Leonard Cohen discography

Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet who was active in music from 1967 until his death in 2016. Cohen released 14 studio albums and eight live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years, throughout which he remained an active poet. His entire catalogue is available on Columbia Records. His 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen earned an RIAA gold record; he followed up with three more highly acclaimed albums: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), before allowing Phil Spector to produce Death of a Ladies' Man for Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Cohen returned to Columbia in 1979 for Recent Songs, but the label declined to release his next album, Various Positions (1984) in the US, leaving it to American shops to import it from CBS Canada. In 1988, Columbia got behind Cohen again and gave full support to I'm Your Man, which brought his career to new heights, and Cohen followed it with 1992's The Future. Cohen then took a nine-year hiatus, and returned with Ten New Songs in 2001, which he made with Sharon Robinson, following this with Dear Heather (2004). In 2008 Cohen began touring for the first time in 15 years and, as well as the release of several live albums, he released Old Ideas (2012), which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart. This was the highest ranking ever for a Leonard Cohen album, and it became his first to top the Canadian Albums Chart, a feat he repeated with his follow-up, Popular Problems, released in 2014. Cohen released his final studio album, You Want It Darker, in October 2016, only 19 days prior to his death. A posthumous album titled Thanks for the Dance was released on November 22, 2019. His live albums included Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009), Songs from the Road (2010), from his 2008–2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).

Leonard Cohen discography
Leonard Cohen in 1988, around the release of I'm Your Man.
Studio albums15
Live albums8
Compilation albums5
Singles44

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[11]
1967 Songs of Leonard Cohen
  • Released: December 27, 1967
  • Label: Columbia
81
[12]
40 4 36 35 13 83
1969 Songs from a Room
  • Released: March 24, 1969
  • Label: Columbia
10
[15]
87 12 2 63
1971 Songs of Love and Hate
  • Released: March 19, 1971
  • Label: Columbia
63
[16]
8 24 2 11 4 145
1974 New Skin for the Old Ceremony
  • Released: August 11, 1974
  • Label: Columbia
86 2 17 18 24
1977 Death of a Ladies' Man
  • Released: November 13, 1977
  • Label: Warner/Spector, Columbia
85 20 15 35
1979 Recent Songs
  • Released: September 27, 1979
  • Label: Columbia
24 56
1984 Various Positions
  • Released: December 11, 1984
  • Label: Columbia
60
[17]
52 18 2 43 99 3 12 52
1988 I'm Your Man
  • Released: February 2, 1988
  • Label: Columbia
34
[19]
22 2 32 43 16 1 6 48
1992 The Future
  • Released: November 24, 1992
  • Label: Columbia
7
[23]
5 18 79 56 3 5 36
2001 Ten New Songs
  • Released: October 9, 2001
  • Label: Columbia
4 67 5 35 16 7 18 1 3 26 143
2004 Dear Heather
  • Released: October 26, 2004
  • Label: Columbia
5 98 13 22 19 5 34 2 8 34 131
2012 Old Ideas
  • Released: January 31, 2012[25]
  • Label: Columbia
1 2 2 1 4 2 1 1 2 2 3
2014 Popular Problems
  • Released: September 22, 2014
  • Label: Columbia
1 6 1 2 4 2 1 1 5 5 15
2016 You Want It Darker
  • Released: October 21, 2016
  • Label: Columbia
1 2 1 7 2 1 1 1 1 4 7
2019 Thanks for the Dance
  • Released: November 22, 2019[32]
  • Label: Columbia
1 11 2 17 5 6 5 2 6 7 61
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[11]
1973 Live Songs
  • Release: April 1973
  • Label: Columbia
8 30 156
1994 Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert
  • Release: June 28, 1994
  • Label: Columbia
35
2001 Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979
  • Release: February 20, 2001
  • Label: Columbia
195
2009 Live in London
  • Release: March 31, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
7 26 9 7 13 3 7 8 14 19 76
Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
  • Release: October 19, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
73 56 169
2010 Songs from the Road
  • Release: September 14, 2010
  • Label: Columbia
10 7 37 36 26 7 39 68 112
2014 Live in Dublin
  • Release: December 2, 2014
  • Label: Columbia
33 53 17 19 84
2015 Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour
  • Release: May 12, 2015
  • Label: Sony Legacy
8 39 17 23 5 4 39 18 100
2017 Angels at My Shoulder – Live 1993
  • Release: June 30, 2017
  • Label: Leftfield Media
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
CAN
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NLD
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
SWI
[35]
UK
[10]
1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen /
Greatest Hits
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, 8-track
43 43 86
[A]
41 88
[A]
1980 Liebesträume – Leonard Cohen singt seine schönsten Lieder
  • Released in Germany only
  • Label: CBS
  • Format: LP
3
1989 So Long, Marianne
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Format: CD
1997 More Best of Leonard Cohen
  • Released: October 7, 1997
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
33 41 19 69 7 22 82
2002 The Essential Leonard Cohen
  • Released: October 22, 2002
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, LP
4 9
[B]
14 6 31 5 10 3 8 5 26
[C]
2008 The Collection
  • Released: June 27, 2008
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Box set
17
2009 Greatest Hits
  • Released: July 13, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Remastered version with new track listing
11 34 51 3 18 29
2011 The Complete Studio Albums Collection
  • Released: October 10, 2011
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD
  • Box set
58 72 33
" — " denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

  • A ^ The Best of Leonard Cohen, or Greatest Hits as it was released in Europe, did not chart in the Netherlands and UK when it was released in 1975, but the album did chart when re-issued on CD in 1988–1989. In UK it initially reached a peak at number 99 in 1988 and then at 88 in 1995. In Netherlands it reached number 86 in April 1989.
  • B ^ The Essential Leonard Cohen was re-released in 2008 as The Essential Leonard Cohen 3.0, a 3-disc edition which charted in Australia in February 2009.
  • C ^ The Essential Leonard Cohen initially peaked at number 70 in 2003. The album re-entered the charts in 2008 at number 57, before peaking at number 26 after Cohen's death in November 2016.

Singles and EPs

Year Title[39] Chart positions Album
CAN
[40]
CAN AC
[41]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
FRA
[42]
GER
[43]
NLD
[7]
SWE
[9]
UK
[10]
US
[44]
1967 "Suzanne" 39 3 61 79 Songs of Leonard Cohen
1968 "So Long, Marianne" /
"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
28
190
1969 "Bird on the Wire" 137 Songs from a Room
"The Partisan" 22
1971 "Joan of Arc" Songs of Love and Hate
"Diamonds in the Mine"
"Dress Rehearsal Rag" / "Avalanche"
"The Stranger Song" Songs of Leonard Cohen /
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"Winter Lady"
"So Long, Marianne" /
"Bird on the Wire"
Songs of Leonard Cohen /
Songs from a Room
1973 "Passing Through" 62 Live Songs
1974 "Lover Lover Lover" 9 New Skin for the Old Ceremony
1975 "Tonight Will Be Fine" Songs from a Room
1976 "Suzanne" [re-issue] Greatest Hits
"Do I Have to Dance All Night" [live] [non-album song] /
"The Butcher" [live]
non-album single
1977 "Memories" Death of a Ladies' Man
"True Love Leaves No Traces"
1978 "Suzanne" / "Bird on the Wire" [re-issue] Songs of Leonard Cohen/
Songs from a Room
1979 "The Guests" Recent Songs
1984 "Dance Me to the End of Love" 29 5 42 Various Positions
"Hallelujah" 17 13 1 27
1986 "Take This Waltz" [original version] 6 Poets in New York
1988 "First We Take Manhattan" I'm Your Man
"I'm Your Man" 57
"Ain't No Cure for Love"
"Everybody Knows" 88
1989 "I Can't Forget"
1991 Solid Gold EP:
"First We Take Manhattan" /
"Suzanne" / "So Long, Marianne"
I'm Your Man /
Greatest Hits
1991 Juno Hall of Fame Award
Commemorative Sampler:

"Hallelujah" / "Ain't No Cure for Love" /
"Everybody Knows" / "Tower of Song"
Various Positions /
I'm Your Man
1992 "Closing Time" 70 5 The Future
"Democracy"
1993 "The Future" 17
"Be for Real"
1994 "Dance Me to the End of Love" (live) Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert
1997 "Never Any Good" 44 More Best of Leonard Cohen
2001 "In My Secret Life" Ten New Songs
2002 "Boogie Street"
2004 "The Letters" Dear Heather
2007 "So Long, Marianne" /
"Bird on the Wire" [re-issue]
Songs of Leonard Cohen /
Songs from a Room
"Hallelujah" [re-issue] 67 27 16
[D]
36
[E]
59
[G]
The Essential Leonard Cohen
2009 "The Future" (live) /
"Suzanne" (live) [F]
Live in London
2011 "Show Me the Place" Old Ideas
2012 "Darkness"
Live in Fredericton EP:
"Bird on the Wire" / "Dance Me to the End of Love" / "Heart with No Companion" /
"In My Secret Life" / "Who by Fire"[45][46]
2016 "You Want It Darker" 73 33 36 81 76 52 You Want It Darker
2019 "Happens to the Heart" Thanks for the Dance
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

  • D ^ Leonard Cohen's 1984 track "Hallelujah" charted in Sweden in December 2007 due to download sales. At the same time Jeff Buckley's version also entered the charts, and the week of December 13, 2007, Buckley's version peaked at No. 5 with Cohen's original reaching its peak position No. 16 the same week.[47]
  • E ^ Although not explicitly released as a single, Cohen's heavily covered 1984 track "Hallelujah" charted in the United Kingdom in December 2008 at position number 36.[10] This was due to downloads of the track as a result of the publicity created by Alexandra Burke's cover version, which charted at No. 1 at the same time, and a campaign to get Jeff Buckley's version into the charts (which it did, peaking at No. 2 simultaneous to Burke's cover).
  • F ^ Record Store Day 2009 (April 18, 2009) exclusive release.
  • G ^ "Hallelujah" did not chart in the United States until November 2016, after Cohen's death. It also charted on the Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 20.

Contributions

Guest

Year Song Album Artist Notes
1990 "Elvis' Rolls Royce" Are You Okay? Was (Not Was) vocals
1993 "Born to Lose" Duets Elton John
2006 all songs Blue Alert Anjani lyricist, producer, arranger
2007 "The Jungle Line" River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock vocals

Spoken word

Year Title Album
2008 "Since You've Asked (Dialogue)" Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins
2018 "Necropsy of Love" The Al Purdy Songbook

Alternate mixes

Year Song Album Notes
1986 "Take This Waltz" Poets in New York[48] alternate take of track from I'm Your Man, based on the poem "Little Viennese Waltz" by Federico García Lorca
2006 "Tower of Song" Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man new take of track from I'm Your Man, with U2

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