English musician Phil Collins has released 8 studio albums, 1 live album, 5 compilation albums, 2 remix albums, 3 soundtrack albums, 2 box sets, 50 singles, 18 video albums, and 41 music videos. A Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist, Collins has sold more than 34.5 million albums in the United States, and 150 million records worldwide.[1]
Collins's first solo album, Face Value, was released in the United Kingdom in 1981 and reached number one in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Sweden. It was also certified 5-times Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[2][3] The album's lead single, "In the Air Tonight", reached number one in Austria, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland, and is often cited as his signature song. His second album, Hello, I Must Be Going!, was released in 1982 and included the UK number one "You Can't Hurry Love", which also topped the charts in Ireland and the Netherlands. The album went number one in Canada while peaking at number two in the UK and receiving a triple-platinum certification from the BPI.[2][3] In 1984, Collins recorded "Against All Odds"; the ballad shot to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number two in the UK. He also performed a duet with Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover", which reached number two in the US and spent four weeks at number one in the UK.[2][4] In 1984, Collins participated in Bob Geldof's Band Aid charity project for the famine in Ethiopia, and played drums in the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
In 1985, Collins released his third album, No Jacket Required, which contained the hits "Sussudio" and "One More Night". He also recorded the song "Separate Lives", a duet with Marilyn Martin that reached number one in the US. No Jacket Required debuted at number one in the US and UK; it is the best-selling album of his career and has been certified Diamond in the US for sales over 10 million and six-times platinum in the UK.[3][5] In 1988, Collins contributed songs to the soundtrack of the film Buster, in which he also starred: "Two Hearts", and a cover of "A Groovy Kind of Love", the latter of which became a UK and US number one.[2][4] In 1989 Collins produced another successful album, ...But Seriously, featuring the anti-homelessness anthem "Another Day in Paradise", which peaked at number one in the US and number two in the UK.[2][4] A live album, Serious Hits... Live! followed in 1990.
Collins's fifth album, Both Sides, was released in 1993; although it was less successful than his previous albums and produced only one UK top-ten single, the album still reached number one in the UK.[2] His next album, Dance into the Light, was released in 1996 and was even less successful, peaking at number four in the UK and was only certified silver.[2][3] A greatest hits compilation, ...Hits, was released in 1998 and was successful, returning Collins to UK number one and multi-platinum status in the UK and US.[2][3][5] The album's sole new track was a cover of the Cyndi Lauper hit "True Colors". Collins also wrote and performed songs for the Disney animated filmsTarzan and Brother Bear. Collins's seventh studio album, Testify, was released in 2002. It was a success in Europe, peaking at number fifteen in the UK and within the top five in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.[2][6] After the release of Testify, Collins announced that he was going into semi-retirement,[7] and released two compilation albums in 2004, The Platinum Collection and Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New. In 2010, Collins released his eighth studio album, Going Back, after which he went into a brief four-year retirement, before returning to the music industry in 2015. By 2016, Collins remastered and reissued all of his studio albums and released his fourth compilation album, The Singles.
Albums
Studio albums
List of albums, with selected chart positions, and certifications
*In the US, the album peaked at No. 18 in November 1998; in July 2012, the album re-entered the chart reaching No. 6 when the album price was deeply discounted very briefly by Amazon.com.[35]
Dangerous(drums on several tracks, not credited exactly)
Dangerous (Eugene Wallace)
"Bird and Peter", "Cat and Duck", "Grandfather", "Wolf and Duck", "Wolf Stalks", "Peter's Chase", "Rock and Roll Celebration", "Final Theme" (drums) "Pond" (vibes) "Capture of Wolf" (percussion) "Hunters" (cymbals)
"I Can’t Remember, But Yes" (drums; also on some other tracks, not credited exactly; according to drum sound and drumming technqiue probably on:) "On My Feet Again", "Time", "Waiting for the Yellow One", "It's Fallen Off", "Rock 'n' Roll Show"
"Don't Make Waves", "Soho", "Algon (Where an Ordinary Cup of Drinking Chocolate Costs £8,000,000,000)", "Rhesus Perplexus", "...And So to F...", "April" (drums, percussion, vocals) "Wal to Wal" (drums, drum machine)
"Burning Down One Side", "Moonlight in Sambrosa", "Pledge Pin", "Worse than Detroit", "Fat Lip", "Mystery Title", "Far Post", "Like I've Never Been Gone"(drums)
Chinese Wall(entire album: producer, drums) "Photogenic Memory" (Linn, vocoder "I Go Crazy", "Woman" (Simmons drums) "Walking on the Chinese Wall" (Linn, incidental keyboards, backing vocals) "Go" (Linn) "Easy Lover" (lead vocals, incidental keyboards) "Time is a Woman" (Simmons drums, backing vocals) "Children of the Ghetto" (percussion)
Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 19 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Kent Music Report) peak: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 26. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 64.
All ARIA-era (13 June 1988 onwards) peaks to 21 February 2020: "Phil Collins ARIA chart history, received 21 February 2020". Imgur.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2020. N.B. The High Point number in the national column indicates the release's peak on the national chart.
"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven": "Something Happened On The..." bac-lac.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Hang in Long Enough": "Hang In Long Enough". bac-lac.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Do You Remember?": "Do You Remember?". bac-lac.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Who Said I Would": "Who Said I Would". bac-lac.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Both Sides of the Story": "Both Sides Of The Story". bac-lac.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Everyday": "Everyday". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"We Wait and We Wonder": "We Wait & Wonder". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Dance into the Light": "Dance Into The Light". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"It's in Your Eyes": "It's In Your Eyes". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"You'll Be in My Heart": "You'll Be In My Heart". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?": "Do They Know It's Christmas?". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
"Hero": "Hero". bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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