Poison discography

The following is a comprehensive discography of Poison, an American rock band that achieved huge success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. The band sold more than 15 million records in the United States alone.[1] The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".[2] The band became icons of the 1980s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success. The band's breakthrough debut album, the multi platinum Look What the Cat Dragged In was released in 1986 and they hit their peak with the second album, the multi-platinum selling Open Up and Say... Ahh! which became the band's most successful album ever. The popularity continued into the new decade with their third consecutive multi platinum selling album Flesh & Blood.

Poison discography
Poison performing in Holmdel, New Jersey.
Studio albums7
Live albums4
Compilation albums7
Video albums10
Music videos21
Singles30
Box sets2

In the 1990s following the release of the band's first live album Swallow This Live, the band experienced some line up changes and the fall of glam metal with the grunge movement, but despite the drop in popularity the band's fourth studio album Native Tongue still achieved Gold status and the band's first compilation album Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996 went double platinum.

In the 2000s, with the original line up back together, the band found new popularity after a successful greatest hits reunion tour in 1999. The band began the new decade with the release of the long-awaited Crack a Smile... and More!, followed by the Power to the People album. The band toured almost every year to sold out stadiums and arenas. They released a brand new album Hollyweird in 2002 and in 2006 the band celebrated their 20-year anniversary with The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock tour and album, which was certified Gold and marked Poison's return to the Billboard 200 top 20 charts for the first time since 1993. After 30 years, the band is still recording music and performing.

Since their debut in 1986, they have released seven studio albums, four live albums, six compilation albums, and have issued 28 singles to radio.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[3]
US Rock
[4]
US Indie
[5]
CAN
[6]
AUS
[7]
AUT
[8]
NL
[9]
NOR
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12]
SWI
[13]
UK
[14]
Look What the Cat Dragged In 3 14 51
Open Up and Say... Ahh!
  • Release date: May 3, 1988
  • Label: Enigma Records
2 10 7 17 1 37 30 18
Flesh & Blood
  • Release date: June 21, 1990
  • Label: Enigma Records
2 4 2 17 88 11 4 17 11 3
Native Tongue 16 26 60 39 54 39 39 24 20
Crack a Smile... and More!
  • Released: March 14, 2000
  • Label: Capitol Records
131
Hollyweird
  • Release date: May 21, 2002
  • Label: Cyanide Records
103 8
Poison'd!
  • Release date: June 5, 2007
  • Label: EMI America/Capitol Records
32 12
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[3]
UK
[14]
AUS
[7]
Swallow This Live
  • Release date: November 12, 1991
  • Label: Capitol Records
51 52 46
Power to the People
  • Release date: June 13, 2000
  • Label: Cyanide Records
166
Great Big Hits Live! Bootleg
  • Release date: July 4, 2006
  • Label: Sony
Live, Raw & Uncut
  • Release date: July 15, 2008
  • Label: Cyanide Records
Seven Days Live
  • Release date: August 26, 2008
  • Label: Cherry Red
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[3]
US Rock
[4]
US Hard Rock
[22]
CAN
Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996
  • Release date: November 26, 1996
  • Label: Capitol Records
Poison – Rock Champions
  • Release date: September 25, 2001
  • Label: EMI America
Best of Ballads & Blues
  • Release date: August 5, 2003
  • Label: Capitol Records
141
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
  • Release date: April 3, 2006
  • Label: Capitol Records
17 5 10
Poison - 10 Great Songs
  • Release date: January 12, 2010
  • Re-released in 2014 as "Poison: The Millennium Collection"
  • Label:
145 40 14
Double Dose: Ultimate Hits
  • Release date: May 3, 2011
  • Label: Capitol Records
23 17[23]
Poison: Icon
  • Release date: March 19, 2013
  • Label:
Poison: Gold
  • Release date: January 21, 2014
  • Label:
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Box sets

Year Album details
2009 Poison – Box Set (Collector's Edition)
  • Release date: 2009
  • Label: Madacy Records
2010 Nothin' But a Good Time: The Poison Collection
  • Release date: 2010
  • Label: Capitol

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US
[2]
US Main
[24]
CAN
[25]
AUS
[7]
NL
[26]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[27]
SWI
[28]
UK
[14]
1986 "Cry Tough" 97 Look What the Cat Dragged In
1987 "Talk Dirty to Me" 9 9 55 67
"I Want Action" 50
"I Won't Forget You" 13 38 37
"Rock and Roll All Nite" Less Than Zero (soundtrack)
1988 "Nothin' but a Good Time" 6 19 36 10 35 Open Up and Say... Ahh!
"Fallen Angel" 12 32 55 21 32 59
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" 1 11 2 16 18 8 20 12 13
1989 "Your Mama Don't Dance" 10 39 17 21 3 13
1990 "Unskinny Bop" 3 5 3 7 34 3 19 15 Flesh and Blood
"Something to Believe In" 4 5 3 44 38 35
"Ride the Wind" 38 25 31
1991 "Life Goes On" 35
"(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice" 88
"So Tell Me Why" 25 Swallow This Live
1993 "Stand" 50 15 15 80 39 25 Native Tongue
"Until You Suffer Some" 32
"Body Talk"
"7 Days Over You" (promo)
"The Scream" (promo)
2000 "Shut Up, Make Love" 31 Crack a Smile... and More!
"Be the One"
"Power to the People" 66 Power to the People
"The Last Song"
2001 "Rockstar" Hollyweird
2002 "Squeeze Box"
"Shooting Star"
2006 "We're an American Band" The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
2007 "What I Like About You" Poison'd!
"SexyBack"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Videography

Video albums

Title Album details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Video
Sight for Sore Ears
  • US: Gold
  • CAN: Gold[16]
Flesh, Blood, & Videotape
  • Release date: 1991
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • US: Gold
Swallow This Live: Flesh & Blood World Tour
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • US: Gold
Seven Days Live
  • Release date: 1993, DVD - 2006.
  • Label: Cherry Red
VH1 Behind the Music: Poison
  • Release date: 1999, Re-released with extra footage in 2010.
  • Label: VH1
Poison Greatest Video Hits
  • Release date: 2001
  • Label: Capitol Records
Nothing but a Good Time! Unauthorized
  • Release date: 2003
  • Label: Capitol Records
Poison Video Hits
  • Release date: 2005
  • Label: Capitol Records
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (DVD)
  • Release date: April 3, 2006
  • Label: EMI America
17
Live, Raw & Uncut (DVD)
  • Release date: 2008
  • Label: E1 Music
8[32]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year Song Director
1986 "Cry Tough" John Jopson
1987 "Talk Dirty to Me" Doug Freel
"I Want Action" John Jopson
"I Won't Forget You"
1988 "Nothin' but a Good Time" Marc Reshovsky
"Fallen Angel" Marty Callner
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
1989 "Your Mamma Don't Dance"
"Good Love"
1990 "Unskinny Bop" Marty Callner
"Something to Believe In"
"Ride the Wind"
1991 "Life Goes On"
"(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice"
1992 "So Tell Me Why"
1993 "Stand" Samuel Bayer
"Until You Suffer Some (Fire & Ice)"
2000 "Power to the People" Poison
2002 "Squeeze Box"
2006 "We're An American Band" Poison
2007 "What I Like About You"

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