Leonard Cohen / discography
This discography is an overview of the released records of the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen . According to the sources, he has sold more than 13.6 million records in his career. The most successful release by Leonard Cohen is the album Greatest Hits with around 1.5 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 | CA | |||
1967 | Songs of Leonard Cohen |
DE-
gold
DE
|
- |
CH99 (1 week) CH |
UK13
gold
(70 weeks)UK |
US83
gold
(14 weeks)US |
- |
First published: December 27, 1967 Chart
entry in CH only in 2016 Sales: + 1,060,000 |
1969 | Songs from a Room | - | - | - |
UK2 (26 weeks) UK |
US63 (17 weeks) US |
CA10 (... wk.) CA |
First published: April 7, 1969
|
1971 | Songs of Love and Hate |
DE24 (24 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK4 (18 weeks) UK |
US145 (11 weeks) US |
CA63 (... weeks) CA |
First published: March 19, 1971
|
1974 | New Skin for the Old Ceremony |
DE17 (24 weeks) DE |
AT2 (8 weeks) AT |
- |
UK24
silver
(3 weeks)UK |
- | - |
First published: August 11, 1974
Sales: + 60,000 |
1977 | Death of a Ladies' Man | - | - | - |
UK35 (5 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: November 13, 1977
|
1979 | Recent songs |
DE56 (8 weeks) DE |
AT24 (4 weeks) AT |
- | - | - | - |
First published: September 27, 1979
Chart entry in DE in 1980 |
1984 | Various positions |
DE43 (11 weeks) DE |
AT18 (4 weeks) AT |
CH17 (7 weeks) CH |
UK52
silver
(6 weeks)UK |
- |
CA60 (... weeks) CA |
First published: December 11, 1984
Sales: + 155,000 |
1988 | I'm your man |
DE32 (13 weeks) DE |
AT22 (22 weeks) AT |
CH9 (14 weeks) CH |
UK48
gold
(13 weeks)UK |
- |
CA34
gold
(… Where.)CA |
First published: February 21, 1988
Sales: + 700,000 |
1992 | The future |
DE79 (7 weeks) DE |
AT5 (8 weeks) AT |
CH21 (10 weeks) CH |
UK36
silver
(3 weeks)UK |
- |
CA7th × 2
(… Where.)CA |
First published: November 20, 1992
Sales: + 310,000 |
2001 | Ten New Songs |
DE16 (11 weeks) DE |
AT5 (14 weeks) AT |
CH10
gold
(14 weeks)CH |
UK26th
gold
(4 weeks)UK |
US143 (3 weeks) US |
CA4th
platinum
(3 weeks)CA |
First published: October 8, 2001
Sales: + 535,000 |
2004 | Dear Heather |
DE19 (5 weeks) DE |
AT13 (7 weeks) AT |
CH13 (6 weeks) CH |
UK34
silver
(3 weeks)UK |
US131 (1 week) US |
CA5 (1 week) CA |
First published: October 25, 2004
Sales: + 80,000 |
2012 | Old Ideas |
DE4th
gold
(12 weeks)DE |
AT2
gold
(14 weeks)AT |
CH2
gold
(17 weeks)CH |
UK2
gold
(8 weeks)UK |
US3 (8 weeks) US |
CA1
platinum
(13 weeks)CA |
First published:
Jan 27, 2012 Sales: + 454,000 |
2014 | Popular Problems |
DE4 (10 weeks) DE |
AT1
gold
(16 weeks)AT |
CH1
gold
(14 weeks)CH |
UK5
silver
(12 weeks)UK |
US15 (5 weeks) US |
CA1
platinum
(10 weeks)CA |
First published: September 19, 2014
Sales: + 258,000 |
2016 | You Want It Darker |
DE2
gold
(21 weeks)DE |
AT1
platinum
(19 weeks)AT |
CH2
platinum
(25 weeks)CH |
UK4th
gold
(13 weeks)UK |
US7 (10 weeks) US |
CA1
platinum
(19 weeks)CA |
First published: October 21, 2016
Sales: + 590,000 |
2019 | Thanks for the dance |
DE5 (13 weeks) DE |
AT2
gold
(9 weeks)AT |
CH4 (16 weeks) CH |
UK7 (5 weeks) UK |
US61 (1 week) US |
CA1 (6 weeks) CA |
First published: November 22nd, 2019
Sales: + 7,500 |
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 | UK | US | CA | |||
1973 | Leonard Cohen: Live Songs |
DE30 (12 weeks) DE |
AT8 (12 weeks) AT |
- | - |
US156 (5 weeks) US |
- |
First published: April 1, 1973
|
1994 | Cohen Live - Leonard Cohen in Concert |
DE97 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
CH50 (1 week) CH |
UK35 (4 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: June 28, 1994
|
2009 | Live in London |
DE13 (26 weeks) DE |
AT9 (18 weeks) AT |
CH23 (11 weeks) CH |
UK19th
silver
(6 weeks)UK |
US76 (8 weeks) US |
CA7th
platinum
(12 weeks)CA |
First published: March 27, 2009
Sales: + 230,000 |
2010 | Songs from the Road |
DE36 (4 weeks) DE |
AT7 (7 weeks) AT |
CH29 (5 weeks) CH |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
US112 (2 weeks) US |
CA10 (2 weeks) CA |
First published: September 3rd, 2010
Sales: + 33,000 |
2014 | Live in Dublin |
DE53 (2 weeks) DE |
AT33 (3 weeks) AT |
CH48 (4 weeks) CH |
UK84 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: November 28, 2014
|
2015 | Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour |
DE23 (2 weeks) DE |
AT17 (2 weeks) AT |
CH18 (3 weeks) CH |
UK18 (2 weeks) UK |
US100 (1 week) US |
CA8 (2 weeks) CA |
First published: May 8, 2015
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More live albums
- 1993: Columbia Records Radio Hour Presents Leonard Cohen Live! from the Complex, Los Angeles, CA, April 18, 1993 (Promo)
- 2001: Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979
- 2009: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
- 2016: Leonard Cohen: Once More Marianne; FM Broadcast from the Casino Barrière de Montreux, 25th June 1976 (Bootleg)
Compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | US | CA | |||
1975 | Greatest Hits (US, CA) |
DE23
gold
(17 weeks)DE |
- |
CH41 (1 week) CH |
UK29
platinum
(5 weeks)UK |
US-
gold
US
|
CA43 (1 week) CA |
First published: January 1st, 1975
Chart entry in DE only 1976, in UK only 1988, in CH only 2016 Sales: + 1,500,000 |
1981 | Dreams of love: Leonard Cohen sings his most beautiful songs |
DE3 (12 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | - | - |
First published: March 1981
|
1997 | More Best Of | - |
AT41 (2 weeks) AT |
- |
UK82 (1 week) UK |
- |
CA33 (16 weeks) CA |
First published: October 6, 1997
Sales: + 245,000 |
2002 | The Essential Leonard Cohen |
DE31 (7 weeks) DE |
AT14 (17 weeks) AT |
CH5 (18 weeks) CH |
UK26th
gold
(5 weeks)UK |
US13
gold
(3 weeks)US |
CA4 (8 weeks) CA |
First published: October 21, 2002
Chart entry in UK only 2003, in AT only 2008, in US only 2016 Sales: + 905,000 |
2009 | Greatest Hits (2009) |
DE51
gold
(4 weeks)DE |
AT11 (23 weeks) AT |
CH18 (8 weeks) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: August 28, 2009
Sales: + 100,000 |
2011 | The Complete Columbia Albums Collection |
DE58 (1 week) DE |
- | - | - | - | - |
First published: October 10, 2011
|
2015 | Opus Collection | - | - | - | - |
US177 (1 week) US |
- |
First published: January 20, 2015
|
2016 | All Time Best: Reclam Music Edition | - | - |
CH71 (1 week) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: 2011
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More compilations
- 1978: Top Artists of Pop Music
- 1979: Leonard Cohen
- 1981: Songs & Poems (box with 3 LPs)
- 1983: Starsound Collection
- 1988: New Skin for the Old Ceremony: Songs from a Room (2 CDs)
- 1989: So Long Marianne
- 1992: The Best Of
- 2002: Leonard Cohen
- 2007: Leonard Cohen sampler
- 2008: The Collection (box with 5 CDs)
- 2009: Hallelujah: The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection (Box with 8 CDs)
- 2012: Original Album Classics (box with 3 CDs)
- 2012: Songs of Leonard Cohen (box with 3 CDs)
Non-music
- 1957: Six Montreal Poets (with AJM Smith, Irving Layton , FT Scott, Louis Dudek and AM Klein)
- 1966: Canadian Poets 1 (with Earle Birney , George Bowering , Irving Layton, Gwendolyn Macewen , John Newlove , Alfred Purdy and Phyllis Webb )
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | US | CA | |||
1974 | Lover Lover Lover New Skin for the Old Ceremony |
DE9 (17 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | - | - |
First published: November 1974
|
2008 |
Hallelujah Various Positions |
DE27 (1 week) DE |
AT13 (2 weeks) AT |
CH2 (3 weeks) CH |
UK36 (1 week) UK |
US59 (1 week) US |
CA17 (... weeks) CA |
First publication: 1984
Chart entry in AT only 2010, in DE and US in 2016 |
2016 |
Suzanne Songs of Leonard Cohen |
DE61 (1 week) DE |
AT39 (1 week) AT |
CH14 (1 week) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: January 23, 1968
|
You Want It Darker You Want It Darker |
DE81 (1 week) DE |
AT33 (1 week) AT |
CH27 (19 weeks) CH |
- | - |
CA73 (22 weeks) CA |
First published: September 21, 2016
|
|
So Long, Marianne Songs of Leonard Cohen |
- | - |
CH50 (1 week) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: 1968
Chart entry in November 2016 |
|
Dance Me to the End of Love Various Positions |
- | - |
CH68 (1 week) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: 1984
Chart entry in November 2016 |
|
Closing Time The Future |
- | - | - | - | - |
CA71 (... weeks) CA |
First publication: 1992
|
More singles
- 1969: Bird on the Wire
- 1969: The Partisan
- 1970: Joan of Arc
- 1971: Winter Lady
- 1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- 1971: Dress Rehearsal Rag
- 1971: The Stranger Song
- 1973: Passing Through
- 1975: Tonight Will Be Fine
- 1976: Do I Have to Dance All Night
- 1977: True Love Leaves No Traces
- 1977: Memories
- 1977: True Love Leaves No Traces (with Ronee Blakley )
- 1979: The Guests
- 1986: Take This Waltz
- 1988: First We Take Manhattan
- 1988: I'm Your Man
- 1988: Ain't No Cure for Love
- 1988: Everybody Knows
- 1989: I Can't Forget
- 1992: Democracy Is Coming to the USA
- 1992: (Busted in the Blinding Lights Of) Closing Time
- 1993: The Future
- 1997: Never Any Good
- 2001: In My Secret Life
- 2012: Live in Fredericton (EP)
- 2012: Darkness
Video albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | US | CA | |||
2009 | Live in London (DVD) |
DE-
gold
DE
|
- |
CH4 (12 weeks) CH |
UK-
platinum
UK
|
- |
CA- × 3
|
First published: March 27, 2009
|
2010 | Songs from the Road (DVD) | - | - |
CH5 (1 week) CH |
- | - | - |
First published: September 2010
|
More video albums
- 1984: I Am a Hotel (VHS)
- 1988: Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen (VHS)
- 2000: Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen (DVD)
- 2006: I'm Your Man. A Film by Lian Lunson (DVD)
- 2009: A Gentleman's Excuse Me (DVD)
- 2009: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (DVD, Blu-ray)
- 2010: Bird on a Wire (DVD)
- 2010: Lonesome Heroes (DVD)
- 2016: The Mind of a Poet (DVD; release: December 2nd, 2016)
statistics
Chart evaluation
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Awards for music sales
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | Sales | swell |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
|||||
Australia (ARIA) | - | 8 × gold8th | 14 × platinum14th | 902,500 | aria.com.au |
Belgium (BEA) | - | 2 × gold2 | platinum1 | 60,000 | ultratop.be |
Denmark (IFPI) | - | 4 × gold4th | 3 × platinum3 | 220,000 | ifpi.dk |
Germany (BVMI) | - | 7 × gold7th | - | 1,025,000 | musikindustrie.de |
Finland (IFPI) | - | 4 × gold4th | - | 107,344 | ifpi.fi |
France (SNEP) | - | 5 × gold5 | 2 × platinum2 | 1,240,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
Ireland (IRMA) | - | gold1 | 2 × platinum2 | 22,500 | irishcharts.ie |
Italy (FIMI) | - | gold1 | platinum1 | 75,000 | fimi.it |
Canada (MC) | - | gold1 | 12 × platinum12 | 860,000 | musiccanada.com |
New Zealand (RMNZ) | - | 3 × gold3 | 2 × platinum2 | 42,500 | nztop40.co.nz |
Netherlands (NVPI) | - | 2 × gold2 | - | 55,000 | nvpi.nl |
Norway (IFPI) | - | gold1 | 6 × platinum6th | 300,000 | ifpi.no |
Austria (IFPI) | - | 3 × gold3 | platinum1 | 42,500 | ifpi.at |
Poland (ZPAV) | - | gold1 | 11 × platinum11 | 440,000 | bestsellery.zpav.pl |
Portugal (AFP) | - | gold1 | platinum1 | 24,000 | Individual evidence |
Sweden (IFPI) | - | 6 × gold6th | platinum1 | 290,000 | sverigetopplistan.se |
Switzerland (IFPI) | - | 3 × gold3 | 2 × platinum2 | 100,000 | hitparade.ch |
Spain (Promusicae) | - | gold1 | platinum1 | 150,000 | promusicae.es ES2 |
Hungary (MAHASZ) | - | 5 × gold5 | - | 25,000 | slagerlistak.hu |
United States (RIAA) | - | 3 × gold3 | 3 × platinum3 | 4,500,000 | riaa.com |
United Kingdom (BPI) | 6 × silver6th | 6 × gold6th | 5 × platinum5 | 3,170,000 | bpi.co.uk |
All in all | 6 × silver6th | 68 × gold68 | 68 × platinum68 |
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Web links
- Leonard Cohen at Allmusic (English)
- Leonard Cohen at Discogs (English)