Heaven 17 / discography

Heaven 17 singer Glenn Gregory performing in 2008

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British synth-pop - band Heaven 17 .

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	UK	US	Dance
1981	Penthouse and Pavement	-	UK14th gold (77 weeks)UK	-	-	Producer: British Electric Foundation , Peter Walsh
1983	The Luxury Gap	DE7 (23 weeks) DE	UK4th platinum (36 weeks)UK	US72 (13 weeks) US	-	Producer: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh
1984	How Men Are	DE31 (6 weeks) DE	UK12 silver (11 weeks)UK	-	-	Producer: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh
1986	Pleasure One	-	UK78 (1 week) UK	US177 (3 weeks) US	-	Producer: Heaven 17
1988	Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho	DE46 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Producer: Heaven 17

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More studio albums

• 1996: Bigger Than America
• 2005: Before After
• 2008: Naked as Advertised - Versions 08 (several new recordings plus 2 new titles)
• 2017: Not For Public Broadcast

Remix albums

• 1995: The Remix Collection
• 1998: Retox / Detox (2 CDs)

Live albums

• 1999: Temptation: Heaven 17 Live in Concert (DE) / Live at Last ; Designing Heaven (UK) / How Live Is ; Absolutely the Best - Live (US)
• 2005: Live at Scala, London 29 November 2005
• 2013: Live from Metropolis Studios (CD + DVD)
• 2015: Live At The Jazz Café 2015

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	UK	US	Dance
1983	Heaven 17	-	-	US68 (28 weeks) US	-	Producer: British Electric Foundation
1986	Endless	-	UK70 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	Producer: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh
1993	Higher and Higher - The Best of Heaven 17	-	UK31 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	Producers: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh, Martyn Ware

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More compilations

• 1992: The Best of Heaven 17
• 1999: Temptation: The Best Of Heaven 17
• 2000: Heaven 17
• 2000: Temptation
• 2001: We Blame Love
• 2005: Heaven 17
• 2006: Greatest Hits
• 2011: So80s (Soeighties) Presents Heaven 17 (Heaven 17 curated by Blank & Jones )
• 2012: Play to Win: The Very Best of Heaven 17 (2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	UK	US	Dance
1981	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang Penthouse and Pavement	-	UK45 (5 weeks) UK	-	Dance29 (15 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory , Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
	Play to Win Penthouse and Pavement	-	UK46 (7 weeks) UK	-	Dance19 (18 weeks) Dance	Authors: British Electric Foundation, Glenn Gregory
	Penthouse and Pavement Penthouse and Pavement	-	UK57 (3 weeks) UK	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1982	Let me go! The Luxury Gap	-	UK41 (8 weeks) UK	US74 (5 weeks) US	Dance4 (17 weeks) Dance	Backing Vocals : The Hereafter Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
	Who Will Stop the Rain? The Luxury Gap	-	-	-	Dance36 (10 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1983	Temptation The Luxury Gap	DE11 (16 weeks) DE	UK2 silver (13 weeks)UK	-	Dance34 (10 weeks) Dance	Backing Vocals: Carol Kenyon Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
	Come Live with Me The Luxury Gap	-	UK5 (11 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
	Crushed by the Wheels of Industry The Luxury Gap	-	UK17 (7 weeks) UK	-	Dance34 (8 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1984	Sunset Now How Men Are	-	UK24 (6 weeks) UK	-	Dance39 (5 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
	This Is Mine How Men Are	-	UK23 (7 weeks) UK	-	Dance28 (8 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1985	… And That's No Lie How Men Are	-	UK52 (5 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1986	The Foolish Thing to Do Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho	-	UK80 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	feat. Jimmy Ruffin Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, Nick Plytas
	Contenders Pleasure One	-	UK80 (4 weeks) UK	-	Dance6 (10 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1987	Trouble Pleasure One	DE17 (14 weeks) DE	UK51 (4 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1988	The Ballad of Go Go Brown Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho	-	UK91 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware
1992	Temptation (Brothers in Rhythm Remix) Higher and Higher - The Best of Heaven 17	DE42 (13 weeks) DE	UK4th silver (11 weeks)UK	-	-	Remix: Alan Bremner, Dave Seaman , Steve Anderson
1993	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (The Rapino Brothers Remixes) Higher and Higher - The Best of Heaven 17	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	Remix: Charlie Mallozi, Marco Sabiu
	Penthouse and Pavement (The Tommy D Remixes)	-	UK54 (1 week) UK	-	Dance26 (7 weeks) Dance	Remix: Tom Asher Danvers
1998	With This Ring Let Me Go	-	UK80 (1 week) UK	-	-	Molella & Phil Jay present Heaven 17 meets Fast Eddie Authors: Filippo Carmeni, Glenn Gregory, Lamar Hula Mahone, Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, Maurizio Molella
2006	Hands Up to Heaven Before After	-	-	-	Dance6 (14 weeks) Dance	Authors: Glenn Gregory, Ian Craig Marsh, Keith Lowndes, Martyn Ware

More singles

• 1981: I'm Your Money
• 1982: Height of the Fighting (He-La-Hu)
• 1983: We Live so Fast
• 1986: Make Music on the 64 ( Flexi )
• 1988: Train of Love in Motion
• 1989: Snake and People
• 1996: Designing Heaven
• 1997: We Blame Love
• 2007: I'm Gonna Make You Fall in Love with Me (Exclusive DJ Mixes)
• 2011: Rarities 2011 EP (3 mp3 files, free download from the band's website)
• 2014: Pray / Illumination

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US	Dance
1983	Let's Stay Together Private Dancer	DE18 (15 weeks) DE	CH28 (1 week) CH	UK6 (13 weeks) UK	US26 (15 weeks) US	Dance1 (12 weeks) Dance	Tina Turner feat. Heaven 17

Video albums

• 1983: Heaven 17's Industrial Revolution (VHS)
• 2002: Made in Sheffield: The Birth of Electronic Pop (with The Human League , ABC , Cabaret Voltaire and Pulp ) (VHS, DVD)
• 2007: Live at the Scala London (DVD)
• 2010: Penthouse and Pavement Live in Concert 2010 (30th Anniversary Special Edition) (2 DVDs)

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE1DE UK1UK US-US Albums in the charts DE3DE UK6thUK US3US

DE  UK  US  Dance Number one singles DE-DE UK-UK US-US Dance-Dance Top 10 singles DE-DE UK3UK US-US Dance3Dance Singles in the charts DE3DE UK18thUK US1US Dance11Dance

Awards for music sales

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)
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	gold1	platinum1	860,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	gold1	platinum1

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles albums UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

Web links

• Heaven 17 at Allmusic (English)
• Heaven 17 at Discogs (English)