Reinhard Mey / discography

	Reinhard Mey - discography
	Mey (2014)
Publications
Studio albums	40
Live albums	18th
Compilations	20th
EPs	8th
Tribute albums	1
Singles	66
Video albums	2
Box sets	10
Audio books	1

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the German songwriter Reinhard Mey and his pseudonyms such as Rainer May and Frédérik Mey . According to the sources, he has sold more than 2.2 million records in his career. Mey's most successful publications are the authors' participation Gute Nacht, Freunde ( Inga and Wolf ) and the compilation Mein Apfelbäumchen , each with around 500,000 units sold. For an overview of all of Mey's songs, see the list of songs by Reinhard Mey .

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1967	I wanted to sing like Orpheus	-	-	-	First published: 1967
1969	Arrive Friday the 13th	-	-	-	First published: 1969
1970	From my diary	-	-	-	First published: 1970
1971	I am made of that wood	DE8 (4 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1971
1972	My eighth of the bay leaf	DE1 (3 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1972
1974	Like year and day ago	DE16 (2 months) DE	AT8 (4 weeks) AT	-	First published: 1974
1975	Icarus	DE26 (2 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1975
1977	Human cub	DE24 (2 months) DE	AT16 (2 months) AT	-	First published: 1977
1979	Not a quiet minute	DE16 (21 weeks) DE	AT20 (1 month) AT	-	First published: 1979
1980	Seasons	DE12 (32 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1980
1981	Friendly faces	DE36 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First publication: 1981
1983	The twelfth	DE34 (9 weeks) DE	AT17 (½ month) AT	-	First published: 1983
1985	Made in Berlin	DE21 (16 weeks) DE	AT28 (½ month) AT	-	First published: April 1, 1985
1986	Go it alone	DE27 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: July 1, 1986
1988	Ballads	DE27 (13 weeks) DE	AT16 (5 months) AT	-	First published: January 1, 1988
1990	Colours	DE27 (25 weeks) DE	AT30 (2 weeks) AT	-	First published: April 1, 1990
1992	Everything goes!	DE28 (17 weeks) DE	AT26 (12 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 1, 1992
1994	Always on	DE21 (12 weeks) DE	AT31 (4 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 1, 1994
1996	beacon	DE26 (22 weeks) DE	AT26 (14 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 9, 1996
1998	Message in a bottle	DE7 (32 weeks) DE	AT32 (11 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 15, 1998
2000	Single-handed sailor	DE7th gold (27 weeks)DE	AT22 (6 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 5, 2000 Sales: + 150,000
2002	Rum Hart	DE4 (21 weeks) DE	AT14 (9 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 3, 2002
2004	Nanga Parbat	DE2 gold (17 weeks)DE	AT12 (14 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 1, 2004 Sales: + 100,000
2007	Colorful dog	DE1 gold (19 weeks)DE	AT8 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 4, 2007 Sales: + 100,000
2010	May rain	DE2 gold (24 weeks)DE	AT2 (16 weeks) AT	CH66 (1 week) CH	First published: May 7, 2010 Sales: + 100,000
2013	then take care	DE1 platinum (26 weeks)DE	AT1 (15 weeks) AT	CH28 (4 weeks) CH	First published: May 3, 2013 Sales: + 200,000
2016	Mr. Lee	DE3 gold (18 weeks)DE	AT4 (19 weeks) AT	CH23 (3 weeks) CH	First published: May 6, 2016 Sales: + 100,000
2020	The house at the traffic lights	DE2 (... weeks) DE	AT2 (... weeks) AT	CH5 (5 weeks) CH	First published: May 29, 2020

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1971	Reinhard Mey live	DE9 (5 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1971
1974	8 p.m.	DE23 (2 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1974
1981	tour	DE61 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First publication: 1981
1991	With lust and love	-	AT30 (1 week) AT	-	First published: April 1, 1991
1997	Signs of life live	DE95 (2 weeks) DE	AT48 (1 week) AT	-	First published: March 17, 1997
1999	Stage fright live	DE64 (4 weeks) DE	AT48 (1 week) AT	-	First published: March 26, 1999
2001	Solo - The single-handed tour	DE56 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: April 20, 2001
2003	Mey, Wader, Wecker - the concert together with Hannes Wader & Konstantin Wecker	DE22 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 27, 2003 on the occasion of Wader’s 60th birthday
2003	Klaar Kiming	DE53 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 23, 2003
2006	!I can	DE26 (7 weeks) DE	AT23 (5 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 12, 2006
2009	Thank you, dear fairy godmother	DE11 (13 weeks) DE	AT23 (7 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 8, 2009
2012	Give me music	DE4 (10 weeks) DE	AT10 (5 weeks) AT	CH55 (1 week) CH	First published: May 4, 2012
2015	then take care live	DE5 (5 weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	CH83 (1 week) CH	First published: May 1, 2015
2018	Mr. Lee Live	DE10 (3 weeks) DE	AT14 (3 weeks) AT	CH51 (2 weeks) CH	First published: May 4, 2018

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More live albums

1978: On the move
1984: Live '84
1987: The big tour in '86
1995: Between Zurich and at home

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1973	All i have	DE20 (2 months) DE	-	-	First published: 1973
1989	My apple tree	DE20th platinum (18 weeks)DE	AT69 (½ month) AT	-	First published: August 1, 1989 Sales: + 500,000 benefit share for children's cancer aid
1993	I love you	-	AT38 (3 weeks) AT	-	First published: April 6, 1993 benefit share for the German Children's Aids Aid
2005	Free!	DE83 (1 week) DE	AT54 (1 week) AT	-	First published: September 23, 2005 Benefit share for the SOS Children's Village Germany
2015	Songs from friends	DE17 (6 weeks) DE	AT22 (3 weeks) AT	CH91 (1 week) CH	First published: November 6, 2015

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More compilations

1970: Sometime, somewhere
1970: portrait
1973: Girls in the taverns
1974: The best from Reinhard Mey
1976: His great successes
1977: Star portrait (sales: + 250,000; DE:gold)
1978: M (e) y Instrumentals (instrumental pieces)
1978: The big song album
1979: My most beautiful songs
1981: Thank you to all my friends
1982: Star portrait 2 - What a gift is a song
1984: The great successes (sales: + 250,000; DE:gold)
1990: The great German Schlager archive (with Mireille Mathieu )
1996: The 20 great successes
1997: You are a giant ... (benefit share for the Dunkelziffer eV, which helps sexually abused children)

EPs

1966: 30 Fred Kasulzke protestatzki: songs, bench songs, ballads
1966: The three musketeers: songs, bank songs, ballads
1983: Amiga Quartet (only published in the GDR)
1985: Reinhard Mey

Tribute albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2002	Homage to Reinhard Mey	DE81 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: December 2, 2002

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1972	Annabelle, oh Annabelle My eighth of bay leaf	DE29 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1972
1974	Man from Alemannia 8 p.m.	DE18 (15 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 1974

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more publishments

Vinyl singles

1965: Go and Catch the Wind (as Rainer May )
1966: Girls in the taverns
1966: Rouge ou noir
1967: The song from the newspaper
1968: I only knew you
1970: The rain falls softly in my room
1970: The Ballad of the Pfeifer
1970: Diplomatic hunt
1971: The killer is always the gardener
1972: The hot battle at the cold buffet
1973: Trilogy on Mrs. Pohl
1973: But in spite of all this you can no longer find your peace
1974: my will
1974: Good night, friends
1974: Above the clouds
1975: There are days when I wish I was my dog
1975: I have oil in my garden
1977: I am embarrassed
1977: An application for an application form
1978: Daddy Blue
1979: Dr. Seamless, Dr. Sägeberg and Dr. Hein
1979: Not a quiet minute
1980: summer morning
1980: We're all just poor little sausages
1981: Garbage man blues
1983: Help me
1983: Dieter Malinek, Ulla and me
1983: What's in the newspaper
1984: Radio Commercial Blues (live)
1984: Merry Christmas
1985: Let them travel
1986: It's Christmas Day
1986: No, I won't give my sons
1988: In this, our country
1988: The sea
1990: All soldiers want to go home

CD singles

1992: the label
1994: 51 captain
1994: The children of Izieu
1995: I love my kitchen
1996: give me music
1996: Lilienthal's dream (with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Manni Leuchter )
1998: The 12 days of Christmas
1999: Just go away, just go (with Ina Deter )
2000: Give me this night (with Klaus Hoffmann )
2000: single-handed sailor
2000: I'll take you through the night
2001: Kurti (live)
2002: More and more
2002: Rüm Hart
2004: I can!
2004: Everything OK in Guantánamo Bay
2004: Rain on Jalalabad (with I Muvrini )
2016: So many summers

Sampler contributions

1996: Emily-Anne (I Wish I'd Written That Song (A Tribute to Colin Wilkie))
2005: Zauberland (Rio Reiser - Family Album, Volume 2)
2006: The Sea (Danube Music)
2010: The old bike (Maurenbrecher for everyone - A tribute in 62 songs)
2014: Star blue trench coat (Poem - Leonard Cohen in German)
2016: None of that (Wolfgang Petry and friends - The years with you)

Guest Posts

1970: Eine Kind von Serenade (live) ( Udo Jürgens feat.Reinhard Mey)
1986: Ein Loch in der Kanne (live) ( Rainhard Fendrich feat.Reinhard Mey)
1996: love, schnapps, death (with Hannes Wader & Klaus Hoffmann)
2005: Abend I ( The World Quintet feat.Reinhard Mey)
2012: Always there for you ( Heinz Rudolf Kunze feat. Reinhard Mey)
2012: Inkwell & Feather ( Haudegen feat.Reinhard Mey)
2012: My Time ( Klaus Hoffmann feat.Reinhard Mey)

Video albums

2003: Klaar Kiming
2009: Thank you, dear fairy godmother

Author participation

Mey composes and writes most of his songs himself, he also wrote songs for other performers. The following list contains singles in which Mey contributed as an author and who were able to place themselves in the single charts in Germany, Austria or Switzerland thanks to foreign artists.

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title artist	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1972	Good night, friends Inga and Wolf	DE22nd gold (16 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: February 1972 Sales: + 500,000
1972	Girl, wild girl Adamo	DE45 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: July 1972

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Box sets

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2013	Seasons	DE54 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: December 6, 2013 Sales: 4,000 (limited) benefit share for the Von Bodelschwingh foundations

More box sets

1976: My Star (3 LPs)
1989: Songs of the 80s (6-CD box of all 1980s studio albums)
1990: The Story (6-CD edition by the Bertelsmann Book Club)
2003: Above the Clouds - 67 songs from 4 decades
2011: 4 albums
2013: Seasons 1: 1967-1977
2013: Seasons 2: 1978–1988
2013: Seasons 3: 1989–1999
2013: Seasons 4: 2000–2013

Radio plays

2000: Peter and the Wolf

International publications

English-language sound carriers

Studio albums

1970: One Vote for Tomorrow

French-language sound carriers

Studio albums

1968: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 1
1972: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 2
1974: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 3
1976: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 4
1979: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 5
1982: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 6
2005: Frédérik Mey, Vol. 7 - Douce france

Live albums

1976: Recital Frédérik Mey à l'Olympia
1979: Bobino
2014: Bobino & Olympia (cross-section of the live performances in the Bobino 1979 and the Olympia 1976)

EPs

1968: La mort du pauvre homme / Encore combien de temps // Il me suffit de ton amour / La pettit fille
1968: C'était une bonne année je crois / Je n'ai connu que toi // Christine / Rencontre
1972: Bonsoir mes amis / Arriverai venredi treize // J'amerais tant / Dans mon jardin
1974: Tyranny // Les bulles de savon / Je suis fait de ce bois

Singles

1977: Il neige au fond de mon ame / Une cruche en pierre
1979: J'aimerais bien etre mon chien / La blessure
????: La boîte a musique / Je crois qu'elle est ainsi
????: Le politicien / Après tant de temps
????: La poesie c'est toi / Toi qui marche dans la nuit

Dutch phonograms

Studio albums

1975: Als de dag van toen (three Dutch and nine German songs)
1976: As de dag van toen
1976: He zijn dagen ...
1987: Het veryerbeste van Reinhard Mey (four Dutch and eight German songs)

Singles

1975: As de dag van toen / Uit mijn dagboek
1975: Goede Nacht vrienden / I've learned one more time
1976: Ikarus / Ik wou zoals Orpheus zingen
1976: Vergeef mij als je kunt / diplomatic yacht
1987: Als de dag van toen / Good night friends

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains all of Mey's chart successes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It should be noted that tribute albums are not included in the chart evaluation.

	DE	AT	CH
Number one albums	DE3DE	AT1AT	CH-CH
Top 10 albums	DE15thDE	AT7thAT	CH1CH
Albums in the charts	DE42DE	AT31AT	CH8thCH

	DE	AT	CH
Number one singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
Top 10 singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
Singles in the charts	DE2DE	AT-AT	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)	8 × gold8th	2 × platinum2	2,250,000	musikindustrie.de individual records
All in all	8 × gold8th	2 × platinum2

swell

^ ^A ^b Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 444 .
↑ Sales of Seasons (2013)

Web links

Chart sources: DE AT CH
Reinhard Mey on discogs.com

[Ehnert444-1] A ^b Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 444 .

[2] Sales of Seasons (2013)


Studio albums	I wanted to sing like Orpheus (1967) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 1 (1968) • Arrive Friday the 13th (1969) • From my diary (1970) • One Vote for Tomorrow (1970) • I am made of that wood ( 1971) • My eighth bay leaf (1972) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 2 (1972) • As before year and day (1974) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 3 (1974) • Ikarus (1975) • As de dag van toen ( 1975) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 4 (1976) • Er zijn dagen… (1976) • Human young (1977) • No quiet minute (1979) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 5 (1979) • Seasons (1980) • Friendly faces (1981) • Frédérik Mey, Vol. 6 (1982) • The Twelfth (1983) • Made in Berlin (1985) • Going it alone (1986) • Ballads (1988) • Colors (1990) • Everything goes (1992) • Always on (1994) • Beacon (1996) • Message in a bottle (1998) • Single-handed sailor (2000) • Rüm Hart (2002) • Nanga Parbat (2004) • Frédérik Mey, vol. 7 - douce france (2005) • Bunter Hund (2007) • Mairegen (2010) • then take care (2013) • songs from friends (2015) • Mr. Lee (2016) • Das H off at the traffic light (2020)
Extended plays	25 00 30 Fred Kasulzke protestazki (1966) • The Three Musketeers (1966)
Live albums	Reinhard Mey live (1971) • 8 p.m. (1974) • Recital Frédérik Mey à l'Olympia (1976) • On the move (1978) • Bobino (1979) • Tour (1981) • Live '84 (1984) • The big tour ' 86 (1986) • With lust and love (1991) • Between Zurich and at home (1995) • Signs of life (1997) • Stage fright (1999) • Solo - Die Einhandsegler Tournee (2001) • Klaar Kiming (2003) • Mey, Wader , Wecker - das Konzert (2003) •! I can (2006) • Thank you, dear fairy godmother (2009) • Give me music! (2012) • then take care Live (2015) • Mr. Lee Live (2018)
Compilation albums	All I have • Star portrait • Star portrait 2 - What a gift is a song • The great successes • My apple tree • I love you • You are a giant… • Peter and the wolf + 8 animal ballads • Above the clouds • Free! • Seasons