Helge Schneider / discography

Helge Schneider  - discography
Helge Schneider (2013)
Publications
Studio albums	14th
Live albums	7th
Compilations	8th
Soundtracks	1
Singles	27
Video albums	3
Music videos	10
Box sets	4th

This discography is an overview of the published sound carriers and videos by the German musician Helge Schneider . According to the sources, he has sold more than 250,000 records in his career. The most successful release by Helge Schneider is the album There are rice, baby with around 250,000 units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1975	The winners of the IKEA Jazz Festival with Kai Kanthak and Mash Temme as the Helge Schneider Trio	-	-	-	First release: 1975 split album with Trade Mark.
1987	The Last Jazz	-	-	-	First published: 1987
1992	Good Tach	DE81 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 27, 1992
1993	There's rice, baby	DE11 gold (26 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: November 24, 1993 Sales: + 250,000
1995	It pulls in carton	DE30 (15 weeks) DE	AT43 (1 week) AT	-	First published: November 30, 1995
1997	Da Humm	DE24 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 27, 1997
1999	Egg salad in skirt with the Firefuckers	DE25 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: June 18, 1999
	jazz	-	-	-	First published: December 1999
2003	Out of cactus!	DE20 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 10, 2003
2007	I Brake Together	DE20 (4 weeks) DE	AT34 (3 weeks) AT	-	First published: January 18, 2007
2013	Summer sun Cactus!	DE1 (8 weeks) DE	AT12 (5 weeks) AT	CH66 (1 week) CH	First published: August 9, 2013
2017	Heart Attack No. 1 with Pete York	DE66 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: February 17, 2017
2019	Party people (at the butcher)	DE27 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 2, 2019
2020	mummy	-	-	-	First published: August 28, 2020

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1998	Helge 100% live - The Berlin Tapes	DE49 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 27, 1998
2000	Notebooks out - class work!	DE25 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 18, 2000
2005	Feeding prohibited	DE42 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 24, 2005
2014	Live at the Grugahalle - 20 years of the cat toilet (evolution)	DE46 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: June 20, 2014

More live albums

• 1990: New York, I'm Coming
• 2007: Akopalüze Nau !!!
• 2010: Erwin Klemke presents the Cologne concert - The Official Live Bootleg (only available at concerts and by mail order)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1991	His greatest successes	DE61 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	First publication: 1991
2003	22 very, very good songs	DE46 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 15, 2003

More compilations

• 1991: Radio plays Vol.1 (1979–1984)
• 1992: Radio Play Vol.2 (1985–1987)
• 1993: The gift box
• 2004: 29 very, very good stories
• 2010: Out Of Cactus + Feeding Prohibited
• 2011: Classic Albums: Guten Tach! / It pulls in carton!

Soundtracks

• 2006: The little asshole and the old sack

Singles

Chart placements as lead musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1993	Cat loo There's rice, baby	DE13 (17 weeks) DE	AT7 (7 weeks) AT	-	First published: 1993
1997	Fitze, Fitze, Fatze Da Humm	DE51 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published January 30, 1997
2003	Helges Mörchen-Lied Out of Kaktus!	DE21 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 6, 2003
2006	Cheese bread I Brake Together	DE36 (9 weeks) DE	AT65 (5 weeks) AT	-	First published: December 8, 2006
2013	Summer sun Cactus! Summer sun Cactus!	DE31 (8 weeks) DE	AT65 (1 week) AT	-	First published: July 19, 2013

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2003	Wunder gescheh'n (New Version) 20 Years - Nena feat. Nena (2003 Edition)	DE9 (9 weeks) DE	AT26 (15 weeks) AT	CH88 (2 weeks) CH	First publication: February 24, 2003 Nena with Ben , Udo Lindenberg , Sasha , Helge Schneider, Jasmin Tabatabai & Witt
2013	Work 30-11-80	DE33 (3 weeks) DE	AT63 (1 week) AT	-	First published: November 29, 2013 Sido feat. Helge Schneider

more publishments

• 1992: Ladiladiho
• 1992: Christmas at van den Bergs
• 1994: There is rice, baby!
• 1994: Telephone man
• 1994: Spectaculair cat toilet
• 1995: rattling bouquet! (Sales: 200, limited)
• 1995: garden fence
• 1995: Sex Machine (sales: 1,000, limited)
• 1997: Da Humm (sales: 200, limited)
• 1997: Sausage specialist seller
• 1997: I press the mouse
• 1997: Sausage candy
• 1998: Alone in the bar
• 1999: We are the Firefuckers
• 1999: Copacabana
• 2000: I made a mistake!
• 2003: Moped (-Tobias)
• 2007: The Trumpets of Mexico
• 2012: School is not nice
• 2017: Heart Attack No. 1 (feat. Pete York )

Further guest contributions

• 2002: I'm just a Jonny ( Udo Lindenberg with Helge Schneider)
• 2006: Katzen Geil ( Robag Wruhme feat.Helge Schneider, Lenja , Fina & Dorle & Rocko Schamoni )
• 2008: Chubby Checker ( Udo Lindenberg feat. Helge Schneider)
• 2008: Rock 'n' Roller (live) ( Udo Lindenberg feat.Helge Schneider)
• 2008: St. James Infirmary ( Klaus Doldinger feat.Helge Schneider)
• 2014: Black and White Forever (Starchild feat. Helge Schneider & Michael Kiske )
• 2018: Backstage to Heaven ( Doro feat.Helge Schneider)

Video albums and music videos

Video albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2011	Come here have a mark	-	AT2 (1 week) AT	-	First published: March 18, 2011
2015	Let it crack, Helge! Helge, the film, Helge, Life!	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: August 28, 2015

More video albums

• 1995: Schneider - early masterpieces

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
1993	Litter box
1994	There's rice, baby!
1995	Sex machine
1997	Fitze, Fitze, Fatze
	Sausage saleswoman
2000	I got it wrong!
2003	Helges Mörchen-Lied	Helge Schneider
2013	Summer sun Cactus!	Helge Schneider
	Open shirt	Helge Schneider
	To be a man	Helge Schneider

Box sets

• 2010: Fantasy in Blue (7-CD box with bonus CD)
• 2012: Piano Fantasy No. 4 (3-CD box)
• 2015: Schneider Collection! - Music and life shows (21 CD box with 3 bonus discs)
• 2015: Schneider Collection! - Audio books and radio plays (10 CD box with bonus disc)

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of Helge Schneider's chart successes in the album, single and music DVD charts. In Germany, there is a special feature that video albums are also placed in the album charts, in the other countries the chart editions come from the music DVD charts.

DE  AT  CH Number one albums DE1DE AT-AT CH-CH Top 10 albums DE1DE AT-AT CH-CH Albums in the charts DE17thDE AT3AT CH1CH

DE  AT  CH Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH Top 10 singles DE1DE AT1AT CH-CH Singles in the charts DE7thDE AT5AT CH1CH

DE  AT  CH Number one video albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH Top 10 video albums DE-DE AT1AT CH-CH Video albums on the charts DE-DE AT1AT CH-CH

Awards for music sales

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
All in all	gold1	-

swell

1. ↑ Sales of Klapperstrauss!
2. ↑ Sex Machine sales
3. ↑ Sales of Da Humm (Single)
4. ↑ Director of Helges Mörchen-Lied ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Director of Summer, Sun, Cactus!
6. ↑ Director of Open Shirt
7. ↑ Director of To be a Man

Web links

• Chart sources: DE AT CH