Blur discography

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Blur discography

The discography of English rock band Blur consists of nine studio albums, six live albums, five compilation albums, one remix album, two video albums, four extended plays, 35 singles, 10 promotional singles and 37 music videos. Formed in London in 1988, the group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Three years later, their debut release, the Madchester and shoegazing-tinged Leisure (1991), peaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart. Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) inaugurated the Britpop phase of their career. Its multi-Platinum follow-ups Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helped the band achieve mainstream popularity in Britain; every Blur studio album from Parklife onwards has topped the British charts.

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Blur discography
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Blur performing at Hyde Park in July 2009
Studio albums9
EPs4
Live albums6
Compilation albums5
Singles35
Video albums2
Music videos37
Remix albums1
Promotional singles10
Box sets2
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Albums

Studio albums

More information Title, Album details ...
List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
FRA
[4]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
NOR
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
US
[10]
Leisure 7142[A]
Modern Life Is Rubbish
  • Released: 10 May 1993 (UK)[14]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
15143
Parklife
  • Released: 25 April 1994 (UK)[15]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
145413637278[B]
The Great Escape
  • Released: 11 September 1995 (UK)[17]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP
1102414355572150
Blur
  • Released: 10 February 1997 (UK)[22]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP, MD
122261223763461
13
  • Released: 15 March 1999 (UK)[28]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LP, MD
112111261312480
Think Tank
  • Released: 5 May 2003 (UK)[32]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
1301181418274456
The Magic Whip
  • Released: 27 April 2015 (UK)
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1515335483024
The Ballad of Darren
  • Released: 21 July 2023 (UK)
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download
110432071294
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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Live albums

More information Title, Album details ...
List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
JPN
[6]
Live at the Budokan
  • Released: 22 May 1996 (JPN)[6]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD
36
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009[C]
  • Released: 30 August 2009 (UK)[35]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
70148
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 03 July 2009[C]
  • Released: 30 August 2009 (UK)[36]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
44
Live 2009[37]
  • Released: 22 November 2009 (UK)[37]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD
Parklive
  • Released: 13 August 2012 (UK)[38]
  • Label: EMI, Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, digital download
91137
Live at Wembley Stadium
  • Released: 26 July 2024[39]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
6
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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Compilation albums

More information Title, Album details ...
List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
GER
[5]
IRL
[40]
JPN
[6]
NOR
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
US
[10]
The Special Collectors Edition
  • Released: 26 October 1994 (JPN)[6]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD
64
Blur: The Best Of
  • Released: 30 October 2000 (UK)[41]
  • Labels: Food, EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP
323143532013622186
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
  • Released: 15 June 2009 (UK)[44]
  • Labels: EMI
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2066
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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Remix albums

More information Title, Album details ...
List of remix albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
HUN
[45]
JPN
[6]
Bustin' + Dronin'
  • Released: 25 February 1998 (UK)[46]
  • Label: Food
  • Formats: CD, cassette
501631950
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Video albums

More information Title, Album details ...
List of video albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Video

[48]
US
Video

[49]
Showtime[50]
Blur: The Best Of
  • Released: 13 November 2000 (UK)[51]
  • Labels: Food, EMI
  • Formats: DVD, VHS
4932
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Extended plays

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List of extended plays
Title EP details
Live[52]
  • Released: 1997 (NLD)[52]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD
The Observer CD[53]
  • Released: 1999 (UK)[53]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD
Exclusive 5 Track CD[54]
  • Released: 21 September 2003 (UK)[54]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Format: CD
Blur Live from the BRITs[55]
  • Released: 22 February 2012 (UK)[55]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Format: Digital download
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Box sets

More information Title, Album details ...
List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
The Brit Pop Blur Box
  • Released: 1994 (Australia)
  • Format: CD box set
The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set[56]
  • Released: 6 September 1999 (UK)[56]
  • Label: Food
  • Format: CD box set
Blur 21
  • Released: 30 July 2012 (UK)[57]
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD box set, LP box set, DVD box set
716370
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Singles

More information Title, Year ...
List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
BEL
[58]
FRA
[4]
IRL
[59]
JPN
[60]
NLD
[61]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
US
[62]
"She's So High / I Know" 1990 48 Leisure
"There's No Other Way" 1991 81131982
"Bang" 2418921
"Popscene"[D] 1992 32 Non-album single
"For Tomorrow" 1993 28119 Modern Life Is Rubbish
"Chemical World" 28
"Sunday Sunday" 26
"Girls & Boys" 1994 519341123[E]24163059 Parklife
"To the End" 16198
"Parklife" 1011930
  • BPI: 2× Platinum[13]
"End of a Century" 1949
"Country House" 1995 1281[F]3010 The Great Escape
"The Universal" 51041255
"Stereotypes" 1996 79513
"Charmless Man" 5353325
"It Could Be You" (Japan only)
"Beetlebum" 1997 1358[G]873439 Blur
"Song 2" 24[H]19810[I]7328[J]
"On Your Own"[D] 56927
"M.O.R." 156845[K]
"Tender" 1999 232[L]6901229 13
"Coffee & TV" 1117826
"No Distance Left to Run" 14
"Music Is My Radar" 2000 1035 Blur: The Best Of
"Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb"[71] 2002 Non-album single
"Out of Time" 2003 51131719 Think Tank
"Crazy Beat" 181024120
"Good Song" 22
"Fool's Day"[72] 2010 [M] Non-album singles
"Under the Westway" /
"The Puritan"
2012 34[N]1205459
16567
"Go Out" 2015 182[O]18877 The Magic Whip
"There Are Too Many of Us"
"Lonesome Street" 151[P]18150
"Ong Ong" [Q]
"I Broadcast"
"The Narcissist" 2023 81[R][S] The Ballad of Darren
"St. Charles Square"
"Barbaric" [T][U]
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Promotional singles

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List of promotional singles, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
"High Cool" / "Bad Day"[76] 1991 Leisure
"Bang" (Mindwarp Mutations Remixes)[77] 1992
"The Wassailing Song"[78]
"This Is a Low"[79] 1995 Parklife
"Tracy Jacks" / "Bank Holiday"[80]
"Entertain Me" (The Live It! Remix)[81]
"Death of a Party" 1997 Blur
"Bugman"[82] 1999 13
"We've Got a File on You"[83] 2003 Think Tank
"Y'all Doomed"[84] 2015 165 The Magic Whip
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Other charted songs

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List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[85]
BEL
Tip

[58]
"Girls & Boys" (live) 2009 191 All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009
"Ghost Ship" 2015 68 The Magic Whip
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Other appearances

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List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Sunday Sunday" (live)[86] 1992 none In a Field of Their Own: Highlights of Glastonbury 1992
"Maggie May"[87] Ruby Trax – The NME's Roaring 40
"Oliver's Army"[88] 1993 Peace Together
"Substitute"[89] Who Covers Who?
"Miss America" (live)[90] The Adventure Club Sessions
"Eine Kleine Lift Musik"[91] 1995 The Help Album
"The Universal" (live)[92] 1996 ...Later Volume One: Brit Beat
"Girls & Boys" (Pet Shop Boys Remix)[93] 1997 In the Mix '97, Vol. 1
"Never Clever"[94] Food 100
"Beetlebum" (live)[95] Tibetan Freedom Concert
"She's So High" (live)[96] Long Live Tibet
"Cowboy Song"[97] 1998 Dead Man on Campus soundtrack
"101%"[98] 1999 Thurston Moore Root
"Kissin' Time"[99] 2002 Marianne Faithfull Kissin Time
"Girls & Boys (live)"[100] 2014 none Britpop at the BBC
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Videography

Music videos

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List of music videos, showing year released and director
Title Year Director(s)
"She's So High" 1990 David Balfe
"There's No Other Way" (version 1) 1991
"Bang" Willy Smax
"There's No Other Way" (version 2) Matthew Amos
"Popscene" 1992 David Mould
"For Tomorrow" 1993 Julien Temple
"Chemical World" Dwight Clarke
"Sunday Sunday"
"Girls & Boys" 1994 Kevin Godley
"To the End" David Mould
"Parklife" Pedro Romhanyi[101]
"End of a Century" Matthew Longfellow
"Country House" 1995 Damien Hirst[102]
"The Universal" Jonathan Glazer[103]
"Stereotypes" 1996 Matthew Longfellow
"Charmless Man" Jamie Thraves
"Beetlebum" 1997 Sophie Muller[104]
"Song 2"
"On Your Own"
"M.O.R." John Hardwick
"Tender" 1999 Grant Gee
"Coffee & TV" Hammer & Tongs[105]
"No Distance Left to Run" Thomas Vinterberg
"Music Is My Radar" 2000 Don Cameron
"Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" 2002 Thomas Vinterberg
"Out of Time" 2003 John Hardwick
"Crazy Beat" (version 1) Shynola
"Crazy Beat" (version 2) John Hardwick
"Good Song" Shynola, David Shrigley
"Fool's Day" 2010 Pulse Films
"Under the Westway" 2012
"The Puritan"
"Go Out" 2015 Tony Hung[106]
"There Are Too Many of Us" Blur[107]
"Lonesome Street" Ben Reed[108]
"Ong Ong" Tony Hung[106][109]
"I Broadcast"
"St. Charles Square" 2023 Toby L[110]
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Documentaries

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List of documentaries
Title Details
Starshaped
  • Released: 12 September 1993
  • Distributor: Parlophone, Ventura Distribution
  • Director: Ceri Levy
The Great Escape[111]
  • Filmed in 1995 on Blur's seaside tour
  • Unreleased documentary directed and produced by Matthew Longfellow and Ceri Levy
No Distance Left to Run
  • Released: 19 January 2010
  • Distributor: Pulse Films
  • Directors: Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
New World Towers
  • Released: 2 December 2015
  • Distributor: Parlophone, Eleven Films
  • Director: Sam Wrench
  • Note: Limited theatrical release in select UK cinemas
To the End
  • Released: 19 July 2024
  • Distributor: Parlophone, Eleven Films
  • Director: Toby L
  • Note: Limitied theatrical release in select UK cinemas
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Notes

  1. Leisure did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 20 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[12]
  2. Parklife did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number six on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.[12]
  3. All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009 and All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 03 July 2009 charted as a double CD set in Japan.
  4. "Popscene" and "On Your Own" charted as a double A-side single in Australia.
  5. "Girls & Boys" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Japan Hot Overseas chart.[63]
  6. "Country House" did not enter the Netherlands Singles Chart but peaked on the Dutch Tipparade Chart at number 14.[65]
  7. "Beetlebum" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 84 on the Oricon Singles Chart.[66]
  8. "Song 2" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at eight on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  9. "Song 2" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Japan Hot Overseas chart.[67]
  10. "Song 2" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 55 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[68]
  11. "M.O.R." did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot 100.[70]
  12. "Tender" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at 15 on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  13. "Fool's Day" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 10 on the UK Physical Singles Chart.[1]
  14. "Under the Westway" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at 10 on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  15. "Go Out" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at 64 on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  16. "Lonesome Street" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at eight on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  17. "Ong Ong" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop 50, but peaked at nine on the Flanders Ultratip chart.[58]
  18. "The Narcissist" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Japan Hot Overseas chart.[73]
  19. "The Narcissist" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 33 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[74]
  20. "Barbaric" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Japan Hot Overseas chart.[75]
  21. "Barbaric" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 36 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[74]

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