Elvis Costello discography

This page lists albums, singles, and compilations by the musician Elvis Costello, distinguishing between United States and United Kingdom release dates and record labels. Of note are the reissue series, Costello's back catalogue having undergone reissue three times by three different companies.

Elvis Costello discography
Studio albums31
Live albums6
Compilation albums16
EPs1
Singles62
Tribute albums6
Box sets4

Albums

Studio albums

Year Title Artist credit Chart position Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1][2]
AUS
[3][4]
JPN
[5][6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWE
[10]
US
[11]
ESP
[12]
1977 My Aim Is True Elvis Costello[A] 14 25 285 32 14 32
1978 This Year's Model
  • Released: 17 March 1978
  • Label: Radar/Columbia
Elvis Costello and The Attractions 4 26 14 15 11 10 30
1979 Armed Forces
  • Released: 5 January 1979
  • Label: Radar/Columbia
2 9 13 12 9 11 10
1980 Get Happy!!
  • Released: 15 February 1980
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
2 25 34 11 9 6 11
1981 Trust
  • Released: 23 January 1981
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
9 71 28 17 8 28
Almost Blue
  • Released: 23 October 1981
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
7 50 21 17 50
1982 Imperial Bedroom
  • Released: 2 July 1982
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
6 49 45 18 37 30 30
1983 Punch the Clock
  • Released: 5 August 1983
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
3 22 27 18 6 9 24
1984 Goodbye Cruel World
  • Released: 18 June 1984
  • Label: F-Beat/Columbia
10 53 52 32 20 35
1986 King of America
  • Released: 21 February 1986
  • Label: Demon/Columbia
The Costello Show featuring The Attractions and Confederates 11 67 41 40 21 12 39
Blood & Chocolate
  • Released: 15 September 1986
  • Label: Demon/Columbia
Elvis Costello and The Attractions 16 19 26 84
1989 Spike Elvis Costello 5 26 61 19 34 13 32
1991 Mighty Like a Rose
  • Released: 14 May 1991
  • Label: Warner Bros.
5 37 39 47 11 38 23 55
G.B.H.
  • Released: July 1991
  • Label: Demon
Richard Harvey & Elvis Costello
1993 The Juliet Letters
  • Released: 19 January 1993
  • Label: Warner Bros.
Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet 18 39 54 125
1994 Brutal Youth
  • Released: 8 March 1994
  • Label: Warner Bros.
Elvis Costello 2 30 54 48 14 34
1995 Kojak Variety
  • Released: 9 May 1995
  • Label: Warner Bros.
21 60 74 23 102
Jake's Progress
  • Released: 6 November 1995
  • Label: Demon/Rykodisc
Richard Harvey and Elvis Costello
1996 All This Useless Beauty
  • Released: 14 May 1996
  • Label: Warner Bros.
Elvis Costello and The Attractions 28 77 83 38 24 53
1998 Painted from Memory Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach 32 26 69 33 29 38 18 78
2001 For the Stars Anne Sofie Von Otter Meets Elvis Costello 67 80 33 25
2002 When I Was Cruel
  • Released: 23 April 2002
  • Label: Island
Elvis Costello 17 34 15 34 17 56 20
2003 North
  • Released: 23 September 2003
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
44 26 56 25 25 57
2004 The Delivery Man Elvis Costello and The Imposters 73 100 65 34 58 40
Il Sogno
  • Released: 21 September 2004
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Elvis Costello[B]
2005 Piano Jazz: McPartland/Costello
  • Label: Jazz Alliance
Elvis Costello with Marian McPartland
2006 The River in Reverse Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint 97 61 31 40 103
2008 Momofuku
  • Released: 22 April 2008
  • Label: Lost Highway
Elvis Costello and The Imposters 112 98 34 59
2009 Secret, Profane & Sugarcane Elvis Costello 71 82 45 13 88
2010 National Ransom
  • Released: 25 October 2010
  • Label: Hear Music/Universal
71 116 39 86
2013 Wise Up Ghost Elvis Costello and The Roots 28 40 35 26 16 66
2018 Look Now[15]
  • Released: 12 October 2018
  • Label: Concord
Elvis Costello and The Imposters 14 35 40
[16]
46 17
2020 Hey Clockface
  • Released: 30 October 2020
  • Label: Concord
Elvis Costello 39

Notes

2019 Elvis Costello and The imposters released a four song EP titled "Purse" on January 8, 2019.

Year Title Artist credit Chart positions
UK
[2]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[10]
1993 Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears by Wendy James - all songs composed by Elvis Costello 43
1997 Terror & Magnificence John Harle featuring Elvis Costello, Sarah Leonard, and Andy Sheppard
1999 The Sweetest Punch The New Songs of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach Arranged by Bill Frisell
2014 Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes The New Basement Tapes

Live albums

Year Title Chart position
US
[11]
1978 Live at the El Mocambo
  • Date: 1978 (Promotional Release) / 12 October 1993 (Re-issue) / 29 September 2009 (Re-issue)
  • Label: Columbia (Canada) (1978) / Rykodisc (1993) / Hip-O (2009)
1995 Deep Dead Blue
1996 Costello & Nieve
  • Date: 3 December 1996
  • Label: Warner Bros.
2006 My Flame Burns Blue
  • Date: 28 February 2006
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
188
2010 Live at Hollywood High
  • Date: 12 January 2010
  • Label: Hip-O
2012 The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook
  • Date: 2 April 2012
  • Label: Universal Music Enterprises

Compilation albums

Year Title Chart position Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2]
NZ
[9]
US
[11]
1980 Taking Liberties (US only)
  • Date: November 1980
  • Label: Columbia
28
Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers (UK only)
  • Date: 7 November 1980
  • Label: F-Beat
1985 The Man – The Best of Elvis Costello
  • Date: April 1985
  • Label: Demon
8 31
The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions
  • Label: Columbia
116
1987 Out of Our Idiot (UK only)
  • Date: 4 December 1987
  • Label: Demon
1989 Girls Girls Girls
  • Date: October 1989
  • Label: Demon/Columbia
67
1990 The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions
1994 The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977–86
  • Date: 25 October 1994
  • Label: Rykodisc/Demon
57
1997 Extreme Honey
  • Date: 21 October 1997
  • Label: Warner Bros.
1999 The Very Best of Elvis Costello 4
2002 Cruel Smile
  • Date: 1 October 2002
  • Label: Universal Music Group
180
2007 The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years
  • Date: 1 May 2007
  • Label: Hip-O
110
Rock and Roll Music
  • Date: 1 May 2007
  • Label: Hip-O
2010 Pomp & Pout: The Universal Years
  • Date: 24 August 2010
  • Label: Hip-O
2012 In Motion Pictures
  • Date: 19 November 2012
  • Label: Universal Music Group
2015 Unfaithful Music and Soundtrack Album
  • Date: 23 October 2015
  • Label: Universal Music Group (UMe)
96

Box sets

Year Title
1993 2½ Years
  • Date: 15 October 1993
  • Label: Rykodisc
2003 Singles, Volume 1 (UK only)
  • Date: 27 October 2003
  • Label: Edsel
Singles, Volume 2 (UK only)
  • Date: 27 October 2003
  • Label: Edsel
Singles, Volume 3 (UK only)
  • Date: 27 October 2003
  • Label: Edsel

Singles

The following is a list of all Costello's commercially available singles. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows:

  • Elvis Costello – (EC);
  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions – (EC+ATT);
  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – (EC+ATT+RPO);
  • The Imposter – (IMP);
  • The Costello Show – (TCS);
  • The MacManus Gang – (TMG),
  • The Coward Brothers – (TCB);
  • Jimmy Cliff & Elvis Costello & The Attractions – (JC+EC+ATT);
  • Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet – (EC+BQ);
  • Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach – (EC+BB);
  • Elvis Costello & The Imposters – (EC+IMP)
  • The Lupotones (Vocal refrain by Elvis Costello) – (LUP)
  • Elvis Costello & The Roots – (EC+ROOTS)
Year Title Artist Credit Chart positions Album
UK
[2]
AUS
[4]
CA IRL
[17]
NZ
[9]
US Hot 100
[18]
US
AAA

[19]
US MSR
[20]
US Alt
[21]
1977 "Less Than Zero" EC My Aim Is True [E]
"Alison"
"(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes"
"Watching the Detectives" 15 35 60 108
1978 "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" EC+ATT 16 93 12 This Year's Model [F]
"Pump It Up" 24 55
"Radio Radio" 29 93
1979 "Oliver's Army" 2 24 4 25 Armed Forces
"Accidents Will Happen" 28 101
1980 "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" 4 14 Get Happy!!
"High Fidelity" 30
"New Amsterdam" EC [G] 36
"Clubland" EC+ATT 60 Trust
1981 "From a Whisper to a Scream" 46
"Watch Your Step" (US release only)
"Good Year for the Roses" 6 34 5 Almost Blue
"Sweet Dreams" 42
1982 "I'm Your Toy" EC+ATT+RPO 51
"You Little Fool" EC+ATT 52 Imperial Bedroom
"Man Out of Time" 58
"From Head to Toe" 43
"Party Party" 48 Party Party Soundtrack
1983 "Pills and Soap" IMP 16 Punch the Clock
"Everyday I Write the Book" EC+ATT 28 40 40 23 20 36 33
"Let Them All Talk" 59
1984 "Peace in Our Time" IMP 48 Goodbye Cruel World
"I Wanna Be Loved" / "Turning the Town Red" [H] EC+ATT 25 11
"The Only Flame in Town" 71 56 44
1985 "Green Shirt" 68 The Man – The Best of Elvis Costello
"The People's Limousine" TCB Out of Our Idiot
1986 "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" TCS 33 81 22 38 King of America
"Seven Day Weekend" JC+EC+ATT Out of Our Idiot
"Lovable" (US release only) TCS King of America
"Tokyo Storm Warning" EC+ATT 73 Blood and Chocolate
"I Want You" 79
1987 "Blue Chair" EC 94
"A Town Called Big Nothing" TMG Out of Our Idiot
1989 "Veronica" EC 31 27 64 22 16 19 10 1 Spike
Baby Plays Around EP 65 27
"...This Town..." 41 4
1991 "The Other Side of Summer" 43 96 72 40 1 Mighty Like a Rose
"So Like Candy"
1993 "Jacksons, Monk & Rowe" EC+BQ The Juliet Letters
1994 "Sulky Girl" EC [I] 22 Brutal Youth
"13 Steps Lead Down" 59 115 6
"You Tripped at Every Step" EC+ATT 83
"London's Brilliant Parade" 48
1996 "It's Time" 58 All This Useless Beauty
"Little Atoms" 95
"The Other End of the Telescope" 96
"Distorted Angel"
"All This Useless Beauty" 96
"You Bowed Down" (US release only) 8
1999 "Toledo" EC+BB 72 Painted from Memory
"She" EC 19 Notting Hill Soundtrack
2002 "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)" EC [J] 58 11 When I Was Cruel
"45" 92
2004 "Monkey to Man" EC+IMP 10 The Delivery Man
2005 "Brilliant Mistake" EC [K] King of America
2008 "No Hiding Place" EC+IMP 26 Momofuku
"Go Away"
2009 "Complicated Shadows" EC 15 Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
2010 "A Slow Drag With Josephine"[L] LUP National Ransom
"Jimmie Standing In The Rain"[L]
2013 "Walk Us Uptown" EC+ROOTS Wise Up Ghost
2017 "Bright Blue Times" IMP
"American Tune"
2018 "Someone Else's Heart" EC
"Unwanted Number" EC+IMP 8 Look Now
"Under Lime"
2020 "No Flag" EC 39 Hey Clockface
"Hetty O'Hara Confidential"
"We Are All Cowards Now"
"Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me?"
"Newspaper Pane"

Notes

  • E ^ "Watching the Detectives" was a stand-alone single in the UK but was subsequently included on US versions of My Aim Is True.
  • F ^ "(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea" was not included on US versions of This Year's Model. "Radio Radio" was a stand-alone single in the UK but was subsequently included on US versions of This Year's Model.
  • G ^ The Attractions played on almost all of Costello's singles from 1978 to 1984 (and sporadically thereafter), but note that 1980's "New Amsterdam" was a solo single on which Elvis Costello played all instruments. Accordingly, The Attractions were not credited.
  • H ^ "I Wanna Be Loved" / "Turning the Town Red" was tracked as a double A-side in the UK, with both sides charting. "Turning The Town Red" did not initially appear on Goodbye Cruel World, although it has been added as a bonus track to some CD reissues of this album.
  • I ^ Although the Attractions played on "Sulky Girl" and "13 Steps Lead Down", these tracks were credited simply to Elvis Costello.
  • J ^ The backing musicians on "Tear Off Your Own Head" and "45" were Steve Nieve, Davey Faragher, and Pete Thomas, later to be collectively billed as "The Imposters". However, these releases are credited solely to Costello.
  • K ^ "Brilliant Mistake" was released as a UK single in 2005, 19 years after the track first appeared on the album King of America. Though the album was credited to The Costello Show, the single release was credited to Elvis Costello.
  • L ^ Both "A Slow Drag With Josephine" and "Jimmie Standing In The Rain" were issued as limited edition 78 rpm 10" singles. For these single releases, the design conceit was to emulate the look of a real 1930s 78 rpm single, and accordingly the artist credit on the label was given as "The Lupotones (Vocal refrain by Elvis Costello)"

Contributions

Year Title
1977 A Bunch of Stiff Records (UK only)
  • Date: 1 April 1977
*A unique mix of Costello's then just-issued "Less Than Zero". Over 40 years later, this unique mix remains exclusive to this release.
Hits Greatest Stiffs (UK only)
  • Date: 16 September 1977
  • Label: Stiff
*"Radio Sweetheart"
1978 Stiffs Live *Live versions of "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) and "Miracle Man"
1989 A Black & White Night Live
1991 Until the End of the World
1994 The Unplugged Collection, Volume One[22]
  • Credited as Elvis Costello & The Rude 5
  • Song: "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" (live version)
2001 Songs From a History of Britain by John Harle
  • vocals on various songs
2013 Boardwalk Empire Volume 2: Music from the HBO Original Series
2014 Boardwalk Empire Volume 3: Music from the HBO Original Series
  • Song: "I Surrender Dear"

Tribute albums

  • 1998: Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous – (various artists)
  • 2002: Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello – (various artists)
  • 2003: The Elvis Costello Songbook – Bonnie Brett
  • 2004: A Tribute to Elvis Costello – Patrik Tanner
  • 2004: Davis Does ElvisStuart Davis
  • 2008: Every Elvis Has His Impersonators: 7 Homemade Remade Elvis Costello SongsElastic No–No Band

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