Manic Street Preachers / Discography

Manic Street Preachers - Discography
Publications
Studio albums	13
Compilations	3
EPs	6th
Singles	56
Video albums	4th

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British rock band Manic Street Preachers . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 4.6 million records to date, over 4.5 million of them in her home country alone. The Manic Street Preachers' most successful release is the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with over 990,000 units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1992	Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK13 gold (28 weeks)UK	First published: February 10, 1992
1993	Gold Against the Soul	DE95 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK8th gold (16 weeks)UK	First published: June 14, 1993
1994	The Holy Bible	-	-	-	UK6th gold (11 weeks)UK	First published: August 29, 1994
1996	Everything must go	-	-	-	UK2 × 3 Triple platinum (103 weeks)UK	First published: May 20, 1996
1998	This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	DE27 (19 weeks) DE	AT20 (7 weeks) AT	CH47 (1 week) CH	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (74 weeks)UK	First published: September 14, 1998
2001	Know Your Enemy	DE13 (7 weeks) DE	AT42 (8 weeks) AT	CH40 (8 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (16 weeks)UK	First published: March 19, 2001
2004	Lifeblood	DE56 (1 week) DE	-	CH81 (1 week) CH	UK13 silver (3 weeks)UK	First published: November 1, 2004
2007	Send Away the Tigers	DE50 (2 weeks) DE	AT65 (2 weeks) AT	CH43 (3 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (13 weeks)UK	First published: May 7, 2007
2009	Journal for Plague Lovers	DE49 (1 week) DE	-	CH30 (1 week) CH	UK3 silver (5 weeks)UK	First published: May 18, 2009
2010	Postcards from a Young Man	DE50 (1 week) DE	-	CH87 (1 week) CH	UK3 gold (9 weeks)UK	First published: September 20, 2010
2013	Rewind the film	DE31 (1 week) DE	AT62 (1 week) AT	CH51 (1 week) CH	UK4th silver (6 weeks)UK	First published: September 16, 2013
2014	Futurology	DE33 (1 week) DE	-	CH51 (1 week) CH	UK2 (6 weeks) UK	First published: July 7, 2014
2018	Resistance Is Futile	DE20 (1 week) DE	AT23 (1 week) AT	CH18 (1 week) CH	UK2 (8 weeks) UK	First published: April 13, 2018

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2002	Forever Delayed	DE65 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (19 weeks)UK	First published: October 28, 2002
2003	Lipstick traces	-	-	-	UK11 (3 weeks) UK	First published: July 14, 2003
2011	National Treasures	-	-	-	UK10 gold (8 weeks)UK	First published: October 28, 2011

EPs

• 1990: New Art Riot
• 1991: Stars and Stripes
• 1993: Life Becoming A Landslide
• 2001: Know Our B-Sides
• 2005: God Save The Manics
• 2009: Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1991	Motown Junk Forever Delayed	-	-	-	UK94 (2 weeks) UK	First published: January 21, 1991
	You Love Us Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK16 (8 weeks) UK	First published: May 25, 1991
	Stay Beautiful Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK40 (5 weeks) UK	First published: July 29, 1991
	Love's Sweet Exile / Repeat Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK26 (5 weeks) UK	First published: October 28, 1991
1992	Slash 'n' Burn Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	First published: March 16, 1992
	Motorcycle Emptiness Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK17th silver (8 weeks)UK	First published: June 1, 1992
	Little Baby Nothing Generation Terrorists	-	-	-	UK29 (5 weeks) UK	First published: November 16, 1992
	Theme from MASH (Suicide Is Painless) Forever Delayed	-	-	-	UK7 (6 weeks) UK	First published: November 23, 1992
1993	From Despair to Where Gold Against the Soul	-	-	-	UK25 (4 weeks) UK	First published: June 7, 1993
	La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) Gold Against the Soul	-	-	-	UK22 (5 weeks) UK	First published: July 26, 1993
	Roses in the Hospital Gold Against the Soul	-	-	-	UK15 (3 weeks) UK	First published: September 20, 1993
1994	Life Becoming a Landslide Gold Against the Soul	-	-	-	UK36 (2 weeks) UK	First published: February 7, 1994
	Faster / PCP The Holy Bible	-	-	-	UK16 (5 weeks) UK	First published: June 6, 1994
	Revol The Holy Bible	-	-	-	UK22 (3 weeks) UK	First published: August 1, 1994
	She Is Suffering The Holy Bible	-	-	-	UK25 (3 weeks) UK	First published: October 3, 1994
1996	A Design for Life Everything Must Go	-	-	-	UK2 gold (14 weeks)UK	First published: April 15, 1996
	Everything Must Go Everything Must Go	-	-	-	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	First published: July 22, 1996
	Kevin Carter Everything Must Go	-	-	-	UK9 (8 weeks) UK	First published: September 30, 1996
	Australia Everything Must Go	-	-	-	UK7 (9 weeks) UK	First published: December 2, 1996
1998	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	DE79 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK1 gold (17 weeks)UK	First published: August 24, 1998
	The Everlasting This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	DE88 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK11 (12 weeks) UK	First published: November 30, 1998
1999	You Stole the Sun from My Heart This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	-	-	-	UK5 silver (12 weeks)UK	First published: March 8, 1999
	Tsunami This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	-	-	-	UK11 (8 weeks) UK	First published: July 5, 1999
2000	The Masses Against the Classes Forever Delayed	-	-	-	UK1 (9 weeks) UK	First published: January 10, 2000
2001	So Why So Sad Know Your Enemy	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK8 (16 weeks) UK	First published: February 26, 2001
	Found That Soul Know Your Enemy	-	-	-	UK9 (6 weeks) UK	First published: February 26, 2001
	Ocean Spray Know Your Enemy	-	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	First published: June 4, 2001
	Let Robeson Sing Know Your Enemy	-	-	-	UK19 (4 weeks) UK	First published: September 10, 2001
2002	There by the Grace of God Forever Delayed	-	-	-	UK6 (9 weeks) UK	First published: October 14, 2002
2004	The Love of Richard Nixon Lifeblood	-	-	-	UK2 (5 weeks) UK	First published: October 18, 2004
2005	Empty Souls Lifeblood	-	-	-	UK2 (4 weeks) UK	First published: January 10, 2005
2007	Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Send Away the Tigers	-	-	CH66 (4 weeks) CH	UK2 (12 weeks) UK	First published: April 30, 2007
	Autumn song Send Away the Tigers	-	-	-	UK10 (3 weeks) UK	First published: July 23, 2007
	Indian Summer Send Away the Tigers	-	-	-	UK22 (1 week) UK	First published: October 1, 2007
2008	Umbrella single track	-	-	-	UK47 (6 weeks) UK	First published: March 2008
2010	(It's Not War) Just the End of Love Postcards from a Young Man	-	-	-	UK28 (4 weeks) UK	First published: September 13, 2010
	Some Kind of Nothingness Postcards from a Young Man	-	-	-	UK44 (1 week) UK	First published: December 6, 2010
2011	Postcards from a Young Man Postcards from a Young Man	-	-	-	UK54 (1 week) UK	First published: February 28, 2011
2013	Show Me the Wonder Rewind the Film	-	-	-	UK77 (1 week) UK	First published: September 9, 2013

More singles

• 1988: Suicide Alley
• 1990: UK Channel Boredom
• 1991: Feminine Is Beautiful
• 1996: Further Away
• 1998: Nobody Loved You
• 2007: The Ghosts of Christmas
• 2011: This Is the Day
• 2013: Anthem for a Lost Cause
• 2014: Walk Me to the Bridge
• 2014: Futurology
• 2016: Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)
• 2017: International Blue
• 2018: Distant Colors
• 2018: Dylan & Caitlin
• 2018: Liverpool Revisited
• 2018: Hold Me Like a Heaven
• 2018: People Give In

Video albums

• 1997: Everything Live (UK:gold)
• 2000: Leaving the 20th Century (UK:gold)
• 2001: Louder Than War
• 2002: Forever Delayed (UK:gold)

Box sets

• 1997: Six Singles from Generation Terrorists

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Finland 1999: for the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours  Netherlands 2000: for the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours  Norway 1999: for the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

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)
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	32,153	ifpi.fi
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	40,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
United Kingdom (BPI)	5 × silver5	12 × gold12	8 × platinum8th	4,555,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × silver5	15 × gold15th	8 × platinum8th

Web links

Charts:

• Chart sources: DE AT CH UK

Discography:

• Manic Street Preachers at 45cat.com (English)
• Manic Street Preachers at Discogs (English)
• Manic Street Preachers at MusicBrainz (English)
• Manic Street Preachers at Musik-Sammler.de
• Manic Street Preachers at Rate Your Music (English)