Billy Bragg discography

Billy Bragg discography
Billy Bragg in 2010
Studio albums13
EPs5
Live albums6
Compilation albums13
Singles27

The discography of British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg includes 13 studio albums (including two with Wilco and one with The Blokes), six live albums, 12 compilation albums, five extended plays, and 20 singles.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] 		AUS
[2] 		BEL
(FL)
[3] 		CAN
[4] 		NZ
[5] 		SWE
[6] 		US
[7]
Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Utility Records
 30 — — — 45 — —
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg 16 — — — 23 — —
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Go! Discs
 8 77 — — 5 43 —
Workers Playtime
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Go! Discs
 17 49 — 77 20 — 198
The Internationale
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Utility Records
 34 — — — — — —
Don't Try This at Home
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Go! Discs
 8 35 — — 21 — —
William Bloke 16 72 — — — — —[a]
Mermaid Avenue
(with Wilco) 		34 12 — — — — 90
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
(with Wilco)
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Elektra
 61 45 — 54 — — 88
England, Half-English
(with the Blokes)
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Elektra
 51 83 — — — — —
Mr Love & Justice
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 33 — 78 — — — —
Tooth & Nail
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 13 — 69 — — 58 —
The Million Things That Never Happened[15]
  • Released: 8 October 2021
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 44 98 — — — — —

Live albums

List of live albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] 		BEL
(FL)
[3] 		ITA
[16] 		NL
[17] 		US
[7]
Billy Bragg and The Red Stars Live Bootleg[18]
  • Released: 1995
  • Self-released
 — — — — —
Mermaid Avenue Tour[18]
  • Released: 1999
  • Self-released
 — — — — —
Bill’s Bargains[18]
  • Released: 2002
  • Self-released
 — — — — —
Live at the Barbican[18]
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 — — — — —
Live at the Union Chapel, London
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 61 — — — —
Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
(with Joe Henry)
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 28 138 38 112 —[b]

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] 		AUS
[20]
Life's a Riot / Between the Wars
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Go! Discs
 — —
Back to Basics
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Elektra
 37 —
The Peel Sessions Album — —
Victim of Geography
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 — —
Bloke on Bloke
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 72 —
Reaching to the Converted
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 41 —
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Elektra
 49 60
Volume 1 — —
Volume 2
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Yep Rock
 — —
Fight Songs
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Bragg Central
 — —
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
(with Wilco) 		— —
Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983–2019[22]
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 —[c] —
The Roaring Forty (1983–2023)
  • Released: 27 October 2023
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
 29 —

Singles and EPs

As lead artist

List of singles as lead artist, showing selected peak chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1] 		AUS
[2] 		CAN
[4] 		NZ
[5] 		US
Alt.
[24]
Between the Wars (EP) 1985 15 — — — — —
"Days Like These" 43 — — — — Non-album single
"Levi Stubbs' Tears" 1986 29 — — 11 — Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
"Greetings to the New Brunette" 58 — — 6 —
Help Save The Youth of America (EP)[18] 1988 — — — — — —
"She's Leaving Home"
(with Cara Tivey) 		1 — — — — Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
"Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" 52 — — 34 20 Workers Playtime
"She's Got a New Spell" — 116 — — 16
"Sexuality" 1991 27 46 60[d] — 2 Don't Try This at Home
"You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" 54 107 — — 25
Accident Waiting to Happen (EP) 1992 33 — — — — —
"Upfield" 1996 46 — — — — William Bloke
"The Boy Done Good" 1997 55 — — — — Bloke on Bloke
"Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
(with Wilco) 		1998 89 — — — — Mermaid Avenue
"England Half English" 2002 98 — — — — England, Half-English
"Take Down the Union Jack" 22 — — — —
"We Laughed" 2005 11 — — — — Non-album single
"I Keep Faith" 2008 —[e] — — — — Mr Love & Justice
"The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You" — — — — —
Pressure Drop (EP)[18] 2010 — — — — — —
"No-One Knows Nothing Anymore" / "Song of the Iceberg" 2013 — — — — — Tooth & Nail
Bridges Not Walls (EP) 2017 —[f] — — — — —
"Can't Be There Today" 2020 — — — — — N/A
"I Will Be Your Shield"[15] 2021 — — — — — The Million Things That Never Happened
"Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained"[27] — — — — —
"Pass It On"[28] — — — — —
"Mid-Century Modern"[29] — — — — —
List of singles as featured artist, showing selected peak chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[30] 		AUT
[31] 		GER
[32] 		NL
[17] 		NZ
[33] 		SWI
[34] 		US
[35]
"Won't Talk About It"
(Norman Cook feat. Billy Bragg) 		1989 29 27 26 28 20 24 76 Let Them Eat Bingo

Notes

  1. ^ William Bloke did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 38 on Billboard's Heatseekers albums chart.[12]
  2. ^ Shine a Light did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 40 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart.[19]
  3. ^ Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983–2019 did not enter the Official Charts Company's UK Albums Chart, but it peaked at number 7 on the Official Independent Albums Chart.[23]
  4. ^ "Sexuality" was released as part of an EP of the same name in Canada, where it charted at number 60 on the RPM 100 Albums chart.[4]
  5. ^ "I Keep Faith" didn't enter the Official Singles Chart, but it peaked at number 14 on the Official Independent Singles Chart.[25]
  6. ^ Bridges Not Walls peaked at number 2 on the Official Americana Albums Chart.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b c d UK chart positions:
    • "Billy Bragg full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
    • "Billy Bragg & Joe Henry full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b Australian chart positions:
  3. ^ a b "Discografie Billy Bragg". Ultratop Flanders (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b c RPM album chart positions:
    • Workers Playtime: "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol. 48, no. 26. 15 October 1988. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
    • Sexuality: "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol. 55, no. 1. 7 December 1991. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
    • Mermaid Avenue Vol. II: "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol. 71, no. 7. 19 June 2000. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Discography Billy Bragg". New Zealand Charts. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Discography Billy Bragg". Swedish Charts. Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  7. ^ a b Billboard 200 chart positions:
  8. ^ "Billy Bragg, Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Billy Bragg, Brewing Up". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Billy Bragg, Don't Try This at Home". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Billboard's Heatseekers Album Chart". Billboard. 28 September 1996. p. 22. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  14. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1999 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  15. ^ a b Richards, Will (14 July 2021). "Billy Bragg announces details of new album, 'The Million Things That Never Happened'". NME. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  16. ^ "Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine a Light". Italian Charts. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  17. ^ a b Dutch Chart positions:
  18. ^ a b c d e f Weglarz, Kristine; Pedelty, Mark (2016). Political Rock. Taylor & Francis. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9781317078708.
  19. ^ "Top Rock Albums Week of October 15, 2016". Billboard. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  20. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 40.
  21. ^ "Billy Bragg, Must I Paint You a Picture?". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  22. ^ "Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983–2019". Folk Radio UK. 30 August 2019. Archived from the original on 14 November 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  23. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50, 27 September 2019 – 03 October 2019". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  24. ^ Billboard Alternative Airplay chart positions:
  25. ^ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50, 23 March 2008 – 29 March 2008". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  26. ^ "Official Americana Albums Chart Top 40, 10 November 2017 – 16 November 2017". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  27. ^ Lloyd, Celina (6 August 2021). "Billy Bragg releases new single, announces online concert". Mojo. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  28. ^ "Billy Bragg's Single 'Pass It On' Out Today". American Blues Scene. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  29. ^ "Billy Bragg Is 'Mid-Century Modern' On New Single". American Blues Scene. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  30. ^ "Beats International full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  31. ^ "Discographie Beats International". Austrian Charts (in German). Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  32. ^ "Discographie Von Beats International". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  33. ^ "Discography Beats International". New Zealand Charts. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  34. ^ "Discographie Beats International". Swiss Hitparade (in German). Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  35. ^ Billboard Hot 100 chart positions: