English hard rock band Deep Purple have released 23 studio albums, 43 live albums, 26 compilation albums and 58 singles.

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Deep Purple discography
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Deep Purple (2013)
Studio albums23
Live albums43
Compilation albums26
Singles58
Video albums26
Music videos25
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Formed in early 1968 by Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, Deep Purple released their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, in July of that year.

The band has taken on many new members over the years, and Ian Paice is the last member from the original line-up still with the band.

Albums

Studio albums

More information Title, Album details ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2][3]
AUT
[4]
FIN
[5]
GER
[6]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9][10]
SWI
[11]
US
[12]
Shades of Deep Purple 24
The Book of Taliesyn
  • Released: October 1968
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
54
Deep Purple
  • Released: June 1969
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
162
Deep Purple in Rock
  • Released: 5 June 1970
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
4 1 1 9 1 1 5 143
Fireball
  • Released: July 1971
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
1 5 1 2 1 3 1 1 32
Machine Head
  • Released: 30 March 1972
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
1 1 4 1 1 1 3 4 19 7
Who Do We Think We Are
  • Released: 12 January 1973
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
4 5 2 11 3 5 1 1 15
Burn
  • Released: 15 February 1974
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
3 7 1 5 1 7 1 1 9
Stormbringer
  • Released: 8 November 1974
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
6 8 4 6 10 2 6 20
Come Taste the Band
  • Released: 7 November 1975
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, Reel, 8-track
19 11 29 12 6 16 43
Perfect Strangers
  • Released: 29 October 1984
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, 8-track
5 19 5 22 2 16 1 3 1 17
The House of Blue Light
  • Released: 12 January 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
10 39 11 1 1 11 1 1 3 34
Slaves and Masters
  • Released: 22 October 1990
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
45 72 28 22 23 72 16 12 5 87
The Battle Rages On...
  • Released: 19 July 1993
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
21 9 9 13 39 9 8 7 192
Purpendicular
  • Released: 5 February 1996
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
58 16 9 20 87 30 3 17
Abandon
  • Released: May 1998
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
76 25 14 16 6 32 46
Bananas
  • Released: 25 August 2003
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP, CD
85 12 6 3 19 18 13
Rapture of the Deep
  • Released: 24 October 2005
  • Label: Edel
  • Formats: LP, CD
81 20 11 10 22 16
Now What?!
  • Released: 26 April 2013
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
19 1 8 1 12 1 7 2 110
Infinite
  • Released: 7 April 2017
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
6204416351105
Whoosh!
  • Released: 7 August 2020
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
4 13 1 1 1 7 3 3 1 161
Turning to Crime
  • Released: 26 November 2021
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
28 5 6
[23]
5 25 21
[24]
14
[25]
4
=1
  • Released: 20 July 2024
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
12 58 2 3
[26]
1 8 1
[27]
1
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
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Live albums

More information Title, Album details ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUT
[4]
CAN
[28]
FIN
[5]
GER
[6]
ITA
[29]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[10]
US
[12]
Concerto for Group and Orchestra
  • Released: 10 December 1969
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, 8-track
26 50 22 149
Made in Japan
  • Released: 22 December 1972
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
16 1 5 4 1 7 4 7 6 6
Made in Europe
  • Released: November 1976
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
12 10 12 25 148
Last Concert in Japan
  • Released: March 1977
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
Deep Purple in Concert
  • Released: 1 December 1980
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
30 142 206
[A]
Live in London
  • Released: 23 August 1982
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
23 74
Nobody's Perfect
  • Released: 20 June 1988
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
38 16 5 13 44 5 5 105
Scandinavian Nights / Stockholm 1970
  • Released: 10 October 1988
  • Label: Connoisseur Collection
  • Formats: LP
187
In the Absence of Pink
  • Released: August 1991
  • Label: Connoisseur Society
  • Formats: CD
Gemini Suite Live
  • Released: July 1993
  • Label: RPM
  • Formats: LP, CD
Come Hell or High Water
  • Released: 31 October 1994
  • Label: BMG/RCA
  • Formats: CD
  • ARIA: Platinum (DVD)[33]
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert / Long Beach 1976 89
California Jamming
  • Released: June 1996
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: LP, CD
Mk III: The Final Concerts
  • Released: 21 June 1996
  • Label: Connoisseur
  • Formats: CD
Live at the Olympia '96
  • Released: 9 June 1997
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP, CD
98
Total Abandon: Australia '99
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: LP, CD
In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
  • Released: 8 February 2000
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: LP, CD
32 86
The Bootleg Series
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Thames Thompson
  • Formats: CD
Live in Paris 1975
  • Released: April 2001
  • Label: Purple/BMG
  • Formats: CD
Space Vol 1 & 2 / Live in Aachen 1970
  • Released: July 2001
  • Label: Purple/BMG
  • Formats: CD
This Time Around: Live in Tokyo
  • Released: September 2001
  • Label: Purple/BMG
  • Formats: CD
The Soundboard Series
  • Released: October 2001
  • Label: Thames Thompson
  • Formats: CD
Inglewood - Live in California
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Purple Records
  • Formats: CD
Live in Denmark 1972
  • Released: December 2002
  • Label: Sonic Zoom
  • Formats: CD
Kneel & Pray / Live in Montreux 69
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Sonic Zoom PUR 257D
  • Formats: LP, CD
The Best of Deep Purple: Live in Europe
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Twin Pack Music
Perks and Tit / San Diego 1974
  • Released: 29 March 2004
  • Label: Purple/BMG
  • Formats: CD
Live in Europe 1993
  • Released: 21 February 2006
  • Label: Sony/BMG
  • Formats: CD
Live at Montreux 1996
  • Released: May 2006
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: LP, CD
92
  • MC: Gold
Live at Montreux 2006
  • Released: 12 June 2007
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: LP, CD
Phoenix Rising
  • Released: 11 May 2011
  • Label: Edel
  • Formats: CD
188 50 22 38
BBC Sessions 1968–1970
  • Released: 7 November 2011
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
94
Live at Montreux 2011
  • Released: 7 November 2011
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: CD
43
Perfect Strangers Live
  • Released: 14 October 2013
  • Label: Eagle Vision
  • Formats: LP, CD
53 20 59
Graz 1975
  • Released: September 2014
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
92 8 49 47 88
Long Beach 1971
  • Released: February 2015
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download
68 99
From the Setting Sun... (In Wacken)
  • Released: April 2015
  • Label: Edel
  • Formats: CD
31 18 35
...To the Rising Sun (In Tokyo)
  • Released: April 2015
  • Label: Edel
  • Formats: CD
44 21 46
The Infinite Live Recordings, Vol. 1
  • Released: 17 November 2017
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
66
Live in Newcastle 2001
  • Released: 5 July 2019
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
25 14
Live in Rome 2013
  • Released: 6 December 2019
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
78
Live In Wollongong 2001
  • Released: 13 August 2021
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
8
Live in London 2002
  • Released: 13 August 2021
  • Label: earMusic
  • Formats: LP, CD
9
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

This table shows principal UK and US releases and other live albums with chart placings only. There are many Deep Purple live albums released worldwide.[34][35]

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Compilation albums

More information Title, Album details ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2][3]
AUT
[4]
FIN
[5]
GER
[6]
ITA
[36]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[10]
US
[12]
Purple Passages
  • Released: September 1972
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
57
Mark I & II
  • Released: December 1973
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP
18
24 Carat Purple
  • Released: June 1975
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD, 8-track
14 67 6 29 34 18 4 14
Powerhouse
  • Released: December 1977
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP
54 50
When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll
  • Released: October 1978
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
201
[B]
Singles A's and B's
  • Released: October 1978
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
78
The Mark II Purple Singles
  • Released: April 1979
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: LP
24
Deepest Purple:
The Very Best of Deep Purple
  • Released: 4 July 1980
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
1 5 148
Greatest Purple
  • Released: January 1985
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
28 14
The Anthology
  • Released: June 1985
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, CD
50 86
Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
  • Released: April 1992
  • Label: Mercury/PolyGram
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
Smoke on the Water:
The Best Of
  • Released: July 1994
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
28
30: Very Best of Deep Purple
  • Released: 12 October 1998
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP, CD
39 41 41 16 73 17 18
Shades 1968–1998
  • Released: 16 March 1999
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD
Days May Come and Days May Go
  • Released: 14 March 2000
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: CD
The Very Best of Deep Purple
  • Released: May 2000
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD
43 99
Smoke on the Water & Other Hits
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD
Listen, Learn, Read On
  • Released: 8 October 2002
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow
  • Released: 17 June 2003
  • Label: Universal Special Products
  • Formats: CD
Purple Hits
  • Released: June 2003
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
10
The Early Years
  • Released: 1 March 2004
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
22
Deep Purple Forever:
The Very Best Of
  • Released: 17 March 2005
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
19
The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 21 March 2005
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
39 63 13
Singles & E.P. Anthology '68–'80[38]
  • Released: March 2010
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
The Vinyl Collection
  • Released: 29 January 2016
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: LP, CD
86
A Fire in the Sky
  • Released: 15 September 2017
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: LP, CD
65
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

This table shows principal UK and US releases and other compilation albums with chart placings only. There are over 150 Deep Purple compilation albums released worldwide.[35][39]

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Extended plays

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Title Extended play details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
New, Live & Rare
  • Released: 30 September 1977[40]
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: 7-inch EP
31
New, Live & Rare Vol.2
  • Released: 15 September 1978[41]
  • Label: Purple
  • Formats: 7-inch; 12-inch EP
45
New, Live & Rare Vol.3
  • Released: October 1980[42]
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: 7-inch EP
48
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Singles

This section presents all singles released in European, US/Canadian and Japanese markets.

More information Year, Title ...
Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[43]
AUT
[44]
BEL
[45][46]
CAN
[47]
FIN
[5]
SWI
[48]
GER
[6]
NED
[49]
US
[50][51]
1968 "Hush" 27 2 7 4 Shades of Deep Purple
"Kentucky Woman" 21 38 The Book of Taliesyn
1969 "River Deep – Mountain High" 81 42 53
"Emmaretta" 44 79 128 Non-album single
"Help!"[k] Shades of Deep Purple
"Hallelujah" 16 108 Non-album singles
1970 "Black Night"[d] 2 14 4 1 67 34 1 2 8 66
"Speed King"[i] 38 Deep Purple in Rock
1971 "Strange Kind of Woman" 8 44 14 27 8 Non-album single [1]
"Fireball" 15 58 22 19 24 Fireball
1972 "Never Before" 35 80 45 4 20 Machine Head
"Lazy"[u]
"Child in Time"[a] 10 Deep Purple in Rock
"Highway Star"[u][j] Machine Head
1973 "Woman from Tokyo" 92 23 55 16 6 60 Who Do We Think We Are
"Smoke on the Water" 54 11 27 2 20 11 4 Machine Head
"Super Trouper"[a] Who Do We Think We Are
1974 "Might Just Take Your Life"[f] 55 84 91 Burn
"Burn"[u][j] 105
"You Can't Do It Right"[u] Stormbringer
"Lady Double Dealer"[j]
1975 "Stormbringer"
"Child in Time" (EP)[a] 26 9 Deep Purple in Rock
"Black Night" (live)[j] 24 Carat Purple
1976 "Gettin' Tighter"[u] Come Taste the Band
"You Keep on Moving"
1977 "Smoke on the Water" (live)[e] 21 Made in Japan
1984 "Knocking at Your Back Door" 68 61 Perfect Strangers
1985 "Perfect Strangers" 48
1987 "Call of the Wild" 92 93 The House of Blue Light
"Bad Attitude"
1988 "Hush"[c] 62 Nobody's Perfect
1990 "King of Dreams" 70 138 56 Slaves and Masters
1991 "Love Conquers All" 57
1993 "Anya"[l] The Battle Rages On...
"Time to Kill"[a]
1994 "Anyone's Daughter" (live)[g] Come Hell or High Water
1996 "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming"[a] Purpendicular
"Aviator"[g]
2003 "Haunted"[a] Bananas
2011 "Hush" (live)[a] BBC Sessions 1968–1970
2013 "All the Time in the World" Now What?!
"Hell to Pay"
"Vincent Price"
"Above and Beyond" 100
2015 "Out of Hand"
2017 "Time for Bedlam" Infinite
"All I Got Is You"
"Johnny's Band"
2020 "Throw My Bones" Whoosh!
"Man Alive"
"Nothing at All"
2021 "7 and 7 Is" Turning to Crime
"Oh Well"
"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
2024 "Portable Door" =1
"Pictures of You"
"Lazy Sod"
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
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Notes

  • 1^ - "Strange Kind of Woman" was featured on "Fireball" on US/Can/JPN versions of the album.
  • a^ - released in selected EU markets.
  • c^ - new studio version recorded in 1988.
  • d^ - UK re-release in 1980, reached No. 43. Remixed version released in 1995 reached No. 66.
  • e^ - released in UK/Europe.
  • f^ - UK chart entry on Music Week's Top 75.[53]
  • g^ - released in Germany.
  • i^ - released as a stand-alone single in GER and NL, instead of serving as flipside to "Black Night".
  • j^ - released in Japan.
  • k^ - released in France.
  • l^ - released in Japan and Germany.
  • u^ - released in USA/Canada.

Videos

Video albums

More information Recorded, Released ...
Recorded Released Album title Certifications
1969 1970 (TV)
1999 (VHS)
2003 (DVD)
Concerto for Group and Orchestra
1970 1970 (TV)
1990 (VHS)
2003 (DVD)
Doing Their Thing
1972
1972–1973
1990 (VHS)
2005 (DVD)
Scandinavian Nights – Live in Denmark 1972
Live in Concert 72/73
  • ARIA: Gold[54]
  • RIAA: Gold
  • SNEP: Gold
1974 1974 (TV)
1981 (VHS)
2005 (DVD)
2016 (Blu-ray)
California Jam – Live in California 74
  • SNEP: Gold
1975 1985 (VHS)
2011 (DVD)
Rises Over Japan
Phoenix Rising
1968–1976 2009 (DVD) History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76
1984 2013 (DVD) Perfect Strangers Live
1987 1987 (VHS) The Video Singles
1968–1991 1991 (VHS)
2003 (DVD)
Heavy Metal Pioneers
1993 1994 (VHS)
2001 (DVD)
Come Hell or High Water
  • BPI: Gold
  • ARIA: Platinum[55]
1995 1995 (VHS) Bombay Calling
1996 2004 (DVD) Live Encounters
1996 2006 (DVD) Live at Montreux 1996
1999 1999 (DVD) Total Abandon: Live in Australia
1999 2000 (DVD) In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
2001 2001 (DVD) Classic Albums: Deep Purple – The Making of Machine Head
1984–2000 2001 (DVD) New Live & Rare: The Video Collection 1984–2000
2001 2002 (DVD) Perihelion
2002 2016 (DVD) Live at the NEC
1995–2007 2008 (DVD) Around the World Live
2006 2007 (DVD) They All Came Down to Montreux
2011 2011 (DVD) Live at Montreux 2011 (with Orchestra)
2011 2014 (DVD) Live in Verona (with Orchestra)
2014 2014 (DVD) Celebrating Jon Lord at the Royal Albert Hall (with Deep Purple, Bruce Dickinson, Glenn Hughes, Paul Weller, Rick Wakeman & Many Others)
2013 2015 (DVD) From the Setting Sun... (In Wacken)
2014 2015 (DVD) ...To the Rising Sun (In Tokyo)
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Music videos

More information Year, Video ...
Year Video Director Album
1968 "Hush" Shades of Deep Purple
1970 "Black Night" Non-album single
1972 "Never Before" Machine Head
1984 "Knocking at Your Back Door" Perfect Strangers
"Perfect Strangers"
"Under the Gun"
1987 "Call of the Wild" The House of Blue Light
"Bad Attitude"
1988 "Hush" (Re-recorded) Nobody's Perfect
1990 "King of Dreams" James Foley Slaves and Masters
"Love Conquers All" Storm Thorgerson
2003 "Haunted" Bananas
2013 "Vincent Price" Now What?!
2017 "All I Got Is You" Infinite
"Johnny's Band" Craig Hooper and Collin Games
"The Surprising"
2020 "Throw My Bones" Whoosh!
"Man Alive"
"Nothing at All"
2021 "7 and 7 Is" Turning to Crime
"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" Luke McDonnell
"Oh Well" Dan Gibling
2024 "Smoke on the Water" Dan Gibling & Luke McDonnell Machine Head
"Portable Door" Leo Feimer =1
"Pictures of You"
"Lazy Sod"
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Notes

  1. Deep Purple in Concert did not enter the Billboard 200, but peaked at number 206 on the Bubbling Under the Top LP's chart in 1982.[32]
  2. When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll did not enter the Billboard 200, but peaked at number 201 on the Bubbling Under the Top LP's chart.[32]

References

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