Belle and Sebastian discography
Belle and Sebastian perform at Pukkelpop in 2006.
Studio albums12
Live albums4
Compilation albums5
Video albums1
EPs9
Singles22

The discography of Belle and Sebastian, a Scottish indie pop band, features twelve studio albums, three compilation albums, four live albums, two box sets, nine extended plays (EPs), 21 singles and one DVD. It also includes a variety of demos and non-album singles, as well as two DJ mix compilations.

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FRA
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
SWI
[10]
US
[11]
Tigermilk 13 68 20 15
If You're Feeling Sinister
  • Released: 18 November 1996
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD 001)
  • Format: CD, CS, DL, LP
191
[13]
23
The Boy with the Arab Strap
  • Released: 7 September 1998
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD 003)
  • Format: CD, CS, DL, LP
12 39 7 30
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
  • Released: 6 June 2000
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD 010)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP, MD
10 53 54 52 25 17 11 80
Storytelling
  • Released: 3 June 2002
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD 014)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
26 55 99 42 32 29 150
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  • Released: 6 October 2003
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADECD 080)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
21 88 76 64 25 58 10 16 84
The Life Pursuit
  • Released: 6 February 2006
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADCD 280)
  • Format: CD, CD+DVD-V, DL, LP
8 45 56 72 35 23 32 16 20 56 65
Write About Love
  • Released: 11 October 2010
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADCD480)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
8 74 40 54 38 21 41 28 18 37 15
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
  • Released: 19 January 2015
  • Label: Matador (OLE-1056-2)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
9 57 28 49 30 14 12 23 31 26 28
Days of the Bagnold Summer
  • Released: 13 September 2019[14]
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
73 98
A Bit of Previous
  • Released: 6 May 2022[15]
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
8 50 31 31
Late Developers
  • Released: 13 January 2023[16]
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
30 82
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
AUT
[3]
FRA
[4]
GER
[5]
IRE
[6]
NED
[7]
SPA
[17]
SWE
[9]
SWI
[10]
US
[11]
Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
  • Released: 24 May 2005
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD 015)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
40 40 94 59
The Third Eye Centre
  • Released: 26 August 2013
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADCD670)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
44 174 71 145
How to Solve Our Human Problems
  • Released: February 2018[18]
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
28 37 27 72 29
[19]
27
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
FRA
[4]
If You're Feeling Sinister:
Live at the Barbican
  • Released: 6 December 2005
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADDA 301)
  • Format: DL
The BBC Sessions
  • Released: 18 November 2008
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCD018)
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
88 126
Live 2015
  • Released: 22 May 2015
  • Label: Concert Live, Matador (CLCD473)
  • Format: CD, DL
What to Look for in Summer
  • Released: 11 December 2020
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, 2xLP
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Box sets

Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
Lazy Line Painter Jane
  • Released: 7 March 2000
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRBOX 001)
  • Format: CD
122
[13]
The Jeepster Singles Collection
  • Released: 21 October 2016
  • Label: Jeepster (JPR12BOX1)
  • Format: 12" vinyl+DVD, DL
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

EPs

Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
IRE
[6]
SWE
[9]
Dog on Wheels
  • Released: 12 May 1997
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCDS001)
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
59
Lazy Line Painter Jane
  • Released: 28 July 1997
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCDS002)
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
41
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light
  • Released: 13 October 1997
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCDS003)
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
32
This Is Just a Modern Rock Song
  • Released: 7 December 1998
  • Label: Jeepster (JPRCDS 009)
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
1 45
Books
  • Released: 21 June 2004
  • Label: Rough Trade (RTRADSCD180)
  • Format: CD, DL
20 46
Introducing... Belle & Sebastian
  • Released: 27 May 2008
  • Label: Jeepster
  • Format: DL
How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 1)
  • Released: 8 December 2017
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 2)[20]
  • Released: 19 January 2018
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 3)
  • Released: 16 February 2018
  • Label: Matador
  • Format: CD, DL, 12" vinyl
28
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

1 Charted at number 1 on the UK Indie Chart.[13]

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[21]
EUR
[22]
IRE
[6]
JPN
[23]
MEX
[24]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9]
"Legal Man" 2000 15 4 50 10 46 Non-album singles
"Jonathan David" 2001 31 9 46
"I'm Waking Up to Us" 39 50
"Step into My Office, Baby" 2003 32 80 Dear Catastrophe Waitress
"I'm a Cuckoo" 2004 14 59
"Funny Little Frog" 2006 13 32 The Life Pursuit
"Casaco Marrom" Late Night Tales: Belle & Sebastian
"The Blues Are Still Blue" 25 43 81 The Life Pursuit
"White Collar Boy" 45
"Write About Love" 2010 17 Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
"I Want the World to Stop" 2011 125
"Come on Sister" [upper-alpha 1]
"The Party Line" 2014 56 Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
"Nobody's Empire" 2015 36
"The Cat with the Cream"
"We Were Beautiful"[26] 2017 How to Solve Our Human Problems
"Poor Boy"[27] 2018
"Sister Buddha" 2019 27 Days of the Bagnold Summer soundtrack
"Unnecessary Drama" 2022 A Bit of Previous
"If They're Shooting At You"
"Young and Stupid"
"A Bit of Previous"
"I Don't Know What You See In Me"[28] 2023 [upper-alpha 2] Late Developers
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other

Title Album details
LateNightTales
  • By various artists
  • Compiled by Belle & Sebastian
  • Released: 27 February 2006
  • Label: Azuli
  • Format: CD, DL, LP
LateNightTales, Vol. II
  • By various artists
  • Compiled by Belle & Sebastian
  • Released: 26 March 2012
  • Label: Late Night Tales
  • Format: CD, DL

Miscellaneous songs

DVDs

Notes

  1. "Come on Sister" charted at number 13 on the UK Physical Singles Chart.[25]
  2. "He Said She Said" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, but peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Japan Hot Overseas chart.[29]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Belle & Sebastian | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Australian chart positions". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Austrian chart positions". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  4. 1 2 3 "French chart positions". lescharts.com. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  5. 1 2 "Discographie von Belle and Sebastian". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Irish chart positions". irish-charts.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  7. 1 2 3 "Dutch chart positions". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  8. 1 2 "Norwegian chart positions". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Swedish chart positions". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  10. 1 2 "Swiss chart positions". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  11. 1 2 "Belle and Sebastian Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "BRIT Certified". BPI. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  13. 1 2 3 "UK Chartlog: Darren B – David Byrne". zobbel.de. Archived from the original on 26 December 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  14. "Days of the Bagnold Summer by Belle and Sebastian". Apple Music. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  15. Minsker, Evan (2 March 2022). "Belle and Sebastian Announce New Album and Tour, Share Video for New Song: Watch". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  16. Arcand, Rob (9 January 2023). "Belle and Sebastian Releasing New Album, Late Developers, This Friday". Pitchfork. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  17. "Spanish chart positions". spanishcharts.com. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  18. "Belle & Sebastian on Their New Material; "There's a Serious Mixture of Songs"". 11 October 2017.
  19. "Top 100 Albumes – Semana 8: del 16.2.2018 al 22.2.2018" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  20. "How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 2 – EP by Belle and Sebastian on Apple Music". iTunes Store (AU). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  21. "Canadian single positions". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  22. "European Hot 100 positions". Billboard. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  23. "Belle and Sebastian – Chart History – Japan Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  24. "Belle and Sebastian – Chart History – Mexico Ingles Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  25. "Official Physical Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  26. "We Were Beautiful – Single by Belle and Sebastian on Apple Music". iTunes Store. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  27. "Poor Boy (Radio Edit) – Single by Belle and Sebastian on Apple Music". iTunes Store. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  28. "Belle And Sebastian – "I Don't Know What You See In Me"". Stereogum. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  29. "Billboard Japan Hot Overseas". Billboard (in Japanese). Japan. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
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