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Marvin Gaye discography
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American music artist Marvin Gaye released 16 studio albums, seven duet albums, four live albums, one soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums, and 83 singles. In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown. The first release under the label was The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye. Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled Together, peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart. His 1965 album, Moods of Marvin Gaye, became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles. Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown". Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, M.P.G., became his first number one R&B album. Gaye's landmark album, What's Going On (1971), became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track. His 1973 single "Let's Get It On" topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts, becoming his most successful Motown album. In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued Midnight Love, which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing". Since his death in 1984, four albums have been released posthumously, along with re-issues of some of Gaye's landmark works.
Gaye recorded sixty-seven charted singles on the Billboard charts, with forty-one reaching the top forty, eighteen reaching the top ten and three peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sixty of his singles reached the top forty of the R&B charts, with thirty-eight of those reaching the top ten and thirteen peaking at number one. Gaye also had success in international charts, his biggest success in sales and chart positions peaking in the UK while achieving modest success in other countries.
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Studio albums
1960s
1970–1984
Posthumous
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Soundtrack albums
Live albums
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Compilation albums
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There has been over 300 official and unofficial compilation albums released across the world for Marvin Gaye.[27] Below is a selected discography of compilation albums with chart history.
1960s–1970s
1980s–1990s
2000–present
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Singles
1960s
1970–1984
Posthumous
Billboard year-end performances
Footnotes
- ^[A] What's Going On did not chart in Ireland until 2006.
- ^[B] What's Going On did not chart in the UK until 1996.
- ^[C] With Mary Wells.
- ^[D] With Kim Weston.
- ^[E] With Tammi Terrell.
- ^[F] By Gladys Knight & the Pips.
- ^[G] "What's Going On" did not chart in The UK until 1983.
- ^[H] With Diana Ross.
- ^[I] With Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder.
- ^[J] "A Funky Space Reincarnation" peaked at #8 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[47]
- ^[K] "Sanctified Lady" peaked at #1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[48]
- ^[L] Erick Sermon featuring Marvin Gaye.
- ^[M] By Cha Cha.
- ^[N] Erick Sermon featuring LL Cool J and Scarface.
- ^[O] By The Temptations.
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- Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".
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