Wire discography
Studio albums17
Live albums26
Compilation albums11
EPs11
Singles24
Box sets3

The discography of Wire, an English rock band, consists of seventeen studio albums, twenty-six live albums, eleven compilation albums, eleven EPs, and twenty-four singles.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
UK Indie
[2]
BEL
(FL)

[3]
SCO
US
[4]
US Heat.
[5]
Pink Flag
Chairs Missing
  • Released: 8 September 1978[6]
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, MC
48
154
  • Released: 21 September 1979
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
39
The Ideal Copy
  • Released: April 1987
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
87 1
A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck
  • Released: 16 May 1988[7]
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
2
It's Beginning to and Back Again
  • Released: May 1989
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
3 135
Manscape
  • Released: May 1990
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
5[8]
The Drill
  • Released: April 1991
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
The First Letter
  • Released: 14 October 1991
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • As Wir
Object 47
  • Released: 7 July 2008
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Red Barked Tree
  • Released: 20 December 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
49
Change Becomes Us 44[9] 165 23
Wire
  • Released: 13 April 2015
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
71 12[10] 92 61[11]
Nocturnal Koreans
  • Released: 22 April 2016
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
98 9[12] 181 50[13]
Silver/Lead
  • Released: 31 March 2017
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
96 8[14] 124 54[15]
Mind Hive
  • Released: 24 January 2020
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
82 6[16] 155 22[17]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

[2]
Document and Eyewitness
  • Released: July 1981
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Formats: 2xLP, MC
3
It's All in the Brochure
  • Released: May 2000
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release
Wire on the Box: 1979
  • Released: 4 October 2004
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD+DVD
The Scottish Play: 2004
  • Released: 28 March 2005
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD+DVD
Live at the Roxy, London – April 1st & 2nd 1977/Live at CBGB Theatre, New York – July 18th 1978
  • Released: 13 November 2006[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Legal Bootleg Series: 25 Oct 1978 Bradford University
  • Released: 5 July 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 21 Jul 1988 Astoria, London
  • Released: 5 July 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 08 Dec 2000 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
  • Released: 5 July 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 14 Sept 2002 Metro, Chicago
  • Released: 5 July 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 01 Dec 1987 The Town & Country, London
  • Released: 29 November 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 19 April 2002 Fleece & Firkin, Bristol
  • Released: 29 November 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 12 Nov 1978, SO36, Berlin
  • Released: 27 April 2011
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 17 Dec 1985 Paradiso, Amsterdam
  • Released: 27 April 2011
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 02 May 2000 Great American, San Francisco
  • Released: 27 April 2011
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
The Black Session: Paris, 10 May 2011
  • Released: 14 February 2012
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 23 February 2000 Nottingham Social (Recycling Sherwood Forest)
  • Released: 16 January 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 04 April 2011 WFMU, Jersey City – 13 April 2011 KEXP, Seattle
  • Released: 16 January 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: 10 Nov 1979 Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, London
  • Released: 18 February 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 12 June 1987 Maxwell's, Hoboken
  • Released: 18 February 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 21 May 1990 Hibernian, London
  • Released: 18 February 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 17 February 1978 West Runton Pavilion, Cromer
  • Released: 18 February 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 12 July 1991 Mean Fiddler, London
  • Released: 21 October 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 05 March 1979 Carre, Amsterdam
  • Released: 21 October 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 09 August 2009 Off Festival, Myslowice
  • Released: 21 October 2013
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 09 March 1979 Pavilion, Montreux
  • Released: 23 June 2014
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
Legal Bootleg Series: Set 2 – 19 July 1979 Notre Dame Hall, London
  • Released: 23 June 2014
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

[2][19]
And Here It Is...Again...
  • Released: November 1984
  • Label: Sneaky Pete
  • Formats: LP
  • Germany-only release
Wire Play Pop
  • Released: March 1986
  • Label: The Pink Label
  • Formats: LP
4
In the Pink
  • Released: August 1986
  • Label: Dojo
  • Formats: LP
On Returning (1977–1979)
  • Released: July 1989
  • Label: Harvest/EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
The Peel Sessions Album
1985–1990: The A List
  • Released: 17 May 1993
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
Behind the Curtain: Early Versions 1977 & 78
  • Released: 5 May 1995
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Turns and Strokes
  • Released: May 1996
  • Label: WMO
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Coatings
  • Released: 21 October 1997
  • Label: WMO
  • Formats: CD
PF456 Redux
  • Released: 28 April 2003 (LP)
  • Rereleased: 13 August 2021 (CD)
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: LP, CD
  • Limited release LP
Send
  • Released: 28 April 2003[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Send Ultimate
  • Released: 1 July 2010
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
10:20
  • Released: 19 June 2020
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
23
PF456 Deluxe
  • Released: 12 June 2021
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: LP, digital download
Not About To Die
  • Released: 23 April 2022 (LP)
  • Released: 24 June 2022 (CD)
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Box sets

Title Album details
The Drill
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: 3xLP+7"
  • Limited release
Wire: 1977–1979
  • Released: 14 May 2006
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • US-only limited release
Nine Sevens
  • Released: 21 April 2018
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: 9x7"

EPs

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

[2]
Snakedrill
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: 12"
3
Ahead
  • Released: March 1987
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: 12"
The Peel Sessions
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: 12", MC
18
Silk Skin Paws
  • Released: June 1989
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: CD, 12"
The Third Day
  • Released: 1 February 2000[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Read & Burn 01
  • Released: 17 June 2002[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Read & Burn 02
  • Released: 1 October 2002[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Read & Burn 03
  • Released: 5 November 2007[18]
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD
Daytrotter Session
  • Released: 10 November 2008
  • Label: Daytrotter
  • Formats: digital download
Strays
  • Released: January 2011
  • Label: Pinkflag
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Limited release with Red Barked Tree
  • Rereleased as part of 10:20
Daytrotter Session
  • Released: 23 January 2013
  • Label: Daytrotter
  • Formats: digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
US Alt
[20]
"Mannequin" 1977 Pink Flag
"I Am the Fly" 1978 Chairs Missing
"Dot Dash" Non-album single
"Outdoor Miner" 1979 51 Chairs Missing
"A Question of Degree" Non-album single
"Map Ref. 41˚N 93˚W" 154
"Our Swimmer" 1981 13 Document & Eyewitness
"Crazy About Love" 1983 28 Non-album single
"Ahead" 1987 2 The Ideal Copy
"Kidney Bingos" 1988 88 8 A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck
"Silk Skin Paws" 4
"Eardrum Buzz" 1989 68 5 2 It's Beginning to and Back Again
"In Vivo" 11 24
"Life in the Manscape" (US-only release) 1990 Manscape
"In Every City?" (US promo-only release) 1991 The Drill
"So and Slow It Grows" (as Wir) The First Letter
"The First Letter" (as Wir) 1997 Non-album singles
"Twelve Times You" (limited release) 2000
"Short Elevated Period" 2017 Silver/Lead
"Joust & Jostle" Wire
"Cactused" 2019 Mind Hive
"Primed and Ready" 2020
"Small Black Reptile" 10:20
"The Art of Persistence"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

References

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