Hyde Park in July 2009
Studio albums8
Live albums5
Compilation albums5
Video albums2
Music videos37
EPs4
Singles34
Remix albums1
Promotional singles10
Box sets2

Albums

Studio albums
List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
UK
[1]		 AUS
[2]		 CAN
[3]		 FRA
[4]		 GER
[5]		 JPN
[6]		 NOR
[7]		 NZ
[8]		 SWE
[9]		 US
[10]
Leisure 7—————————
  • US: 100,000[12]
  • UK: 100,000
Modern Life Is Rubbish
  • Released: 10 May 1993 (UK)[14]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
 15—————————
  • US: 55,000[12]
  • UK: 100,000
Parklife
  • Released: 25 April 1994 (UK)[15]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
 14541——3637278—
  • US: 150,000[12]
  • UK: 1,200,000
  • WW: 5,000,000
The Great Escape
  • Released: 11 September 1995 (UK)[18]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
 1102432355572150
  • US: 122,000[12]
  • UK: 1,050,000
  • WW: 4,000,000
Blur
  • Released: 10 February 1997 (UK)[22]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP, MD
 122261223763461
13
  • Released: 15 March 1999 (UK)[28]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP, MD
 112111261312480
  • US: 136,000[29]
  • UK: 300,000
Think Tank
  • Released: 5 May 2003 (UK)[32]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 130—1181418274456
  • US: 94,000[33]
  • UK: 100,000
The Magic Whip
  • Released: 27 April 2015 (UK)
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 1515335483024
  • UK: 100,000
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums
List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]		 JPN
[6]
Live at the Budokan
  • Released: 22 May 1996 (JPN)[6]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD
 —36
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009[upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 30 August 2009 (UK)[36]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 70148
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 03 July 2009[upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 30 August 2009 (UK)[37]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 44
Live 2009[38]
  • Released: 22 November 2009 (UK)[38]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD
 ——
Parklive
  • Released: 13 August 2012 (UK)[39]
  • Label: EMI, Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 91137
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums
List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]		 AUS
[2]		 CAN
[3]		 GER
[5]		 IRL
[40]		 JPN
[6]		 NOR
[7]		 NZ
[8]		 SWE
[9]		 US
[10]
The Special Collectors Edition
  • Released: 26 October 1994 (JPN)[6]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD
 —————64————
Blur: The Best Of
  • Released: 30 October 2000 (UK)[41]
  • Labels: Food, EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP
 323143532013622186
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
  • Released: 15 June 2009 (UK)[45]
  • Labels: EMI
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 20————66————
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Remix albums
List of remix albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]		 JPN
[6]
Bustin' + Dronin'
  • Released: 25 February 1998 (UK)[46]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 5050

Video albums
List of video albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
Video
[48]
Showtime[49] —
Blur: The Best Of
  • Released: 13 November 2000 (UK)[50]
  • Labels: Food, EMI
  • Formats: DVD, VHS
 32
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays
List of extended plays
Title EP details
Live[51]
  • Released: 1997 (NLD)[51]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD
The Observer CD[52]
  • Released: 1999 (UK)[52]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD
Exclusive 5 Track CD[53]
  • Released: 21 September 2003 (UK)[53]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Format: CD
Blur Live from the BRITs[54]
  • Released: 22 February 2012 (UK)[54]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Format: Digital download

Box sets
List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]		 GER
[5]		 JPN
[6]
The Brit Pop Blur Box
  • Released: 1994 (Australia)
  • Format: CD box set
 ———
The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set[55]
  • Released: 6 September 1999 (UK)[55]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD box set
 ———
Blur 21
  • Released: 30 July 2012 (UK)[56]
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD box set, LP box set, DVD box set
 716370
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles
List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[57]		 AUS
[2]		 BEL
[58]		 FRA
[4]		 IRL
[59]		 NLD
[60]		 NZ
[8]		 SWE
[9]		 US
[61]		 US
Alt.
[62]
"She's So High / I Know" 1990 48————————— Leisure
"There's No Other Way" 1991 8113——19———825
"Bang" 24———21—————
"Popscene"[upper-alpha 2] 1992 32————————— N/A
"For Tomorrow" 1993 28119———————— Modern Life Is Rubbish
"Chemical World" 28————————27
"Sunday Sunday" 26—————————
"Girls & Boys" 1994 519341123241630594 Parklife
"To the End" 16—————————
"Parklife" 10———30—————
"End of a Century" 19—49———————
"Country House" 1995 128——1—3010—— The Great Escape
"The Universal" 5———12——55——
"Stereotypes" 1996 795——13—————
"Charmless Man" 535—3325—————
"Could Be You" (Japan only) ——————————
"Beetlebum" 1997 135——8873439—— Blur
"Song 2" 24581981073—28—[upper-alpha 3]6
"On Your Own"[upper-alpha 2] 569——27—————
"M.O.R." 1568————45——[upper-alpha 4]—
"Tender" 1999 23265—6901229—— 13
"Coffee & TV" 11——17826—————
"No Distance Left to Run" 14—————————
"Music Is My Radar" 2000 10———35————— Blur: The Best Of
"Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb"[67] 2002 —————————— N/A
"Out of Time" 2003 5———17——19—— Think Tank
"Crazy Beat" 18———41——20—22
"Good Song" 22—————————
"Fool's Day"[68] 2010 —————————— N/A
"Under the Westway" / "The Puritan" 2012 34—6012045—————
"Go Out" 2015 182—92188—————— The Magic Whip
"There Are Too Many of Us" ——————————
"Lonesome Street" 151—58181——————
"Ong Ong" ——59———————
"I Broadcast" ——————————
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Promotional singles
List of promotional singles, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[57]
"High Cool" / "Bad Day"[69] 1991 — Leisure
"Bang" (Mindwarp Mutations Remixes)[70] 1992 — N/A
"The Wassailing Song"[71] —
"This Is a Low"[72] 1995 — Parklife
"Tracy Jacks" / "Bank Holiday"[73] —
"Entertain Me" (The Live It! Remix)[74] — N/A
"Death of a Party" 1997 — Blur
"Bugman"[75] 1999 — 13
"We've Got a File on You"[76] 2003 — Think Tank
"Y'all Doomed"[77] 2015 165 The Magic Whip
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted songs
List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[78]
"Girls & Boys" (live) 2009 191 All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009

Other appearances
List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Sunday Sunday" (live)[79] 1992 none In a Field of Their Own: Highlights of Glastonbury 1992
"Maggie May"[80] Ruby Trax – The NME's Roaring 40
"Oliver's Army"[81] 1993 Peace Together
"Substitute"[82] Who Covers Who?
"Eine Kleine Lift Musik"[83] 1995 The Help Album
"The Universal" (live)[84] 1996 ...Later Volume One: Brit Beat
"Girls & Boys" (Pet Shop Boys Remix)[85] 1997 In the Mix '97, Vol. 1
"Never Clever"[86] Food 100
"Beetlebum" (live)[87] Tibetan Freedom Concert
"Cowboy Song"[88] 1998 Dead Man on Campus soundtrack
"101%"[89] 1999 Thurston Moore Root
"Kissin' Time"[90] 2002 Marianne Faithfull Kissin Time

Filmography

Music videos
List of music videos, showing year released and director
Title Year Director(s)
"She's So High" 1990 David Balfe
"There's No Other Way" (version 1) 1991
"Bang" Willy Smax
"There's No Other Way" (version 2) Matthew Amos
"Popscene" 1992 David Mould
"For Tomorrow" 1993 Julien Temple
"Chemical World" Dwight Clarke
"Sunday Sunday"
"Girls & Boys" 1994 Kevin Godley
"To the End" David Mould
"Parklife" Pedro Romhanyi
"End of a Century" Matthew Longfellow
"Country House" 1995 Damien Hirst
"The Universal" Jonathan Glazer
"Stereotypes" 1996 Matthew Longfellow
"Charmless Man" Jamie Thraves
"Beetlebum" 1997 Sophie Muller
"Song 2"
"On Your Own"
"M.O.R." John Hardwick
"Tender" 1999 Grant Gee
"Coffee & TV" Hammer & Tongs
"No Distance Left to Run" Thomas Vinterberg
"Music Is My Radar" 2000 Don Cameron
"Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" 2002 Thomas Vinterberg
"Out of Time" 2003 John Hardwick
"Crazy Beat" (version 1) Shynola
"Crazy Beat" (version 2) John Hardwick
"Good Song" Shynola, David Shrigley
"Fool's Day" 2010 Pulse Films
"Under the Westway" 2012
"The Puritan"
"Go Out" 2015 Tony Hung
"There Are Too Many of Us" Blur
"Lonesome Street" Ben Reed
"Ong Ong" Tony Hung
"I Broadcast"

Documentaries
List of documentaries
Title Notes
Starshaped
"The Great Escape"[91]
  • Filmed in 1995 on Blur's seaside tour
  • Unreleased documentary directed and produced by Matthew Longfellow and Ceri Levy
No Distance Left to Run
  • 2009
  • Pulse Films
New World Towers
  • 2015
  • Parlophone, Eleven Films
  • Limited theatrical release in select UK cinemas

Notes
  1. All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009 and All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 03 July 2009 charted as a double CD set in Japan.
  2. "Popscene" and "On Your Own" charted as a double A-side single in Australia.
  3. "Song 2" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 55 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[63]
  4. "M.O.R." did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot 100.[66]

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