The Sisters of Mercy / discography

Singer Andrew Eldritch, 2000

This discography is an overview of the released records of the British rock band The Sisters of Mercy . According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 1.6 million records to date, over 420,000 of them in her home country alone. The Sisters of Mercy's most successful releases are First and Last and Always and Floodland , each with over 350,000 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
1985	First and Last and Always	DE40 gold (7 weeks)DE	-	-	UK14th gold (8 weeks)UK	-	First published: Aug 11, 1985 Producer: Dave Allen
1987	Floodland	DE32 gold (20 weeks)DE	-	CH24 (3 weeks) CH	UK9 gold (20 weeks)UK	US101 (16 weeks) US	First published: November 13, 1987 Producers: Andrew Eldritch , Larry Alexander, Jim Steinman
1990	Vision thing	DE13 gold (39 weeks)DE	AT21 (2 weeks) AT	CH22 (16 weeks) CH	UK11 silver (4 weeks)UK	US136 (23 weeks) US	First published: November 13, 1990 Producers: Andrew Eldritch, Jim Steinman

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1992	Some Girls Wander by Mistake	DE9 gold (27 weeks)DE	AT7 (16 weeks) AT	CH22 (13 weeks) CH	UK5 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 27, 1992
1993	A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits Volume One	DE11 gold (17 weeks)DE	-	CH21 (6 weeks) CH	UK14th gold (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: August 23, 1993

More compilations

• 1991: Enter the Sisters
• 1991: More Sisters, Vol. 1: 1981-1983
• 1991: More Sisters, Vol. 2: 1983-1985
• 1993: Singles Compilation
• 2007: A Merciful Release / The Triple Album Collection (box with 3 CDs; release: February 26th)
• 2009: Original Album Series (box with 5 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	Dance
1984	Body and Soul / Train	-	-	-	UK46 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 4, 1984 Author: Andrew Eldritch
	Walk Away First and Last and Always	-	-	-	UK45 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1984 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Wayne Hussey
1985	No Time to Cry First and Last and Always	-	-	-	UK63 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1985 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Wayne Hussey, Craig Adams, Gary Marx
1987	This Corrosion Floodland	DE17 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	UK7 (8 weeks) UK	Dance38 (6 weeks) Dance	First published: September 1987 Author: Andrew Eldritch
1988	Dominion Floodland	-	-	-	UK13 (6 weeks) UK	Dance30 (6 weeks) Dance	First published: February 1988 Author: Andrew Eldritch
	Body and Soul ( Reissue )	-	-	-	UK76 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1988 Author: Andrew Eldritch
	Lucretia My Reflection Floodland	-	-	-	UK20 (5 weeks) UK	Dance30 (6 weeks) Dance	First published: June 1988 Author: Andrew Eldritch
1990	More Vision Thing	DE14 (17 weeks) DE	-	-	UK14 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1, 1990 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Jim Steinman
	Doctor Jeep Vision Thing	DE45 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK37 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 3, 1990 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Andreas Bruhn
1991	When You Don't See Me Vision Thing	DE74 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First publication: March 1991 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Andreas Bruhn
1992	Temple of Love (1992) A Slight Case of Overbombing	DE5 (28 weeks) DE	AT16 (10 weeks) AT	-	UK3 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 20, 1992 Guest singing: Ofra Haza Writer: Andrew Eldritch
1993	Under the Gun A Slight Case of Overbombing	DE40 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK19 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1993 Authors: Andrew Eldritch, Billie Hughes, Roxanne Seeman

More singles

• 1980: The Damage Done
• 1982: Body Electric (release: April)
• 1982: Alice (release: November)
• 1983: Anaconda (release: March)
• 1983: The Reptile House EP (released May)
• 1983: Temple of Love (release: October)
• 1984: Long Train (release: October)

Video albums

• 1986: Wake: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1988: Shot (VHS with 4 tracks; release: October 31st)
• 1993: Shot: Rev 2.0 (VHS with 9 tracks)

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE1DE AT1AT CH-CH UK1UK US-US Albums in the charts DE5DE AT2AT CH4thCH UK5UK US2US

DE  AT  CH  UK  Dance Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK Dance-Dance Top 10 singles DE1DE AT-AT CH-CH UK2UK Dance-Dance Singles in the charts DE6thDE AT1AT CH-CH UK11UK Dance3Dance

Awards for music sales

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)	-	5 × gold5	-	1,250,000	musikindustrie.de
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	3 × gold3	-	420,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	8 × gold8th	-

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles Albums DE UK Billboard 200
2. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

• The Sisters of Mercy at Allmusic (English)
• The Sisters of Mercy at Discogs (English)