System of a Down / Discography

System of a Down at the Download Festival 2005.

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the American alternative metal - band System of a Down . It includes five studio albums, a compilation, 16 singles and eleven music videos. According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 14.2 million records to date, over ten million of them in her home country alone. System of a Down's most successful release is the album Toxicity with over 4.7 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

Record cover of Steal This Album!

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	System of a Down	-	-	-	UK- Gold + silver (digital) UK	US124 platinum (33 weeks)US	First published: June 30, 1998 Sales: + 1,235,000
2001	Toxicity	DE23 gold (42 weeks)DE	AT16 gold (45 weeks)AT	CH31 gold (41 weeks)CH	UK13 × 2 Double platinum (47 weeks)UK	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (95 weeks)US	First published: September 4th, 2001 Sales: + 4,775,000
2002	Steal This Album!	DE14 (12 weeks) DE	AT24 (12 weeks) AT	CH25 (14 weeks) CH	UK56 gold (4 weeks)UK	US15th platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: November 26, 2002 Sales: + 1,150,000
2005	Mezmerize	DE1 gold (22 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (31 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (20 weeks)CH	UK2 gold (15 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (44 weeks)US	First published: May 17, 2005 Sales: + 1,890,000
	Hypnotize	DE4th gold (23 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (22 weeks)AT	CH4th gold (14 weeks)CH	UK11 gold (8 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (28 weeks)US	First published: November 22, 2005 Sales: + 1,380,000

compilation

• 2011: System of a Down

Singles

Cover of the promo single Johnny

Cover of the promo single Vicinity of Obscenity

→ Main article : List of songs from System of a Down

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2001	Chop Suey! Toxicity	-	-	-	UK17th platinum (6 weeks)UK	US76 gold (20 weeks)US
	Toxicity Toxicity	DE88 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH90 (4 weeks) CH	UK25th silver (3 weeks)UK	US70 (13 weeks) US
2002	Aerials Toxicity	DE80 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK34 (2 weeks) UK	US55 (20 weeks) US
2005	BYOB Mezmerize	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US27 platinum (20 weeks)US
	Question! Mezmerize	-	-	-	UK41 (2 weeks) UK	-
	Hypnotize Hypnotize	DE83 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK48 (2 weeks) UK	US57 gold (1 week)US
2006	Lonely Day Hypnotize	DE46 (9 weeks) DE	AT62 (5 weeks) AT	CH72 (10 weeks) CH	-	-

More singles

• 1998: Sugar
• 1999: Spiders

Promo singles

• 2001: Prison Song
• 2001: Johnny
• 2002: Innervision
• 2005: Cigaro
• 2005: Violent Pornography
• 2006: Kill Rock 'n Roll
• 2006: Vicinity of Obscenity

Music videos

year	title	Director
1998	Sugar	Nathan Cox
	Was?	Nathan Cox and Joseph Hahn
1999	Spiders	Charlie Deaux
2001	Chop Suey!	Marcos Siega
2002	Toxicity	Shavo Odadjian and Marcos Siega
	Aerials	Shavo Odadjian and David Slade
2003	Boom!	Michael Moore
2005	BYOB	Jake Nava
	Question!	Shavo Odadjian and Howard Greenhalgh
	Hypnotize	Shavo Odadjian
2006	Lonely Day	Josh Melnick and Xander Charity

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Argentina 2006: for the album Mezmerize  Australia 2002: for the album Steal This Album! 2005: for the album Hypnotize  Belgium 2003: for the album Toxicity 2007: for the album Mezmerize  Brazil 2003: for the album Toxicity 2005: for the album Mezmerize  Denmark 2020: for the single Chop Suey!  Finland 2006: for the album Steal This Album!  Greece 2007: for the album Mezmerize  Italy 2017: for the album Mezmerize 2018: for the single BYOB 2019: for the single Lonely Day 2019: for the album System of a Down  Canada 2002: for the album System of a Down  Netherlands 2002: for the album Toxicity  Poland 2017: for the album Toxicity  United States 2005: for the Ringtone Chop Suey! 2007: for the ringtone BYOB

Platinum record  Australia 2005: for the album Mezmerize  Brazil 2012: for a bundle of American Recordings albums 2012: for the album System of a Down  Denmark 2017: for the album Mezmerize  Europe 2004: for the album Toxicity  Finland 2007: for the album Mezmerize 2007: for the album Hypnotize  Ireland 2005: for the album Mezmerize 2005: for the album Hypnotize  Italy 2017: for the album Toxicity 2017: for the single Toxicity 2018: for the single Chop Suey!  New Zealand 2002: for the album Toxicity 2005: for the album Mezmerize 2005: for the album Hypnotize

2 × platinum record  Canada 2002: for the album Toxicity 3 × platinum record  Australia 2009: for the album Toxicity  Canada 2007: for the album Mezmerize

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)
Argentina (CAPIF)	-	gold1	-	30,000	capif.org.ar ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Australia (ARIA)	-	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	350,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	2 × gold2	-	60,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	180,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	65,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	3 × gold3	-	350,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	(1,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	80,944	ifpi.fi
Greece (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	10,000	Individual evidence
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	30,000	irishcharts.ie
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	250,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	5 × platinum5	550,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	3 × platinum3	45,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	40,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	-	50,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	-	60,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	8 × platinum8th	10,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	2,060,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	34 × gold34	34 × platinum34

swell

1. ↑ Chart sources (albums): DE AT CH System of a Down / Discography in the Official UK Charts (English) US
2. ↑ Chart sources (singles): DE AT CH System of a Down / Discography in the Official UK Charts (English) US
3. ↑ Gold for Mezmerize in Greece ( Memento from February 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )