Black Sabbath / discography

	- discography
	Black Sabbath (1999)
Publications
Studio albums	19th
Live albums	6th
Compilations	11
Tribute albums	5
Singles	40
Video albums	11
Box sets	3

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British Metal - music group Black Sabbath . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 18.1 million records to date, over 1.9 million of them in her home country alone. Black Sabbath's most successful release is the album Paranoid with over 4.2 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1970	Black Sabbath	DE8 (8 months) DE	-	-	UK8th gold (42 weeks)UK	US23 platinum (65 weeks)US	First published: February 13, 1970 Sales: + 1,150,000 241st place for the Rolling Stone 500
1970	Paranoid	DE2 (7 months) DE	-	-	UK1 gold (26 weeks)UK	US12 × 4 Quadruple platinum (76 weeks)US	First published: September 18, 1970 Sales: + 4,225,000 130th place in the Rolling Stone 500
1971	Master of Reality	DE5 (5 months) DE	-	-	UK5 gold (13 weeks)UK	US8th × 2 Double platinum (43 weeks)US	First published: July 21, 1971 Sales: + 2,200,000 298th place of the Rolling Stone 500
1972	Black Sabbath Vol. 4	DE14 (5 months) DE	-	-	UK8th silver (10 weeks)UK	US13 platinum (31 weeks)US	First published: September 25, 1972 Sales: +1,160,000
1973	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	DE49 (1 month) DE	-	-	UK4th gold (11 weeks)UK	US11 platinum (32 weeks)US	First published: December 1, 1973 Sales: + 1,150,000
1975	sabotage	DE44 (3 months) DE	AT9 (2 months) AT	-	UK7th silver (7 weeks)UK	US28 gold (14 weeks)US	First published: July 28, 1975 Sales: + 560,000
1976	Technical ecstasy	-	-	-	UK13 (6 weeks) UK	US51 gold (12 weeks)US	First published: September 25, 1976 Sales: + 500,000
1978	Never Say Die!	-	-	-	UK12 (6 weeks) UK	US69 gold (14 weeks)US	First published: September 28, 1978 Sales: + 500,000
1980	Heaven and Hell	DE37 (15 weeks) DE	-	-	UK9 gold (22 weeks)UK	US28 platinum (24 weeks)US	First published: April 25, 1980 Sales: + 1,100,000
1981	Mob Rules	-	-	-	UK12 silver (13 weeks)UK	US29 gold (18 weeks)US	First published: November 4, 1981 Sales: +610,000
1983	Born again	DE37 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK4 (7 weeks) UK	US39 (16 weeks) US	First published: August 7, 1983
1986	Seventh Star	DE51 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK27 (5 weeks) UK	US78 (11 weeks) US	First published: January 28, 1986 feat. Tony Iommi
1987	The Eternal Idol	-	-	-	UK66 (1 week) UK	US168 (6 weeks) US	First published: November 1, 1987
1989	Headless Cross	DE18 (15 weeks) DE	-	CH23 (2 weeks) CH	UK31 (2 weeks) UK	US115 (8 weeks) US	First published: April 1, 1989
1990	Tyr	DE12 (14 weeks) DE	AT24 (5 weeks) AT	CH24 (5 weeks) CH	UK24 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 20, 1990
1992	Dehumanizers	DE14 (16 weeks) DE	AT7 (10 weeks) AT	CH13 (8 weeks) CH	UK28 (2 weeks) UK	US44 (8 weeks) US	First published: June 22, 1992
1994	Cross Purposes	DE32 (9 weeks) DE	AT23 (6 weeks) AT	CH41 (3 weeks) CH	UK41 (1 week) UK	US122 (2 weeks) US	First published: January 31, 1994
1995	Forbidden	DE35 (9 weeks) DE	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH48 (1 week) CH	UK71 (1 week) UK	-	First published: June 8, 1995
2013	13	DE1 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH1 (20 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (12 weeks)UK	US1 (15 weeks) US	First published: June 2013 Sales: + 447,500

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1980	Live at Last / Past Lives	-	-	-	UK5 (15 weeks) UK	US114 (1 week) US	First publication: June 21, 1980 in US only published in 2002
1982	Live Evil	DE37 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK13 (11 weeks) UK	US37 (12 weeks) US	First published: December 1982
1998	Reunion	DE40 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK41 silver (2 weeks)UK	US11 platinum (18 weeks)US	Recorded on May 12, 1997 in Birmingham First published: October 20, 1998 Sales: + 1,160,000
2014	Live… Gathered in Their Masses	DE11 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH92 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: November 22, 2013
2017	The End: Live in Birmingham	DE2 (... weeks) DE	AT13 (2 weeks) AT	CH14 (4 weeks) CH	UK68 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 17, 2017

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More live albums

1995: Cross Purposes Live
2007: Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (limited to 5,000 copies)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1975	We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll	-	-	-	UK35 gold (5 weeks)UK	US48 × 2 Double platinum (10 weeks)US	First published: December 1, 1975 Sales: + 2,100,000
2000	The Best of Black Sabbath	-	-	-	UK24 gold (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 3, 2000 Sales: + 100,000
2006	Greatest Hits 1970–1978	-	-	-	-	US96 (10 weeks) US	First published: March 14, 2006
2007	Black Sabbath: The Dio Years	-	-	-	-	US54 (9 weeks) US	First published: April 3, 2007
2009	Greatest hits	-	AT73 (3 weeks) AT	-	UK19th gold (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 13, 2009 Sales: + 100,000
2012	Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath	-	-	-	UK27 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 4, 2012
2016	The Ultimate Collection	DE40 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH52 (3 weeks) CH	UK20th silver (4 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 28, 2016 Sales: + 60,000
2017	The Ten Year War	DE60 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	Vinyl box with eight albums and two singles. First release: October 27, 2017
2018	Supersonic Years - The Seventies Singles Box Set	DE23 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: June 8, 2018

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More compilations

1973: Attention! Black Sabbath!
1985: The Sabbath Collection
1986: The Ray Gillen Years
1991: The Ozzy Osbourne Years
1995: Between Heaven and Hell
1996: The Sabbath Stones
2000: New Best Ballads

EPs

2016: The End

Tribute albums

1992: Masters of Misery "Black Sabbath: The Earache Tribute"
1994: Nativity in Black
1999: Hell Rules - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
2000: Nativity in Black II
2002: Hand of Doom - Live in Los Angeles: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (with Melissa Auf der Maur )

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1970	Paranoid Paranoid	DE1 (13 weeks) DE	AT3 (24 weeks) AT	CH2 (12 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (30 weeks)UK	US61 (8 weeks) US	First published: August 15, 1970
1971	Iron Man paranoid	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US52 (10 weeks) US	First published: September 18, 1970
1978	Never Say Die! Never Say Die!	-	-	-	UK21 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 28, 1978
1978	Hard Road Never Say Die!	-	-	-	UK33 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 30, 1978
1980	Neon Knights Heaven and Hell	-	-	-	UK22 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 21, 1980
1980	The Young Heaven and Hell	-	-	-	UK41 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 22, 1980
1981	Mob Rules Mob Rules	-	-	-	UK46 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 24, 1981
1982	Turn Up the Night Mob Rules	-	-	-	UK37 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 30, 1982
1989	Headless Cross Headless Cross	-	-	-	UK62 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1, 1989
1989	Devil and Daughter Headless Cross	-	-	-	UK81 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 24, 1989
1990	Feels Good to Me Tyr	-	-	-	UK79 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 8, 1990
1992	TV Crimes Dehumanizer	-	-	-	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 30, 1992
2013	God is Dead? 13	DE99 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Initial release: April 19, 2013 Grammy

More singles

1970: Evil Woman
1970: Black Sabbath
1970: NIB
1970: The Wizard
1971: War Pigs
1971: Fairies Wear Boots
1971: Sweet Leaf
1971: Children of the Grave
1972: After Forever
1972: Snowblind
1972: Tomorrow's Dream
1973: Supernaut
1973: Changes
1973: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1974: Sabbra Cadabra
1975: Am I Going Insane
1975: Hole in the Sky
1975: Symptom of the Universe
1976: Rock 'n' Roll Doctor
1979: Dirty Women
1982: Voodoo
1983: Trashed
1986: No Stranger to Love
1987: The Shining
1994: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1998: Psycho Man
1999: Selling My Soul
2007: The Devil Cried
2013: End of the Beginning
2013: Loner

Video albums

1978: Never Say Die
1980: Black and Blue
1992: The Black Sabbath Story, Volume 1: 1970–1978 (US:platinum)
1992: The Black Sabbath Story, Volume 2: 1978–1992 (US:gold)
1995: Cross Purposes Live
1999: The Last Supper (UK:gold)
1999: Inside Black Sabbath - 1970-1992
2004: Black Sabbath in Concert 1970
2005: Black Sabbath's Paranoid
2005: Black Sabbath - Rock Review
2007: In Their Own Words

Box sets

2001: Under Wheels of Confusion
2004: Black Box (A box with the first eight albums from 1970–1978. The sound was restored to improve the sound. Unfortunately, this went hand in hand with a considerable reduction in the dynamic range. It is the first re-release of the old albums on which the band itself is involved.)
2008: The Rules of Hell (A box with the albums that Ronnie James Dio was on vocals, with the exception of Live at Hammersmith Odeon )
2010: Black Sabbath Cross Box

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Italy Italy
- 2016: for the album Paranoid
Canada Canada
- 1977: for the album Black Sabbath
- 1977: for the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- 1982: for the album Mob Rules
- 2003: for the video album The Black Sabbath Story, Volume 1: 1970–1978
Poland Poland
- 2014: for the video album Live… Gathered in Their Masses

Platinum record

Brazil Brazil
- 2013: for the album 13
- 2015: for the video album Live… Gathered in Their Masses
Italy Italy
- 2019: for the single Paranoid
Canada Canada
- 1977: for the album Black Sabbath Vol.4
- 1977: for the album Master of Reality
- 1977: for the album Paranoid
- 1999: for the album Reunion
- 2014: for the album 13
- 2014: for the video album Live… Gathered in Their Masses
Poland Poland
- 2014: for the album 13

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)
Brazil (PMB)	0! S.-	0! G-	2 × platinum2	70,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Germany (BVMI)	0! S.-	0! G-	platinum1	200,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	0! S.-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	0! S.-	4 × gold4th	6 × platinum6th	645,000	musiccanada.com
Austria (IFPI)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	7,500	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	0! S.-	gold1	platinum1	25,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
United States (RIAA)	0! S.-	5 × gold5	14 × platinum14th	15,150,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	7 × silver7th	12 × gold12	0! P-	1,985,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	7 × silver7th	24 × gold24	25 × platinum25th

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↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d , The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

[charts-1] , The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .


Studio albums	Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)
Live albums	Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)
Compilation albums	We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •
Singles	Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)