The Moody Blues discography

The Moody Blues discography
Studio albums16
EPs1
Live albums8
Compilation albums27
Singles36
Video albums7

The following is the discography of the English symphonic and progressive rock band the Moody Blues.






Albums

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Studio albums

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Album details UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
GER
[4]
NLD
[5]
NZ
[6]
NOR
[7]
SWE
[8]
US
[9]
Certifications
The Magnificent Moodies (US title: Go Now: The Moody Blues #1)
Days of Future Passed
  • Released: 10 November 1967
  • Label: Deram
  • Format: LP
27 10 3 3
In Search of the Lost Chord
  • Released: 26 July 1968
  • Label: Deram
  • Format: LP
5 37 30 23
On the Threshold of a Dream
  • Released: 25 April 1969
  • Label: Deram
  • Format: LP
1 26 37 12 20
To Our Children's Children's Children
  • Released: 21 November 1969
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP
2 11 14
A Question of Balance
  • Released: 7 August 1970
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP
1 2 3 8 5 3
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
  • Released: 23 July 1971
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP
1 5 2 44 6 5 2
Seventh Sojourn
  • Released: 23 October 1972
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP
5 2 1 38 7 10 1
Octave
  • Released: 9 June 1978
  • Label: Decca (UK), London (US)
  • Format: LP
6 9 15 7 14 9 12 13
Long Distance Voyager
  • Released: 15 May 1981
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP
7 7 1 28 16 8 12 46 1
The Present
  • Released: 2 September 1983
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP, CD
15 11 33 26 26 14 35 26
The Other Side of Life
  • Released: 21 April 1986
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: LP, CD
24 34 46 56 65 9
Sur la Mer
  • Released: 13 June 1988
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: LP, CD
21 35 35 38
Keys of the Kingdom
  • Released: 1 July 1991
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: LP, CD
54 29 67 94
Strange Times
  • Released: 17 August 1999
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD
92A 93
December
  • Released: 28 October 2003
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

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Recorded Album details US
[9]
Certifications
12 December 1969 + 5 studio tracks 1967–1968 Caught Live + 5
  • Released: 30 April 1977
  • Label: Decca (UK), London (US)
  • Format: double LP
26
9 September 1992 A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra
  • Released: 9 March 1993
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD
93
1 May 2000 Hall of Fame
  • Released: 8 August 2000
  • Label: Universal (UK), Ark 21 (US)
  • Format: CD
185
11 June 2005 Lovely to See You: Live
1967–1970 Live at the BBC 1967–1970
  • Released: 26 March 2007
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD
30 August 1970 Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  • Released: 6 July 2008
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: double LP, CD
6–7 June 2017 Days of Future Passed Live
  • Released: 23 March 2018
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: double LP, double CD
3 July 1991 Live at Montreux 1991
  • Released: 21 June 2021
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: CD + DVD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

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Album details UK
[1]
CAN
[3]
US
[9]
Certifications
This Is The Moody Blues
  • Released: 8 October 1974
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: double LP
14 2 11
Out of This World
  • Released: 22 October 1979
  • Label: K-tel
  • Format: LP
15
Voices in the Sky: The Best of The Moody Blues
  • Released: 21 November 1984
  • Label: Threshold
  • Format: LP, CD
91 132
Prelude
  • Released: 26 October 1987
  • Label: London
  • Format: CD
Blue
  • Released: 22 July 1989
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Format: LP, CD
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 21 November 1989
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: LP, CD
71 113
Legend of a Band: The Story of the Moody Blues
  • Released: 21 November 1990
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD
Time Traveller
  • Released: 27 September 1994
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD box set
The Very Best of The Moody Blues (US title: The Best of The Moody Blues)
  • Released: 23 September 1996
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD
13
Anthology
  • Released: 20 October 1998
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: double CD
Classic Moody Blues
  • Released: 27 December 1999
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD
The Best of The Moody Blues: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
  • Released: 7 March 2000
  • Label: PolyGram
  • Format: CD
The Very Best of The Moody Blues / Strange Times
  • The Very Best of... (1996) and Strange Times (1999) repackaged together
  • Released: April 2000
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD
19
The Singles +
  • Released: 17 November 2000
  • Label: BR Music
  • Format: double CD
The Collection
  • Released: 13 April 2001
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD
The Very Best of The Moody Blues / Hall of Fame
  • The Very Best of... (1996) and Hall of Fame (2000) repackaged together
  • Released: 4 June 2002
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD
Say It with Love
  • Released: 14 January 2003
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD
Ballads
  • Released: 28 October 2003
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD
Ballads / December
  • Ballads and December (both 2003) repackaged together
  • Released: 17 November 2003
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD
Gold
  • Released: 1 March 2005
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: double CD
An Introduction to The Moody Blues
  • Released: 29 August 2006
  • Label: Fuel
  • Format: CD
The Moody Blues Collected
  • Released: 27 February 2007
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: triple CD
Playlist Plus
  • Released: 29 April 2008
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: triple CD
Icon
  • Released 11 August 2011
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: double CD
Timeless Flight
  • Released: 3 June 2013
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: double CD, CD box set, CD + DVD box set
The Polydor Years 1986–1992
  • Released: 24 November 2014
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD + DVD box set
Nights In White Satin: The Essential Moody Blues
  • Released: 26 May 2017
  • Label: Spectrum
  • Format: triple CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Video albums

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Album details Certifications
Legend of a Band: The Story of The Moody Blues
  • Released: 21 November 1990
  • Label: PolyGram Video
  • Format: VHS
A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra
  • Released: 16 March 1993
  • Label: PolyGram Video
  • Format: VHS
Hall of Fame
  • Released: 14 November 2000
  • Label: Image Entertainment
  • Format: VHS, DVD
Live at Montreux 1991
  • Released: 31 May 2005
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: DVD
Lovely to See You: Live
  • Released: 15 November 2005
  • Label: Image Entertainment
  • Format: DVD
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  • Released: 6 July 2008
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: DVD
Days of Future Passed Live
  • Released: 23 March 2018
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: DVD

EPs

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EP details UK
The Moody Blues
  • Released: April 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Format: EP
12

Singles

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Year Titles
Both sides from same album except where indicated
UK
[1]
AUS
CAN
[3]
NLD
[5]
US
Hot

[15]
US
CB

[16]
US
AC

[17]
US
MR

[18]
Album
1964 "Steal Your Heart Away"
b/w "Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind)"
Non-album tracks
"Go Now"
b/w "It's Easy Child"
1 12 2 10 10 6 UK: A-side on The Magnificent Moodies/B-side non-album track

US: Go Now: The Moody Blues #1

1965 "Go Now"
b/w "Lose Your Money"
UK: A-side on The Magnificent Moodies/B-side non-album track

US: A-side on Go Now: The Moody Blues #1/B-side non-album track

"I Don't Want to Go On Without You"
b/w "Time Is on My Side"
33 UK: Non-album tracks

US: A-side on Go Now: The Moody Blues #1/B-side non-album track

"From the Bottom of My Heart (I Love You)"
b/w "And My Baby's Gone"
22 23 93 70 UK: Non-album tracks

US: Go Now: The Moody Blues #1

"Everyday"
b/w "You Don't"
44 Non-album tracks
1966 "Stop!"
b/w "Bye Bye Bird"
88 98 93 UK: The Magnificent Moodies

US: A-side non-album track/B-side on Go Now: The Moody Blues #1

"This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)"
b/w "Boulevard de la Madeleine"
119 Non-album tracks
1967 "Life's Not Life"
b/w "He Can Win"
"Fly Me High"
b/w "I Really Haven't Got the Time"
"Love and Beauty"
b/w "Leave This Man Alone"
"Nights in White Satin"A
b/w "Cities"
19 30 1 103 A-side on Days of Future Passed/B-side non-album track
1968 "Tuesday Afternoon"
b/w "Another Morning"
12 24 26 Days of Future Passed
"Voices in the Sky"
b/w "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume"
27 In Search of the Lost Chord
"Ride My See-Saw"
b/w "A Simple Game"
42 33 12 61 41 A-side on In Search of the Lost Chord/B-side non-album track
1969 "Never Comes the Day"
b/w "So Deep Within You"
74 91 90 On the Threshold of a Dream
"Watching and Waiting"
b/w "Out and In"
To Our Children's Children's Children
1970 "Question"
b/w "Candle of Life"
2 36 8 1 21 19 A-side on A Question of Balance/B-side on To Our Children's Children's Children
1971 "The Story in Your Eyes"
b/w "Melancholy Man"
68 7 11 23 14 A-side on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour/B-side on A Question of Balance
1972 "Isn't Life Strange"
b/w "After You Came"
13 39 9 29 20 A-side on Seventh Sojourn/B-side on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
"Nights in White Satin"B
b/w "Cities"
9 8 1 2 1 37 A-side on Days of Future Passed/B-side non-album track
1973 "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)"
b/w "For My Lady"
36 39 16 4 12 8 Seventh Sojourn
1978 "Steppin' in a Slide Zone"
b/w "I'll Be Level with You"
78 41 39 46 Octave
"Driftwood"
b/w "I'm Your Man"
60 59 68 38
1981 "Gemini Dream"
b/w "Painted Smile"
36 1 12 13 13 Long Distance Voyager
"The Voice"
b/w "22,000 Days"
91 9 46 15 15 16 1
"Talking Out of Turn"
b/w "Veteran Cosmic Rocker"
27 65 60
1983 "Blue World"
b/w "Going Nowhere" (UK), "Sorry" (US)
35 40 62 72 32 The Present
"Sitting at the Wheel"
b/w "Sorry" (UK), "Going Nowhere" (US)
91 18 27 30 3
"Running Water"
b/w "Under My Feet"
1986 "Your Wildest Dreams"
b/w "Talkin' Talkin'"
20 55 9 10 1 2 The Other Side of Life
"The Other Side of Life"
b/w "The Spirit"
80 58 76 18 11
1988 "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"
b/w "Miracle"
52 37 15 30 40 9 2 Sur la Mer
"Here Comes the Weekend"
b/w "River of Endless Love"
50
"No More Lies"
b/w "River of Endless Love"
15
1991 "Say It with Love"
b/w "Lean on Me (Tonight)"
36 31 22 Keys of the Kingdom
"Bless the Wings (That Bring You Back)"
b/w "Once Is Enough"
1999 "English Sunset" Strange Times
2003 "December Snow" December
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes

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A:^ "Nights in White Satin" charted highest in most countries on its 1972 re-release, except in the Netherlands where the original 1967 release charted higher.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Artist Chart History: Moody Blues". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Go-Set Magazine Charts: Australian Top 40 Singles and Album Charts 1966–1974". Pop Archives. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "RPM Search Engine" (PHP). Library and Archives Canada. 31 March 2004.
  4. ^ "Moody Blues Search Results" (ASP). Media Control Charts (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2011. [dead link]
  5. ^ a b "The Moody Blues" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  6. ^ "The Moody Blues" (ASP). New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  7. ^ "Artist Info: The Moody Blues". VG-lista. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
  8. ^ "The Moody Blues" (ASP). Swedish Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  9. ^ a b c "The Moody Blues Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Gold & Platinum Database Results". Music Canada. Archived from the original (ASPX) on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Gold & Platinum Searchable Database" (PHP). Recording Industry Association of America.
  13. ^ a b c d e f "Certified Awards Search". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original (ASPX) on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  14. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 DVD". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  15. ^ "The Moody Blues Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  16. ^ Hoffmann, Frank (1983). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950-1981. Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 407.
  17. ^ "The Moody Blues Chart History: Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  18. ^ "The Moody Blues Chart History: Mainstream Rock". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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