Guns N' Roses discography

The discography of Guns N' Roses, an American hard rock band, consists of six studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, five extended plays (EPs), 24 singles, ten video albums and 27 music videos. Guns N' Roses was formed in Los Angeles, California with an original recording lineup of lead vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler.^[1] After self-releasing the EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide in December 1986, the band signed with Geffen Records and released its debut studio album Appetite for Destruction the following July.^[2] It topped the US Billboard 200 and went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time, with reported sales over 30 million units worldwide, 18 million of which are in the US.^[3][4][5] Three singles – "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Paradise City" – reached the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten, with "Sweet Child o' Mine" topping the chart.^[6]

Guns N' Roses discography
Guns N' Roses in 2017
Studio albums	6
EPs	5
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	2
Singles	24
Video albums	10
Music videos	27

G N' R Lies followed in November 1988, comprising the four tracks from Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and four new acoustic recordings.^[7] The album peaked at number 2 in the US and was certified six times platinum,^[3][5] while its lead single "Patience" reached number 4 on the singles chart.^[6] After adding keyboardist Dizzy Reed and replacing Adler with Matt Sorum, Guns N' Roses released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in September 1991.^[1] Upon their release, the albums occupied the top two positions on the US Billboard Top 200 Album chart.^[3] Use Your Illusion II reached number 1, which Axl Rose credited to fans knowing more of the songs from II due to live performances.^[8] "November Rain" was the most successful single from the albums domestically, reaching number 3 on the Hot 100.^[6]

During the Use Your Illusion Tour, Stradlin was replaced by Gilby Clarke.^[1] In 1992 the band released two live videos from the tour, Use Your Illusion World Tour: 1992 in Tokyo I and II, which both reached the top 20 of the Billboard Music Video Sales chart and were certified gold.^[9][5] On November 23 the following year saw the release of "The Spaghetti Incident?", an album of punk rock cover versions.^[10] The album garnered no US hit singles, but reached number 4 on the US album chart.^[3] Two singles – "Ain't It Fun" and "Since I Don't Have You" – reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart.^[11] Clarke was replaced by Rose's friend Paul Tobias for a recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" for the Interview with the Vampire soundtrack in 1994,^[1] which charted at number 55 in the US and number 9 in the UK.^[6][11]

Guns N' Roses changed drastically in the mid-1990s, as Slash left in 1996, and Sorum and McKagan left in 1997.^[1] The band went through numerous lineup changes as it worked on its new album in 1997 with Rose, Reed, and Tobias the only remaining members from the previous lineup, and Rose himself the only member from the first album's release in 1987.^[1] The group's first live album Live Era '87–'93 was issued in 1999,^[12] and reached number 45 on the US Billboard Top 200 Album chart.^[3][5] In 2004, Geffen Records released a Greatest Hits album.^[13] It was a commercial success that topped the album charts in several countries, including the UK,^[11] and sold 5 million copies in the US.^[14] The band's sixth studio album Chinese Democracy was released in November 2008, after 10 years in the making and over $13 million in production costs.^[15] It reached number 3 on the US Billboard Top 200 Album chart, and sold roughly 2.5 million copies worldwide.^[3][16] Appetite for Democracy 3D, the first Guns N' Roses live video album since 1992, was released in 2014 and reached number 1 on the US Billboard Music Video Sales chart.^[9] Slash and McKagan rejoined the band in 2016, and in 2018, the band released a remastered box set of their debut album, titled the Appetite for Destruction: Locked N' Loaded edition.^[17]

Slash and McKagan's first recordings since rejoining the band, the singles "Absurd" & "Hard Skool", were released in 2021, the band's first new material released since 2008.^[18][19][20] On September 21, 2022, the band announced a remastered box set of the Use Your Illusion albums, featuring both albums remastered, two complete live performances, and a version of "November Rain" with re-recorded orchestration. The set was released on November 11, 2022.^[21]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Sales	Certifications
		US [3]	AUS [22]	AUT [23]	CAN [24]	GER [25]	NED [26]	NOR [27]	NZ [28]	SWE [29]	UK [11]
Appetite for Destruction	Released: July 21, 1987 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	1	7	3	3	11	3	9	1	7	5	US: 18,000,000[5]	RIAA: 18× Platinum[5] ARIA: 7× Platinum[30] BPI: 8× Platinum[31] BVMI: Platinum[32] GLF: Gold[33] IFPI AUT: Platinum[34] MC: Diamond[35] NVPI: Platinum[36] RMNZ: 5× Platinum[37]
G N' R Lies	Released: November 29, 1988 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	2	18	10	16	37	12	6	5	15	22	US: 5,000,000[5]	RIAA: 5× Platinum[5] BPI: Gold[31] BVMI: Gold[32] IFPI AUT: Gold[34] RMNZ: Platinum[38]
Use Your Illusion I	Released: September 17, 1991 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	2	2	2	1	4	2	3	2	3	2	US: 7,000,000[5]	RIAA: 7× Platinum[5] ARIA: 4× Platinum[39] BPI: Platinum[31] BVMI: 2× Platinum[32] GLF: Platinum[33] IFPI AUT: 2× Platinum[34] IFPI NOR: 2× Platinum[40] MC: Diamond[35] NVPI: 2× Platinum[36] RMNZ: Platinum[41]
Use Your Illusion II	Released: September 17, 1991 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	1	US: 7,000,000[5]	RIAA: 7× Platinum[5] ARIA: 5× Platinum[42] BPI: Platinum[31] BVMI: 5× Gold[32] GLF: Platinum[33] IFPI AUT: 2× Platinum[34] IFPI NOR: 2× Platinum[40] MC: 9× Platinum[35] NVPI: Platinum[36] RMNZ: Platinum[41]
"The Spaghetti Incident?"	Released: November 23, 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	4	1	4	3	5	4	2	3	3	2	US: 1,000,000[5]	RIAA: Platinum[5] ARIA: Platinum[39] BPI: Gold[31] BVMI: Gold[32] GLF: Platinum[33] IFPI AUT: Gold[34] IFPI NOR: Platinum[40] MC: 3× Platinum[35] NVPI: Platinum[36] RMNZ: Platinum[43]
Chinese Democracy	Released: November 23, 2008 Label: Geffen, Black Frog Formats: CD, LP, DL	3	3	3	1	2	4	2	1	1	2	US: 1,000,000[5]	RIAA: Platinum[5] ARIA: Platinum[44] BPI: Platinum[31] BVMI: Gold[32] GLF: Gold[45] RMNZ: Platinum[46]

Live albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Sales	Certifications
		US [3]	AUT [23]	CAN [47]	FIN [48]	NED [26]	NOR [27]	NZ [28]	SWE [29]	SWI [49]	UK [11]
Live Era '87–'93	Released: November 30, 1999 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	45	29	25	29	16	17	32	49	31	45	US: 500,000[5]	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Platinum[30] BPI: Gold[31] MC: Platinum[35]

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Sales	Certifications
		US [3]	AUS [22]	AUT [23]	CAN [50]	FIN [48]	NOR [27]	NZ [28]	SWE [29]	SWI [49]	UK [11]
Use Your Illusion	Released: August 25, 1998 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Greatest Hits	Released: March 23, 2004 Label: Geffen Formats: CD, LP, CS	3	5	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	US: 5,002,000[14]	RIAA: 5× Platinum[5] ARIA: 9× Platinum[51] BPI: 8× Platinum[31] GLF: Platinum[52] IFPI AUT: Gold[34] IFPI FIN: Platinum[53] IFPI SWI: Platinum[54] MC: 4× Platinum[35] RMNZ: 6× Platinum[55]
"—" denotes a release that did not register on that chart or was not issued in that region.

Extended plays

Studio EPs

List of studio extended plays

Title	EP details
Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide	Released: December 16, 1986 Label: Uzi Suicide Format: 12" vinyl, CC

Compilation EPs

List of compilation extended plays

Title	EP details
Guns N' Roses (aka. Live from the Jungle)	Released: 1988 Label: Geffen Formats: 12" vinyl, CC, CD
The "Civil War" EP	Released: May 24, 1993 Label: Geffen Format: CD
Hard Skool	Released: February 25, 2022 Label: Geffen Format: CC, CD, 7" vinyl
London 1991	Released: March 29, 2023 Label: Geffen Format: CD

Box sets

List of box sets

Title	Box set details
Appetite for Destruction Super Deluxe Edition	Released: June 29, 2018 Label: UMG
Use Your Illusion Super Deluxe Edition	Released: November 11, 2022 Label: UMG

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions										Certifications	Album
		US [6]	AUS [22][56]	CAN [57]	IRL [58]	NED [26]	NOR [27]	NZ [28]	SWE [29]	SWI [49]	UK [11]
"It's So Easy" / "Mr. Brownstone"	1987	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	84		Appetite for Destruction
"Welcome to the Jungle"		7	41	—	14	84	—	6	—	—	24	RIAA: Gold[5] BPI: Gold[31]
"Sweet Child o' Mine"	1988	1	11	7	4	20	—	5	27	15	6	RIAA: Platinum[5] ARIA: 8× Platinum[59] BPI: 5× Platinum[31]
"Paradise City"		5	48	10	1	2	4	2	3	7	6	BPI: 2× Platinum[31]
"Patience"	1989	4	16	—	2	3	—	4	—	16	10	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Gold[60] BPI: Silver[31]	G N' R Lies
"Nightrain"		93	61	—	2	—	—	21	—	—	17		Appetite for Destruction
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	1990	—	—	56	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	BPI: Platinum[31]	Days of Thunder (soundtrack) (later featured on Use Your Illusion II)
"You Could Be Mine"	1991	29	3	30	2	4	2	2	2	2	3	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Platinum[61] BPI: Silver[31] RMNZ: Platinum[62]	Use Your Illusion II
"Don't Cry"		10	5	11	1	7	2	2	9	3	8	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Gold[63] BPI: Silver[31] RMNZ: Gold[62]	Use Your Illusion I
"Live and Let Die"		33	10	56	5	13	3	1	15	19	5	ARIA: Gold[64] BPI: Silver[31]
"November Rain"	1992	3	5	5	3	3	7	7	38	8	4	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: 4× Platinum[64] BPI: Platinum[31] NVPI: Gold[36] RMNZ: Platinum[65]
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"		—	12	—	1	1	6	2	10	5	2	ARIA: Gold[63] BPI: Gold[31] NVPI: Platinum[36]	Use Your Illusion II
"Yesterdays"		72	14	52	5	7	5	7	16	19	8
"Civil War"	1993	—	45	—	15	16	10	27	—	—	11	ARIA: Gold[64]
"Ain't It Fun"		—	—	—	14	22	3	36	5	15	9		"The Spaghetti Incident?"
"Estranged"		—	40	—	—	—	—	28	26	41	—		Use Your Illusion II
"Since I Don't Have You"	1994	69	47	20	16	—	—	48	40	—	10		"The Spaghetti Incident?"
"Sympathy for the Devil"		55	12	48	5	9	5	13	7	15	9		Interview with the Vampire
"Chinese Democracy"	2008	34	54	10	—	15	1	27	3	11	27		Chinese Democracy
"Shadow of Your Love"	2018	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		Appetite for Destruction: Locked N' Loaded Edition
"Absurd"	2021	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		Hard Skool EP
"Hard Skool"		—	—	—	—	—	—	—[A]	—	—	—
"Perhaps"	2023	—	—	—	—	—	—	—[B]	—	—	14[68]		"Perhaps" / "The General"
"The General"		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a release that did not register on that chart or was not issued in that region.

Promotional singles

• "Mr. Brownstone" (1988) UK only
• "14 Years" (1991)
• "Pretty Tied Up" (1992) – US Mainstream Rock #35^[69]
• "So Fine" (1992)
• "Garden of Eden" (1992)
• "Dead Horse" (1993)
• "Hair of the Dog" (1993) – US Mainstream Rock #11^[69]
• "New Rose" (1993)
• "Oh My God" (1999) – US Mainstream Rock #26^[69]
• "Better" (2008) – US Mainstream Rock #18,^[69] Canadian Active Rock #15,^[70] Canadian Rock #37^[71]
• "Street of Dreams" (2009) - Canadian Active Rock #44^[70]
• "Welcome to the Jungle (1986 Sound City Session)" (2018)
• "Move to the City (1988 Acoustic Version)" (2018)
• "November Rain (Piano Version / 1986 Sound City Session)" (2018)
• "You Could Be Mine (Live in New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)" (2022)
• "Double Talkin' Jive (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)" (2022)
• "November Rain (2022 version)" (2022)

Other charted songs

• "I.R.S." (leaked demo) – #49, Radio & Records Active Rock National Airplay (US) for week ending February 24, 2006.^[72][73]

Videos

Video albums

List of video albums, with selected chart positions and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications
		US [9]	AUS [74]	BEL Fla. [75]	BEL Wal. [76]	ESP [77]	FIN [78]	GER [25]	JPN [79]	NED [26]	UK [80]
Use Your Illusion I: World Tour – 1992 in Tokyo	Released: December 8, 1992 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, DVD, LD	11	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	28	3	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Platinum[81] BPI: Platinum[31]
Use Your Illusion II: World Tour – 1992 in Tokyo	Released: December 8, 1992 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, DVD, LD	15	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	6	RIAA: Gold[5] ARIA: Platinum[82] BPI: Platinum[31]
Use Your Illusion I & II: World Tour – 1992 in Tokyo	Released: December 8, 1992 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, LD	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Garden of Eden: Strictly Limited Edition Video Single	Released: May 24. 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Don't Cry: Makin' F@*!ing Videos Part I	Released: June 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, LD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
November Rain: Makin' F@*!ing Videos Part II	Released: June 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, LD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Makin' F@*!ing Videos Part I & II	Released: June 1993 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, LD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Making of Estranged: Part IV of the Trilogy!!!	Released: April 1994 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, LD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Welcome to the Videos	Released: October 27, 1998 Label: Geffen Formats: VHS, DVD, VCD	5	37	—	—	—	2	—	92	—	11	RIAA: 2× Platinum[5] ARIA: 7× Platinum[83]
Appetite for Democracy 3D	Released: July 1, 2014 Label: Geffen, Black Frog Format: DVD, BD	1	—	191	79	93	44	57	112	4	—
"—" denotes a release that did not register on that chart or was not issued in that region.

Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released, director(s) and album name

Title	(Appearance) Year	Director(s)	Album	Ref.
"Welcome to the Jungle"	1987	Nigel Dick	Appetite for Destruction	[84]
"Sweet Child o' Mine" (alternate version)	1988
"Paradise City"
"Patience"	1989		G N' R Lies
"You Could Be Mine" (T2 version)	1991	Jeffrey Abelson Andy Morahan Stan Winston	Use Your Illusion II	[85]
"Don't Cry"		Andy Morahan	Use Your Illusion I	[86]
"Live and Let Die"		Josh Richman		[87]
"Civil War" (live)	1992	Live in Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, JP Use Your Illusion World Tour February 22, 1992.	Use Your Illusion II
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (live)		Live in Wembley Stadium, London, UK The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert April 20, 1992.		[88]
"November Rain"		Andy Morahan	Use Your Illusion I	[86]
"Yesterdays" (2 versions, normal & with pictures)			Use Your Illusion II	[89]
"Garden of Eden" (2 version, normal & with pappers)			Use Your Illusion I	[90]
"The Garden"	1993	Del James		[91]
"Dead Horse"		Guns N' Roses Louis Marciano		[92]
"Estranged"		Andy Morahan	Use Your Illusion II	[86]
"Since I Don't Have You"	1994	Sante D'Orazio	"The Spaghetti Incident?"	[93]
"It's So Easy" (live)	1999	Jeff Richter	Live Era '87–'93	[94]
"Welcome to the Jungle" (live)				[95]
"Sweet Child o' Mine" (Black & White version from 1988)	2004	Nigel Dick	Greatest Hits
"Bad Apples"(Footage from "Don't Cry" video 1991)	2009	Andy Morahan	Use Your Illusion I	[86]
"Shadow Of Your Love" (1986, 2 versions, Lyric & Tour Edition NITL Tour 2017-2018)	2018	Guns N' Roses team	Appetite for Destruction Super Deluxe Edition
"Move To The City" (1988 Acoustic Version, Lyric video with pictures from NITL Tour 2017-2018)
"It's So Easy" (new edit of the 1989 version)		Nigel Dick	Appetite for Destruction	[96]
"Hard Skool" (Lyric video with pictures from the 2021 tour)	2021	Guns N' Roses team	Hard Skool EP
"You Could Be Mine" (new edit of Live In New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)	2022		Use Your Illusion Super Deluxe Edition
"Perhaps"	2023		"Perhaps"
"The General"	2024	Daniel G. Potter	"The General"	[97]
Unreleased music videos
"It's So Easy" (original 1989 version)	1989	Nigel Dick	Appetite for Destruction
"Mr. Brownstone"	1991	Mark Racco		[98]
"My Michelle"				[99]
"You Could Be Mine" (Director's cut 1991 version)			Use Your Illusion II	[98]
"Don't Cry (Alt.lyrics)"	1991	Andy Morahan
"I Don't Care About You"	1994	August Jakobsson	"The Spaghetti Incident?"	[100][101]
"Better"	2009	Dale Resteghini	Chinese Democracy	[102]

Notes

1. "Hard Skool" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 28 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.^[66]
2. "Perhaps" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 40 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.^[67]