Formed in 1976,[1][2][3]
the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure[4] before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael Dempsey. The band has continued through various line-ups; Smith is the group's only remaining original member. The line-up as of 2024 consisted of Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell, multi-instrumentalist Perry Bamonte, guitarist Reeves Gabrels and drummer Jason Cooper.
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart.[5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively.[5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK.[5] The most successful of these was Wish (1992) which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200.[5][6] They released the next album Wild Mood Swings in 1996. The following three studio albums – Bloodflowers (2000), The Cure (2004) and 4:13 Dream (2008) – had mixed success, reaching numbers 14, 8 and 33 in the UK respectively.[5][7] The group released their fourteenth album, Songs of a Lost World, on 1 November 2024. It marks the group's first new album in sixteen years.
^ ab"Killing an Arab", "Boys Don't Cry" and "Jumping Someone Else's Train" were later included on Boys Don't Cry.
^"10:15 Saturday Night" was only released as a single in France.
^"Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Love Cats" were later included on Japanese Whispers.
^"The Blood" was only released as a single in Spain.
^This re-recorded and remixed version of "Boys Don't Cry" was released to promote Standing on a Beach, but only the original version features on the album.
^"Fascination Street" was only released as a single in North America.
^This remix of "A Forest" was only released as a single in France.
^"Strange Attraction" was only released as a single in the US and Australia.
^"alt.end" was only released as a single in the US.
Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. pp. 79, 80. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
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. 71.
^ abcde"charts.nz > The Cure in New Zealand Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2019. N.B. The separate 1980 and 1986 chart runs for the "Boys Don't Cry" single are coalesced into one listing. To view the lower 1980 peak, you need to click on the title to view its chart trajectory.
