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Cliff Richard discography

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Studio albums
  
45 (43 UK + 2 Germany)

Compilation albums
  
15 (UK)

EPs
  
46 (UK)

Live albums
  
11 (9 UK + 2 Japan)

Video albums
  
36 (UK) + 1 (France)

Singles
  
146 (UK)

The discography of British singer Cliff Richard, who made his professional debut in 1958, consists of forty-five studio albums (43 English, 2 German), seven soundtrack albums, eleven live albums, three stage show cast albums, fifteen mainstream compilation albums, seven box sets, eight gospel compilation albums, forty-six EPs and 146 singles (in the UK, including singles only available via digital download). It also includes numerous budget/mid-price compilation albums, repackaged albums and one remix album. These figures are based on Richard's releases in his native UK plus a small number of new music releases for specific markets such as Germany, France, Japan and the US. There have been many additional compilation albums and singles released outside the UK that are too numerous to include, however some of the more successful or notable singles released outside the UK have been included in the Singles section.

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In the UK, Cliff is the most successful British male solo artist of all time. He also has the distinction of being the only artist to have achieved UK number one singles throughout five consecutive decades, in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Richard has the unique distinction of having a number-one single on the charts with the same song, with "Living Doll" in 1959, and then re-recording with the cast of The Young Ones, three decades later. Richard released his 102nd album in 2016, titled Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll, which includes a posthumous duet of "Blue Suede Shoes" with Elvis Presley and continues in the rock and roll theme of his previous studio album The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook.

Albums

Richard's debut album Cliff was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios before a small invited audience. It was released in April 1959 and reached No. 4 on the UK Album Chart. It is listed under Live albums.

Studio albums

Notes:

* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Part new songs, part compilation of previously released songs. ^ ^ ^ ^ Gospel album or album predominately made up of Gospel or Christian songs.

Soundtracks

Notes:

  • ^ Gospel album or album predominately made up of Gospel or Christian songs.
  • A ^ Refer to note under Studio Albums.

    • Live albums

    Notes:

  • ^ Gospel album or album predominately made up of Gospel or Christian songs.
  • A ^ Japan double-album release; not released in the UK in its original form. Retitled as Cliff Goes East for release in Southeast Asia and New Zealand. Subsequently, repackaged in 1976 as a single album titled Live! (or Live) in numerous countries, including the UK. Eventually released in the UK on 10 April 2010 (on CD) with original title, sleeve and track-listing.
  • B ^ Japan double-album release; not released in the UK in its original form. Eventually released in the UK on 6 April 2009 (on CD) with original title, sleeve and track-listing.
  • C ^ Includes two studio-recorded tracks and a heavily remixed version of We Don't Talk Anymore.

    • Budget compilation albums

    Albums released on dedicated budget album labels or released at prices less than full price product (such as mid-price releases). Also includes notable albums released by specialist re-issue record labels. These notable albums usually contain previously unreleased material or material previously unreleased on CD.

    Gospel compilation albums

    Albums dedicated to gospel tracks only, or released by Christian music labels for the Contemporary Christian music (CCM) market.

    Repackaged albums

    Previously released albums, typically retitled, given a new cover and released with the same or predominantly the same track listing.

    Notes:

  • A ^ Includes many live tracks not included in the original release; drops two studio-recorded tracks, a remixed track and the duet with Aswad. Uses original album cover.

    • German studio albums

    Studio albums released only in Germany (and German-speaking countries). These albums exclusively contained songs sung in German.

    Other appearances (albums)

    For duets with other artists, please see Duets section.

    EPs

    Notes:

  • A ^ The UK's first E.P. chart was dated 12 March 1960. E.P.s that were released before this date and appeared on this first chart have their highest position shown in parentheses to indicate the position is not necessarily a true indication of the album's sales performance since its release date.
  • $ ^ A stereo edition was released (in addition to the standard mono edition).

    • 1950s

    Notes:

  • A ^ The British Disc music paper awarded silver discs (for UK sales of 250,000) and gold discs (for UK sales of 1,000,000) from 1959 until 1973. Awards were based on sales figures submitted by record companies. In 1973, it was superseded by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) setting up an 'official' certification award system.
  • B ^ "Schoolboy Crush" was the original A-side and "Move It" the original B-side.
  • C ^ Before the Netherlands official charts began in 1965, there were numerous independent charts. In 1959, when "Living Doll" was charting, there were four singles charts. "Living Doll" hit number one in the Songwereld monthly top ten chart for October, number 2 on the Muziek Express and Elsevier charts, and number 3 on the Muziek Parade chart.

    • 1960s

    Notes:

  • A ^ Refer to note under 1950s section.
  • B ^ In Belgium, "Just Another Guy" charted in 1980 when re-released. "The Minute Your Gone" was the B-side.
  • C ^ The Netherlands released other singles not released in the UK. Two of them made the top ten, "Lessons in Love" #7 (1962) and "Forty Days" #8 (1963).

    • 1970s

    Notes:

  • A ^ Refer to note under 1950s section.
  • B ^ "Goodbye Same, Hello Samantha" reached number 1 in Malaysia, number 2 in South Africa, number 5 in Singapore and the top 10 in Denmark in 1970.
  • C ^ "Sunny Honey Girl" reached number 1 in Malaysia in 1971.
  • D ^ "Flying Machine" reached number 1 in Malaysia, and reached the top 5 in Denmark in 1971.
  • E ^ "Sing a Song of Freedom" reached number 1 in Malaysia, and reached the top 10 in Denmark in 1971.
  • F ^ "Jesus"/"Mr Cloud" reached number 1 in Hong Kong and "Mr Cloud" reached number 2 in Malaysia in 1972.
  • G ^ "A Brand New Song" reached number 1 in Malaysia in 1973.
  • H ^ "Help it Along" reached number 1 in Malaysia and number 2 in Hong Kong in 1973.

    • 1980s

    Notes:

  • A ^ The B-side of "Baby You're Dynamite" was "Back in Vaudeville" instead of "Ocean Deep" in some countries, such as Australia, Germany and The Netherlands.
  • B ^ After the UK release of "Baby You're Dynamite" / "Ocean Deep" finished its initial chart run (finishing on 5 May 1984), it was given a new picture cover with "Ocean Deep" as the A-side. It then re-entered the Top 75 chart at 72 for one week (on 15 May 1984).
  • C ^ The Rock 'n' Roll Silver album was only released as a part of the Silver album's box-set edition in 1983. All its tracks have been re-released as part of the remastered release of the album The Rock Connection (the original release included half of the Rock 'n' Roll Silver tracks; the remastered release also included the remainder as bonus tracks).
  • D ^ The first Cliff Richard album to include the "All I Ask of You" single with Sarah Brightman was Private Collection: 1979–1988.

    • 1990s

    Since the 1980s, Cliff Richard has not charted on the US, Canadian, Norwegian or Swedish singles charts.

    Notes:

  • A ^ "Miss You Nights" was a remix of the original lead single from the 1976 studio album I'm Nearly Famous. It was included on the 1994 compilation album The Hit List and used to promote the album on the CD sleeve of the double A-side single "All I have to do is Dream" / "Miss You Nights", which noted it as taken from the album.

    • 2000s

    Notes:

  • A ^ Single released as download only.

    • 2010s

    Since 2009, Cliff Richard singles have only been released as downloads. His last single released on physical media was 2009's "Singing the Blues".

    German language

    The German language singles were primarily released in German-speaking countries.

    Duets

    Cliff Richard has duetted on singles and albums with many singers during his career:

    References

    Cliff Richard discography Wikipedia
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