Sinéad O'Connor / discography

Sinéad O'Connor  - discography
Sinéad O'Connor (2014)
Publications
Studio albums	10
Live albums	1
Compilations	5
EPs	1
Singles	54
Video albums	4th
Music videos	32

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the Irish alternative rock - singer Sinéad O'Connor . According to the record awards, she has sold more than seven million records in her career, over 7,500 of them in her home country alone. O'Connor's most successful release is the second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, with around 3.8 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	IE
1987	The Lion and the Cobra	DE52 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH12 (6 weeks) CH	UK27 gold (20 weeks)UK	US36 gold (76 weeks)US	-	First published: November 4, 1987 Sales: + 750,000
1990	I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	DE1 platinum (43 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (32 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (50 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (52 weeks)US	-	First published: March 12, 1990 Sales: + 3,850,000
1992	Am I Not Your Girl?	DE24 (12 weeks) DE	AT9 (8 weeks) AT	CH11 gold (10 weeks)CH	UK6th gold (6 weeks)UK	US27 (9 weeks) US	-	First published: September 22, 1992 Sales: + 225,000
1994	Universal mother	DE38 (9 weeks) DE	AT7th gold (11 weeks)AT	CH11 (11 weeks) CH	UK19th gold (9 weeks)UK	US36 (8 weeks) US	-	First published: September 13, 1994 Sales: + 175,000
2000	Faith and Courage	DE38 (8 weeks) DE	AT21 (10 weeks) AT	CH19 (10 weeks) CH	UK61 (2 weeks) UK	US55 (11 weeks) US	IE8 (18 weeks) IE	First published: June 13, 2000
2002	Sean-Nós Nua	DE75 (6 weeks) DE	AT29 (5 weeks) AT	CH67 (5 weeks) CH	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	US139 (2 weeks) US	IE3 (20 weeks) IE	First published: October 8, 2002
2005	Throw down your arms	-	-	-	-	-	IE17th gold (8 weeks)IE	First published: October 4th, 2005 Sales: + 7,500
2007	Theology	DE86 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	US168 (1 week) US	IE18 (7 weeks) IE	First published: June 18, 2007
2012	How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?	DE78 (1 week) DE	AT42 (2 weeks) AT	CH69 (1 week) CH	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	US115 (1 week) US	IE5 (13 weeks) IE	First published: February 21, 2012
2014	I'm not bossy, I'm the boss	DE39 (1 week) DE	AT44 (1 week) AT	CH48 (1 week) CH	UK22 (2 weeks) UK	US83 (1 week) US	IE1 (21 weeks) IE	First published: August 7, 2014

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Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1997	So Far ... The Best of Sinéad O'Connor	DE97 (1 week) DE	AT27 (7 weeks) AT	-	UK28 silver (6 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: November 10, 1997 Sales: + 100,000
2003	She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty	-	-	-	-	-	IE17 (4 weeks) IE	First published: September 11, 2003
2005	Collaborations	DE80 (1 week) DE	AT61 (2 weeks) AT	CH85 (1 week) CH	-	-	IE22 (3 weeks) IE	First published: June 21, 2005

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More compilations

• 1990: The Lion in the Cage
• 2000: Sinéad O'Connor
• 2002: The Lion and the Cobra / I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got
• 2003: She Who Dwells In The Secret Place Of The Most High Shall Abide Under The Shadow Of The Almighty
• 2005: Essential

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1997	Gospel Oak EP	-	AT49 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK28 * (3 weeks) UK	US128 (3 weeks) US	IE4 (6 weeks) IE	First publication: June 3, 1997 *: Placement in the single charts

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More EPs

• 2008: Live at the Sugar Club

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	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1988	Mandinka The Lion and the Cobra	-	-	-	UK17 (9 weeks) UK	-	IE6 (6 weeks) IE	First published: January 24, 1988
	I Want Your (Hands on Me) The Lion and the Cobra	-	-	-	UK77 (4 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: 1988
	Jump in the River Married to the Mob OST	-	-	-	UK81 (3 weeks) UK	-	IE29 (1 week) IE	First published: October 17, 1988 with Karen Finley
1990	Nothing Compares 2 U I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	DE1 gold (32 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (21 weeks)AT	CH1 (29 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (18 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (21 weeks)US	IE1 (12 weeks) IE	First published: Jan 8, 1990 Sales: + 1,925,000
	The Emperor's New Clothes I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	DE28 (16 weeks) DE	AT24 (10 weeks) AT	CH17 (7 weeks) CH	UK31 (5 weeks) UK	US60 (9 weeks) US	IE5 (4 weeks) IE	First published: July 9, 1990
	Three Babies I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	-	-	CH22 (4 weeks) CH	UK42 (4 weeks) UK	-	IE19 (2 weeks) IE	First published: October 8, 1990
1991	My Special Child I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	-	-	CH18 (5 weeks) CH	UK42 (3 weeks) UK	-	IE6 (3 weeks) IE	First published: May 27, 1991
	Silent Night I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Limited-Edition)	-	-	-	UK60 (4 weeks) UK	-	IE12 (... weeks) IE	First published: December 2, 1991
1992	Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home Am I Not Your Girl?	-	-	CH28 (2 weeks) CH	UK18 (4 weeks) UK	-	IE11 (3 weeks) IE	First published: August 31, 1992
	Don't Cry for Me Argentina Am I Not Your Girl?	-	-	-	UK53 (4 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: November 30, 1992
1994	You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart In the Name of the Father (OST)	-	-	-	UK42 (4 weeks) UK	-	IE4 (8 weeks) IE	First published: February 7, 1994
	Thank You for Hearing Me Universal Mother	-	-	-	UK13 (7 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: November 14, 1994
1995	Famine Universal Mother	-	-	-	UK51 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: August 14, 1995
1997	This Is a Rebel Song So Far… The Best of Sinéad O'Connor	-	-	-	UK60 (2 weeks) UK	-	IE29 (1 week) IE	First published: November 24, 1997
2000	No Man's Woman Faith and Courage	-	-	-	-	-	IE39 (2 weeks) IE	First published: May 18, 2000
	Jealous Faith and Courage	-	-	-	UK81 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: October 2000
2002	Troy (The Phoenix from the Flame)	-	-	-	UK48 (2 weeks) UK	-	IE37 (2 weeks) IE	First published: August 1, 2002
2005	Marcus Garvey Throw Down Your Arms	-	-	-	-	-	IE48 (2 weeks) IE	First published: October 6, 2005
2014	Take Me to Church I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss	-	-	-	-	-	IE55 (5 weeks) IE	First published: June 2014

More singles

• 1986: Heroine
• 1987: Troy
• 1988: Jerusalem
• 1990: I Am Stretched on Your Grave
• 1994: Fire on Babylon
• 1997: This Is to Mother You
• 2003: My Lagan Love
• 2003: A Hundred Thousand Angels
• 2005: Throw Down Your Arms
• 2006: If You Had a Vineyard
• 2007: I Don't Know How to Love Him
• 2008: We People (Who Are Darker Than Blue)

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1986	Heroine Captive OST	-	-	-	UK89 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: 1986 with The Edge
1993	Blood of Eden Us	-	-	-	UK43 (4 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: March 20, 1993 with Peter Gabriel
1995	Haunted The Snake	-	-	-	UK30 (2 weeks) UK	-	IE6 (8 weeks) IE	First published: April 17, 1995 with Shane MacGowan
2003	1000 Mirrors Enemy of the Enemy	-	-	-	UK81 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: April 2003 with the Asian Dub Foundation
	It's All Good Seize the Day	-	-	-	-	-	IE28 (3 weeks) IE	First published: September 11, 2003 with Damian Dempsey
2007	Illegal Attacks The World Is Yours	-	-	-	UK16 (3 weeks) UK	-	IE32 (1 week) IE	First published: September 6, 2007 with Ian Brown
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2015	The Foggy Dew The Long Black Veil	-	-	-	-	-	IE64 (1 week) IE	Chart entry: July 17th, 2015 with the Chieftains

Further guest contributions

• 1987: Monkey in Winter (with The Colourfield )
• 1992: Visions of You (with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart )
• 1993: Don't Give Up (with Willie Nelson )
• 1996: Empire (with Bomb the Bass & Benjamin Zephaniah )
• 1997: I'm Not Your Baby (with U2 )
• 1998: All Kinds of Everything (with Terry Hall )
• 2002: Harbor (with Moby )
• 2002: Tears from the Moon (with Conjure One )
• 2003: 1000 Mirrors (with Asian Dub Foundation )
• 2003: I Dreamed I Dwelt in Marble Halls (with Brian Kennedy )
• 2010: It's Only Life (with Elaine Paige )

Video albums and music videos

Video albums

• 1989: The Value of Ignorance (Sales: + 5,000)
• 1991: The Year of the Horse
• 2003: Goodnight, Thank You. You've been a lovely audience
• 2003: Live: The Value of Ignorance + The Year of the Horse

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
1987	Troy	John Maybury
1988	Mandinka	John Maybury
	I Want Yours (Hands on Me)	John Maybury
	Jerusalem
	Jump in the river	John Maybury
1990	Nothing Compares 2 U	John Maybury
	The Emperor's New Clothes (Version 1)	John Maybury
	The Emperor's New Clothes (Version 2)	Sophie Muller
	You Do Something to Me	John Maybury
1991	My special child	John Maybury
1992	Visions of You
	Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home
	Blood of Eden
1993	Don't give up
1994	You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart	Jim Sheridan
	Thank You for Hearing Me	Richard Heslop
	Fire on Babylon	Michel Gondry
1995	Famine	Andy Delaney, Monty Whitebloom
	Haunted	Wayne Holloway
1997	This is to mother you	John Maybury
	This is a rebel song
1999	Chiquitita	Sophie Muller
2000	No Man's Woman	Mike Lipscombe
	Jealous	Mike Lipscombe
	When you love
2003	1000 mirrors	Henri-Jean Debon
2007	Back where you belong
2008	We People (Who Are Darker Than Blue)
2012	The Wolf Is Getting Married	Roman Rappak
2013	4th and Vine	Kathryn Ferguson
2014	Woe to the Holy Vow	Bernie Masterson, Gerry Hendrick
	Take Me to Church	James Lees
	8 Good Reasons	Hugh O'Conor

Author participation

Afro Celt Sound System 1999: release Eva De Roovere 2009: Jongens op brommers Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris 1999: This Is to Mother You Lola Ponce 2008: Put Your Arms Around Me

Massive attack 2003: Special Cases 2003: What Your Soul Sings Sandra 2007: Put Your Arms Around Me In addition, she writes most of her songs herself.

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1992: for the video album The Value of Ignorance 1994: for the album Universal Mother  Netherlands 1988: for the album The Lion and the Cobra 1992: for the album Am I Not Your Girl? 2000: for the album So Far ... The Best of Sinéad O'Connor  Sweden 1990: for the single Nothing Compares 2 U  Spain 1992: for the album Am I Not Your Girl? Platinum record  Canada 1989: for the album The Lion and the Cobra  Netherlands 1991: for the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got  Spain 1990: for the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

5 × platinum record  Canada 1990: for the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

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	platinum1	750,000	musikindustrie.de
Ireland (IRMA)	-	gold1	-	7,500	irishcharts.ie
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	655,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	3 × gold3	platinum1	240,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	100,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	50,000	hitparade.ch
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	Individual evidence
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	3,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	1,560,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	17 × gold17th	16 × platinum16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US IE1 IE2
2. ↑ Guld-Platina 1987-1998 . ( Memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) ifpi.se, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).