The Cure / discography

The Cure  - discography
The Cure (2013)
Publications
Studio albums	13
Live albums	8th
Compilations	10
EPs	5
Singles	47
B sides	47
Video albums	11

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the English band The Cure . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 14.4 million records to date, over 3.3 million of them in her home country alone. The Cure's most successful release is the album Disintegration with over 2.6 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
1979	Three Imaginary Boys	-	-	-	UK44 (3 weeks) UK	-
1980	Seventeen Seconds	-	-	-	UK20 (10 weeks) UK	-
1981	Faith	-	-	-	UK14th silver (8 weeks)UK	-	# 1 album in New Zealand
1982	Pornography	-	-	-	UK8 (9 weeks) UK	-
1984	The top	DE44 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK10 silver (10 weeks)UK	US180 (4 weeks) US
1985	The head on the door	DE15 (21 weeks) DE	-	CH14 (7 weeks) CH	UK7th gold (13 weeks)UK	US59 gold (49 weeks)US
1987	Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me	DE4 (22 weeks) DE	AT4 (16 weeks) AT	CH3 (17 weeks) CH	UK6th gold (15 weeks)UK	US35 platinum (52 weeks)US
1989	Disintegration	DE2 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT5 (20 weeks) AT	CH4th gold (15 weeks)CH	UK3 gold (27 weeks)UK	US12 × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)US
1992	Wish	DE6 (29 weeks) DE	AT14 (17 weeks) AT	CH8th gold (11 weeks)CH	UK1 gold (13 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (26 weeks)US	# 1 album in Australia
1996	Wild mood swings	DE17 (14 weeks) DE	AT12 (12 weeks) AT	CH9 (8 weeks) CH	UK9 (8 weeks) UK	US12 gold (14 weeks)US
2000	Bloodflowers	DE5 (11 weeks) DE	AT22 (7 weeks) AT	CH3 gold (9 weeks)CH	UK14 (2 weeks) UK	US16 (8 weeks) US
2004	The Cure	DE3 (9 weeks) DE	AT12 (8 weeks) AT	CH5 (10 weeks) CH	UK8th silver (6 weeks)UK	US7 (11 weeks) US
2008	4:13 Dream	DE21 (4 weeks) DE	AT28 (2 weeks) AT	CH15 (4 weeks) CH	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	US16 (4 weeks) US

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
1984	Concert - The Cure Live	-	-	-	UK26 (4 weeks) UK	-	Live recording London & Oxford '84
1991	Entreat	DE15 (15 weeks) DE	AT19 (7 weeks) AT	CH31 (3 weeks) CH	UK10 (5 weeks) UK	-	Concert recording Wembley '89; limited
1993	Paris	-	-	-	UK56 (1 week) UK	US118 (2 weeks) US	Concert recording Paris '92
	show	DE37 (9 weeks) DE	AT16 (4 weeks) AT	CH37 (2 weeks) CH	UK29 silver (2 weeks)UK	US42 (6 weeks) US	Concert recording Michigan '92, double CD, only released as one CD in US and AU
2011	Bestival Live 2011	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	CH94 (1 week) CH	-	-	Complete concert recording (double CD) from Bestival 2011, released on Sunday Best Recordings, net profit goes to the "Isle of Wight Youth Trust"
2019	40 Live - Curætion 25 - Anniversary	DE2 (... weeks) DE	-	CH15 (1 week) CH	-	-	Complete concert recordings from the Meltdown Festival 2018 and the concert for the 40th anniversary on July 7th 2018 in London's Hyde Park

More live albums

• 1993: Sideshow (concert recording Michigan '92, only released in the USA and Australia)
• 1997: Five Swing Live (concert recording UK '96, limited to 5,000 pieces)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1979	Boys don't cry	-	-	-	UK71 platinum (7 weeks)UK	-	alternative US version of Three Imaginary Boys
1983	Japanese whispers	DE46 (15 weeks) DE	-	-	UK26th silver (14 weeks)UK	US181 (5 weeks) US	Compilation of the singles Let's Go To Bed , The Walk and The Lovecats as well as their B-sides
1986	Standing on a Beach: The Singles	DE11 gold (23 weeks)DE	-	CH11 gold (8 weeks)CH	UK4th gold (35 weeks)UK	US48 × 2 Double platinum (57 weeks)US	Compilation of the singles from 1978 to 1986
	Staring at the Sea: The Singles[DE: ↑]		-[CH: ↑]		UK86 gold (4 weeks)UK[US: ↑]
1990	Mixed Up!	DE18 (16 weeks) DE	AT24 (3 weeks) AT	CH26 (6 weeks) CH	UK8th gold (17 weeks)UK	US14th platinum (42 weeks)US	Compilation with remixes from selected Cure singles
1997	Galore - The Singles 1987-1997	DE51 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK37 silver (3 weeks)UK	US32 gold (13 weeks)US	Compilation of the singles 1987–1997
2001	Greatest hits	DE22 (8 weeks) DE	AT34 (3 weeks) AT	CH24 (9 weeks) CH	UK19th × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)UK	US58 (3 weeks) US	Compilation of 18 cure singles (also released as a limited double CD with all hits as acoustic versions)
2004	Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 (The Fiction Years)	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	US106 (1 week) US	Box set with the B-sides of the singles as well as some rarities
2018	Mixed Up (Remastered)	DE18 (1 week) DE	AT36 (1 week) AT	-	UK16 (2 weeks) UK	-	Originally from 1990, remastered and reissued as double-picture vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2018

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More compilations

• 1981: Happily Ever After (compilation of Seventeen Seconds and Faith on one album, US only released)
• 1993: Lost Wishes (compilation with instrumentals from the Wish sessions; was only available through the record company)
• 2017: Greatest Hits (compilation of 18 cure singles (originally from 2001), reissued as double-picture vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2017)
• 2017: Acoustic Hits (compilation of 18 cure singles, recorded in acoustic versions (originally from 2001), reissued as double-picture vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2017)
• 2018: Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 (16 new remixes by Robert Smith; released as double-picture vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2018)

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1984	The Walk	-	-	-	-	US177 (2 weeks) US

More EPs

• 1985: Half an Octopuss (A-side: Close to Me , B-side: A Man Inside My Mouth , New Day , Stop Dead , released in UK only (10 "vinyl))
• 1985: Quadpus (A-Side: A Night Like This , B-Side: New Day , Close to Me (Extended), A Man Inside My Mouth , only released in the US (12 "vinyl))
• 1988: The Peel Sessions
• 2008: Hypnagogic States (contains a remix of each of the previous four singles, # 1 single in Spain )

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1980	A forest	-	-	-	UK31 (3 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Another Journey by Train
1981	Primary	-	-	-	UK43 (6 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Descent
	Charlotte Sometimes	-	-	-	UK44 (4 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Splintered in Her Head
1982	The hanging garden	-	-	-	UK34 (4 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Killing an Arab (live)
	Let's go to bed	-	-	-	UK44 (6 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Just One Kiss
1983	The Walk	-	-	-	UK12 (8 weeks) UK	-	B-side: The Dream
	The Love Cats	-	-	-	UK7th silver (13 weeks)UK	-	B-side: Speak My Language
1984	The Caterpillar	-	-	-	UK14 (7 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Happy the Man
1985	In Between Days	DE45 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK15th silver (11 weeks)UK	US99 (1 week) US	B-side: The Exploding Boy or Stop Dead (US)
	Close to me	-	-	-	UK24 silver (8 weeks)UK	-	B-side: A Man Inside My Mouth or Sinking (US & CA)
1986	Boys Don't Cry 1986	DE19 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	UK22nd silver (6 weeks)UK	-	B-side: Pillbox Tales
1987	Why Can't I Be You?	DE29 (12 weeks) DE	-	CH28 (1 week) CH	UK21 (5 weeks) UK	US54 (12 weeks) US	B-side: A Japanese Dream
	Catch	DE59 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK27 (6 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Breathe
	Just Like Heaven	-	-	-	UK29 silver (5 weeks)UK	US40 (19 weeks) US	B-side: Snow in Summer
1988	Hot Hot Hot !!!	-	-	-	UK45 (3 weeks) UK	US65 (7 weeks) US	B-side: Hey You
1989	Lullaby	DE3 (25 weeks) DE	AT5 (16 weeks) AT	CH14 (9 weeks) CH	UK5 (7 weeks) UK	US74 (8 weeks) US	B-side: Babble
	Fascination Street	-	-	-	-	US46 (11 weeks) US	B-side: Babble released in US & CA only
	Love song	DE21 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	UK18 (7 weeks) UK	US2 (17 weeks) US	B-side: 2 Late
1990	Pictures of You	DE18 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	UK24 (6 weeks) UK	US71 (8 weeks) US	B-side: Last Dance or Prayers for Rain
	Never enough	DE17 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH22 (4 weeks) CH	UK13 (5 weeks) UK	US72 (4 weeks) US	B-side: Harold and Joe
	Close to Me 1990	DE49 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK13 (5 weeks) UK	US97 (3 weeks) US	B-Side: Just Like Heaven (Dizzy Mix)
1992	High	DE14 (13 weeks) DE	AT27 (1 week) AT	CH14 (7 weeks) CH	UK8 (4 weeks) UK	US42 (12 weeks) US	B-side: This Twilight Garden
	Friday I'm in Love	DE16 (23 weeks) DE	AT13 (9 weeks) AT	CH17 (17 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (8 weeks)UK	US18 (20 weeks) US	B-side: Halo
	A letter to Elise	-	-	-	UK28 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: The Big Hand
1996	The 13th	DE55 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH29 (6 weeks) CH	UK15 (3 weeks) UK	US44 (4 weeks) US	B-side: Ocean , Adonais , It Used to Be Me
	Mint Car	-	-	-	UK31 (2 weeks) UK	US58 (5 weeks) US	B-side: Home , Waiting , A Pink Dream
	Gone!	-	-	-	UK60 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: The 13th (Mix), This Is a Lie , Strange Attraction
1997	Wrong Number	-	-	-	UK62 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Remixes of the title track
2001	Cut here	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	CH94 (1 week) CH	UK54 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Signal to Noise
2004	The End of the World	DE47 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH95 (1 week) CH	UK25 (4 weeks) UK	-	B-side: This Morning , Fake
	Taking Off	DE73 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: Why Can't I Be Me? , Your God Is Fear
2008	The Only One	DE77 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK48 (2 weeks) UK	-	B-side: NY trip # 1 single in Spain
	Freak show	DE78 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK89 (1 week) UK	-	B-side: All Kinds of Stuff # 1 single in Spain
	Sleep When I'm Dead	DE80 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK68 (1 week) UK	-	B-side: Down Under # 1 single in Spain
	The perfect boy	DE86 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK78 (1 week) UK	-	B-side: Without You

More singles

• 1978: Killing an Arab (B-Side: 10:15 Saturday Night , published on both Small Wonder and Fiction Records )
• 1979: Boys Don't Cry (B-side: Plastic Passion )
• 1979: Jumping Someone Else's Train (B-side: I'm Cold )
• 1980: 10:15 Saturday Night (B-side: Accuracy , released only in France)
• 1983: The Upstairs Room (B-side: The Dream , The Walk , Lament , released in UK only (12 "vinyl))
• 1984: excerpt - the cure live ( A Forest (live) ) (B-Side: Primary (live) (12 "-Vinyl))
• 1986: Let's Go to Bed (B-side: Boys Don't Cry (Remix), released in the US and Canada only)
• 1986: Charlotte Sometimes (B-side: Splintered in Her Head , published only in Germany and France)
• 1990: A Forest 1990 (B-side: A Forest , published only in France)
• 1996: Strange Attraction (B-side: A Pink Dream , This Is a Lie (Mix), only released in the US and Australia)
• 2004: alt.end (B-side ? Why Can not I Be Me , Your God Is Fear , published in the US only)

Soundtrack contributions

• 1980: Times Square (Song: Grinding Halt )
• 1981: Carnage Visors (film soundtrack, released on cassette, later on Faith re-release)
• 1989: Lost Angels (Song: Disintegration )
• 1994: The Crow (Song: Burn )
• 1995: Judge Dredd (Song: The Dredd Song )
• 1997: Career Girls (Songs: The Lovecats , The Walk , The Upstairs Room ) (not released on CD)
• 1998: The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases (Song: More Than This )
• 1998: Orgazmo (Song: A Sign from God ) as COGASM (aka Jason Cooper, Reeves Gabrels & Robert Smith )
• 2000: American Psycho (Song: Watching Me Fall (Underdog Remix))
• 2004: One Perfect Day (Song: Pictures of You (Paulmac Remix) - Robert Smith solo)
• 2004: Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Song: Us or Them )
• 2005: The Suicide Girls - Black Heart Retrospective (Song: One Hundred Years )
• 2005: Just Like Heaven (Song: Just Like Heaven )
• 2005: The History Boys - Learn For Life (Song: A Forest )
• 2006: Marie Antoinette (Songs: Plainsong and All Cats Are Gray )
• 2006: Starter for Ten (Songs: In Between Days , Six Different Ways , Lovesong , Pictures of You , Boys Don't Cry and All Cats Are Gray )
• 2008: Son of Rambow (Song: Close to Me )
• 2009: Underworld - Rise of the Lycans (Song: Underneath the Stars (Renholder Remix))
• 2010: Almost Alice (Song: Very Good Advice - Robert Smith solo)
• 2017: Dead Girls Don't Lie (Song: Fascination Street )
• 2017: Es (Song: Six different ways )
• 2018: Germany 86 (Song: Close to Me )

Sampler contributions

• 1989: Stranger Than Fiction (Song: To The Sky )
• 1990: Rubaiyat (Song: Hello I Love You ( The Doors -Coverversion))
• 1993: Stone Free (Song: Purple Haze ( Jimi Hendrix cover version))
• 1995: 104.9 (Song: Young Americans ( David Bowie cover version))
• 1996: For The Masses (Song: World In My Eyes ( Depeche Mode -Coverversion))
• 2004: Dragon Hunters - Die Drachenjäger (Song: The Dragon Hunters Song )
• 2007: Instant Karma (Song: Love - John Lennon cover version)

Video albums

Unless otherwise stated, all chart positions relate to the music DVD charts of the respective countries.

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1986	Staring at the Sea: The Images	-	-	-	-	US? platinum (49 weeks)US	Video clips + short clips
1988	The Cure in Orange	-	-	-	-	US? platinum (35 weeks)US	Orange concert 1986
1991	Picture show	-	-	-	-	US? gold (17 weeks)US	Video clips + short clips
1992	Play out	-	-	-	-	US? (5 weeks) US	Live recordings + div. Footage
1994	show	-	-	-	-	US? (6 weeks) US	Michigan 1992 concert
1997	Galore	-	-	-	-	US? (11 weeks) US	Video clips
2001	Greatest hits	-	-	-	UK- gold UK	US? (1 week) US	Videos + Acoustic Hits + Hidden Videos
2003	Trilogy: Pornography Disintegration Bloodflowers Live in Berlin	DE28 gold (4 weeks)DE	-	-	-	US? × 2 Double platinum (9 weeks)US	Concert at Tempodrom Berlin (2002) placed in the album charts in DE
2006	Festival 2005	-	-	-	-	US? (1 week) US

More video albums

• 1985: Live in Japan (Tokyo concert 1984; release only in Japan)
• 1985: The Tea Party (video clips; release only in Japan)

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of The Cure's chart successes in the album and single charts.

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK1UK US-US Top 10 albums DE6thDE AT2AT CH6thCH UK11UK US2US Albums in the charts DE19thDE AT12AT CH15thCH UK26thUK US18thUS

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 UK4thUK US1US Singles in the charts DE19thDE AT3AT CH8thCH UK34UK US14thUS

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2020: for the single Friday I'm in Love  France 1985: for the album Head On The Door 1986: for the album Boys Don't Cry 1986: for the album Seventeen Seconds 1987: for the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1990: for the album Mixed Up 2003: for the video album Greatest Hits 2019: for the video album Curætion 25 - Anniversary  Italy 2015: for the album Greatest Hits 2018: for the album Desintegration 2019: for the single Boys Don't Cry 2019: for the single Friday I'm in Love 2019: for the single Lullaby 2019: for the single Close to Me  Canada 1992: for the album Wish  New Zealand 1981: for the album Faith 1989: for the album Disintegration 1992: for the album Wish  Netherlands 1988: for the album Standing On A Beach  Poland 2008: for the album 4:13 Dream  Spain 1991: for the album Mixed Up!

2 × gold record  France 1989: for the album Disintegration 1992: for the album Standing On A Beach Platinum record  Belgium 2007: for the album Greatest Hits  Canada 2004: for the video album Dark Trilogy - Live In Berlin  New Zealand 1981: for the album Seventeen Seconds 1987: for the album Standing On A Beach  Spain 1990: for the album Disintegration

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)
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	3 × gold3	-	525,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	11 × gold11	-	917,500	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	6 × gold6th	-	200,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	60,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	3 × gold3	2 × platinum2	52,500	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	-	100,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	11 × platinum11	8,950,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	11 × silver11	8 × gold8th	4 × platinum4th	3,385,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	11 × silver11	44 × gold44	20 × platinum20th

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1. ^ Chart discography New Zealand
2. ↑ Chart discography Australia
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart discography Spain

Web links

• Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US