Talking Heads / Discography

Record label of the single Road to Nowhere , 1985

This discography is an overview of the released records of the American rock band Talking Heads . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 9.5 million records to date, over 7.5 million of them in her home country alone. Talking Heads' most successful releases are the albums Little Creatures and Stop Making Sense , each with over 2.3 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
1977	Talking Heads: 77	-	-	-	UK60 (1 week) UK	US97 (29 weeks) US	First published: September 16, 1977 Producers: Lance Quinn, Talking Heads, Tony Bongiovi
1978	More Songs About Buildings and Food	-	-	-	UK21st gold (3 weeks)UK	US29 gold (42 weeks)US	First published: July 7, 1978 Producer: Brian Eno , Talking Heads
1979	Fear of Music	-	-	-	UK33 (5 weeks) UK	US21st gold (30 weeks)US	First published: August 3, 1979 Producer: Brian Eno, Talking Heads
1980	Remain in Light	-	-	-	UK21st gold (17 weeks)UK	US19th gold (27 weeks)US	First published: October 8, 1980 Producer: Brian Eno
1983	Speaking in tongues	DE10 (14 weeks) DE	AT20 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK21 (12 weeks) UK	US15th platinum (51 weeks)US	First published: June 1st, 1983 Producer: Talking Heads
1985	Little Creatures	DE9 gold (38 weeks)DE	AT4 (24 weeks) AT	CH12 (18 weeks) CH	UK10 gold (65 weeks)UK	US20th × 2 Double platinum (77 weeks)US	First published: June 10, 1985 Producer: Talking Heads
1986	True Stories	DE13 (10 weeks) DE	AT10 (8 weeks) AT	CH11 (7 weeks) CH	UK7th gold (9 weeks)UK	US17th gold (29 weeks)US	First published: September 15, 1986 Producer: Talking Heads
1988	Naked	DE12 (15 weeks) DE	AT8 (8 weeks) AT	CH6 (11 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (15 weeks)UK	US19th gold (21 weeks)US	First published: March 15, 1988 Producer: Steve Lillywhite , Talking Heads

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	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads	DE63 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK22 (5 weeks) UK	US31 (14 weeks) US	First published: March 24, 1982 Producer: Talking Heads
1984	Stop making sense	DE25th gold (38 weeks)DE	AT12 (30 weeks) AT	CH13 (10 weeks) CH	UK24 gold (87 weeks)UK	US41 × 2 Double platinum (118 weeks)US	First published: September 12, 1984 Producer: Talking Heads

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More live albums

• 1979: Live on Tour
• 2015: The Boston Tea Party: 1979 Broadcasts (2 LPs)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1992	Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992	-	-	-	UK7th gold (16 weeks)UK	US158 (2 weeks) US	First published: October 13, 1992
2004	The Best of Talking Heads	-	-	-	UK30th gold (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: August 17, 2004
2009	Same as It Ever Was	-	-	-	-	US73 (2 weeks) US	First published: May 2009

More compilations

• 1992: Once in a Lifetime: The Best Of
• 1997: The Originals (box with 3 CDs)
• 1999: 12x12 original remixes
• 2003: Once in a Lifetime (box with 3 CDs)
• 2005: Brick (box with 8 DualDiscs ; release: October 4th)
• 2006: Bonus Rarities & Outtakes (18 FLAC files; release: February 26th)
• 2007: The Collection
• 2011: Essential (release: September 14th)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1978	Psycho Killer Talking Heads: 77	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US92 (5 weeks) US	First published: January 1978 Authors: David Byrne , Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth
	Take Me to the River More Songs About Buildings and Food	-	-	-	-	US26 (17 weeks) US	First published: August 1978 Authors: Al Green, Mabon Hodges Original: Al Green , 1974
1979	Life During Wartime Fear of Music	-	-	-	-	US80 (5 weeks) US	First published: September 1979 Authors: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth
1981	Once in a Lifetime Remain in Light	-	-	-	UK14th silver (10 weeks)UK	US91 (4 weeks) US	First published: January 1981 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Brian Eno
	Houses in Motion Remain in Light	-	-	-	UK50 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1981 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Brian Eno
1983	Burning Down the House Speaking in Tongues	-	-	-	-	US9 (20 weeks) US	First published: July 1983 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
	This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Speaking in Tongues	-	-	-	UK51 (5 weeks) UK	US62 (8 weeks) US	First released: November 1983 from the soundtrack of Wall Street: Money Doesn't Sleep Writer: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
1984	Slippery People (Live) Speaking in Tongues	-	-	-	UK68 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1984 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
1985	Girlfriend Is Better Speaking in Tongues	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 1984 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
	The Lady Don't Mind Little Creatures	DE42 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK81 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 1985 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
	Road to Nowhere Little Creatures	DE6 (17 weeks) DE	AT9 (10 weeks) AT	CH15 (8 weeks) CH	UK6 (16 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1985 Author: David Byrne
	And She Was Little Creatures	DE53 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK17 (8 weeks) UK	US54 (20 weeks) US	First published: September 1985 Author: David Byrne
1986	Wild Wild Life True Stories	DE40 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH20 (3 weeks) CH	UK43 (4 weeks) UK	US25 (21 weeks) US	First published: August 1986 Author: David Byrne
1987	Radio Head True Stories	-	-	-	UK52 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1987 Author: David Byrne
1988	Blind naked	-	-	-	UK59 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1988 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
	(Nothing But) Flowers Naked	-	-	-	UK79 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1988 1988 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
1992	Lifetime Piling Up Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992	-	-	-	UK50 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 1992 Authors: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth

More singles

• 1977: Love Goes to Building on Fire (Release: February)
• 1977: Pulled Up
• 1977: Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (release: October)
• 1978: The Girls Want to Be with the Girls
• 1978: The Good Thing
• 1979: I Zimbra
• 1980: Cities
• 1980: The Great Curve
• 1980: Crosseyed and Painless
• 1980: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
• 1983: Swamp
• 1986: Puzzlin 'Evidence
• 1988: Ruby Dear
• 2001: Once in a Lifetime (Same as It Never Was) - (Liquid People Mix)

Video albums

• 1984: Stop Making Sense (UK:platinum)
• 1988: True Stories
• 1988: Storytelling Giant
• 2008: Live in Rome
• 2009: Rome Concert, 1980
• 2010: Burning Down Rome
• 2011: Chronology

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE2DE AT3AT CH1CH UK4thUK US-US Albums in the charts DE6thDE AT5AT CH4thCH UK12UK US12US

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 singles DE1DE AT1AT CH-CH UK1UK US1US Singles in the charts DE4thDE AT1AT CH2CH UK13UK US8thUS

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1981: for the album Remain in Light

Platinum record  Canada 1983: for the album Speaking in Tongues

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)	-	2 × gold2	-	500,000	musikindustrie.de
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	5 × platinum5	7,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	8 × gold8th	platinum1	1,410,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	16 × gold16	7 × platinum7th

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles Albums DE UK US

Web links

• Talking Heads at Allmusic (English)
• Talking Heads at Discogs (English)