Hurts / discography

- discography
Hurts (2010)
Publications
Studio albums	4th
EPs	1
Singles	22nd
Music videos	22nd

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British synth pop - duo Hurts . According to sources and record awards, it has sold more than 4.3 million records to date, over 820,000 of them in its home country alone. The most successful release of Hurts is the debut album Happiness with around two million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2010	Happiness RCA Records ( Sony )	DE2 × 2 Double platinum (64 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (49 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (60 weeks)CH	UK4th gold (26 weeks)UK	-	First published: August 27, 2010 Sales: +2,000,000
2013	Exile Epic Records (Sony)	DE3 gold (16 weeks)DE	AT4 (6 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (17 weeks)CH	UK9 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 8, 2013 Sales: + 159,411
2015	Surrender Columbia Records (Sony)	DE8 (5 weeks) DE	AT14 (2 weeks) AT	CH1 (10 weeks) CH	UK12 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 9, 2015 Sales: + 5,636
2017	Desire Sony Music (Sony)	DE14 (2 weeks) DE	AT24 (1 week) AT	CH8 (5 weeks) CH	UK21 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 29, 2017 Sales: + 3,712

EPs

year	Title music label	Remarks
2010	The Belle Vue EP RCA Records (Sony)	First published: July 9, 2010

Singles

As a lead musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2010	Wonderful Life Happiness	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (42 weeks)DE	AT6th gold (27 weeks)AT	CH4th platinum (36 weeks)CH	UK21 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 3, 2010 Sales: + 495,000
	Better Than Love Happiness	DE66 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH56 (1 week) CH	UK50 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 23, 2010
	Stay Happiness	DE3 gold (36 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (21 weeks)AT	CH6th gold (25 weeks)CH	UK50 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 12, 2010 Sales: + 180,000
	All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day Happiness Deluxe	DE76 (2 weeks) DE	AT67 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: December 13, 2010
2011	Sunday happiness	-	-	-	UK57 (1 week) UK	-	First published: February 25, 2011
	Illuminated Happiness	-	-	-	UK68 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 9, 2011
	Blood, Tears & Gold Happiness	DE39 (6 weeks) DE	AT45 (3 weeks) AT	CH54 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: October 7, 2011
2013	Miracle Exile	DE23 (7 weeks) DE	AT43 (6 weeks) AT	CH27 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: January 11, 2013
	Blind exile	DE52 (2 weeks) DE	AT60 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: May 10, 2013
	Somebody to Die For Exile	DE46 (3 weeks) DE	AT57 (1 week) AT	CH62 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: July 19, 2013
2015	Some Kind of Heaven Surrender	-	-	CH66 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 28, 2015
	Rolling Stone Surrender	-	-	-	-	-	First published: July 15, 2015
	Lights surrender	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 14, 2015
	Slow surrender	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 11, 2015
	Wish surrender	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 7, 2015
2017	Beautiful Ones Desire	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 21, 2017
	Ready to Go Desire	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 1, 2017
2020	Voices	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 15, 2020
	Suffer	-	-	-	-	-	First published: June 24, 2020
	Redemption	-	-	-	-	-	First published: July 16, 2020
	Somebody	-	-	-	-	-	First published: July 30, 2020
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2013	Without you single track	DE88 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: September 13, 2013 B-side of Somebody to Die For ; Original: Blessed

As a guest musician

Under control cover

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Under Control Motion	DE24 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT21 (14 weeks) AT	CH34 gold (18 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (16 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: October 7, 2013 Sales: + 1,495,000; Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
2009	Wonderful life	Adam Anderson (Version 1, 2009) Dawn Shadforth (Version 2, 2010)
2010	Better Than Love	WIZ
	Stay	Dave Ma
	All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day	Diamond Dogs
2011	Sunday	WIZ
	Illuminated	Giorgio Testi
	Blood, Tears & Gold	Adam Anderson
2013	Miracle	Chris Turner (Version 1) Frank Borin (Version 2)
	Blind	Nez Khammal
	Somebody to Die For	Frank Borin
	Under control	Emil Nava
2015	Some Kind of Heaven	Chino Moya
	Lights	Dawn Shadforth
	Wish	Bryan Adams
	Wings	Dawn Shadforth
2017	Beautiful ones	Tim Mattia
	Ready to go	Thomas James
	Chaperones	Frederick Lloyd
2020	Redemption	Frederick Lloyd
	Somebody	Grandmas

Special publications

Albums

EPs

year	Title music label	Remarks
2013	Spotify Sessions Major Label (Sony)	First published: April 19, 2013 Distribution only through Spotify
2017	Live @ Deluxe Music Session Sony Music (Sony)	First published: November 24, 2017 Part of the “Deluxe Music Session” series

Video albums

year	Title music label	Remarks
2010	Live in Berlin RCA Records (Sony)	First published: October 28, 2011 Part of Happiness (Deluxe Edition)
2013	Россия Epic Records (Sony)	First published: March 8, 2013 Part of Exile (Deluxe Edition)

Songs

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Remarks
2010	Jeanny Falco 3 (25th Anniversary Edition)	First published: October 22, 2010 Falco & Hurts; Original: Falco
2014	Ecstasy motion	First published: October 31, 2014 Calvin Harris feat. Hurts
	Under Control Motion	First published: October 31, 2014 Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts

Remixes

year	Title album	Remarks
2010	Haifisch (Remix by Hurts) Made in Germany 1995–2011 (Deluxe Edition)	First published: May 28, 2010 Interpretation: Rammstein
2011	Judas (Hurts Remix) Born This Way - The Remix	First published: May 16, 2011 Interpretation: Lady Gaga
2011	Lonely Lisa (Hurts Remix) single track	First published: July 4th 2011 Interpretation: Mylène Farmer
2012	Song of the Forgotten (Hurts Remix) Song of the Forgotten (Special Version) EP	First published: February 10, 2012 Interpretation: Rosenstolz

Soundtracks

year	Title soundtrack too	Remarks
2011	Stay Kokowääh	First published: February 4, 2011

Promo publications

Albums

EPs

year	Title music label	Remarks
2010	EP EMI Music	First published: 2010
2010	Sampler RCA Records	First published: 2010
2010	Album sampler major label	First published: 2010
2013	Exile Sampler Major Label	First published: March 11, 2013

Songs

Free tracks

year	Title album	Remarks
2017	Desire Desire	First release: 2017 free download from the Hurts homepage

Split singles

year	Title artist	Remarks
2010	Wonderful Life / I Need Air Hurts / Magnetic Man	First published: 2010

Promo singles

year	Title album	Remarks
2010	Happiness Happiness (Deluxe Edition)	First published: August 1, 2010
2013	Sandman Exile	First published: January 14, 2013
2015	Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us Surrender	First published: 2015
	Wings surrender	First published: 2015
2017	Hold on to Me Desire	First published: September 22, 2017
	Chaperone Desire	First published: October 12, 2017

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH1CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE3DE AT2AT CH4thCH UK2UK US-US Albums in the charts DE4thDE AT4thAT CH4thCH UK4thUK US-US

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK1UK US-US Top 10 singles DE2DE AT2AT CH2CH UK1UK US-US Singles in the charts DE10DE AT8thAT CH8thCH UK6thUK US-US

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Mexico 2014: for the single Under Control  Poland 2013: for the album Exile Platinum record  Australia 2014: for the single Under Control  Denmark 2014: for Streaming Under Control  Finland 2011: for the album Happiness  Italy 2014: for the single Under Control

2 × platinum record  Norway 2015: for the single Under Control  Poland 2014: for the album Happiness  Sweden 2014: for the single Under Control

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)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	platinum1	-	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	1,250,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	platinum1	20,168	ifpi.fi
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	30,000	fimi.it
Mexico (AMPROFON)	gold1	-	30,000	amprofon.com.mx
Norway (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	20,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	3 × gold3	-	40,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	gold1	2 × platinum2	50,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	80,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × gold3	2 × platinum2	100,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	gold1	-	500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	platinum1	829.145	bpi.co.uk
All in all	14 × gold14th	16 × platinum16

Web links

Charts:

• Chart sources: DE AT CH UK

Discography:

• Hurts at Discogs (English)
• Hurts on MusicBrainz (English)
• Hurts at Musik-Sammler.de
• Hurts in Rate Your Music (English)

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1. ^ Robert Copsey: Hurts announce new album 'Exile'. digitalspy.co.uk, December 14, 2012, accessed August 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Alan Jones: Official Charts Analysis: Faithless only need 12,341 sales to top album chart. musicweek.com, October 16, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Alan Jones: Official Charts Analysis: Shania Twain takes No. 1 in close battle with Wolf Alice. musicweek.com, October 6, 2017, accessed on August 27, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ Hurts: Wonderful Life, B&W Version (Video 2009). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Hurts: Wonderful Life, Color Version (Video 2010). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
6. ^ Hurts: Better Than Love (Video 2010). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Hurts: Stay (Video 2010). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Hurts: All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day (Video 2010). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
9. ^ Hurts: Sunday (Video 2011). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Hurts: Illuminated (Video 2011). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Hurts: Blood, Tears & Gold (Video 2011). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Hurts: Miracle - First Version (Video 2013). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
13. ^ Hurts: Miracle (Video 2013). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
14. ^ Hurts: Blind (Video 2013). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Hurts: Somebody to Die For (Video 2013). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts: Under Control (Video 2013). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
17. ^ Hurts: Some Kind of Heaven (Video 2015). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Hurts: Lights (Video 2015). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Hurts: Wish (Video 2015). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Hurts: Wings (Video 2015). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Hurts: Wings (Video 2017). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Hurts: Ready to Go (Video 2017). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
23. ↑ Hurts - Chaperones (2017). imvdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Hurts: Redemption (Video 2020). imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Hurts - Somebody (2020). imvdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 .