Bananarama / discography

Bananarama  discography
Bananarama (2007)
Publications
Studio albums	10
Compilations	4th
Singles	43
Video albums	1

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British girl group Bananarama . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 3.2 million records to date, over 2.1 million of them in her home country alone. The most successful release from Bananarama is the album The Greatest Hits Collection with over 1.1 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Deep sea skiving	-	-	-	UK8th silver (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: March 1983 Sales: + 60,000
1984	Bananarama	DE45 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH9 (10 weeks) CH	UK16 silver (11 weeks)UK	US30 (36 weeks) US	First published: April 1984 Sales: + 60,000
1986	True Confessions	DE25 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH6 (10 weeks) CH	UK46 (5 weeks) UK	US15th gold (28 weeks)US	First published: June 1986 Sales: + 500,000
1987	Wow!	DE65 (1 week) DE	-	CH22 (3 weeks) CH	UK26th gold (26 weeks)UK	US44 (26 weeks) US	First published: September 1987 Sales: + 100,000
1991	Pop life	-	-	-	UK42 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 1991
1993	Please Yourself	DE95 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK46 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 1993
1995	Ultra violet	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 1995
2001	Exotica	-	-	-	-	-	First published: 2001
2005	drama	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 2005
2009	Viva	-	-	-	UK87 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 2009
2019	In stereo	-	-	-	UK29 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 2019

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1988	The Greatest Hits Collection	DE43 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH- gold CH	UK3 × 3 Triple platinum (37 weeks)UK	US151 (9 weeks) US	First published: October 10, 1988
2001	The very best of	-	-	-	UK43 silver (3 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 29, 2001
2007	The Greatest Hits & More More More	-	-	-	UK61 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 7, 2007
2012	30 Years of Bananarama	-	-	-	UK62 (1 week) UK	-	First published: July 9, 2012
2015	Megarama - The Mixes	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	-	First published: March 16, 2015
	Number one albums	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US-US
	Top 10 albums	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH2CH	UK2UK	US-US
	Albums in the charts	DE5DE	AT-AT	CH3CH	UK12UK	US4thUS

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It	-	-	-	UK4 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 1982 Fun Boy Three & Bananarama
	Really Saying Something Deep Sea Skiving	-	-	-	UK5 silver (10 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 1982 Bananarama with Fun Boy Three
	Shy Boy Deep Sea Skiving	-	-	-	UK4th silver (11 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 1982
	Cheers Then Deep Sea Skiving	-	-	-	UK45 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1982
1983	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Deep Sea Skiving	-	-	-	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1983 Original: Steam (1969)
	Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good)	-	-	-	-	US83 (4 weeks) US	First published: June 1983
	Cruel Summer Bananarama	DE24 (20 weeks) DE	-	-	UK8 (10 weeks) UK	US9 (18 weeks) US	First published: June 1983
1984	Robert de Niro's Waiting Bananarama	DE7 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH8 (11 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (12 weeks)UK	US95 (2 weeks) US	First published: February 1984
	Rough Justice Bananarama	DE63 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK23 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 1984
	Hotline to Heaven Bananarama	-	-	-	UK58 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1984
	The Wild Life Bananarama	-	-	-	-	US83 (4 weeks) US	First published: November 1984
1985	Do Not Disturb True Confessions	-	-	-	UK31 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1985
1986	Venus True Confessions	DE2 (17 weeks) DE	AT7 (12 weeks) AT	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	UK8 (13 weeks) UK	US1 (19 weeks) US	First published: May 1986 Original: Shocking Blue (1969)
	More Than Physical True Confessions	DE38 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK41 (5 weeks) UK	US73 (5 weeks) US	First published: August 1986
	A Trick of the Night True Confessions	-	-	-	UK32 (5 weeks) UK	US76 (7 weeks) US	First published: December 1986
1987	I Heard a Rumor Wow!	DE37 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH10 (11 weeks) CH	UK14 (9 weeks) UK	US4 (19 weeks) US	First published: June 1987
	Love in the First Degree Wow!	DE21 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH18 (9 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (12 weeks)UK	US48 (10 weeks) US	First published: September 1987
	I Can't Help It Wow!	DE31 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	US47 (13 weeks) US	First published: December 1987
1988	I want you back wow!	DE29 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH23 (3 weeks) CH	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1988
	Love, Truth and Honesty Greatest Hits Collection	DE42 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH25 (4 weeks) CH	UK23 (8 weeks) UK	US89 (4 weeks) US	First published: September 1988
	Nathan Jones Greatest Hits Collection	-	-	-	UK15 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1988
1989	Help Greatest Hits Collection	DE8 (17 weeks) DE	-	CH8 (11 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: February 1989 Bananarama & Lananeeneenoonoo Original: The Beatles (1965)
	Cruel Summer '89	DE24 (12 weeks) DE	-	CH22 (3 weeks) CH	UK19 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 1989
1990	Only Your Love Pop Life	-	-	-	UK27 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1990
1991	Preacher Man Pop Life	DE46 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1990
	Long Train Running Pop Life	DE45 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK30 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1991
1992	Movin 'On Please Yourself	DE52 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK24 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1992
	Last Thing on My Mind Please Yourself	DE63 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK71 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1992
1993	More, More, More Please Yourself	DE65 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK24 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1993 Original: Andrea True Connection (1976)
2005	Move in My Direction Drama	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK14 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 2005
	Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) Drama	-	-	-	UK26 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 2005
2009	Love Comes Viva	-	-	-	UK44 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 2009
	Number one singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH1CH	UK-UK	US1US
	Top 10 singles	DE3DE	AT1AT	CH3CH	UK10UK	US3US
	Singles in the charts	DE18thDE	AT1AT	CH8thCH	UK30thUK	US11US

More singles

• 1981: Aie A Mwana
• 1982: He's Got Tact (only in Japan)
• 1991: Tripping on Your Love
• 1995: I Found Love
• 1995: Every Shade of Blue
• 1996: Take Me to Your Heart
• 2001: Careless Whisper (Original: Wham!)
• 2001: If (only in France)
• 2005: Really Saying Something (Solasso Remix)
• 2010: Love Don't Live Here
• 2010: Baby It's Christmas
• 2012: Now Or Never

Video albums

• 1994: The Greatest Hits Collection (US:gold)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1987: for the album Wow 1989: for the album The Greatest Hits Collection Platinum record  Finland 1989: for the album The Greatest Hits Collection  Canada 1986: for the album True Confessions 1986: for the single Venus  Spain 1989: for the album The Greatest Hits Collection

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Finland (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	57.087	ifpi.fi
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	300,000	musiccanada.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	-	platinum1	100,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	-	550,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	8 × silver8th	gold1	3 × platinum3	2,180,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	8 × silver8th	6 × gold6th	7 × platinum7th

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH US
2. ↑ all tracks by Bananarama in the Official UK Charts (English)

Web links

• Single Discography on 45cat.com
• Discography on rateyourmusic.com
• Charts and data