The Human League / discography

Susan Ann Sulley, Philip Oakey and Joanne Catherall (2007)

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British new wave - music group The Human League and their pseudonyms like The Men and The League Unlimited Orchestra . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 6.3 million records to date, over 4.4 million of them in her home country alone. The Human League's most successful release is the single Don't You Want Me with over 2.1 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	Reproduction	-	-	-	UK34 gold (23 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 1979 Sales: + 100,000
1980	Travelogue	-	-	-	UK16 gold (42 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 1980 Sales: + 100,000
1981	Dare!	DE19 (17 weeks) DE	-	-	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (74 weeks)UK	US3 gold (38 weeks)US	First published: October 20, 1981 Sales: + 1,550,000
1984	Hysteria	DE44 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 gold (18 weeks)UK	US62 (13 weeks) US	First published: May 7, 1984 Sales: + 100,000
1986	Crash	DE14 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK7th gold (6 weeks)UK	US24 (25 weeks) US	First published: September 8, 1986 Sales: + 150,000
1990	Romantic?	-	-	-	UK24 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 17, 1990
1995	Octopus	DE76 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th gold (14 weeks)UK	-	First published: Jan 27, 1995 Sales: + 100,000
2001	Secrets	DE64 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 6, 2001
2011	Creed	DE57 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK44 (1 week) UK	-	First published: March 21, 2011

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Live albums

• 2005: Live at the Dome

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1988	Greatest hits	-	-	-	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (38 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 31, 1988 Sales: + 600,000
2003	The Very Best of the Human League	-	-	-	UK24 silver (4 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 15, 2003 Sales: + 60,000
2011	Essential	-	-	-	UK13 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 9, 2011
2016	Anthology: A Very British Synthesizer Group	-	-	-	UK90 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 18, 2016

More compilations

• 1996: Soundtrack to a Generation
• 1998: The Very Best of the Human League
• 1999: The Best of
• 2002: The Golden Hour of the Future
• 2004: The Best of the Human League (UK:silver; Sales: + 60,000)
• 2005: Original Remixes & Rarities
• 2011: Crash / Dare

Remix albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	Love and Dancing: Instrumental Remixes The League Unlimited Orchestra	-	-	-	UK- platinum UK	US135 (7 weeks) US	Instrumental versions of songs from the Dare album First published: July 9, 1982 Sales: + 300,000

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EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1980	Holiday '80	-	-	-	UK46 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 21, 1980
1983	Fascination!	-	-	-	-	US22 (29 weeks) US	First published: 1983

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More EPs

• 1978: The Dignity of Labor
• 1993: YMO Versus The Human League (with Yellow Magic Orchestra )
• 2002: Dance Like a Star

Singles

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
1980	Holiday 80 EP	-	-	-	UK46 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1978 in UK re-entry 1982
	Empire State Human Reproduction	-	-	-	UK62 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 1979
1981	Boys and Girls Travelogue	-	-	-	UK48 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 16, 1981
	The Sound of the Crowd Dare!	-	-	-	UK12 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 20, 1981
	Love Action (I Believe in Love) Dare!	-	-	-	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 27, 1981 Sales: +300,000
	Open Your Heart Dare!	-	-	-	UK6th silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 28, 1981 Sales: + 250,000
	Don't you want me dare!	DE5 (19 weeks) DE	-	CH4 (6 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (17 weeks)UK	US1 gold (28 weeks)US	First published: November 27, 1981 in UK re-entry 1995 and 2014 Sales: + 2,100,000
1982	Being Boiled Travelogue	DE6 (24 weeks) DE	AT17 (6 weeks) AT	-	UK6 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1978
	Mirror Man Fascination!	DE49 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK2 silver (11 weeks)UK	US30 (12 weeks) US	First published: November 27, 1982 Sales: + 250,000
1983	(Keep Feeling) Fascination Fascination!	-	-	-	UK2 silver (9 weeks)UK	US8 (20 weeks) US	First published: April 17, 1983 Sales: +300,000
1984	The Lebanon Hysteria	-	-	-	UK11 (8 weeks) UK	US64 (5 weeks) US	First published: April 23, 1984
	Life on Your Own Hysteria	-	-	-	UK16 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 18, 1984
	Louise Hysteria	-	-	-	UK13 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 5, 1984
1986	Human crash	DE5 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	UK8 (8 weeks) UK	US1 (20 weeks) US	First published: Aug 11, 1986 Sales: + 50,000
	I need your loving crash	-	-	-	UK72 (2 weeks) UK	US44 (11 weeks) US	First published: November 10, 1986
1988	Love Is All That Matters Crash	-	-	-	UK41 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1987
1990	Heart Like a Wheel Romantic?	DE36 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	UK29 (5 weeks) UK	US32 (11 weeks) US	First published: August 6, 1990
	Soundtrack to a Generation Romantic?	-	-	-	UK77 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 12, 1990
1995	Tell Me When Octopus	DE53 (16 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6 (10 weeks) UK	US31 (12 weeks) US	First published: December 27, 1994
	One Man in My Heart Octopus	DE90 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK13 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 6, 1995
	Filling Up with Heaven Octopus	-	-	-	UK36 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 11, 1995
1996	Stay with Me Tonight Greatest Hits	-	-	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 14, 1996
2001	All I Ever Wanted Secrets	-	-	-	UK47 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 30, 2001

More singles

• 1979: I Don't Depend on You
• 1980: Only After Dark
• 1995: Don't You Want Me (Remix)
• 2001: Love Me Madly?
• 2008: The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
• 2010: Night People
• 2011: Never Let Me Go

Video albums

• 1983: The Human League Video Single
• 1988: Human League Greatest Hits
• 1995: The Human League Video Greatest Hits
• 2003: The Very Best of the Human League
• 2004: The Human League Live at The Dome

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 1982: for the single Love Action 1983: for the single (Keep Feeling) Fascination 1986: for the single Human 1986: for the album Crash  Netherlands 1982: for the album Dare

Platinum record  Canada 1982: for the single Don't You Want Me 1982: for the album Dare

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)
Canada (MC)	-	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	400,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	-	1,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × silver6th	5 × gold5	7 × platinum7th	4,420,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × silver6th	12 × gold12	9 × platinum9

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .