Foreigner discography
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| Foreigner discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 9 |
| Live albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 20 |
| Singles | 47 |
The discography of Foreigner, a British-American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums, 7 live albums, 20 compilation albums, and 47 singles.
The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, and American vocalist Lou Gramm. Since then, Foreigner has released nine studio albums, seven of which have reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. 4 was the band's only chart-topper in the US, while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieve the same feat on the UK Albums Chart. Overall, Foreigner's albums have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone.
Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3 ("Hot Blooded", "Double Vision", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is"). Despite its British roots, the band achieved only moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20.
In 2014, Rhino released a boxed set of the band's seven albums recorded for Atlantic entitled Foreigner: The Complete Atlantic Studios Albums 1977-1991. The first four albums that were expanded to include bonus tracks in 2002 were included in the set along with the remaining albums by the band. These were housed in cardboard replicas of the original vinyl sleeves.[1]
Albums[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] | UK [3] | AUS [4] | CAN [5] | GER [6] | NL [7] | NOR [8] | NZ [9] | SWE [10] | SWI [11] | |||
| Foreigner |
| 4 | — | 9 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Double Vision |
| 3 | 32 | 13 | 3 | — | — | — | 32 | — | — |
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| Head Games |
| 5 | — | 45 | 5 | 39 | — | — | 38 | — | — |
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| 4 |
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | — | 19 | 41 | — | |
| Agent Provocateur |
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Inside Information |
| 15 | 64 | 33 | 23 | 7 | 26 | 5 | — | 11 | 7 | |
| Unusual Heat |
| 117 | 56 | — | 50 | 13 | 70 | 18 | — | 40 | 8 | |
| Mr. Moonlight |
| 136 | 59 | — | 69 | 21 | 60 | — | — | — | 17 | |
| Can't Slow Down |
| 29 | 105 | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | 26 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||||
Live albums[edit]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] | CAN [5] | GER [6] | NL [7] | NZ [9] | SWI [11] | ||
| Best of Live / Classic Hits Live | 1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Live in '05 / Extended Versions | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live! / Extended Versions | 2010 | 88 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Alive & Rockin' | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Best of 4 & More | 2014 | 162 | — | — | — | 26 | — |
| In Concert: Unplugged | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 2018 | — | — | 9 | 171 [20] | — | 14 |
| The Greatest Hits of Foreigner: Live in Concert | 2019 | — | 22 | — | — | — | — |
| Live At The Rainbow '78 | — | — | 75 | — | — | — | |
| Double Vision: Then And Now Live.Reloaded | — | — | 26 | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Compilation albums[edit]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] | UK [3] | AUS [4][21] | GER [6] | NL [7] | NOR [8] | NZ [9] | SWE [10] | SWI [11] | |||||
| Records | 1982 | 10 | 58 | 26 | 22 | — | — | 17 | — | — | |||
| The Very Best of Foreigner | 1992 | — | 19 | — | 23 | 2 | — | — | — | 20 |
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| The Very Best ... and Beyond | 123 | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | — | — |
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| The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is | 1998 | — | — | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| The Platinum Collection | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology | 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Complete Greatest Hits | 2002 | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| The Definitive | — | 33 | 30 | 48 | 71 | 13 | — | 40 | — | ||||
| Hot Blooded and Other Hits | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| The Essentials | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| The Definitive Collection | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| The Very Best of Toto & Foreigner (Toto & Foreigner) | 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 84 | |||
| No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner | 2008 | 132 | — | — | 46 | — | — | 34 | — | 64 | |||
| Juke Box Heroes | 2011 | 108 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| I Want to Know What Love Is – The Ballads | 2014 | — | — | — | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| The Soundtrack of Summer (Styx/Foreigner (with Don Felder)) | 69 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 40 | 2017 | 106 | 79 | — | 94 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||
Singles[edit]
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | UK [3] | AUS [4][21][27] | BEL [28] | CAN [5] | GER [6] | NL [7] | NOR [8] | NZ [9] | SWI [11] | ||||||
| "Feels Like the First Time" | 1977 | 4 | 39 | 41 | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Foreigner | ||
| "Cold as Ice" | 6 | 24 | 32 | 20 | 9 | — | 10 | — | — | — | |||||
| "Long, Long Way from Home" | 20 | — | 70 | — | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Hot Blooded" | 1978 | 3 | 42 | 24 | — | 3 | — | 46 | — | — | — |
| Double Vision | ||
| "Double Vision" | 2 | — | 97 | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "Blue Morning, Blue Day" | 15 | 45 | — | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Dirty White Boy" | 1979 | 12 | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | Head Games | |||
| "Head Games" | 14 | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Love on the Telephone" | 1980 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Women" | 41 | — | — | — | 82 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "I'll Get Even with You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Urgent" | 1981 | 4 | 45 | 24 | — | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |||
| "Waiting for a Girl Like You" | 2 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 29 | 13 | — | 10 | — |
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| "Juke Box Hero" | 26 | 48 | 53 | — | 39 | 24 | — | — | — | — |
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| "Break It Up" | 1982 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Luanne" | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "I Want to Know What Love Is" | 1984 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Agent Provocateur | |||
| "That Was Yesterday" | 1985 | 12 | 28 | 55 | 25 | 24 | 31 | 19 | — | — | 29 | ||||
| "Reaction to Action" | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Cold as Ice" (UK remix) | — | 64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
| "Down on Love" | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Agent Provocateur | ||||
| "Growing Up The Hard Way" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Say You Will" | 1987 | 6 | 71 | 6 | 24 | 13 | 22 | 12 | 4 | — | 20 | Inside Information | |||
| "I Don't Want to Live Without You" | 1988 | 5 | 91 | 21 | 25 | 18 | — | 16 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Heart Turns to Stone" | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Lowdown and Dirty" | 1991 | — | — | 123 | — | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | Unusual Heat | |||
| "I'll Fight For You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "With Heaven on Our Side" | 1992 | —[A] | — | — | — | 85 | — | — | — | — | — | The Very Best ... and Beyond | |||
| "Soul Doctor" | 1993 | — | — | — | — | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "White Lie" | 1994 | — | 58 | — | — | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | Mr. Moonlight | |||
| "Until the End of Time" | 1995 | 42 | 84 | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Rain" | — | — | — | — | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "All I Need To Know" | — | — | — | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Under the Gun" | — | — | — | — | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "The Flame Still Burns" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||||
- A ^ "With Heaven on Our Side" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 but did peak at number three on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which is an extension of the Billboard Hot 100.[31]
References[edit]
- ^ Rhino Newsletter, September 2014
- ^ a b c "Foreigner Chart History: The Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Foreigner full Official Chart History". Official Charts. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 116. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b c "Canadian peaks". Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Discographie von Foreigner". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Discografie Foreigner". Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Discography Foreigner". Norwegian Charts. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
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- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "Foreigner is no stranger Down Under" (PDF). Cash Box. September 3, 1983. p. 17. Retrieved December 7, 2021 – via World Radio History.
- ^ a b c d "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Foreigner)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – 4". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Agent Provocateur". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Inside Information". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Can't Slow Down". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
- ^ "Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Records". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – The Very Best ... and Beyond". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – The Definitive". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 24 June 1991". Retrieved June 25, 2022.
- ^ "Discografie Foreigner". Ultratop (in Dutch). Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – Cold As Ice". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ "British certifications – Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love Is". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ^ devops (January 2, 2013). "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Week of December 19, 1992". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2024.