Runrig / discography
|
Runrig - discography
|
|
Runrig (2004)
|
|
| Publications | |
|---|---|
 Studio albums
|
14th |
|
Live albums
|
8th |
|
Compilations
|
17th |
|
EPs
|
3 |
|
Singles
|
29 |
|
Video albums
|
1 |
This discography is an overview of the musical works of the Scottish folk-rock - band Runrig . The band consisted of the brothers Rory (bass, vocals, acoustic guitar) and Calum Macdonald (percussion, vocals) and Blair Douglas (accordion), strengthened a little later by the singer Donnie Munro (vocals, acoustic guitar) and replaced by the singer in 1998 Bruce Guthro . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 700,000 records to date, over 600,000 of them in her home country alone.
Albums
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
|||
| 1978 | Play Gaelic | - | - | - |
First published: 1978
|
| 1979 | The Highland Connection | - | - | - |
First published: 1979
|
| 1981 | Recovery | - | - | - |
First publication: 1981
|
| 1985 | Heartland | - | - | - |
First published: 1985
|
| 1987 | The Cutter and the Clan | - | - |
UK45  (2 weeks)UK |
First published: 1987
Sales: + 60,000 |
| 1989 | Searchlight | - | - |
UK11  (4 weeks)UK |
First published: 1989
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 1991 | The big wheel | - | - |
UK4th (15 weeks)UK |
First published: June 10, 1991
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 1993 | Amazing things |
DE47 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
UK2 (6 weeks)UK |
First published: March 15, 1993
Sales: + 60,000 |
| 1995 | Mara |
DE81 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
UK24 (6 weeks)UK |
First published: November 6, 1995
Sales: + 60,000 |
| 1999 | In Search of Angels |
DE26 (4 weeks) DE |
- |
UK29 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: February 21, 1999
|
| 2001 | The Stamping Ground |
DE20 (8 weeks) DE |
- |
UK64 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 6, 2001
|
| 2003 | Proterra |
DE10 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
UK84 (1 week) UK |
First published: August 17, 2003
|
| 2007 | Everything You See |
DE15 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
UK61 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 14, 2007
|
| 2016 | The story |
DE6 (4 weeks) DE |
CH51 (1 week) CH |
UK26 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: January 29, 2016
|
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
|
CH
|
UK
|
|||
| 1988 | Once in a Lifetime | - | - |
UK61 (2 weeks)UK |
First published: 1988
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 1994 | Transmitting Live |
DE67 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
UK41 (6 weeks) UK |
First published: November 14, 1994
|
| 2000 | Live at Celtic Connections |
DE48 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: August 28, 2000
|
| 2004 | Day of Days 30th Anniversary |
DE25th (6 weeks)DE |
- | - |
First published: May 3, 2004
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2008 | Year of the Flood |
DE28 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 10, 2008
|
| 2014 | Party on the Moor - 40th Anniversary |
DE6 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
UK51 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: March 28, 2014
|
| 2019 | The Last Dance - Farewell Concert (Live at Stirling) |
DE1 (8 weeks) DE |
CH18 (1 week) CH |
UK27 (1 week) UK |
First published: August 16, 2019
|
Compilations
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
CH
|
UK
|
|||
| 1996 | Long Distance - The Best of Runrig |
DE60 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
UK13 (16 weeks)UK |
First published: October 7, 1996
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 1998 | 25 Years - The Gaelic Collection | - | - |
UK71 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 3, 1998
|
| 2005 | 30 Year Journey - The Best |
DE38 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: March 29, 2005
|
| 2010 | 50 great songs |
DE43 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 4, 2010
|
| 2018 | Best of rarities |
DE6 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: June 1, 2018
|
More compilations
- 1992: Alba - The Best of Runrig
- 1998: Beat the Drum (compilation of EPs Capture The Heart (1990) and Hearthammer (1991))
- 1999: BBC - The Archive Series "Runrig"
- 1999: Celtic Glory
- 1999: Scotland's Pride - Runrig's Best
- 1999: The Runrig Collection
- 2000: Wheel in Motion
- 2000: Scotland's Glory - Runrig's Ballads
- 2007: The Essential
- 2007: Hit Collection
- 2009: The Collection - Runrig
- 2012: All the Best
EPs
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
CH
|
UK
|
|||
| 1990 | Capture the heart | - | - |
UK49 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: 1990
|
| 1991 | Hearthammer | - | - |
UK25 (4 weeks) UK |
First publication: 1991
|
| 1997 | The Greatest Flame | - | - |
UK30 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: 1997
|
Singles
Chart placements as lead musician
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
CH
|
UK
|
|||
| 1982 | Loch Lomond The Highland Connection |
- | - |
UK9 (5 weeks) UK |
First published: 1982
|
| 1989 | News From Heaven Searchlight |
- | - |
UK90 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: 1989
|
| 1991 | Flower of the West The Big Wheel |
- | - |
UK43 (2 weeks) UK |
First publication: 1991
|
| 1993 | Wonderful amazing things |
DE87 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
UK29 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: 1993
|
| The Greatest Flame Amazing Things |
- | - |
UK36 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: 1993
|
|
| 1995 | This Time of Year single track |
- | - |
UK38 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: 1995
|
| An Ubhal As Airde (The Highest Apple) single track |
- | - |
UK18 (5 weeks) UK |
First published: 1995
|
|
| Things That Are Mara |
- | - |
UK40 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: 1995
|
|
| 1996 | Rhythm of the Heart Long Distance - The Best of Runrig |
- | - |
UK24 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: 1996
|
| 1999 | Maymorning In Search of Angels |
- | - |
UK90 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 4, 1999
|
| 2003 | Empty Glens Proterra |
DE90 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: August 11, 2003
|
| 2007 | Loch Lomond (Hampden Remix) single track |
- | - |
UK9 (4 weeks) UK |
First published: November 16, 2007
with Tartan Army |
More singles
- 1984: Dance Called America
- 1984: Skye
- 1986: The Work Song
- 1987: Alba / Worker for the Wind
- 1987: Protect and Survive
- 1989: Every River
- 1999: The Message
- 1999: This Is Not a Love Song
- 2001: Book of Golden Stories
- 2003: Empty Glens
- 2007: Clash of the Ash
- 2008: Year of the Flood
- 2008: road trip
- 2013: And We'll Sing
- 2015: The Story
- 2016: The Years We Shared
- 2018: Somewhere (with Julie Fowlis )
Video albums
- 1997: Live at Stirling Castle (Donnie Munro's Farewell) (UK:gold)
statistics
Chart evaluation
The following list contains an overview of Runrig's chart successes in the album and single charts.
|
|
Awards for music sales
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) |
|||||
|
Germany (BVMI)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 100,000 | musikindustrie.de |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
3 × silver3
|
5 × gold5
|
- | 605,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
3 × silver3
|
6 × gold6th
|
- | ||