Middle of the Road / discography

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Middle Of The Road (1975)

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the Scottish pop group Middle of the Road .

Albums

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK NO NO
1971 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - - - - NO3 (22 weeks)
NO
First published: July 1971
1972 Acceleration DE13 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - - NO2 (27 weeks)
NO
First published: January 1972
1973 Drive on DE48 (1 week)
DE 		- - - -
First published: May 1973
Music Music DE45 (1 week)
DE 		- - - -
First published: November 1973

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1971: Sacramento
  • 1973: The Best Of
  • 1974: Postcard
  • 1974: You Pays Yer Money And You Takes Yer Chance
  • 1975: Dice
  • 1976: Greatest Hits
  • 1976: Black Gold
  • 1981: Something Old Something New
  • 1982: gold
  • 1987: Today
  • 1989: strong times
  • 1989: The Very Best Of
  • 1989: Middle Of The Road
  • 1990: The Original Hits
  • 1994: A New Chapter
  • 1995: 16 new recordings of the super hits
  • 1998: The Collection
  • 2004: only the best
  • 2009: Hit Collection
  • 2010: The RCA Years

Singles

Chart placements

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK NO NO
1970 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep 		DE2
gold
gold

(29 weeks)DE 		AT2 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (20 weeks)
CH 		UK1 (34 weeks)
UK 		NO1 (24 weeks)
NO
First published: October 1970
Sales: + 10,000,000
1971 Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep 		DE15 (21 weeks)
DE 		- - UK2 (17 weeks)
UK 		NO6 (7 weeks)
NO
First published: June 1971
Sales: +2,000,000
Soley Soley
Acceleration 		DE2
gold
gold

(24 weeks)DE 		- CH1 (19 weeks)
CH 		UK5 (12 weeks)
UK 		NO1 (22 weeks)
NO
First published: October 1971
Sales: + 1,000,000
1972 Sacramento (A Wonderful Town)
Acceleration 		DE1
gold
gold

(27 weeks)DE 		- CH1 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK23 (7 weeks)
UK 		NO1 (18 weeks)
NO
First published: January 1972
Sales: + 500,000
Samson and Delilah
Acceleration 		DE2 (24 weeks)
DE 		- CH3 (12 weeks)
CH 		UK26 (6 weeks)
UK 		NO11 (1 week)
NO
First published: March 1972
Bottoms up,
drive on 		DE2 (23 weeks)
DE 		- - - NO8 (3 weeks)
NO
First published: September 1972
1973 Yellow Boomerang
Drive On 		DE6 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT14 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (12 weeks)
CH 		- NO8 (3 weeks)
NO
First published: February 1973
Kailakee Kailako
Drive On 		DE29 (8 weeks)
DE 		- CH5 (6 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: July 1973
Samba d'Amour
Music Music 		DE35 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: September 1973
Honey No
Drive On 		DE31 (5 weeks)
DE 		- CH5 (9 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: December 1973
1974 Rockin 'Soul
You Pays Yer Money And You Takes Yer Chance 		DE31 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: April 1974
1976 Everybody Loves a Winner DE43 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: February 1976

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

  • 1970: Yellow River
  • 1970: I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
  • 1971: The Talk Of All The USA
  • 1974: Bonjour ca va
  • 1975: Hitchin 'A Ride In The Moonlight
  • 1975: Happy Song
  • 1981: The Medley

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK NO NO
Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK NO-NO
Top 10 albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK NO2NO
Albums in the charts DE3DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK NO2NO
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK NO NO
Number one singles DE1DE AT-AT CH3CH UK1UK NO3NO
Top 10 singles DE6thDE AT1AT CH7thCH UK3UK NO6thNO
Singles in the charts DE12DE AT2AT CH7thCH UK5UK NO7thNO

Awards for music sales

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

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg 3 × gold3 0! P- 2,000,000 Individual evidence
All in all Gold record icon.svg 3 × gold3 -

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK NO
  2. ^ A b c d Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 445 .
  3. ↑ Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. In: britannica.com. Retrieved April 9, 2013 .
  4. ^ A b Joseph Murrells: The Book of Golden Discs: The Records That Sold a Million . 2nd Edition. Limp Edition, London 1978, ISBN 0-214-20512-6 , pp. 299 .

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